NOTE: This series is based on the findings of a study done in 2018 made possible by a grant from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). It…
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History made, history in-the-making at CatSU: the politics of foundation days
Today, June 19, the Catanduanes State University is into some modest observance of its 63rd foundation anniversary. But this is quite disorienting to most. Through half a century of reckoning,…
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Imagining a Post-PATA CatSU
It is now a matter of almost certainty that we are seeing the last few months of the incumbency of Dr. Patrick Alain T. Azanza (or PATA through the rest…
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EDUCATION AND POLITICS IN THE HAPPY ISLAND, Part 3
In Part 2 we examined the basic (in)compatibility of education and politics by particularizing on local political culture of Catanduanes vis-à-vis the mandates of the Higher Education Institution (HEI). We…
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EDUCATION AND POLITICS IN THE HAPPY ISLAND, Part 2
We have expounded in Part 1 that education and politics are strange bedfellows. But there is a most disturbing affair developing between the two with the State University of our…
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EDUCATION AND POLITICS IN THE HAPPY ISLAND (First of a Series)
For most people, education and politics are like water and oil: they do not mix up. The former is about the exalted pursuit of learning and knowledge, while the latter…
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Virac’s Best Town Executives, 1755-1952
Virac’s Best Town Executives, 1755-1952 As a way of commemorating Virac’s feast day this coming December 8, we offer in this occasional column a presentation on\f exemplar political leadership…
Rizal and Catanduanes (Second of two parts)
In this second part, I will reflect on bits and pieces of my personal experiences of Rizal – not in person of course but in various representations – culled from my growing-up years in Virac. I offer these vignettes as reflective of our attitude towards the national hero, which it will turn out, is complicated and not as positive as we think it is.
Rizal and Catanduanes (First of two parts)
In two days, on June 19, it will be the 159th birth anniversary of Jose Rizal. Surely, Catandunganons know of the national hero. But it should warm their hearts to be informed that Rizal also knew of Catanduanes, and in glowing terms. This can be gleaned from Rizal’s “Annotation of Morga’s ‘Sucesos de las Islas Filipina’”, published in 1889.
World War II in Catanduanes (Last of Four Parts)
They engaged in a crackdown on the population, arrested young men they picked up randomly on the streets or else forced them out of homes during raids. They were incarcerated and tortured, all to sow terror on the people.