UST vies for another world record
This year, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) set off on its third attempt on achieving the world record for “largest human sentence.”
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In 2011, UST held the world record for the “largest human cross.” In 2016, it also attempted to carry out this very same exercise, but the inclement weather hindered it from pushing through.
A total of 17,011 students took part in the event that celebrated educators with the theme “My Teacher, My Hero,” that is in line with the National Teachers’ Month. R.G. Manabat & Co. representatives were in charge of monitoring and verifying the final headcount of the participants.
“Aside from attempting to make a Guinness World Record, the very rationale is to give tribute to teachers,” said Alvin Ringo Reyes, chair of the teacher education department and overall in charge of the event.
The record was previously held by India with 16,550 student participants from the Rotary International District 3000, Rotary Club of Perambalur New Gen, and Roever Group of Educational Institutions. They formed “YOU CAN YOU WILL!” in the spirit of the International Youth Day in 2016.
According to Reyes, the sentence formed became “MY TEACHER IS MY HERO!” instead of the original theme because the organizers tried to “come up with a complete sentence with [proper] grammatical structure.”
A medical team from the UST Health Service, together with student volunteers from the UST Red Cross Youth Council, patrolled the area around university’s grandstand to attend to participants who had emergency medical situations.
“Usually kasi ang [expected] natin na pwedeng maraming mangyari [ay] yung mga ma-sprain, sugat, blisters. ‘Yung mga usual lang kapag mayroong mga activities. Pero siyempre, nakaready tayo for any kind of [situation],” noted Al Joseph Paraventido, a staff nurse from the Health Service who was tasked to lead the team for the day.
(Usually, we expect that most cases we will receive are of sprain injuries, wounds and blisters; those that commonly happen when there are activities [like this]. But of course, we are ready for any kind of situation.)
Guinness has yet to confirm if UST has successfully gained the world record for the “largest human sentence.”
