The Varsitarian

THE MEDIARTRIX adapted the celebrated classic Les Miserables, last Feb. 2 to 3 at the Albertus Magnus Auditorium.  read more »

WHAT is happening to the visual memory bank of Filipinos?

Despite Filipino films being representations of Filipino culture and identity, they are not given the care and attention due them. This is what the Mowelfund Film Institute, together with the National Commission for Culture and the Arts Cinema Values Re-orientation Program (NCCA-CVRP), will try to counteract in this year’s Pelikula at Lipunan. Now on its 12th year, the festival will highlight the women of Philippine Cinema, spearheading the call to save the fast vanishing film heritage of our country.  read more »

AFTER being on shelves for over five years, Arthur Golden’s international bestseller, Memoirs of a Geisha, has hit the big screen, proving to be one of the few films that bring justice to its novel counterpart.  read more »

I CONFESS I still have a SEA Games hangover.

It was mind-boggling, to say the least, to cover the biennial multi-sports meet for the Philippine Daily Inquirer as a student correspondent. Now, every time I hear “Posible” and “Pinoy Ako,” it is like I am reliving the dream again: I am back at the Cuneta Astrodome watching Toni Rivero demolish her opponent in the women’s taekwondo lightweight finals or cheering on RP fighter Roland Claro as he kicks and punches his way to victory in the Muay Thai ring.  read more »

Doomsday in 10 years.

This was how former United States Vice President Al Gore bluntly put the fate of major coastal cities if governments worldwide continue neglecting the dangers of global warming, in a forum sponsored by Ambassador Alfonso Yuchengco last Feb. 9 at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium.

Gore warned that unless governments halt global warming in the next 10 years, melting glaciers and polar ice caps could raise sea levels worldwide of up to five meters.  read more »

I PROMISE I won’t try one of those “Love is…” lines today.

But I will try to shed light on perhaps one of the most enigmatic but ambiguous, elusive and equally perplexing forces in the world—beauty. While “beautiful” for Filipinos may not be “beautiful” to Indians, Chinese, Slavs, Turks, Ugandans (and vice versa), it is also equally impossible for all Filipinos to have the same concept of beauty.  read more »

NEWS articles on the planned courses of action of the “Wowowee” tragedy victims the past few weeks have become sources of misinformation because of erroneous reporting and improper use of legal terms.

In the days after the incident, major news dailies ran stories on the victims’ plan to file a “class” suit for damages against ABS-CBN and its officers. A major news daily even used the term “class suit” in its banner headline.  read more »

AS I WRITE this, the radio blares constant updates on the rally taking place in Makati. The rally is led by no less than former President Cory Aquino herself, crowned queen of the first Edsa, along with several not-so-saintly senators and political figures by her side who want GMA out of the presidency.  read more »

NARANASAN mo na bang makipagkwentuhan sa libro?

Kung dati-rati ay iniiwasan ng mga mag-aaral ang pagbabasa ng libro, ngayon, mayroon nang mga libro na tila mga kaibigang handang makipagsabayan sa lahat ng “trip” mo sa buhay, gaya na lang ng Stainless Longganisa.  read more »

DESPITE the Catholic Church’s strong opposition to artificial family planning methods, an anti-pregnancy pill is making a comeback in the country.

Organon, an international pharmaceutical company and the pill’s manufacturer, is the manufacturer of progesterel, a progestogen-only pill is specifically targeting the lower class by introducing the pill at a substantially lower price before its official release in the market next year.  read more »