Festival of Lights: UP Lantern Parade 2011
Highlights of the 2011 Lantern Parade: College of Fine Arts students showcase a series of Filipino Noon at Ngayon floats of dolls, transportation means, movie characters, and superheroes as the…
UP geologist: Residents warned of ‘Sendong’ disaster in 2009
by Xianne Arcangel A geologist from the University of the Philippines said Friday that residents of Iligan City were warned as early as 2009 to relocate their homes to higher…
Oral history of the 1986 UP Fighting Maroons championship (Part 2)
Tinig ng Plaridel, in partnership with InterAKTV, takes you back 25 years ago, the last time the UP Fighting Maroons won the UAAP basketball championship. Read part one here. The…
Oral history of the 1986 UP Fighting Maroons championship (Part 1)
Tinig ng Plaridel, in partnership with InterAKTV, takes you back 25 years ago, the last time the UP Fighting Maroons won the UAAP basketball championship. When the clock strikes…
UP fratmen run naked to save local rivers
By Xianne Arcangel Members of Alpha Phi Omega stripped off their clothing and ran around a building in the University of the Philippines Diliman to expose what the fraternity’s Grand…
In Focus: Lantern Parade 2011
by Amapola Española and Patricia Denise Chiu Lights and color pierced the cool December night as different institutions of the University of the Philippines marched in the 2011 Lantern Parade,…
Reporter’s Notes: Patintero in a violent playground
The stories that make it into the pages of this website are more than the ones we report. The different people and images in their coverage leave impressions on journalists.…
UP community unites against ‘Occupy’ movement dispersal
By Elizabeth E. Escaño The University of the Philippines community on Thursday condemned the violent dispersal of the “Occupy Mendiola” protest at Bustillos Church, Manila on Dec. 7. In a…
EDITORIAL: Above politics, above the law
President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s public castigation of the Supreme Court is something quite unprecedented in the country’s political history. Never before has a chief executive openly criticized the chief…
Detained Freedom: A profile on Maricon Montajes
By Jhesset Enano at Luis Hidalgo It was three in the morning on June 3, 2010 when members of the 743rd Combat Squadron of the Philippine Air Force raided a…
Ineligibility tagging alarms students: UP’s painful enrollment process
By Melissa Luz Lopez Juan Alcanices, a transferee student from the Trinity University of Asia, was all set for the enrollment second semester this year. After all, he had already…
EDITORIAL: Ties that bind
The Philippines is a country beset with the problems of feudalism – a system of landlord ownership over agricultural lands, at the expense of the farmers who only rely on…