Tag: Opinion

The University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) is one of the most popular collegiate leagues in the country, but its General Championship (GC), the award given to the best performing member-school has a reputation contrary to the league’s popularity. It is usually basketball, the rivalry between Ateneo and DLSU, and the improving performance of…

Last month, I attended a fellowship of campus journalists in Bacolod City and I had the opportunity to meet two people who unintentionally reawakened my empathy for the Filipino language and other local dialects. The two people challenged me to a point that I was compelled to speak on behalf of the participants who are…

The Internet does not fail to surprise me every time I go online. One minute I could be searching for Katy Perry’s latest music video, and the next second I could be watching a random video from China. That is exactly what happened to me when I came across the famous video of a two-year…

There are three very interesting lists posted on DLSU’s help desk that grabbed my attention. These would be the lists of three types of scholars for ID 112: the would-be Star Scholars, Vaugirard Scholars and Gokongwei Grantees. There are compelling reasons why many of the scholars on these lists will not go to DLSU, and…

Typhoon Sendong almost took Christmas away from many of our Filipino brothers and sisters from the south. Displacement, starvation and disease outbreak followed the floods that killed more than a thousand Filipinos. The disaster, however, did not go under the sight of many Filipinos who were busy enjoying their Christmas hams and gifts, and secured…

It really does not matter, what kind of accent one will use to say this; it just does not sound right, and for a good and legitimate reason. Over the past decades, corporations have taken over the world. They have controlled governments, like in South America, they have dictated the way the world should be…

It is not realistic to assume that every single Filipino has read the 1987 Constitution, even if everyone is, under jurisprudence, presumed aware of the law, and the law is our government’s interpretation of the Constitution. Ergo, ignorantia juris non excusat. For us living in a constitutional republic, this should actually be liberating. Rather than…

Have you ever been to the Starbucks at Hacienda Luisita, San Miguel, Tarlac? No, neither have I, but according to its Facebook page, a little less than 800 people have stated being there at some point in their lives. I for one do not see why any sudden influx of people would come rushing to…

The DLSU student discipline system is perfect—efficient, just and arguably flawless. Forgetting all the outlier cases that might have tarnished such a perfect record, which are of course perfectly acceptable much like a small virus on a desktop computer, say, a Trojan virus; the system still works fine. We have a clear, but more importantly,…

Is this the Awakening? A growing wave of protests now dubbed the “Occupy Movement” is sweeping across the globe on a ticket of change. Peaceful for the most part, thousands of demonstrators in nearly a thousand cities around the world have embraced its rallying call, from London, Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt, to Kuala Lumpur, and cities…