Tinig ng Plaridel

3 min

Student journos press UP for funding, legal aid

Posted on 21 February 202221 February 2022
byJason Sigales

Member publications and writing organizations of the UP Solidaridad convened on Feb. 18 and 19 to demand the university for aid, funding and equipment amid heightened red-tagging blows and state-sponsored attacks.

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4 min

Rights groups slam illegal arrest of community doctor

Posted on 19 February 202220 February 2022
byRhenzel Raymond Caling

The Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) said that Castro has been barred from seeing lawyers and family members since she was brought to Camp Crame yesterday. The organization also reported that the 53-year old doctor is being denied access to her medications for hypertension and diabetes.

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Top Fil-Am recruit Zav Lucero a UPMBT ‘game-changer’

Posted on 18 February 202220 February 2022
byJohn Mark Garcia

Hailed as one of college basketball’s most sought-after talents, Filipino-American Zavier “Zav” Lucero is the latest addition to the UP Men’s Basketball Team (MBT) in its forthcoming title bid for a prospective University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) Season 84 tournament.

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6 min

COVID-19 airborne, policies need “urgent refinements” — expert

Posted on 16 February 202216 February 2022
byKyle Angelo Cristy

Disease transmission expert Jose-Luis Jimenez and other scientists worldwide are challenging earlier notions that the COVID-19 virus solely spreads through large droplets or through contaminated surfaces, saying instead that the virus is mainly transmitted through the air.

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6 min

[EDITORIAL] UP, the “boat” is sinking. Don’t pretend it isn’t.

Posted on 15 February 202215 February 2022
byTinig ng Plaridel

UP has seen all the charts and the graphs. It knows, as anyone does, that the community has been treading unstable waters since the start of the pandemic. Everything we’ve done in the past years under remote learning is patching holes.

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4 min

UPD nixes petitions to #MoveTheSem, opts for one week easing

Posted on 9 February 202211 February 2022
byJan Cuyco

The University Student Council, along with members of the UP Diliman community, urged the administration to push back the second semester of A.Y. 2021-2022 to give time for constituents to recover from the previous semester. Still, the campus administration decided to push through with the Feb. 7 opening, opting to suspend deadlines in its first week.

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5 min

UP student councils slam aggressive dev’t as Duterte exit nears

Posted on 7 February 20227 February 2022
byDominic Karl Cacho

In its sessions on Feb. 4 and 5, UP student councils adopted resolutions opposing the government’s “anti-poor and anti-people” policies in infrastructure development, environmental protection and public health.

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UP student councils push for sign language GE class

Posted on 6 February 20227 February 2022
byRenz Palalimpa

Currently, only students studying special education teaching in the College of Education take sign language as part of their curricula. But student leaders in the 52nd General Assembly of Student Councils urged the university to open a general elective class teaching Filipino sign language.

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Student councils to UP: Move the sem

Posted on 5 February 20225 February 2022
byKarmela Melgarejo

With the back-to-back onslaught of Typhoon Odette and the Omicron COVID-19 variant, student councils across the UP system had a united in their call to the university administration: #MoveTheSemUP.

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5 min

Unopposed CMC dean nominee bares “caring community” plan for Maskom

Posted on 2 February 20223 February 2022
byLeo Baltar

In a public forum on Jan. 31, communication research professor Fernando Paragas introduced his vision of a “Caring Community of Communicators” that will address mental health and remote learning woes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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7 min

[ANALYSIS] Paano ba tinuturo ang Martial Law sa kabataan?

Posted on 31 January 202231 January 2022
bySamantha Salamanca and Julius Patrick Coloma

Tulad ng isang marahas na video game, pinaglaruan ng diktador na si Ferdinand Marcos ang Pilipinas sa ilalim ng halos dalawang dekada ng Batas Militar.

Paano nga ba tinuturo sa kabataan ang malagim na kasaysayang ito?

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7 min

For OFWs, repatriation is no heroes’ welcome

Posted on 28 January 202229 January 2022
byLeo Baltar and Leila Magno

With OFW remittances providing about 10% of the country’s gross domestic product since 2000, government agencies have celebrated them as “modern heroes.” But repatriated OFWs say their return to the country amid the pandemic is far from a heroes’ welcome.