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By the numbers: DLSU in the first round

With all the ups and downs that the DLSU Green Archers have been going through over the past few months, seven games isn’t enough to determine what the true identity of this team is. In one game, the Green Archers might be shooting the lights out from the free throw line then in another, Arnold…

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SONA 2013 in Perspective

President Benigno Simeon Aquino III delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the 16th Congress regular session in Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City last July 22. Throughout its 1 hour and 42 minute runtime, the SONA boasted economic performance, efforts for better governance, improved services and increased infrastructural projects. Some fiscal policy…

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Rant and Rave: Transit

A child’s innocence is wondrous; the mere thought of it is amazing, and can inspire awe in the dreariest of places. Enter Joshua, a four – year old child whose father, Moises, is a caregiver of an Israeli man, Eliav. Joshua lives in Israel, speaks Hebrew fluently and is playful as he can be. Unfortunately,…

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UAAP: Lady Archers fall to undefeated FEU

The DLSU Lady Archers suffered their second loss in a row with a crushing 70-49 defeat to the defending UAAP champions, the FEU Lady Tamaraws. The loss came a week after the team’s first defeat of the season to the NU Lady Bulldogs which snapped a five game winning streak. With the loss, head coach…

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Rant and Rave: The Diplomat Hotel

Disgraced TV reporter Veronica Lansang (played by ABS-CBN diva Gretchen Baretto) strives to reacquire her former glory by undertaking a journalistic mission to uncover what happened in the haunted Diplomat Hotel. Together with her TV crew (Arthur Acuna, Mon Confiado, Sarah Gaugler and Nico Antonio), they set forth to confront the midst, where their deepest…

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Rant and Rave: Liars

In the year 1992, the Philippines was shamed and dishonoured when the Little League baseball team of Zamboanga City, representing the Philippines, was discovered to have used illegal players during their championship run in the Little League World Series. The team was soon stripped of its title, and all medals, trophies, and cash prizes were…

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Rant and Rave: ‘Ekstra’

Philippine social realism is a beaten track. Poverty has been overexposed. Class inequality is old news. Corruption is a social sickness Filipinos have been immune to. The contemporary challenge to socio-realist art is knowing not what to tell but how to present prevailing realities to a society jaded from hearing the same old message. Jeffrey…

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Scenic Route: The xx in Manila

Last July 30, indie rock darlings The xx brought their unique minimalist sound to Manila for the first time. The London based trio of twenty year-olds is coming off the successful release of their second album, Coexist, the follow-up to the Mercury-Award winning album, xx. In a short Asian tour that includes dates in South…

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Platforms, partisanship highlight FE open forum

Tensions ran high as Tapat, Santugon and independent candidates responded to relevant and current concerns in’Question Everything’, a Commission on Elections (COMELEC)-sponsored open forum for the upcoming freshmen elections held at Y508-509 this afternoon. In the forum, each presidential candidate was given time to present his/her slate and what they stood for. After this, six…

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Green Journal: Jason Perkins v.2

With the UAAP Season on a two week hiatus, The LaSallian catches up with Green Archer rookie Jason Perkins and get his thoughts on the first round, his first La Salle – Ateneo game (and the Mochiko they earned), and what he expects in the second round. In the first round, I was expecting to…