The End Word

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?