The 10 steps:

1. Go to your designated voting precinct and show your UP ID and UP Registration Form (Form 5) to the attending poll clerk
2. Once confirmed that you are indeed a valid voter, the poll clerk will give you your password.
3. Wait for your turn, and approach an unoccupied voting station.
4. Your browser should display the log in page.
5. Log in using your Student Number and the password given by the poll clerk.

(Note: The password is case-sensitive).

6. After logging in, you should see the ballot form.
7. You may now vote by checking the check box/es opposite the candidates’ names, you may modify the ballot as much as you want at this step. Any change here is not yet recorded.
8. After carefully choosing your candidates, press, “Confirm ballot” button. Once this is pressed, a captcha will appear before you can confirm your votes.

(Note: The captcha is case-sensitive also)

9. After successfully inputting the captcha, your vote will be confirmed and you will be logged out.
10. If you try logging in again, you will see your confirmed ballot. You may not change this anymore.

Remember: February 24, 2010 8:00 AM onwards

- With your UP ID, and Form 5

Let’s practice our right! Go out and vote!

Apologies for those who will receive this more than once.
– The USC Elections 2010 Technical Team

I heard a month ago that the Styrofoam Ban in UP Diliman is already approved. So, I chose to eat lunch today, to see for myself if the food services in Shopping Center is following this rule already, and here’s what I saw :)

No more styrofoam.

Good Job!

A little knowledge about styrofoam why is it bad.

Well, little might you have known that Styrofoam cups don’t dissolve in the Earth eventually like other materials do. It just sits there. Useless. Taking up space. Therefore, it is negligent to the environment. You CAN recycle Styrofoam, like you can paper, but it is difficult to and takes a LONG time and is also hard to find someone who will actually do it. Styrofoam also lasts virtually forever, or at least much, much longer than we’ll live to be, vs. paper, where you can recycle it a lot easier and more and it will dissolve faster. This useless material ALSO contains CFCs (Chlorofluorocarbons), which is very bad for the environment. In the end, Styrofoam is harmful to the Ozone. The Ozone, as you may know, is a form of oxygen containing three molecules (usually found in the stratosphere) and is responsible for filtering out much of the sun’s dangerous ultraviolet radiation – the stuff that we put on sunscreen for. See, if we use Styrofoam, slowly but surely, it ruins the Ozone layer. That means that we can get sunburn so much easier, which can lead to skin cancer and cataracts if you get too much of it. And sure, you can load yourself up with a lot more sunscreen, but if the Ozone layer gets to the point of degradation it’s headed to, that won’t do anything.

Most companies that sell their drinks in Styrofoam cups do it because it’s cheaper, but if that means hurting our children’s family in the future by the sun, which would you choose? [source]