The GUIDON takes a look at the elections that was. Misprinted ballots, a neophyte coalition going toe-to-toe with an established party, and landslide victories, among others, characterized the 2010 Sanggunian elections. Elections, it is said, is one measure of the health of a democracy. If anything, the 2010 elections showed Ateneo politics in a state [...]
Through the years, it is a struggle to get Ateneans to vote in the Sanggunian General Elections. Typically, the required quota (50% + 1), in order for the election to be called ‘valid’, is reached only late in the afternoon on the last day of elections. This is despite the fact that, as said in [...]
Ateneans today may not know the Filipino language and culture as well as they’re expected to.
College students usually resort to the Loyola Schools Infirmary (now the Loyola Schools Office of Health Services) whenever they get sick in school. While the seniors were having their medical-check up for the Theology immersion, Nicole* went to the infirmary because of a stomachache. The doctors and nurses present at the time, however, told her not to go inside because it was their lunch break.
Are the demands of being part of the Sanggunian too high for its current crop of officers?
“[It] wasn’t that organized last year,” says Central Board (CB) Representative Maria* in Filipino. “This year, Sanggu has a clearer vision and provides a clearer path for officers like me.”