Are you man enough for this? I heard the echoes of the hushed ridicule of the wind. I stood beneath the mountain I was supposed to climb and reach its peak. It loomed over me—taunting me to brave this expedition. Yet this was no ordinary expedition, it executed the women that came before me and the women I knew over and over again. But if I refused to take the first step, then what would that make of me? They'll think I'm weak, like I'm below them and easily trampled on just

Sa tuwing binabanggit natin ang pangalang Sisa, tila bigla-bigla na lamang umaalingawngaw ang mga sigaw ng paghahanap niya kina Crispin at Basilio. Nakakubli na ang pagiging baliw sa kaniya—isang babaeng talunan at biktima ng kalupitan ng tadhana. Ngunit paano kung panahon na para sa Sisa na malayo sa kung paano ito binigyang-buhay ni José Rizal? Parehong nawalan, parehong sinugatan, ngunit malaki rin ang kaibahan—ang isa’y nabaliw… at ang isa’y nagbaliw-baliwan. Noong 189

The Communicator, the official student publication of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines - College of Communication (PUP-COC), secured six major recognitions at the 6th Assumption Outstanding Campus Press Awards (AOCPA), held at the University of Assumption in San Fernando, Pampanga on February 27. Competing against 46 department-based and college/university-wide campus publications across Luzon in 12 journalism categories, the publication bagged four individual “