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Green Parody Series:  Backgrounds and beginnings

No classes in STC. I thought ONE LA SALLE?! RT if One La Salle pls 🙁 — More Fun In DLSU (@morefuninDLSU) July 14, 2014 What is a parody account? Their tweets make people laugh about anything from students’ struggles to the University’s events. Parody accounts regularly inject humor into Lasallian life and gain a…

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Living in Dani’s world: The Sandbox Collective’s Vision

Based on the heartwarming play of Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond, Dani Girl explores the reality of cancer from a child’s perspective. In this musical, you’ll get to experience Dani Lyons’ adventures with her teddy bear, Mr. Fritz, and friends Raph and Marty, as she tries to understand the meaning of her cancer and the trivialities that come with it.

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Music recommendations from Green Giant FM

Looking for a new book to read, new films to watch, or new music to listen to? Drop your schoolwork for a while as The Menagerie brings you recommendations from around the campus.

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Women, film, and the Bechdel test

Movies are trying to change everything. Studios are listening to the clamor of audiences to tweak the formula or even break the tradition for better storytelling. Not long ago, Hollywood was dead set on pleasing everyone with uplifting animated movies and comedies that exploit people’s boiling points and funny bones. Nowadays, comedies are wittier with…

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Stories from down and up

It can be said that the girl from Wonderland got the best of both worlds; Alice was able to grow into sizes of too big and too small. Like folk singer Joni Mitchell, she was able to see the world from up and down, and with wonder and adventure every inch of the way. Unfortunately,…

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Professor problems

With all the problems that come with completing a course, rarely do we think about what challenges lie on the other side of the classroom.

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Committed to excellence

Back in my first year of grade school, I was given ten values that I was told I needed to embody – values that the ideal student supposedly possessed. All throughout my primary and secondary education, I memorized these values and took them to heart. One always struck me more than the rest though, and…

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Culture shock: Adjusting to life in Taft

Out of everything that they told us in LPEP, they forgot to initiate us to one guideline we needed as a frosh: how does one adjust to Taft life?

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The passion behind performance

Through Culture and Arts Office (CAO) organizations and events, De La Salle University gives every student a glimpse of the unique Filipino culture we ought to take pride in.  Beyond the classroom yet still within the walls of our campus, we have every opportunity to appreciate our culture if we only know where to look.…

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The origins and Zen of Ms. Laureen Velasco

“You will never be the same again after her class,” say the former students of Ms. Laureen Velasco when asked about their experience in her class. What is it about Laureen that makes a lot of people question or change their beliefs? What is it about her that makes her a favorite even among the pool of students who have flunked her class?