Dare You to Move
By Bianca Nathalie Y. Llamis | February 10, 2012, 9:37 pm
The various uprisings and protests that colored 2011 have one weapon: social media.From the toppling down of dictators in the Arab world to Occupy Wall Street in New York, the protests would not have gathered much attention and support if it were not for social media. Yet while it began online, the people did not stay there. Instead of just posting status updates one after another, they walked...
To give and not to count the cost
By Ryan Louie G. Madrid | February 10, 2012, 9:03 pm
The disaster response to the catastrophe spawned by ‘Sendong’ has been overwhelming. The disaster, to say the least, has brought out the inner kindness, heroism and compassion from people. Just as much, however, it has also unveiled self-absorbed, selfglorifying people who used the disaster response to further their political agenda.Such is the case of Congressman Benjo Benaldo.He published an...
Cramped
By Nadine Hendrikka E. Legaspi | February 10, 2012, 8:47 pm
On October 31st last year, we hit 7 billion. Sounds like we hit some cosmic jackpot but it’s something serious, and definitely a whole lot bigger.The United Nations declared in a report that on that last day of October, the world’s population has been projected to have reached 7,000,000,000 people, just 13 years after it reached 6 billion. In 1927, there were only 2 billion people. That’s a lot...
Canteen, meet Hygiene
Glenn Paolo A. Goopio | January 29, 2011, 12:00 am
As I was heading for the main exit one late afternoon a girl approached me and publicly berated The Crusader for publishing an article in its December Issue which hit on the cafeteria's sanitation practices -- or the lack thereof. She said: "Mura man sad mo ug wala ni-agi ug ka-pobre! Mura man sad walay ok-ok sa inyong mga balay o dili na ninyo ginabuhat! Maskin asa ka mo adto, maskin sa mga...
RH Bill – the rationale beneath the underneath
Princess Kimberly V. Ubay-ubay | December 21, 2010, 12:00 am
The House Bill No. 5043 or more commonly known as the Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2008 is a very litigious issue that we generally hear nowadays. Filipinos of any age bracket is aware of the Bill’s effects and efficiency thus creating a captivating fad in the country. The Bill is extremely debatable for there are sections contained in it which are logically erroneous....
