Frequently Asked Questions about the Blue Movement

What is the Blue Movement?
It is a student community organizing effort in the block level guided by the following principles:

1. Civic engagement – organizes students around issues and causes through advocacy campaigns and elicits collective action.
2. Student Empowerment – provide tools and channel that enables active participation in student governance, educational quality check on the students’ perspective, and vigilance in the state of our community.
3. Atenean Values – provide materials and discussions that reinforce Atenean culture and values; create a culture of responsibility.

What is the purpose of the movement?

The purpose is to build and develop an informed and active Atenean constituency motivated to engage issues and concerns and intent in transforming the community.

What motivated the inception of the movement?

For so many years, the methods of governance in the student body have been conceived from the bottom down and no structured connection from the constituency. We believe that this resulted to the deepening of apathy, wide disconnect, and relative distrust to the governance system by the student community. The recent years, we have seen a growing gap between the leaders and student body fuelled by a seemingly deteriorating culture of engagement among the students where the passion for Atenean activism has slowly degenerated into a craving for raw entrainment. This is a response to start transforming that drift and organize the student body towards a direction of creative student centered -governance.

What does the movement do?

The movement provides education sessions, , student caucus on issues, leadership and organizing seminars, small campus projects, student mobilization on advocacy campaigns and relevant information.

How can I join?

Ever bona fide students of Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan are welcome to join. Just submit your application form through hand or email (thebluemovement@yahoo.com).

What are the members’ responsibilities?

Recruit other members

Participate in the activities and campaigns of the movement in varying degrees of commitment ,action, and capacities

What is the structure?

4 member students in one block can form a block chapter. Among themselves, they choose their block leader. 4 block leaders of the same year level can form the year level council. Among themselves, they choose their college representative. The college representative will represent the core group.

Minimum backbone number of members: 4 members x 4 blocks x 4 year levels x 7 colleges = 448 members