In the final moments of the DLSU Women’s Football Team’s opening match in UAAP Season 78, Sara Castañeda gets the ball from Shannon Arthur inside the penalty box and scores off a one touch volley, sending the DLSU crowd into a frenzy. She secured the 4-3 opening day victory over the ADMU Lady Eagles in…
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A trip to Cinematheque Centre Manila
I make my way along the narrow and portion of Kalaw in Ermita towards a small structure, tucked away, made up of massive slabs of perfectly squared tiled blocks. It looks out of place among the other sights on the street—topless young boys flinging their slippers at each other, other young children begging for alms.…
The DLSU Green Spikers suffered a tough straight-set loss at the hands of defending champions Ateneo Blue Eagles, 25-14, 25-20, 25-21, earlier today at the FilOil Flying V Arena. With the loss, La Salle drops to 4-8 and are officially out of Final Four contention this season. Cris Dumago led La Salle scoring with 11…
As members of the Lasallian community await the University’s official statement on last Thursday’s altercation at Yuchengco Hall and the resulting campus lockdown that had students, faculty, and staff alike stalled at the gates, details of what exactly happened that evening have slowly been surfacing. “None of us knew what [the reason for the lockdown…
The DLSU Lady Spikers clinched a crucial twice-to-beat advantage in the Final Four after winning against the UE Lady Warriors in straight sets, 25-16, 25-17, 25-11, earlier today at the Mall of Asia Arena. With the win, they now have a 10-2 win-loss record and are tied with the Ateneo Lady Eagles at the top…
The 2016 national and local elections (NLE) are set to happen on May 9 this year. The campaign period for national positions (i.e. president, vice president, senators, party list groups) officially began on February 9, and is set to end on May 7, marking 90 days of campaigning. On the other hand, the campaign period…
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…