‘Look before you leap’. It’s a common saying, one we hear all the time as we grow up. Its meaning is simple enough – understand the situation you face thoroughly before acting upon it. Why then, do so many people have a hard time following such a simple phrase? It seems like every time a…
Category: Opinion
When I first entered La Salle as a frosh, I thought that three or four years was a long and adequate time to mold myself into what my future has in store for me.
Letter to the Editor by Patrick Kahn
As the hundreds of Student-Leaders of De La Salle University from our many different organizations, and my fellow officers from the University Student Government took their oaths, a myriad of thoughts ran in my head about the journeys ahead of all of us and the stories that come with them.
The Good Wife, a legal drama in the United States, killed off one of its pivotal characters last March 23, 2014. Critically lauded since 2009, the death shocked adoring fans and viewers who have stopped watching the series.
Letter to the Editor by Gregg Tolentino
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Settling for Band-aids
Its time for us to start finding ways to stop falling down and getting wounded because our box of Band-aid solutions is running out fast and we’ll soon be left with no way to cover our wounds.
Is a diploma equal to cash?
Around a year back, I remember how my father’s friend lectured me that graduating with a college degree is an achievement in life that I must selfishly fulfill for my non-financial dreams and aspirations.
With legs wide open
“With legs wide open.” That was how my KASPIL professor described the Philippines’ reception of Spain during our colonization. I don’t recall whether those were his own words or a quote from someone else, but it left a powerful image in my head.
Seeking justice
Last June 30, De La Salle College of St. Benilde (DLS-CSB) sophomore Guillo Cesar Servando and three others were picked up along Taft Avenue on a regular Saturday afternoon. They returned beaten and bruised to a condominium situated a few meters away from De La Salle University, one that houses many of the University’s own…
Virtues over victory
Mankind has been engrossed with winning and the men behind it since the beginning of time.


