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Sixteen graduating college students are among this year’s recipients of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Outstanding Student Award given March 11 in Dumaguete City. This year’s recipients are Verna Kristelle M. Alferez (Management), Kim B. Apurado (Nursing), Abishag C. Atega (Management), Michiko Je M. Bito-on (Mass Communication), Edcarl R. Cagandahan (Political Science), Sunshine Gianne […]

Portal 2016, the yearbook of the graduating class, will be in the hands of graduates earlier than their diplomas. This is the fourth consecutive year for the yearbook to come out before graduation, making thePortal among few yearbooks in the country distributed before students march the stage. Distribution for college graduates is scheduled March 18, […]

As early as he was a high school student, he already knew the value of service for others. And this he affirmed in Portal 1957, the official yearbook of Silliman University, when asked about his motto in life: “To serve humanity.” Silliman inducted into the Order of Horace B. Silliman one of its benefactors, an […]

The College of Performing and Visual Arts (COPVA), in cooperation with the Cultural Affairs Committee (CAC), staged March 4 and 5 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium the musical Heaven as the Sea: A Manobo Epic, which was conceptualized based on the Saliling Tale of the Ulahingan narratives. Ulahingan is a local term that […]

An official of the US Embassy in Manila stressed the importance of the press covering biodiversity as a “mainstream” subject in the news to improve people’s awareness and make informed decisions about the environment. Mr. Kurt Hoyer, Embassy spokesperson, said: “We believe that increased consciousness in biodiversity should help in building an environmentally sound society. […]

175 Scholarship Slots for Contact Services Certificate There are 175 scholarship slots available at the School of Agro-Industrial and Technical Education (SAITE) for the certificate program in Contact Center Services NC II. The program will cater to seven batches of students who will go through the entire program for a span of five weeks. Classes […]

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 […]