Tinig ng Plaridel

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DOST cuts UP scholars’ stipend due to ‘compressed’ semester

Posted on 10 December 20203 February 2022
byLuisa Sandoval

Computer Science major Justin Ruaya spent the rest of his P20,000 allowance from the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) to buy a computer for his new remote learning setup. This left him with barely enough money for the rest of the semester and for internet connection.

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Another virus among us

Posted on 7 December 20207 December 2020
byTinig ng Plaridel

Text by Aedrian Josef Mariano Like a flightless bird caged by the walls of their home, trapped by the walls of discrimination and pinned under judgmental gazes and rumors, grief…

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PE classes hurdle online learning as instructors push to keep students active

Posted on 7 December 20204 February 2022
byEliseo Rioja

As a program requiring face-to-face setup, Physical Education (PE) remains stuck in a rut as classes shift to remote learning, challenging the assurance of necessary skills and knowledge being catered to students holistically.

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Uncovering the Layers: Combating the Climate Crisis at its Core

Posted on 3 December 202013 February 2022
byDominique Flores and Alyka Mari Lampano

It has been eight months of television screens tallying dead bodies every night, and throughout the lockdown, people have either died from COVID-19 or human rights violations. Then November came…

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Student-athletes move into UPD dorms amid pandemic difficulties

Posted on 26 November 20201 March 2021
byTinig ng Plaridel

To address the lack of resources for online classes and training, UP opened its university dormitories to student-athletes for access to stable internet connection and adequate online training spaces.

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‘Their demands are just’: Int’l scholars pledge support to PH academic strikes

Posted on 25 November 202014 August 2021
byJan Cuyco

More than 70 international educators and scholars have backed the strike movements brewing across Philippine universities after the series of typhoons that battered the archipelago this month.

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EDITORIAL: Eleven years of drowning

Posted on 23 November 202029 December 2020
byTinig ng Plaridel

A revolting storm of tyranny is brewing over our heads. Year by year, minute by minute, the tempest intensifies, picking up its strength from the government’s war on the media. It has taken hundreds in its notorious winds and drowned many truth-tellers with its floods.

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EDITORIAL: Strike to oust

Posted on 18 November 202018 November 2020
byTinig ng Plaridel

A perfect storm is brewing to expel the dictator from Malacañang. Enough is enough. We call to oust Duterte now. Not tomorrow, when conditions may appear slightly less grim. Not…

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[OPINION] #NasaanAngPangulo, but we don’t need another spectacle

Posted on 9 November 20205 February 2022
byIngrid Alexandrea Delgado

The Philippine government has turned into a circus. Public service has become a show run by unfit clowns. Meanwhile, elephants in the room and closets full of skeletons abound as…

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Fedelina: A Stolen Life — and how it’s reclaimed

Posted on 9 November 20205 February 2022
byJandale Jimenez

At 82, Fedelina only had a few good stories to tell. For most of her life, she had learned to become inconspicuous from others. For so long, the world had…

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Coming out in isolation

Posted on 6 November 20204 February 2022
byJo Comuyog

COVID-19 is redefining coming out. The pandemic is deeply informing the experiences of those going through this already-complex process of realization and self-expression, especially in a country with little protection…

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Halted physical classes, looming phaseout burden UP jeepney drivers

Posted on 6 November 20206 March 2021
byRhenzel Raymond Caling

Plying the UP-Pantranco route for a decade, jeepney driver Felix Mudlong used to shuttle hundreds of students and commuters in and out of the campus everyday.