Colleague Of The Week

She is an unfamiliar face to most customers at the Cafeteria, but her charm can easily win people over. She exudes an aura that can quickly brighten up what can be a quiet corner on the second floor of the Cafeteria. She is a beauty pageant winner who, while can be the muse of the […]

It was high noon, and the Silliman University Information Technology Society was to have their first meeting to elect their pioneering officers. The first batch of Information Technology students gathered in front of the Uytengsu Foundation Computer Center. It was a warm day. Many were running late.  And, then “apathetic” eighteen year-old Rey Dennis Caballero […]

His occasionally long hair may sometimes remind you of Samson, the champion of Israel who fell into the hands of the Philistines when his strength left him upon the cutting of his hair by his lover Delilah. But the opposite is true for Biology Department Chairperson Professor Roy Olsen de Leon whose short hair is […]

At 12 years old, as he was looking out their kitchen window into the vast outer space, a crippling fear dawned on him. He came to realize the inescapable truth of death. It was this fear that set Mr. Leonel L. De Jesus on the track of following the one person who overcame death – […]

She was raised in a Christian home in Pagadian City. Her father was a pastor, and evenings at their household were set apart for family devotions. The whole family gathered in the living room, hymnal music played and sung, scriptures read and the Gospel preached. This was the childhood of High School Music Teacher Ms. […]

Her name is said to have been first coined by a famous English novelist for the heroine in his novel, Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (R.D. Blackmore, 1869). It is no surprise then that University Librarian Prof. Lorna Tumulak-Yso is herself a romantic at heart who finds leisure in unwinding to the music of old […]

Physicists and cosmologists agree, the universe is shaped in great part by an attractive force we call gravity. It may be the weakest among the four fundamental forces of physics, but its reach is furthest and holds sway over all objects that have mass even through the vacuum of space. Without it the universe will […]

When someone says, “Better to light a candle than curse the darkness,” what usually comes to most people’s mind is John F. Kennedy in fine fighting form, advocating affirmative action while thundering against injustice and oppression. Little do they know it’s a Chinese proverb first quoted in public in the West on Human Rights Day […]

In the good book they call him Mishael, Hebrew of his Anglicized name Michael, patron archangel of God’s army of angels. In Spain, Portugal and South America, he is Miguel, vaunted brand name of a famous ale, in Russia Mikhail, first name of the Bolshevik revolution slayer. In pop culture he is Mickey, title of […]

His name is Bernie, but it might as well be Mercury, the Roman deity of speedy delivery. For all we care, he might be the reincarnation of the one whose winged sandals let him run errands for the gods at the speed of whim. He may not be a glorified page of the heavens on […]