The Last Issue of The Weekly Sillimanian Before Marcos Declared Martial Law in 1972

This is the last issue [August 18] of The Weekly Sillimanian in 1972 before Marcos declared Martial Law, which effectively suspended all student publications in the country. TWS won’t run again until 25 July 1975, three years later. Seriously, you can write an entire academic paper on the 1972 issues of the paper — the growing activism all around, the drama in campus, and the drama among the staff [the left-leaning editor-in-chief and managing editor accused the associate editor and news editor of subversion, calling them the masterminds behind a group called the ‘Silent Majority,’ which was accusing the paper of being a mouthpiece of the communist party]. And then complete silence for the next three years.