Editing UP Tangway (section)

===Membership Committee===
If there is one thing common to every Tangwayer, that would be the fact that each one started as an applicant. Every member was once a lowly traveler lost in an unknown city, confused, afraid to walk any further. Each one had been a seed, in need of the earth where it could cling itself to reach the sky. Everybody once felt no smarter than a fifth grade and asked for a classmate. What made the members survive the entire application process pays high tribute to the diligent and determined Membership Committee.
The Membership Committee is dubbed as the “recruiting agency” of the organization. They are generally concerned in producing the Generation X Tangwayers. They engage in a university wide search for certified Bataeños by heart. They seek for Bataan-rooted Iskos and Iskas who are willing to share a piece of themselves with the organization in achieving a common goal for the province. That is, excellence and camaraderie.
The committee goes year round in building up the incoming batch of members. They provide an initial link where applicants get their first real encounter with the organization. They are responsible in inculcating to the minds of the applicants the virtues and values a Tangwayer live by.
To help them develop these important principles, the MemComm designs a set of activities for the application process. Typically, it consists of 8 steps namely; applicants’ orientation, buddy bidding, informal interview, constitution quiz, buddy week, talents night, formal interview and the final rites popularly termed as trust walk.
From each activity, the applicants are given a chance to know themselves better and build friendship with their fellow Bataeños. They are trained how to function as a one team and work not only for their self accomplished goals, but for the group’s vision. In this way, they are being prepared into becoming not only a full pledged individual but a part of a family.
For the past years, the Membership Committee has lived the legacy not only of finding responsible Tangwayers, but MAKING them.