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• Ride     +1
  Friday, 19 September 2008 at 12:41 am
  

  Does it really matter who uses the word ANIMO? If it is that much important sa yo, then why not patent the word! Yun lang yun … patent the word so you can officially claim the word for your school.

  At the same time, why don’t you patent the words … Go, Fight, College, University and everything else you can think of. Ridiculous di ba?

  My point is, cheers lang yan and it is too shallow to argue about. Hindi naman filipino word yan so I am sure we even copied it from another school rin outside the country.

  For right now …

  GOOD-LUCK TO ATENEO and LASALLE SA UAAP!!!!
  ANIMO ATENEO at ANIMO LA SALLE!!!

  Ride from San Beda
  ANIMO SAN BEDA!!!

• kyle     +0
  Friday, 15 August 2008 at 9:24 am
  

  is there supposed to be a video. here can I see pls. thanks you pls reply to my website. and do you guys know what animo means in spanish?

• Animo-ter     +0
  Thursday, 7 August 2008 at 1:27 am
  

  ah watever.. ANIMO ATENEO!!!!! hehehe :)

• bystander     +1
  Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 10:00 am
  

  @wharfl,eadi! You said: “The point is, Lasallians identify with “animoâ€? more strongly than do people from any other school…It’s the recognition and association that Lasallians and non-Lasallians alike (except maybe for a few from admu or sbc) make between “animoâ€? and La Salle through consistent and popular usage over 84 years.”

  I will leave the rest of your post alone because I agree with them except for these statements which I qouted.

  I understand and in fact agree with your observation on how La Sallians identify with the word animo, and how they feel strongly about the word. I am a La Sallian too.

  However, I wish to caution you that if you have not actually been on both sides of the fence, you are not exactly in the best position to make a judgement call on how other people from other schools also feel about the word. So, your statement that “La Sallians feel more strongly…” may not be the case exactly.

  Maybe because La Sallians are more visible? Given the fact that the school is at least twice bigger than San Beda in terms of population, for example. But size does not say anything about how strongly people feel about something. I am glad, however, that you do recognize and respect other people’s right to use the word “animo” as they might wish. That’s a good start!

  Lastly, as to you comment about La Salle having consistently and popularly used the word “animo” in their cheers for “the last 84 years”, I would defer to alumni much older than I to honestly substantiate that statement.

  I’ve already said my piece on that in my earlier post.

• ballbuster     +0
  Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 10:00 am
  

  Peace!

• ballbuster     +0
  Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 10:00 am
  

  bakit pa kasi pag aagawan ang word na animo? eh wala nmn talagang nakakaalam ng exact meaning at sinong team ang nauna.

  bakit di na lang kayo gumawa ng sarili like:

  Roar Bedans!; or Roar Lions!

  Shoot Archers! or Bullseye Archer!

  Mabuhay Rizal!

• bystander     +0
  Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at 9:43 am
  

  @10635653 You said: “San Beda may vaguely claim the rain chant or indian yell on the basis of its being more related to their native american theme. Having said that,they don’t have any basis for claiming that they were the first to use it since it only became popular though Woodstock. La Salle may have used it first,with no need to justify the indian-ness of it. In any case,San Beda couldn’t possibly have used it earlier (say,the time ANIMO came into prominence) because the concept of NATIVE AMERICANS was introduced by the AMERICANS. The Spanish-mestizo roots of san beda don’t support the idea of native americans.”

  I actually agree with all of your other posts except this. Please allow me to correct you on a few points.

  Bedans indeed claim (strongly and not just vaguely if I might add) that the rain chant and indian yell are part of their cheering traditions. And though the rain chant was of Woodstock vintage, the Indian Yell was not. The Indian Yell came much much earlier, late 40s to early 50s in fact. Evidence of this can be found in remaining copies of SBC’s cheer books from the era. I can even personally show you a copy if the music sheets for the Indian Yell which my father and uncles used to play when they were with the SBC Band in the 50s! Regardless of its Spanish-mestizo roots, it wasn’t “just possible” but it IS a fact that what you termed as “indian-ness” became a part of Bedan tradition. How come? Because of the color red.

  As to La Salle having used the rain chant first, all I can say is that I’ve been watching the NCAA games as a young boy as early as the mid-70s and I have NEVER heard La Salle do the rain chant ending with “Animo La Salle”. The first time I’ve the green crod do the rain chant was actually in the UAAP already. That’s in the 80s, mind you.

  And I say this with all honestly and without bias because I myself eventually studied in La Salle later in life….

• redlion     +0
  Friday, 27 June 2008 at 7:37 pm
  

  Anyway, good luck to the Red Lions this Saturday in the opening game of the NCAA.

  ANIMO SAN BEDA! BEAT MAPUA!

  Bedan translation: Have Courage Red Lions! Beat the Cardinals! :-)

• redlion     +0
  Friday, 27 June 2008 at 7:35 pm
  

  Or reapeadtly explained by at least the lasallians in the posts before mine, that they mean ‘animo’ as their school ’spirit’ of la salle.

  Bedans mean it to “HAVE COURAGE”, not ’spirit’. That’s why we started getting confused about what they’re saying or their meaning when we see la salle and ateneo has been using them to mean ’spirit’. Anyway, it’s their school spirit / culture, it’s up to them how they use it. Let them worry about that and we’ll take care of our own school spirit, culture, and TRADITION.

  HAVE COURAGE SAN BEDA! HAVE COURAGE BEDANS! “ANIMO SAN BEDA!”

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