Visiting Asian Center again

When I was an undergrad, I always wondered what goes on inside this building because I have never entered it even before I finished my bachelor’s degree. My friends and I affectionately called it “ROMVLO” because of the Latin spelling. Little did I know I’d be spending a lot of time here for my grad years because I took Asian Studies as cognate.Romulo Hall, Asian Center - UP Diliman

But their library was housed on a new building sponsored by Toyota, thus the GT-Toyota Asian Center naming. I heard it through the grapevine that some did not agree with this, given the public nature of the university and such sponsorship was contradicting of this philosophy. Anyway, they built a decent building with the only working elevator I knew of inside the university.

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