Editing UP Sanlahi Alliance (section)

==History==
When Martial Law was declared in 1972, all student organizations were illegalized (except for the [[Philippine Collegian]]). The students were then asserting their right to freedom of association. They believed gathering similar orgs together would strengthen and serve as a pillar for student power. In effect, the UP Sanlahi Alliance was born out of the need for umbrella bodies to press on the first ever held student elections hence a student government.

It was one of the successors of the Consultative Committee on Student Affairs (CONCOMSA I and II) and Committee on Student Affairs (COMSA), along with other student organization sectors namely ASAP (an alliance of social sciences orgs), APASS (an alliance of pure and applied sciences orgs), Fraternity Alliance and Dorm Councils.

When the tenure of COMSA expired and while student elections had not been held yet, these sectors somehow functioned as the legitimate student government in UP Diliman.

In addition, from these alliances emerged the student political party called Sandigan ng Mag-aaral para sa Sambayanan (SAMASA).

Through the alliances’ concerted efforts, the Student Government was re-established and then followed by the formation of student councils in other academic units of UPD.

After all these events, students in the other Metro Manila universities followed suit, and so student governments were also restored to more and more campuses not only in Metro Manila but throughout the country later on in the 80s.


The nine founding member organizations of UP SANLAHI ALLIANCE were:

*UP Aguman (Pampanga) 
*UP Cagay-anon (Cagayan de Oro) 
*UP Davaweño (Davao) 
*UP Ibalon (Bicol) 
*[[UP Kalilayan]] (Quezon and Aurora) 
*UP Mandala 
*UP Namnama (Ilocos) 
*UP Palaris (Pangasinan) 
*UP Panaghi-usa (Cebu)

Although the UP Sanlahi Alliance had already been working as an org on the third quarter of 1975, it was formally established during the first founding congress on the second semester of AY 1975-98 after it had been recognized. The first faculty adviser was Prof. Helen Estacio Lopez of the Department of English.