The December 10 issue of the student publication, The Weekly Sillimanian (tWS), took a “green” twist when its entire issue focused on environment-related news and issues.

Its masthead was in green and imposed under the line “105 years” in its logo a drawing of an acacia tree. (There are over 300 acacia trees dotting the 62-hectare Silliman campus.) And everything that followed was green – from the banner story, to the commentaries, to the feature stories, down to its trivia section.

“This green issue is done as a public declaration of our advocacy in saving our planet from pollution and other harmful products,” the issue’s Editorial stressed.

Timely was its banner story about the University’s plan to shut down power over the Christmas break as an energy-saving mechanism. Other news items on the front page tackled environment-related involvements of the University; Silliman’s integrated coastal resource management project in Visayas and Mindanao; activities on the promotion of renewable energy of the environmental group SolarGeneration; and a news feature on the integration of environmental messages in art, titled “When environment and art form a single word”.

TWS is one of the oldest campus publications in the Philippines. It was launched in 1903 as Silliman Truth, a multilingual periodical (English, Spanish and Cebuano), and it was also the first paper published in Negros Oriental.


Source:
http://www.su.edu.ph/netnews/netnews48.htm#christmas