I will not mention her name here. It was bad enough that I had to ask her what she was doing in Hong Kong. But then, how could I presume what job a B.Sc. in Agriculture graduate from UP is prepared to take on these days? UP students have this illusion that they belong to … Read more
This title, and such other morbidly graphic phrases as the “spectacle of the scaffold”, “gallows speeches”, or the functions of “punitive rituals”, are taken from Michel Foucault’s book Discipline & Punish. To Justice Secretary Teofisto Guingona and Senator Ramon Magsaysay Jr., who have both recommended TV coverage of public executions, I enthusiastically endorse this fascinating … Read more
Long after they have delivered them into the world, mothers continue, for some mysterious reason, to feel deeply responsible for their children, for what they have become or will become. It is a burden that is not as often associated with or as intensely experienced by fathers. Children are more properly seen as their mothers’ … Read more
I’ve always been a reluctant speaker at graduations. I’ve always suspected that graduates everywhere would rather get on with the ceremonies than listen to stale sermons. Besides, what can one really say on such occasions that will not sound trite? But it was very difficult to refuse the invitation of UP Cebu Dean Socorro Villalobos, … Read more