With the conclusion of the Holy Week festivities, the DLSU Lady Spikers will resume action in the UAAP Season 78 Women’s Volleyball Tournament later today when they take on the UE Lady Warriors at 2 pm in the Mall of Asia Arena. The Taft-based squad are aiming to wrestle the top spot from the ADMU…
Fifty years of Manila trash is what makes up Smokey Mountain, the infamous mountain of stinking and rotting refuse heaps in the slums of Tondo. Called home by thousands of Manila’s poorest of the poor, the Tondo slums remain as the largest slum area in the entire metropolis. For the longest time, Smokey Mountain has…
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Taft 4 Dead: Surviving the apocalypse
Zombies have been showing up everywhere—on our TV screens, through hit TV show The Walking Dead, on our computer monitors, through the cute little game Plants vs. Zombies, and apparently, even on our own campus. The zombies in Taft aren’t going away anytime soon, it seems, what with the continued popularity of Taft 4 Dead.…
While the Enrique M. Razon Sports Center is associated mostly with varsity practices, students’ FITWELL, FTSPORT, FTTEAMS, or FTDANCE classes, or even parking spaces, this nine-storey building has more to offer and provide. From lifting weights in the gym to stretching it out on the Yoga mat, Razon, as it is more commonly known, offers…
Instances of students posting photos of lost and found items on Facebook groups have become increasingly common in this age of social media. Students reason that lost and found items posted online facilitate easier return of the items to their owners, as circumventing protocols stipulated by the University’s Student Discipline Formation Office is often thought…
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Green Gallery: Shannon Arthur
Twenty-two minutes remained in the UAAP Women’s Football opening day match between long-time rivals, Ateneo and La Salle. Both sides had two goals apiece until Shannon Arthur, one of DLSU’s newest recruits, ran up to score a goal that put them ahead, 3-2, in the 68th minute. Arthur celebrated as the crowd cheered from the…
For most Lasallians, playing on the biggest stages and being adored by thousands of fans is but a dream. Whether being on a basketball court receiving a pass from Jeron Teng in the dying seconds of a do-or-die game against Ateneo, or being a part of the towering defense behind the net with Mika Reyes,…
The DLSU Profs to Pick group is one of the most active Facebook groups comprised primarily of Lasallian students. It was originally created as an avenue for students to ask for a certain professor’s grading system and teaching style, but due to the popularity of Facebook, the Profs to Pick group has also expanded its…
With the recently released seventh episode of the Star Wars saga, George Lucas’ sci-fi phenomenon has been everywhere. People are donning shirts featuring the likes of Darth Vader and Yoda, and profile pictures with Kylo Ren’s infamous crossguard lightsaber have been popping up around social media. Capitalizing on this sudden hype, Angelo S. Casimiro, a…
Since the early 2000s, the number of student exchange programs between the University and its partner universities abroad has increased, primarily due to the current trend of globalization. DLSU International Center (IC) Global Education Specialist Reodel Masilungan shares that back in 2000, most exchange students would come from Japan, Canada, or South Korea only. “Now,…