The LaSallianLast month, I chanced upon a familiar figure, walking along Castro Street. The man was wearing an old plain white shirt, slacks and leather shoes. He was carrying an old overused bag as he went quietly towards Taft Avenue, looking or staring at the ground. I remembered looking the same almost half a decade ago…
Last December 3, Lasallians in green and white trooped out in front of the Henry Sy, Sr. Hall in order to form the Signum Fidei, the first Human Lasallian Star to materialize in the Taft campus. From the height of the passing LRT, the sight is a tour de force: a human star of green…
“I vote YES in behalf of ALL young people, especially those coming from poor families, who stand to benefit the most from the passage of this bill into law. Specifically, it addresses the right of young people to access relevant information, education, and essential health services.” These are the words of Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond…
Last month, President Aquino found himself on the line in an interview for Radio New Zealand, in which a reporter questioned his administration’s spotty human rights record. Aquino promptly dismissed such allegations as having come from the ‘’leftist community’’ who are ‘’good at propaganda’’ and then went on – with subsequent help from his…
Facing battles would never be the same without a bunch of people screaming and showing support. In all the games I have watched, support has turned double-digit disadvantages with just a few minutes left in the game into victories sports leagues and spectators would remember for years and even decades after. Lasallians, in my view,…
This coming November 24, Pope Benedict XVI will be appointing six new members to the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals. What brought on mass exultation among the Filipino faithful is the inclusion of beloved Manila Archbishop and Primate of the Philippines, Luis Antonio “Chito” Tagle, in the list. Tagle’s cardinalhood has once again stirred Vatican…
A couple of weeks ago, I heard that only one student had filed a case against a professor for missing class and a few alleged grading issues last term. Apparently, the student’s grade was corrected, but in a surprising upturn of events, the student pushed through with the case. An average student would normally say,…
By Julio C. Teehankee Close to two and a half decades ago, I had the special privilege of serving as one of the editors of the bastion of issue-oriented critical thinking and the official student publication of De La Salle University – The LaSallian. From a cub reporter, in my froshie year, covering the twilight…
By Isabelle Yujuico School-home-school-home. That was the humdrum of my elementary and high school years except perhaps for the last two years. My parents did not promote after school activities. Come college, I was determined to do a 180. As an overenthusiastic freshman, I joined six organizations, but it was only The LaSallian (TLS) that…
By Philip Ella Juico I spent all my student life, except for the two years at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) where I obtained my Master of Business Management (MBM), now known as Master of Business Administration (MBA), in 1973, and a great part of my career as an education manager and academician at…