Just like how regular family holidays trigger everyone’s homesickness, Ramadhan – the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar – does the same to our fellow Muslim Ateneans. This holy month is a religious rite not only dedicated to the act itself but one that is heavily associated with the presence of loved ones and
What’s your freshman cannonball moment? Entering campus with fresh new clothes, greeting the guards with “good mornings,” lining up at the seemingly long cashier to pay for your tuition and fees, getting lost in buildings, asking strangers about their programs, and spotting random crushes in the hallways—these are the little things that every freshman experiences.
Kadaghan ba ani? Kapoy na. Tama na! As Ateneans approach the end of the semester, these words have probably been said more times than ever. Slowly, every task given feels like a rock placed on our shoulders that keeps on getting heavier and heavier as our workload as students increase and the deadlines get nearer.
More often than not, when confronted about the far-reaching outcry of jeepney modernization, some people imagine a society leaning towards an all-adaptive modernized lifestyle. But as the idea of modernization increasingly unblurs, it appears this set out is anchored in a presupposition that what comes as a crucial step in light of the implementation are
When the Ateneo de Davao University implemented the “total ban” against single-use plastics (SUPs) in 2018, there was a brimming sense of hope and a stubborn tinge of defiance in heeding the tall order of combating our “throwaway culture” outline by Pope Francis in his Laudato Si encyclical. Why there was such a prevailing sense