Maskom elects FST council, vice chair and treasurer slots left vacant
Currently, the FST council has no vice chairperson and treasurer as no students ran for these slots. The Maskom Student Council reopened the application period for these positions yesterday and will run until Oct. 15.
Protect children’s mental health, reopen schools — experts
Limited mobility may deprive children of the opportunity to gain vital skills and interact with peers, said mental health researchers. As students enter a second year of remote learning, experts urge a safe return to face-to-face classes and safeguard the youth’s psychosocial well-being.
Mental health services ‘not enough’, suicide count highest in 14 years
An average of 13 people died every day from January to December 2020, latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) show. Despite the soaring number of lives lost to suicide, data point to a huge gap in the country’s available mental health services.
Progressive groups condemn ‘trumped-up’ charges against CMC alum
Human rights group Karapatan said that Bakwit school teacher and CMC alumna Lorena Sigua is experiencing “psychological torture and systematic harassment” under police detainment due to repeated interrogations without the presence of her legal counsel.
[EDITORIAL] From one dictator to another: Unearthing each other’s grave
One of Ferdinand Marcos’ children is sitting comfortably in the Senate. The other, seeking higher office. His wife, scot-free from multiple counts of graft. Right from the grave, the dictator is rising unstopped.
Who else took him out of his sepulcher but President Duterte himself?
‘Ipagpatuloy ang simulain’: Ang pagpapamana ng aktibismo sa kabataan
Sa isang press conference noong Set. 17., sinariwa ng mga aktibistang tumuligsa sa Batas Militar ang kanilang maagang pagmulat sa pagkilos. Anila, bagamat ilang dekada na ang nakalipas, hindi nawala ang diwa ng aktibismo sa hanay ng kabataan.
As Sept. 30 deadline draws near, voter applicants ‘frustrated’ with registration mishaps
Even when the Commission on Elections (Comelec) opened mall registration booths to draw more voters as the Sept. 30 deadline draws near, registrants were still met with obstacles in their application process.
[OPINION] No, Belo, I don’t need to buy my beauty
Women will not find their deliverance in a divisive paradigm of beauty. The true redress to the harms they endure is beyond individual cosmetization, rather in a collective liberation from the system that fuels their insecurities.
14K petitioners urge Shopee and Lazada: ‘reveal, reduce and redesign’ packaging
As Shopee and Lazada prepared to kick off a massive 9.9 sale, 14,000 individuals dropped a petition to demand urgent waste reduction and a sustainable delivery system to ‘enable a better normal.’
With UP short on vaccines, student jabs remain in limbo
UP Diliman’s COVID-19 immunization program #BakunahanSaDiliman believes that the university should extend vaccination services to all of its students. There’s one thing missing though, the government can’t give them enough vaccines.
Immunocompromised, afraid: HIV treatment tails off amid COVID-19
The treatment of people living with HIV (PLHIV) had to take a backseat as the pandemic limited their mobility. Extreme lockdowns blocked PLHIVs from lifesaving antiretroviral drugs, putting them in danger of not only contracting COVID-19 but other deadly diseases as well.
UP student councils call to realign intel funds to COVID response
The 51st GASC adopted 20 resolutions, several of which strengthened calls to reallocate funding from the state’s counterinsurgency wallet to the government’s economic relief and education programs.