Read UST awardee's letter returning 2003 award because of Mocha

Netizens were quick to criticize the University of Santo Tomas Alumni Association Inc. (UST AAI) after it gave Mocha Uson the Thomasian Alumni Award for Government Service on Sunday. (Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/962293/mocha-uson-ust-alumni-award-for-government-service-netizen-facebook-thomasian#ixzz54ximiYP5 Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook)

Three alumni of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) are returning their awards given by the university's alumni association after the same group awarded Communications Assistant Secretary Margaux "Mocha" Uson for her service in the government. One of them was Bino A. Realuyo, a novelist and poet based in New York. Realuyo, who got the UST High School's “75th Founding Anniversary Award," said he accepted the recognition with pride believing in the virtue of truth. (UST alumni return award in protest of Mocha Uson's alumni recognition Patrick Quintos, ABS-CBN News; Posted at Jan 22 2018 04:11 PM | Updated as of Jan 22 2018 10:43 PM)