SOLARES PUGSANAY 2026
Appointments, by-default wins, and a sheer lack of candidates appear to be common trends whenever May rolls around for Societatis Lingua Artes (SOLARES), the election season for the mother co-curricular organization of the Department of Communications, Linguistics and Literature of University of San Carlos. This had reportedly been the norm since 2024, and the last true elections conducted for SOLARES were for the academic year 2022-2023, where K-Jay Remoto, one of three key initiators of DCLL's capstone event Sulyap sa Sining, emerged victorious. Since then, SOLARES elections embodied a process quite unlike the democratic nature of elections. This brings about a question that must trouble the department more deeply: if no one steps forward, who exactly are DCLL supposed to vote for?
It’s Not a Heart Problem
When I give my heart out to someone and they turn it down I often take a moment to look at it I saw the scars that were once deep cuts that fully healed The broken pieces that I so desperately glued back together And the bruises that never left its mark It looks ugly, it looks beaten, but it has always been mine.
The Love I Owe Her
I loved my mom too late—far too late. As a kid, I hated her. I was a daddy’s boy, not a mama’s boy. I didn’t see it then, but she was always the one who stayed. She treated me like a son. My dad treated me like a tool. We fought all the time. I avoided her, resented her. And every time they argued, I took my dad’s side—blindly. Not realizing I was standing with the one who broke her. And I regret that more than anything. It wasn’t until I grew older—old enough to really listen to understand the quiet pain in family conversations—that I saw the truth. They treated her badly.