From February 22 to 25, 1986, more than two million civilians, activists, soldiers, politicians, and religious groups banded together along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) to peacefully protest against the rampant corruption and abuses committed during the Marcos Regime. The movement has since been referred to as a triumph of democracy and of the…
When I first stepped into the University, my instincts told me that I was entering a safe ground. Throughout my stay at DLSU I never lost anything important inside campus. In fact, I left my shoes twice on the eighth floor of the Enrique Razon Sports Complex and came back to find that they were…
Carlos Celdran unknowingly or knowingly announced the start of an inquisition two years ago after the decision of the court last January 28, 2013, which found him guilty of violating Article 133 of the Revised Penal Code for supposedly offending religious feelings—a law that has been in the books since 1930. Based on the Manila…
During the onset of University Mission Week, one of my management professors and I were discussing whether our University’s graduates, who are formed to integrate the Lasallian principles of faith, service, and communion in their work, mix ethics well into the world they are supposed to improve after graduation. My professor was telling me about…
For the past few weeks, I spend a good amount of time observing a portion of the road along Presidents Avenue around BF Homes in Paranaque, near the place where my family buys drinking water. This situation is not unique to my family. Arguably one of the largest village in the country and perhaps in…
De La Salle University is an institution that prides itself on being a leader in the development of pedagogical methods and progressive methods of instruction. A key example is when DLSU developed the Lasallian Pedagogical Framework for Transformative Learning (TL) after the University’s implementation of TL in 2005, a bold move that set the University…
This week is crucial to the University because accreditors from the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities will be visiting our classes, roaming our halls, checking our laboratories, reading our papers, looking at the documentation of our University’s activities, and talking with students, faculty, and administrators. Our students are told to recite…
Last December 19, President Aquino signed Republic Act 10351, otherwise known as the Sin Tax Reform bill, which would increase excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco products and would give the government billions in tax revenue to be split between the two products, 40-60. Tax increases would, however, be incremental, and would hence raise even…
Last term I was lucky enough to have a member of a dwindling population of La Salle graduates—Lasallites—as a professor. My professor, a known leftist (as many would consider themselves) during the Marcos regime, talked a lot about the “old days” when the De La Salle brothers would work together within and around the system…
Failure is a part of live; everyone has failed once if not numerous times. It hurts and stings, but it does not mean that we cannot achieve or accomplish anything after. Truth be told, it is a part of success, and should serve as an inspiration to do better. Besides, who would want to live…