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The Future of Filmmaking: A look at the Comm Arts major’s thesis

For every college student, the end goal and fruition of all our hard work is usually thesis writing. Most of us struggle (and hopefully, succeed) with a senior research paper, study, or project. However, for some courses, the thesis can be, shall we say, unique. While no less challenging, time-consuming, and socially relevant, this particular…

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Rant and Rave: The Revenant

It’s Oscar season again, and director Alejandro González Iñárritu is back this year with another seemingly unstoppable film. Iñárritu, director of last year’s Academy Award winner for Best Picture Birdman, is back this year with a movie that seems to be the polar opposite of his last foray into film. The Revenant is the gritty survival…

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Blue Valentine

Ever gone through the “woe is me” post-breakup phase? Don’t fret—you aren’t alone. Between all the happy couples and romantic confessions, there is a more unfortunate side to the day of hearts. Lasallians share with us some of their more unforgettable experiences and mishaps in celebrating the day of St. Valentine and dating in general.…

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The relentless spirit of Anne Frances Sangil

“I have a pretty boring life and career so my answers might bore you,” Anne Frances Sangil warns me before the interview. But I beg to disagree—nobody who wears a pair of Wonder Woman Chuck Taylor trainers could possibly be such a mundane figure. And I was right. For the entire duration of our one-and-half…

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The invisible trinity of the LGBT community

With the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States last year and various Pride parades and movements being held here in Manila, it seems the LGBT (or LGBTQA, as it’s being increasingly called) is receiving stronger support from the general populace, and with it, a call for more accurate representation of the LGBTQA community…

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From Dangwa with love

In the disorienting chaos that is Manila on a Saturday afternoon, we found ourselves somewhere along the intersection of Dos Castillas Street and Laong Laan Road. Hidden behind high-rise billboards and a crisp red and white Chowking signage is the famed Dangwa flower market, where the jeepney fumes eventually vanish into the refreshing scent of…

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Notes on our social media identities

Who remembers the time when the only way we could make friends was to be invited to someone’s table in the cafeteria during recess, the walk both exhilarating and excruciating as you fixed your skirt and approached a group of strangers? Or how about those long telephone calls with a high school crush that seemed…

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Clustered majors: The new system

As many CLA students are aware of, a new system was recently imposed during the 2nd Term enlistment. The Clustered Majors System, formerly the Blocking System, was implemented for the first time by the College of Liberal Arts. Unfortunately, many students were blindsided and confused by the sudden implementation, and as a result, the change…

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Chinese new year: From a millennial perspective

Being a Filipino entails a certain amount of accepted irony—it is a nationality that prides itself in possessing one, unified identity in spite of having various distinct (and sometimes contrasting) micro-characteristics. In fact, the Filipino’s genetic makeup, you could say, is a hodgepodge of different foreign lineages. While some Filipinos have grown to view their…

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A wartime aggression: The case of the comfort women lolas

In Amihan, Quezon City, a certain house stands in the street of Narra—an old, run-of-the-mill kind of house that is easy to miss and pass over. It has no prominent signs and no doorbell, instead guarded by two watchdogs who bark at the slightest sound and movement. This house is the center of Lila Pilipina,…