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The birth of artisanal cafes

The artisanal cafe is slowly gaining ground all around Manila, bringing with it an altogether new culture on how we Filipinos enjoy our coffee. Perusing history’s pages, cafes have been a place for artists and dreamers to spend their days fixated in their own crafts and business. The first few coffee shops ever built were…

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The unabating curiosity of Dr. Raj Mansukhani

A few years ago, I was at the counter of a Coffee Bean when I saw a man looking over the book I had left on the table. He looked over it for a few good seconds, seemingly wanting to go over a few pages, before eventually walking away. The man was Dr. Raj Mansukhani…

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Menagerie

Where in Manila

It’s been happening these past few weeks now: you go online, scroll down your Instagram feed, and see pictures of your friends posted from all kinds of places – from the US, to Europe, to Japan, to South Korea, and even to local destinations like Boracay. Now don’t you just lay there and sulk! You…

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Menagerie Menagerie Feature

The LaSallian’s Staff Picks: May

Nowadays, summer can bring to mind long vacations at the beach, road trips with friends, or maybe even an internship or a summer job. However, there was once a time, not too long ago, where summer simply meant enjoying the break from school, staying at home, and lazing about with the family instead. All too…

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Sports Sports Feature

FilOil: DLSU hands gritty UE its first loss of the season

After struggling early in the first half, the DLSU Green Archers relied on crucial three pointers and stingy defense to give the UE Red Warriors their first loss in the FilOil Flying V Hanes Premier Cup, 96-82, earlier today at the San Juan Arena. Andrei Caracut continued to perform well in the preseason tournament as…

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Sports

FilOil: Upstart Green Archers take on undefeated UE

The DLSU Green Archers are in for a tough challenge as they will be facing an undefeated UE Red Warriors squad in the 2015 FilOil Flying V Hanes Premier Cup this Saturday, May 16, at the San Juan Arena. Fresh off an overtime victory against UP, La Salle will look to build on the solid…

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DLSU student’s laptop and other valuables stolen in fast food restaurant

According to a report by the Malate Police Station, DLSU student Neil Andrei Duguran (III, MEM-MR) fell victim to theft on May 13 as his backpack, which contained most of his personal belongings and school materials, including a laptop, was stolen by two male suspects dressed as students at Tori Box along Fidel Reyes Street,…

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University

DLSU holds leadership forum in anticipation of 2016 nat’l elections

On May 12, a year before the 2016 national elections, De La Salle University (DLSU) hosted a forum on leadership dubbed #PHVote: The Leader I Want at the Natividad Fajardo-Rosario Gonzalez Auditorium. The event, organized by social news network Rappler and the Building an Inclusive Democracy (BID) Consortium, and endorsed by the Philippine Political Science…

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Sports

Gilas Cadets dominate SEABA Rivals, clinch FIBA Asia Championship berth

The Philippine National Basketball team, composed of some of the country’s top amateur prospects and bannered by naturalized player Marcus Douthit, recently came away with the Southeast Asian Basketball Association (SEABA) championship after winning all five of their games in the tournament that was held in Singapore from April 27 to May 1. Coached by…

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University

Tolentino awarded as one of NCR’s top students

Lasallian Gregg Louise Tolentino (BSMSECO, ‘15) was named one of the Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines (TOSP) from the National Capital Region (NCR) during the program’s regional awarding ceremony held last May 9 at the Asian Institute of Management. Tolentino shares with The LaSallian that he is thankful for being part of the finalists…