Editorial Board A.Y 2020-21
Editor-In-Chief: Sharmaine Canama Associate Editor For Reveille: Sophia Therese Del Castillo Associate Editor For Sinag: Mickaella Joyce Dumayag Associate Editors For Social Media: Ayesha Tulete, Zacharee Masamayor Managing Editors: Vinz Harrold Basilio, Renz Marion Suarez News Editor : Wisey Democrito Sports Editor: Yusrhina Usman Feature Editor: Shariful Mansul Copyreader (English): Yves Joey Flores Communications Officer: Kelly Cassandra Teja Head Cartoonist: Karl Onayan Head Photojournalist: Teriez Michove Bokingkito Head Layout Artist: Neil Ericsson Miro Adviser: Mrs. Leah M. Panaguiton WRITERS Hemelyn Jilian Renee Agayam, Almira Almiñana, Alfaruc Andas, Aungus Alpasain, Paula Alexis Ando, Jefferson Aray, Clairizza Arcillas, Fadzrati Asarud, Raye Angelique Bongabong, Jillian Rene Calo, Patricia Calinawan, Cybrealle Cruz, Vina Espejo, John Fabian, Fatima Marwa Fadzlulkarim, Sheriemike Gadin, Nicole Gagula, Rosen Gabriel Garcia, Jehanne Hassan, Raihana Habbi, Fatma Shaheen Hadjirul, Shariefa Jadji, Fatima Riesa Karay, Myron Larracochea, Kristian Ken Mabalot, Annsel Magno, Kiana Mae Morgia, Shifa Naeem Erika Jenn Quisil, Patrick Dale Angelo C. Rivera, Kristine Segayo, Chrizelle Jane Sicat, Rolly Songcayauon, Renzo Tan, Alyssa Tubilag CARTONISTS Jonie Alaban, Ayana Dawn Atis, Ma. Sofia Carro Falcasantos, Crystalane Hagonoy, Shamy Jailani, Francis Jae Oliveros, Maria Reolyn Pilones, Allysa Marie Ramiso, Gwen Toribio PHOTOJOURNALISTS Rochelle Elaine Bautista, Denzel Bautista, Jean Clarice Bue, Sean Vincent Del Castillo, Christianne Denise Ebreo, Zefanie Fernandez, Lance Kirby Gigante, James Hamoy, Charlene Laran, Jerecho Salinel, Danielle Joen Mercado, Gian Dominic Pareja, Shannen Semil, Edweena Saipuddin, Deanna Toledo VIDEOGRAPHERS Kezzia Jeiel Luzon, Peter Valmonte LAYOUT ARTISTS Martha Bernaldez, Ann Jucylle F. Ellorin, Charlene Lizardo, Jan Angelo Tan Belda, Rashid Ian Taupan, Abeer Uri
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PH in chaos—can VP Leni bring back a unified country? Police Brutality: Wake Up and Smell the Coffee Filipino Healthcare Workers: Do or Die? Duterte: Inutile ako diyan Pasaway despite being one of the World’s Top Mask User “Lights, Camera, Corruption!”: The Art of the Political Cinema
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Load Cada Dia Program Netizens criticize Cynthia Villar over insensitive comments Xander Ford’s Sexuality: A False Sense of Security? Vaccine-Fixated President and the Price Ordinary Filipinos Pay Netizen’s Cop Beirut blast: The Matchstick in the Hands of the Irresponsible The Band-Aid Solution #ABSCBNFranchise: The Impact on Press Freedom and Pop Culture But, WHATEVER! Unconstitutional: Anti-Terror Act of 2020 Duterte’s war on oligarchy A closer look on DDS Jolo Twin Blast
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The deadly COVID can’t stop the Games Sports and Escapism: Finding Alternatives to Cope in a World Without Sports 30 E-Sports on the Rise 31 32 33 34 35 37 38 40
Illustration: AdZU Façade by Sofia Falcasantos Comics: Types of Online Class Teachers Comics: No more Indian class tutorials for now Comics: Face Shield Hacks Comics: Online Shopaholic Infographic: Plastic Outbreak Infographic: Community Cases of COVID-19 BOS: Beacon Online Seminar
ABOUT THE COVER Five months under community quarantine and we’re still nowhere near in containing the virus. What the Filipino people get instead is a backlog of the government’s deficits—piling up every now and then, never being solved. At this point, it seems like the only action to take is to carry out our individual duties and continue to clamor; hoping that the government will eventually heed our grievances. Until the 2022 elections, we are on our own. Next step, vote for better officials.
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THIS TOO SHALL NOT PASS. Over the past five months, the vaccine-fixated government had been exploiting the motherland to breastfeed its citizens with the belief that “this, too, shall pass” that some managed to have a firm grasp and is sucking well onto these false hopes. Such illusion of hopes distorts our perception of resiliency and reality that while we put on our vivid smiles in times of catastrophe, we lost the ability to perceive the putative reality. Unknowingly, we have become sacrificial lambs on our own doorstep. The onslaught of COVID-19 and the paradigm of the New Normal made black lies which lead us to believe that all these trial and error methods are for our own benefit to whitewash government’s ineffectiveness and inefficiency. While we were sitting on the couch in our living room just watching the news about virus-related death toll, we never suspected our futile government officials as perpetrators. While we were asleep, the thieves have taken their seats in the government. While we struggle to put food on our table, a killing spree banquet has been held in the dark alleys. And while we cry for help, laughter burbled in the throat of those who are in power. As you would have thought, we have let a drunken man lead this nation with his fake fatherly eyes of mercy.
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To the youth, it is not enough to just pray for your country. As much as we wish our fellowmen who lost their lives to coronavirus to rest in peace, we should not allow the government’s inadequacy to rest peacefully and be free of liability. We may have won wars and survived far too many environmental, political, and social upheavals in history but the difference between those epochs and ours is that this fight is now ours to overcome or to endure. Choose to stand for those who cannot stand for themselves, to voice out those who cannot speak for themselves, and to hear out those who were left unheard. Don’t betray the sick, the dead, and the exhausted. At the heart of it all is the belief that this too shall not pass. Not in our generation.
SHARMAINE G. CANAMA The BEACON Publications Editor-in-Chief
As The BEACON welcomes the new members of the publication like missing puzzle pieces found and gathered together to patch the holes of our lighthouse, we dream to give the Ateneo community a louder voice and a brighter light during this difficult time of our lives. As the voice of the student body, The Publication would need more of your involvement because we want to deliver stories that would best serve your interest. Ignited by the lighthouse that serves as the guiding light to navigate contemporary issues that bring the lofty ideals of the publication to empower the informed, we being the lighthouse keepers will continue to keep our lamp lit in the face of most pressing issues.
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ADZU FACADE BY: sofia falcansantos
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NO MORE INDIAN CLASS TUTORIALS
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The BEACON welcomed the aspiring campus journalist last August 21, 2020 via Zoom.
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