My father is a hoarder and a collector
I AM the son of a hoarder and a collector.
People wonder why we have several stuff in our house that my father did not...
The sinking of Bohol during the fiesta month of May
IF NOT for the pandemic, Bohol should have been sinking this month.
It is jokingly said Bohol is âsinkingâ in May because the population of the island...
The growing danger of practicing the legal profession
IT WAS 1:30 a.m., April 6, 1999, a Tuesday. A friend sent a message via my beeper. It read: âDennis, congrats! You are now...
Comfort women are not prostitutes
THE PORTRAYAL of âcomfort womenâ as willingly-paid sex workers is a misleading attempt to rewrite history and silence the victims of sexual slavery during...
Barricades of the Diliman Commune
âRAISE high the barricades!â was the headline of the Feb. 4, 1971 issue of the Philippine Collegian that chronicled the so-called Diliman Commune.
The Diliman...
Academic freedom and the termination of UP-DND Accord
#DefendUP and #DefendAcademicFreedom became trending hashtags for the past few days due to the sudden, arbitrary and unilateral termination by the Department of National...
WW II victims of sexual slavery dying without seeing justice
THE RECENT deaths of three World War II women victims of sexual slavery and violence were reminders that the survivors were dying without receiving...
Street is Physics studentâs bigger classroom
LEARNING is not confined within the four walls of the classroom, and for Polytechnic University of the Philippinesâ (PUP) Physics student Freedom Mendiola dela Cruz, the street...
Waiting to cheer âUP Fightâ again amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
PHOTOGRAPHS of past basketball games of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) have been appearing in recent weeks in my Facebook memory feeds.
Sadly this year, fans have...
The saga of the missing âLolaâ statue
âGINAHASA AKO.â The words that Lola Rosa Henson writes every day on a piece of paper that she then crumples and throws away to hide her dark past.
Those were...