Category: Education

Ateneans can’t help being “elitists” in the same way gay people can’t help being gay

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Ateneans can’t help being “elitists” in the same way gay people can’t help being gay

It’s the predictable outcome following an athletically “underdog” university going up against a school with the resources and priorities to breed championship basketball teams. Alumni of the University of the Philippines (UP) go to the games to cheer their Maroons then watch as they get routed by the Blue Eagles. Then alumni of the Ateneo…

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Education, Society & Culture

UP University Student Council chair @RafaelToribio has yet to comment on the Upsilon Sigma Phi leak scandal

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UP University Student Council chair @RafaelToribio has yet to comment on the Upsilon Sigma Phi leak scandal

Recently, the University of the Philippines Law Student Government (UP LSG) had sprung into action to sanction its own community. This is in the aftermath of the devastating group chat leak that possibly revealed a deeply-disturbing dark toxic culture at the heart of the UP’s most prestigious fraternity, Upsilon Sigma Phi (Upsilon). The ultimatum given…

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Education

It is only right that Tagalog be junked in favour of Korean language courses

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It is only right that Tagalog be junked in favour of Korean language courses

What do Filipinos gain by being proficient at Tagalog? The short answer is NOTHING. There are no bodies of knowledge of consequence articulated in Tagalog, no essential technologies documented in Tagalog, and no pathways to a lucrative career paved with Tagalog. Korean, on the other hand, like other languages spoken by societies with rich and…

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Education

Message to incoming University students: Student “activism” is a COMPLETE waste of time

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Message to incoming University students: Student “activism” is a COMPLETE waste of time

Credit goes to student “activists”. They manage to attract a lot of media coverage and are a convenient moral crutch for the social-climbing virtue-signalling folk that infest social media. Thing is, much the same way as Tito Vic and Joey and folks like Kim Kardashian also attract a lot of eyeballs, being a media figure…

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Education

Crowdsourcing allegations of sexual harassment seemingly perpetrated by Ateneo faculty members

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Crowdsourcing allegations of sexual harassment seemingly perpetrated by Ateneo faculty members

Since the late September post on the Facebook page ADMU Freedom Wall #ADMUFreedomWall10175, chatter surrounding allegations of sexual harassment at the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) continues to rage. The original post is cryptic and doesn’t name names. I’m sick and tired of seeing that one “famous” professor on twitter gain a platform off calling…

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Crime, Education

Organising an “anti Red tagging” campaign under the Anakbayan banner ain’t very smart

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Organising an “anti Red tagging” campaign under the Anakbayan banner ain’t very smart

You know what is even dumber than allowing yourself to be recruited by campus communists? “Denouncing” so-called “red tagging” while flying the Anakbayan banner. But that is exactly what a bunch of student “activists” from various universities did! Perhaps, indeed, these students should focus more of their time as university students learning how to think…

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Education, Politics

Philippine Catholic Church coughing up warm bodies for Sept 21 Opposition “grand rally” at the Luneta!

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Philippine Catholic Church coughing up warm bodies for Sept 21 Opposition “grand rally” at the Luneta!

The Roman Catholic Church is once again exploiting its hold on Filipinos’ hearts and minds to further its political agenda. This time it has employed the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP) to tap its network of educational institutions and the large body of students and employees of these to contribute much needed numbers…

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Education, Religion

Lupang Hinirang should be changed so that it celebrates the lives of achievers and not of the dead and merely “heroic”

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Lupang Hinirang should be changed so that it celebrates the lives of achievers and not of the dead and merely “heroic”

First of all, we referred to the national anthem as the “Bayang Magiliw” when we were kids. We all knew what we were referring to when we called it that. Being told it is actually “Lupang Hinirang” is nice, but it comes across like being told to refer to a chair as “salumpuwet” rather than…

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Education

UP Engineering Dean Rizalinda de Leon BURNT by involvement with campus militants!

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UP Engineering Dean Rizalinda de Leon BURNT by involvement with campus militants!

University of the Philippines College of Engineering Dean Rizalinda De Leon issued a statement today and posted on the UPD College of Engineering Facebook page to “clarify” the statement published by militant organisation UPRISE. In this statement, De Leon essentially retracts her supposed call to “Engineer the Downfall of the Tyrant and Dictator Duterte!”. While…

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Education