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S.Y. 2020-2021

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Fear, illness stalk PH's packed jails during coronavirus outbreak
By Amanda Palmera

ABM students dominate entrepreneurship tilt
By Rianna Ronquillo and Joana Lipnica

Duterte permits POGOs
to operate despite
linked crimes
By Francesca Co

In-Depth

Our Best Long-Form Content

Rationing Medical Care: A Battle of Ethics and Morality
By Marielle Lara Joson

Death Without Ceremony
By Amanda Palmera

Getting to Know Sir Japs,
the 2020 Outstanding Benedictine Educator
By Holly Rosales

Coronavirus Coverage

DEVCOMM

Project COV-AID raises 300K for Santissima Trinidad residents

FEATURES

Community Quarantine:
A Portrait of a Saddening Social Lever

SCITECH

U.P. Scientists at the Forefront of the Battle against COVID-19

Editor's Pick

NATIONAL

Gov't strategizes ways to speed up cash aid distribution

Despite promising to deliver cash assistance to poverty-stricken families during the crisis, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) struggled to implement its Social Amelioration Program (SAP), prompting private companies and local government units (LGUs) to pick up the slack.

SCITECH

Cyber Crime in the Time of Need

Spam, phishing, viruses, malware and identity theft. Cyber criminals are getting more audacious. Can anything be done?

FEATURES

Making Bank: The Booming World of Online Shopping

As we enter the new normal, the question remains: Is the act of buying products—seeing it, hearing it, smelling it, tasting it, and touching it—an essential aspect of human life? Or are malls, where physical and social contact occurs with products and people, a quaint 20th century anachronism, like vinyl or democracy?

Multimedia

PHOTO ESSAY

In Photos: Relief for Taal

Red-hot lava gushed out of the Taal volcano after a sudden eruption forced villagers to flee en masse. To help victims recover from the calamity, Scholasticans started a donation drive.

PHOTO ESSAY

In Photos: Most Touching REP Activities

As the school year came to a close, Scholasticans took to social media to reminisce on the most heartfelt moments they had in SSC, including the much-anticipated REP activities.

VIDEO

SSC supports #JunkTerrorBill

Various members of the institution aired their grievances on the streets to protest the Anti-Terror Bill, a law that may allow a number of human rights abuses to go unpunished.

VIDEO

1 Billion Rising: Resistance through Art

With ribbons knotted around their wrists, the entire SSC community stood in solidarity and danced to free women and children from oppression and violence.

Opinion

COLUMN

Innocence for Sale

For some children, a normal school day follows routine: breakfast, bath, and a 15-minute check of things before setting out for school. At least 1 in 5 Filipino children, however, see 15 minutes altogether a different thing: undressing in front of a camera in exchange for cash.

COLUMN

The Silenced Character

Resembling the antagonist lurking in the shadows are the hidden motives that have created cobwebs latched onto the pulse of press freedom in the Philippines.

COLUMN

Educational Reboot

Due to the pandemic, schools were compelled to suspend classes, affecting over 1.2 billion children in 186 countries. These drastic changes had careened everyone towards technology. To students worldwide, it cemented an educational riot: online learning in full screen mode.