Friday, June 12, 2026
The Varsitarian Editorial Board

The Varsitarian Editorial Board

Why ABS-CBN should hire Calida as ‘telenovela’ writer

Jose Calida’s quo warranto petition against  ABS-CBN is not only a travesty of Philippine democracy; it is also a pitiful fabrication so fanciful and twisted that the...

Modern-day Herods

THE BELEN gives us an idealized image of the first Christmas that happened two millennia ago. We see a solemn portrayal of the Nativity...

A blatant farce

INTIMIDATION and fear have always been a familiar tool in dictatorial regimes. While others use them with subtlety and cunning, some despots prefer a...

Preserve campus free of Duterte despotism

HOW RIDICULOUS that President Duterte who wrings his iron fist at the slightest excuse, who has kowtowed to Communist China and committed the treason...

Laban para sa wika ay laban ng bayan

ISANG malaking insulto at kahihiyan ang naging desisyon ng Korte Suprema na katigan ang utos ng Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) na gawing opsiyonal...

Treason, betrayal on Independence Day

IT IS IRONICAL that the Department of National Defense announced the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat by an aggressive Chinese vessel on Recto...

Our damaged culture, our vacuous democracy

THE RESULTS of the May elections show that while Filipinos have taken to democracy as a matter of practice, they hardly have grown in...

Conscience vote needed this May 13

TODAY’S election surveys are a foretaste of the possible turnout of the 2019 midterm elections: the halls of the upper chamber of Congress is...

Dearth of bets in CSC polls alarming

THERE was a time when student council elections in UST were highly contested, overflowing with candidates and defined by an electorate demanding better student...

Clergy crucified by Duterte and the Catholics they serve

IT CAME as no surprise for Filipino Church leaders and clergymen to receive death threats under the regime of a madman living along the...