BS Applied Mathematics student Raoul Daniel A. Manuel is the first ever summa cum laude of the University of the … More
Tag: University of the Philippines Visayas
Sex and commodification: Students being auctioned in UP Visayas
I wrote this commentary for the Philippine Online Chronicles at the beginning of the month.[1] Sex has always been intriguing … More
Iloilo Youth Joins Historic Show of Rage Against Aquino’s Education Cuts
Joined by tens of thousands of youth and students, teachers, employees, and enlightened school administrators, yesterday’s culmination of the weeklong … More
Hasa and the Beauty Pageant: A Critique [1]
Beauty pageants traditionally claimed for itself the role of representing the essential Woman and celebrating her intelligence, talent, and most … More
On the Historic July 19 Iloilo Youth Protest
The Kabataan Partylist-Panay salutes the Iloilo youth and students for the successful July 19 State of the Youth Address (SOYA) … More
A Public Statement by Concerned Faculty Members of UP Visayas on Red-baiting
8 July 2011 We, the undersigned faculty members of UP Visayas, loudly deplore the unfounded accusations or red-baiting of legitimate … More
Beyond Our Comfort Zones: On Pagbutlak, Literature and Politics
Tol, pasok ako sa UP! Pano ba yan, iwan mo na kami? Malabo, wala naman akong pang-tuition. —TV commercial The … More
Pleasures of the Text*
We need history, but not the way a spoiled loafer in the garden of knowledge needs it. –Nietzsche, Of the … More
The CAS in the Service of the People
The welfare of the nation can be measured by the wellbeing of the people that compose the nation. National development is not only … More
A Tradition of Struggle [1]
The history of Pagbutlak is closely intertwined with the history of the students’ militant struggles in the UP in the … More
Pagtatagpo sa Kabilang Dulo: Panitikang Testimonial ng Desaparecidos
Desaparecidos, the national organization of the families of the disappeared, and Pagbutlak, the official student publication of the University of … More
In the Time of Cholera
Red and green are invading houses, malls, streets, churches, and stores. Along with the proliferation of Santa Claus outfits on … More
Nobody but You
Does UP education lead to selfless service to the Filipino people? On the one hand, the University of the Philippines … More
Going Against the Current: Clarifying Some Points on Student Activism
We all too often create our own conception of a thing that is removed from the reality of that object … More
Bombard the Headquarters! 