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Lightning in Diliman: UP post-Kristel
By Benjamin Pimentel
There’s a strong chance that lightning will strike in UP Diliman on Sunday. One hit UP Manila a week ago when students briefly held a protest during the commencement exercise.
There’s a strong chance that lightning will strike in UP Diliman on Sunday. One hit UP Manila a week ago when students briefly held a protest during the commencement exercise.
Graduating student James Relativo admitted to not being good at dancing, and his female friend even made fun of him for it. Yet, he knew he had to join her and 50 other members of the University of the Philippines-Diliman community in dancing to the tune of One Billion Rising recently.
SAN FRANCISCO—I was a barbarian in college. That’s how students who were not members of a fraternity were referred to at UP Diliman. It’s an odd label, one that suggests that those of us who opted against joining a frat were ‘uncivilized.’ For, of course, the death of San Beda law student [...]
Hailing Philippine national hero Jose Rizal as “the greatest Malayan,” Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim urged President Benigno Aquino III to carry the torch of freedom passed on to him by the country’s heroes and his own parents, and lead the struggle against tyranny in the Southeast Asian region. “As a son of a father [...]
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Friday said his country could learn a thing or two from the Philippines’ experience under a dictatorship. Anwar, who traveled to Manila to speak at a forum on national hero Jose Rizal, said he was appealing to Malaysian authorities to respect the rule of law, to stop filing trumped-up [...]
