YES! to Sin Tax
The Philippines has one of the lowest prices for sin products like alcohol and cigarettes. The average price for cigarettes in the country is 27.72 pesos per pack compared to 365.2 pesos in Singapore,...
Today's CAROLINIAN LATEST
Blessing and Curse: The Case for Student Activism
Big signs, megaphones, grim-looking people screaming their lungs out, pumping their fists in defiance to authority for the sake of a cause? Maybe something more sinister. Shady groups of people at war with the...
The Ills of Democracy: The SSC Experience
Beyond reasonable doubt, our Supreme Student Council has been on the receiving end of brutal criticism; criticisms such as questionable objectives, lapses in information dissemination, poor campus presence and rampant party politics. All of...
Unheard: Sentiments of a Campus Security Guard
My colleagues and I have planned on doing an interview with one of the campus security guards for some time now but have never really gotten to it because all of us would always...
My Favorite Worst Nightmare
The problems started last year November when I noticed blood mixed with my mucus and continued into December with a headache that lasted a month, which would prevent me from getting any sleep whatsoever....
Our Game this Time
What does the 21st century have in common with the age that saw the demise of the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago? The answer is all around us, even in the most minute of...
Old Boy: A Movie Review
“At first glance, the line between classifying this film as being a cinematographically twisted masterpiece and a senseless, violent, snuff-like film is blurry. There is an endless (not exaggerating) amount of violence, gore, blood...
The Proposed TC Masterplan
The design concept of the proposed master plan for the Talamban Campus is aimed at steering the University of San Carlos towards higher quality education, such that expansion and development is inevitable for future...
Sabado! Sabado!
Binisaya is a Cebu-based film festival, organized by award-winning director and CAFA-USC alumnus Keith Deligero and started in 2011 with the installment labeled “Biyernes! Biyernes!”. This year’s episode was themed “Sabado! Sabado!” and showcased...
ISMISery: A General Reflection
It’s beginning to feel as if at the end of every semester, the fates flip a coin and decide how the enrollment for the next one goes: heads for bearable and tails for headache, with...
