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Breakup playlist: Singles for the single again

Breakups are messy. Anyone who tells you they ended “on good terms” forgot to include the part where they stayed up for three days moping in between watching re-runs of The O.C. and frantically refreshing their ex’s Twitter page every ten minutes, all while living off melted ice cream with tears for toppings. Few ever…

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Sports

UAAP: Green Archers fend off UE, extend perfect run to six games

Playing against a winless team didn’t mean that the DLSU Green Archers were in for a walk in the park, as they needed to rely on a strong defensive stand in the fourth quarter to overcome the UE Red Warriors, 84-78, earlier today at the Mall of Asia Arena. Ben Mbala and Justine Baltazar combined…

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Opinion Opinion Feature

Substance over scores (or why I dislike using Turnitin)

Turnitin is flawed. For those that aren’t aware, Turnitin is a company that provides many services designed to assist professors and help students learn and improve. One of its common functions is to act as a plagiarism checker; Turnitin has a program that can scan any document submitted for strings of words and phrases that…

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UAAP: Green Archers seek sixth win against winless UE

Winning has never meant so much to two teams coming from opposite sides of the UAAP standings. The DLSU Green Archers have answered every challenge thrown their way so far, entering the week as the only undefeated team in the league. Meanwhile, the UE Red Warriors continue to pile on the losses despite their best efforts,…

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UAAP: Green, Lady Shuttlers split thrilling matches against ADMU

As in all competitions pitted between both schools, the match-up between DLSU and ADMU was highly-anticipated and intense. Even as all eight schools played in the Rizal Memorial Badminton Hall yesterday, a throng of green and blue occupied the largest portion in the stands of the venue. With the frenzied cheers drowning the swooshing sounds…

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University University Feature

Tanggol Wika: Opposing CHED Memo No. 20-2013

Last July, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) ordered all universities to retain six to nine units of Filipino subjects in compliance with the Supreme Court’s temporary restraining order (TRO) on CHED Memorandum (CMO) No. 20 Series of 2013. The memo proposed to remove all Filipino and Literature General Education (GE) subjects from the university…

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University

Manifesto on Marcos’ burial, LA committee elections, COMELEC appointments, student handbook evaluation discussed on LA floor

The University Student Government (USG) Legislative Assembly (LA) held its third and fourth regular sessions for the academic year last September 19 and 23, respectively.   The manifesto on Marcos’ burial at the LNMB In its third session, the LA discussed the resolution calling for the release of the manifesto on the burial of Ferdinand…

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Sports

UAAP: DLSU Green, Lady Shuttlers subdue UST

The DLSU Green Shuttlers bested the UST Growling Tigers with a 4-1 victory yesterday at the Rizal Memorial Badminton Hall. The victory, combined with today’s results, evens out the Green Shuttler’s win-loss record to 2-2. The Lady Shuttlers on the other hand, won by a close margin, 3-2, also against UST. They now improve to…

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Lean years, campus development discussed in University General Assembly

During this year’s University General Assembly (UGA) held last September 23 at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium, DLSU President Br. Raymundo Suplido FSC discussed the administration’s plans on addressing the lean years, its priorities and goals for this academic year, and new campus development.   The lean years In addressing the low enrollment turnout for freshmen…

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Chasing the aviation dream: Martin Villaflor takes to the skies

People say that life is a sport. It takes discipline for one to survive both on and off the playing field. Like former DLSU Green Spiker Enzo Dizon, Martin Villaflor chose to pursue a new venture, this time in the field of aviation. The former DLSU Football goalkeeper has been able to reap the benefits…