Tag: ateneo

“Wear black”?? How Katipunan Road mirrors the degeneration of Boracay Island

December 1, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

Suddenly Katipunan Road is “home” to every UAAP basketball fan and, worse, to every millennial “social justice warrior” (SJW) and her cat. Now I know what it feels like to be an indigenous inhabitant of Boracay Island whenever the LaBoracay crowd comes to town. A basketball “battle” of the Katipunan universities is a relatively rare…

Culture, Society

Upsilon elitism is NOTHING compared to the elitism of the Ateneo and La Salle BOYS club

November 29, 2018November 29, 2018 benign0 23 Comments

While we’re in the business of calling out the misogyny, elitism, homphobia, and racism in the leaked group chats allegedly originating from the “brods” of the illustrious Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity, perhaps we should step even further back and regard the full landscape of the deep nature of this “fraternity” culture. In his recent Inquirer…

Education, Society

The self-righteousness and hypocrisy of activists ruin otherwise noble advocacies

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 Ilda 6 Comments

There are a lot of hypocrites in the Philippines. I think it has something to do with the country being religious. Mind you, being religious is different from being spiritual. Being religious is easy. It’s simply following dogma or “set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true”. One doesn’t have to think…

Religion, Society

Mathematical proof that the Ateneo “AMDG” slogan contributes ZERO to God’s glory

June 29, 2018 benign0 13 Comments

In school, most Ateneans will have acquired the habit of writing the acronym “AMDG” at the top of their exam papers or any important schoolwork and then affixing a cross on top of it. AMDG stands for Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, Latin for the presumptuous phrase “for the greater glory of God”. This practice has…

Education, Religion, Tech Talk

How the Ateneo plays Yellowtard “activist” to cover up its own “dark” past of support for the Marcos “regime”

May 26, 2018September 22, 2018 benign0 19 Comments

Manila Times columnist Yen Makabenta today wrote a scathing article about his alma mater, the Ateneo de Manila University which today stands out amongst the elite Catholic private schools as a bastion of campus Yellowtardism. In What is more toxic than a crony? A crony school?, Makabenta laments how on the current “debate” over the recent ouster…

Education, Politics

Should expensive private schools like the Ateneo de Manila and De La Salle be banned?

May 23, 2018 benign0 16 Comments

A report on the work needed to reform Malaysian state services now that a peaceful change of leadership had transpired provides some insight on the growing private school industry in southeast Asia. For the average outsider, the reliance of a society’s elite on private schools to educate their youth is regarded to be not normal… There is also…

Education, Society

Good Filipino Catholics agree: Mocha Uson deserves her UST award!

January 22, 2018January 22, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

People who are frothing in the mouth over the University of Santo Tomas’s (UST) Alumni Association awarding Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson distinction for government service should just get over it. “Awards” by institutions nowadays have long been under blanket suspicion anyway. Data generated by social media activity had taken over as more reliable indicators of…

Education, Religion

Filipinos prefer to cheer kids who shoot hoops over kids who shoot soldiers

December 4, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

If the Communist Party of the Philippines has not gotten the memo yet, let me spell it out. Their “revolution” is dead. In this day and age of instant digital gratification and even more potent tribalism on exhibit via social media, little girls being “martyred” in a jungle “revolution” simply can’t compete with the glitz…

Lifestyle, Politics