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A team from the Junior High School bagged a total of six medals in the 2016 Philippine National Outdoor Archery Championship held February 25 to 28 in Cebu City. There were a total of 120 student athletes from different parts of the country in the competition that was sponsored by World Archery Philippines. Eight grader […]

Fourteen short films produced, directed and edited by Silliman students vied for different awards during the Silliman Film Open held late last month at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. Featured were “Finals” by Ara Mina Amor, “White Rose” by Cheri Ansale, “Sally” by Kristine Ariken, “Tugis” by Leslie Batallones, “Tadtad” by Cindy Bonachita, “A […]

The only Filipino in the 25 experts who wrote the First Ocean Assessment Report for the United Nations revealed that seagrass meadows are the most threatened ecosystems on earth. Dr. Hilconida P. Calumpong, who is a professor at the Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences in Silliman, said that one-third of all the seagrass areas […]

The Student Government election results this year once again paved the way for shared leadership, with the winners of the top two posts coming from the two major student political parties. Accountancy junior Gil Buenavista of the Student Union for Reforms party is the new SG president. Vice president is Cedrick Louis Antiquina, a Medical […]

Three out of the four candidates for Mayor of Dumaguete City graced the Mayoral Candidates Forum organized by Silliman University on February 24 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. Mr. Dindo P. Generoso, Mr. Quirino A. Ramirez and Atty. Felipe Antonio B. Remollo attended the forum and discussed their respective plans for Dumaguete. Not […]

The College of Education launched a painting exhibit dubbed “Phases of Leadership” that showcased ten portraits of the different deans of the College, since the first one appointed in 1935. Featured on the ground floor of the Robert B. and Metta J. Silliman Library, the paintings are works of alumnus and former College instructor Mr. […]

Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio expressed optimism at a forum held February 26 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium that the United Nations-backed arbitral tribunal will render a favorable judgment on the case filed by the Philippines against China on its 9-dash lines claim illegal. The 9-dash line of China plots […]

Philippine law requires that the barangay government create a committee in their jurisdiction for disaster risk management, but implementing the law has been nil due to lack of information. To help solve this problem, Silliman University has recommended the use of a “template” that could serve as a checklist for identifying basic resource and environmental […]

Two awards were garnered by the team of the Silliman University College of Law during the 2016 Grand Law Debate against the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UP) held February 19 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. The debate revolved around the proposition: “Resolved that Foundlings be declared non-natural born citizens”. By tradition, Silliman took […]

The World Bank Knowledge for Development Community Center of the Library, Silliman NetRadio and the Student Government brought back the glory days of writing love letters by hand through the 1st Valentine Love Letter Writing Contest held February 15. Fifteen students representing their respective campus organizations proved how the pen is mightier than the sword […]