Bilang lamang ang ligtas na espasyo para sa mga aktibista at mamamahayag, lalo na sa mga kabataan at estudyante. Kahit sa loob ng paaralan, lugar na dapat nagpoprotekta sa kanila, wala rin silang tunay na seguridad. Hind nila binibigyang-halaga ang malayang pagpapahayag, bagkus sila pa ang nagbibigay-tuldok sa kalayaan nito. Sa impluwensiya ng administrasyon, patuloy na nagkakaroon ng banta sa kaligtasan ng bawat kabataang lumalaban para sa bayan.
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Following the online harassment and tragic passing of Emman Atienza, the Anti-Online Hate and Harassment Bill, also known as the Emman Atienza Bill, was filed to protect people from malicious and defamatory comments on social media. While this is a crucial step in addressing online abuse, it exposes deeper issues, not with mental health alone, but with how laws are enforced and whose interests they truly defend.
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In Far Eastern University, Medical Technology (MedTech) students share the same dream: to wear that white clinical uniform and blue scrub suit. And as someone who was fated to wear one, I sometimes wish I were not. Because no reference book nor one-and-a-half-hour lecture would have told me that chasing the dream meant crashing down and losing myself.
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Two seasons ago, we saw progress. Two seasons later, the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) women’s basketball division is back to square one with a lower pay rate for its officiating heads and only a second-rate division after the men’s. As if striving for an equal recognition is not hard enough, the league further makes this goal impossible to attain.
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It is a very fortunate situation when a big event at Far Eastern University (FEU), like ‘Tatak Tamaraw,’ coincides with the release of a new issue by the official student publication. With more students on campus, the newspaper’s stories have a wider reach and greater chance of being amplified. However, rather than being flipped through by hands and read by eyes, it was feet stomping on it that caught my attention.
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Sa kabila ng tatlong taong pag-upo ni Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. bilang pangulo ng Pilipinas, muling pinabubulaanan ng lumalalang kahirapan sa bansa, krisis sa edukasyon, at pagperhuwisyo ng sakuna sa mga pangkaraniwang Pilipino ang kaniyang ipinangakong ‘kaunlaran’ sa State of the Nation Address (SONA).
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Sa bawat sandaling lumilipas sa pagitan ng pagtatapos at kasalukuyan, laging nabubunyag ang mga katotohanan at realidad na sasampal sa kinamulatan ng bawat mag-aaral—na ang tunay na hamon ng buhay ay walang panimula at hindi natatapos sa pamantasan.
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Digital, flexible, future-ready—these are the buzzwords behind FEU’s hybrid model. At first glance, they signal innovation and progress, but they mask a deeper disconnect between institutional branding and student experience.
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Women in Batang Quiapo rarely have autonomy. They are either love interests, helpless mothers, sacrificial victims, or fleeting temptations. Their role is to react to the choices of men, to their violence, never to shape the story themselves. In contrast, male characters are given complexity, backstories, and arcs of transformation—even when they begin as violent criminals.
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After two years of persevering to pass, the time has come for us, Medical Technology (MedTech) students, to take a qualifying exam that would either lead us to promotion or redirection. With every wrong shade of a letter, our chances of stepping into the next stage of our MedTech journey shrinks. Which begs the idea that our dreams rely on a 300-item exam and an at least 2.0 Quality Point Average (QPA).
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