PALS breaks IGNITE’s four-year streak
■ Jul Yan Espeleta Practice of Administrative Leadership and Service (PALS) has broken the four-year streak of the Initiative for Genuine Involvement, Transparency and Empowerment (IGNITE) in the...
View ArticleVoter turnout up in SURP, SOLAIR
■ Jul Yan Espeleta Positive student participation in the council elections was recorded this year at the School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP) and the School of Labor and Industrial Relations...
View ArticleCHED approves fees hike in 268 private schools
■ Camille Guadalupe Lita Almost one in six private higher education institutions (HEIs) is allowed to increase tuition and other school fees (OSFs) for academic year 2017 to 2018, despite the...
View ArticleGroups decry ‘militarization’ of Cabinet as threat to peasants, IPs
■ Karen Ann Macalalad Several groups have opposed the recent appointment of two military officials to executive posts following the widespread militarization of indigenous communities and unabated...
View ArticleFirst-ever Stat student to lead Collegian
■ Karen Ann Macalalad Collegian Kultura writer and incoming senior Statistics student Sanny Boy Afable is the next editor-in-chief of UP Diliman’s official student publication for the academic year...
View ArticleMaricon, malaya na
■ Camille Lita at Rat San Juan Makaraan ang pitong taong pagkakapiit sa Batangas Provincial Jail, nakalaya na ngayong araw ang pinakabatang bilanggong pulitikal at UP Diliman Film student na si...
View ArticleUP still far from tuition-free education
■ Camille Lita A week before the enrollment in UP Diliman, students have yet to hear the concrete plans of the administration with regards to fees collection in the coming semester. While the...
View ArticleDuterte’s drug war kills 12 in UPD
■ Rat San Juan The administration of President Rodrigo Duterte leaves no space safe with its declaration of war against drugs, even among the poor communities near UP Diliman (UPD). During the...
View ArticleWorkers’ group renews call to regularize contractuals in UP
■ Karen Ann Macalalad A labor group in UP intensified their calls anew to demand for regularization of contractual workers under the new administration of President Danilo Concepcion. The Alliance of...
View ArticleIT’S FINAL: Zero tuition in UP this sem
by Rat San Juan UP has finally joined the rest of the country’s 112 state universities and colleges in implementing free tuition this semester, according to an August 7 memorandum by UP President...
View ArticleCMC renovations disrupt classes, displace student orgs
■ Rat San Juan Ongoing renovations in the main building of the College of Mass Communication (CMC) interrupted at least 50 classes, more than half of which are Journalism classes which have all been...
View ArticleItatayong FC, walang faculty offices
■ Camille Lita Hindi magkakaroon ng mga opisina para sa mga guro ang ipatatayong Faculty Commons (FC) na nakatakda nang simulan sa Disyembre sa dating lugar ng nasunog na Faculty Center. Kabuuang P300...
View ArticleUP to suffer biggest budget cut in recent years
◢ CAMILLE LITA The UP administration asked for a sizeable P44.5 billion purse next year to fund an aggressive infrastructure campaign, but what looms ahead could be the national university’s biggest...
View ArticleUP rejects proposed mandatory drug tests
◢ DANIEL BOONE The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has recommended mandatory drug testing in tertiary schools, but UP has so far struck down the proposal, saying that it violates students’...
View ArticleGroups decry ‘militarization’ of Cabinet as threat to peasants, IPs
■ Karen Ann Macalalad Several groups have opposed the recent appointment of two military officials to executive posts following the widespread militarization of indigenous communities and unabated...
View ArticleFormer UPD student found dead after 10 days of going missing
◢ CAMILLE LITA A former Interior Design student was found dead in a Caloocan City morgue, August 28, exactly 10 days after his family reported him missing. Carl Angelo Arnaiz, 19, was last seen on...
View ArticleDesiderio trey leads Maroons’ first season win, 74-73
◢ John Reczon Calay Fighting Maroons captain ball Paul Desiderio silenced the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Growling Tigers after firing a snappy trey in the last seconds of the game, bringing UP’s...
View Article21-unit GE reform to be in full swing next AY
◢ CAMILLE LITA UP Diliman is set to fully implement the proposed minimum 21 required GE units starting next academic year, according to Student Regent Shari Oliquino. This is less than half of the...
View ArticleMaroons rout Red Warriors, 84-71
◢ Juan Gregorio Lina The UP Fighting Maroons bounced back from Wednesday’s blowout loss against the Ateneo Blue Eagles, coming away with a decisive 84-71 victory against the University of the East...
View ArticleKNL resident falls victim to Tokhang
◢ Rat San Juan The drug war continues to plague UP communities. A Krus na Ligas (KNL) resident was killed by undercover policemen in a staged buy-bust operation in Barangay Pansol, less than a...
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