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An all in look at #PBBAllIn

  Twitter is on a rampage, yet again. At peak hours, the Philippine trends get a jolt of energy as another cultural phenomenon from ABS-CBN graces television screens in the Philippines and the world over. Preceded by the likes of #G2B and #TheVoicePH, this reality show is actually rooted in a literary classic revered around…

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Young Adult Fiction: The Golden Age Is Back

  In the age where Harry, Katniss, Percy, Bella, and Hazel have become more than ordinary household names and have instead placed markers in every teenager’s memory, just how far has the young adult genre come?   The young adult of yesteryears Back in our grandparents’ days, “young adult fiction” wasn’t the phenomenal trend that…

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Greeneration Gap: Lasallians through the years

De La Salle University has had its fair share of producing graduates who have become industry game changers, leaders, and business pioneers, in its more than 100 years of educating Filipino students. The success of Lasallian graduates in their chosen fields is partly attributable to what they were taught and how they were instructed during…

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Exposition: Under the hood: La Salle’s Eco Car

Last January 7, 2014, the DLSU Eco Car team unveiled their latest car, the gasoline powered Delta, alongside last year’s car, the solar-electric powered Archer. It was the culmination of a year of hard work for the DLSU Eco Car Team, an org devoted to making energy-efficient cars. So how are the cars made, what…

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Exposition: The incentive culture

Because soul-crushing work has never been satisfying without a drop of play or two, the night animal in us was born. We push the boundaries of play with each slosh of the wine and shake of the hip; alcohol drip drip dripping, strobe lights flashing, and blurred, sugary drops of ecstasy swirling on our tongues…

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Exposition: Behind the Haunted Hall

De La Salle University in October, a time when students would cram for the dreaded Midterm week whilst looking forward to the long weekend that comes at the end of the month. It is also the month in which every Lasallian’s face grows green, not because the Green Archers are in the finals but because…

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Status: Shiftees

The hardest question about going into college is “What course do you want to take?” The second hardest is “Are you sure?” There are times we answer yes to the second question, certain with the choice we have made and excited for the future, our decision draws for us. There are days when we smile…

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Before 1521: A dive into precolonial culture

“We were uncivilized, basically,” so says our average Juan. This vista in retrospect of the ancient Filipinos descended from our colonizers to us modern-day Juans, where “uncivilized”, “savage”, and “pagans” prevail as the most common reflex to describe our ancestors. Such is an effect of the Western-influenced contemporary mindset that leads us to discriminate anything…

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Traversing through Philippine television

Philippine TV has truly gone far from its cathode-ray tubes and LCDs, far enough to intervene in the world opposite its superficial screens. Unquestionably, this form of media has always been part of determining the what-hot and what-not for the Philippine pop culture. Hence, by exploring its remarkable breakthroughs and impediments, we unveil an essential…

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A La Salle storey

There are things one can easily own for their portability: a wallet, a necklace, and even someone’s love. But there are things far larger than one can personally keep. Take buildings and geographical spaces for example: a tower tall enough to scrape skies or even a plot of land wide enough to be named a…