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 […]
Mankind has been engrossed with winning and the men behind it since the beginning of time.
The victims of typhoon Yolanda deserve so much more than half-hearted attempts at relief and rehabilitation of their communities. They deserve so much more than tent cities, haphazard relocation plans, and bureaucratic mouthfuls of excuses. They deserve more than the erasure of their suffering.
It has been more than a year since I joined the workforce, and admittedly, out of the 15 months I have been working, the first three or four months were spent on adjusting to my work environment. I thought the corporate world would demand a different viewpoint on things – a more general and practical […]
All men dream, but not equally.
Those words come from T.E. Lawrence. A man who came home after serving many years in wars, battles, and sieges, but two months later, died doing what he loved, riding motorcycles.
It has been three years since the student handbook was last open for revisions, and this academic year, each and every Lasallian once again has the chance to initiate legitimate change upon the regulations that govern student life. The last batch of revisions three years ago included notable changes from the previous version. It included […]
We are almost done with this year’s elections season, almost done with polite requests to take a few minutes of our time, almost done with the season of seeing orange and yellow everywhere. While some people may argue that campaigns are all year long, one trademark of the GE that we will say goodbye to […]
General Elections 2013 saw the first independent candidate elected as USG president. With just a whiteboard marker and vision, he broke the norm of partisan elections.
A professor once told me this in an informal conversation that Lasallians were not very big on concepts. “They become very apprehensive of concepts. But they won’t even understand the word ‘apprehension of concepts’,” he shared. We were trying to dissect the Lasallian, and how this Lasallian is very different from his or her counterparts […]
A few months ago, a friend from high school who studied at a different university came to visit DLSU. It was probably the third or fourth time for him to visit over the past year, so I didn’t think it was such a special occasion, unlike when friends from abroad or those whom I rarely […]