Saint Lorenzo Ruiz University (BotG)

**Saint Lorenzo Ruiz University,** or **SLRU,** is a highly prestigious Catholic school and research institution found in Burnham City in multiple worlds. It is the school that Miguel JoJo, Miguel Ibarra, and Miguel Josuke Higashikata all went to. It is run by the Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a fictional former Belgian missionary organization. The university offers programs in the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels.

## History

A long time ago in the 1880s, a Belgian priest named Pedro Philip Adverbious went around the world to hopefully make everyone Christian, one of those locations being China. Also the Philippines.

While Pedro died in China as one of the greatest missionaries in the world, the Philippines took its place as the new capital of the Congregation, that capital being the prestigious school his heir founded, known as Saint Lorenzo Ruiz University.

The university is an incredibly powerful school that was finally instituted in the year 1900. It became incredibly respected as it practiced all Christian traditions with respect. For 100 years, the school became a staple school in Burnham City.

In the year 1964, the President of the Philippines, President Diosdado Macapagal, considered the school a university.

In the year 1990, the school was struck by an earthquake that killed many students.

## Programs

### Saint Lorenzo Ruiz University Research Elementary School

SLRU-RES is essentially the program given to children from kindergarten all the way to the sixth grade.

### Saint Lorenzo Ruiz University Research High School

SLRU-RHS is essentially the program given to teenagers from seventh to twelfth grades. The eleventh and twelfth grades follow the K-12 program and thus have three strands: HUMSS, STEM, and ABM.

### Saint Lorenzo Ruiz University College

SLRU College is essentially the program given to young adults. The adults are given mandatory subjects depending on the course they belong in.

### Saint Lorenzo Ruiz University Law School

SLRU Law School is a law school known for giving the most prestigious lawyers in the country.

### Saint Lorenzo Ruiz University Medical School

SLRU Med School is a medical school known for giving the best medical practice in the country where the best Philippine nurses come from.

## Campuses

There are three campuses: One in Parliament Road, one in Woodland Road, and one in the Deep Forest Road.

## Traditions

Once a year, usually in the second quarter or the first semester, the elementary and high school celebrates intramurals with each school year fighting each other. All elementary years against each other and all high school years against each other. One particular graduation batch, the one Miguel JoJo, Miguel Ibarra, and Josuke Higashikata belong to, actually lost every intramural competition and was always in last place even against higher years.

The school also celebrates the Flower Festival every February or March (depending on when the flowers bloom) by selling yearly in booths in the road of Parliament Road along with other sellers from the low lands.

The school also celebrates the Festival of Lights in Advent, often winning first place every year which ends with the lighting of the Christmas Tree.

## Organizations

### SLRU Abby's Club (Formerly SLRU Idols' Club)

A club once founded by a popular singer who once studied in SLRU. After being led by the Abbys, who, in every universe they belonged in, died in very tragic ways, the club became known in most universes as SLRU Abby's Club. The club was notorious, according to Miguel JoJo, Miguel Ibarra, Josuke Higashikata, and Weeb Town, for bullying outcasts and lower grades. It was also notorious for having "incredibly narcissistic assholes".

### SLRU Dance Dance Dance Club

A club once founded by a popular dancer who once studied in SLRU. The club was notorious for overworking the students.

### The SLRU Big Band

A club that contains band-users. Known to contain students who are incredibly talented and skilled but at the same time are egotistical and manipulative monsters.

### The SLRU Tigers

A club that contains the greatest basketball players of Burnham City that is known to be popular in the big leagues in Metro San Diego. The club is full of narcissistic jocks who date beautiful teens and bully outcasts.

### Weeb Town

An semi-official club that was founded by Miguel JoJo. Legally made by Miguel JoJo to bring outcasts together, however, is currently the main bully faction in modern day that bullies other clubs and other students. The club is known to attract Stand-Users, Metas, and Supernaturals.

### Uniform Policy

One must wear a clean 2 by 3 haircut with the school uniform on and I.D. If not, you will be taking an admission slip from the teacher every day until your hair grows back. Mistakes are not excusable.

## Controversies and Issues

### Suicides

Often hidden from the public, but was once under investigation by Miguel JoJo that never went through. In every universe, the school displays various cases of suicide that is brought to hiding from public knowledge. Gabrielle JoJo is currently investigating the school for such cases. Many victims state that it is the fault of academics, but it Miguel thought that it may be the Catholic practices, the strict power given to the teachers, and the toxic conditions of the school. It is also the school policy that caused some cases of depression, and many families have sued the school but to no avail. Survivors of the attempted suicide were expelled because they were "ruining the school's image".

### Bullying

Often hidden from the public but there are many rumors surrounding the matter. This was under investigation by Miguel JoJo, but was transferred to Raphael JoJo, who went to the school and was bullied himself. Originally thought that this was because of kids being unable to adapt and being childish and rude, Raphael concluded that the school was simply far too rigid when it comes to its policies, leading to depressed hormonic emotionally-stunted teenagers to act out and become violent towards each other. Meanwhile, teachers who are accused to be bullies are revealed to either be given too much power and must be strict due to school rules or are given less power by the higher-ups. There are also cases of cyberbullying.

### Corruption

Miguel Ibarra investigated and has come to the conclusion that the school's principals, deans, and presidents have histories of corruption, often secretly placing teachers into special vacations and stealing from funds and using it for their own expenses.

### Drugs

There are many cases of students doing marijuana and crack in secret to deal with stress brought by academics and the toxic environment. This was investigated by Miguel JoJo and now by Raphael JoJo.

### Inappropriate Relations and Statutory Rape

There are a significant number of cases of teachers having sex with students that were hidden from the public eye. This was previously investigated by Miguel JoJo and now by Raphael JoJo.

### Affrays

There are a massive amount of affrays near a mysterious apartment building on top of a hill between jocks of different cliques.

### Serial Killings

An alleged occurrence spoken by Miguel Ibarra but remains completely unconfirmed because of lack of evidence.

### Underage Sex

Several alleged cases of underage sex were kept hidden from the public eye.

### Underage Porn

Several alleged cases of underage porn were kept hidden from the public eye. Those who were in the video were expelled.

### Murder

There are unconfirmed cases of murder according to Miguel Ibarra. Though, there is no evidence of such.

### Terrorist Connections

There seems to be students who allegedly sympathize with the Dark Quartz Organization and join the group in secret. Wesen children also joined the Black Claw as well.

### Red-Tagging

There seems to be various students who were allegedly red-tagged by the government.

### Teenage Pregnancy

There also seems to be hushed-down cases of teenage pregnancy.

### Ethnic Racism

There are also cases of various ethnic racism.

### Supernatural Racism

There are also cases of various cases of Supernatural racism.

## Trivia

* The intramurals curse is claimed to be a reference to the Author's batch's constant loss during their time in elementary and high school. This seemed to be a sore spot for the Author.