Tag: tulong dunong

Fake News On Sen. Loren Legarda Abandoning Tulong Dunong Program Exposed!

January 5, 2019January 5, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

An article appearing on a website called Bistado made the rounds screaming that Senator Loren Legarda had stripped hundreds of thousands of poor but deserving children of free education. The first few words on the lead paragraph is already a dead give away of the shoddy attempt at journalism as the unnamed writer couldn’t make…

Politics

Recalling “Oeneta” – a play banned for being highly-critical of the Ateneo High School

October 14, 2017October 14, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

Alumni of Ateneo High School (AHS) Batch 1986 will remember the play “Oeneta” produced by Section A in the junior year of that class. It was highly-critical of the AHS and eventually went on to be banned by the school. Section A is the top honours section of every batch at the AHS and is…

Education, Glitz and Glamour, Society

The ivory tower that is the Ateneo de Manila University

March 7, 2016 benign0 105 Comments

It’s nothing short of a memetic explosion. Get Real Post articles that dissected and, in the process, eviscerated the ill-conceived conceptual foundation of a statement released by the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) faculty, denouncing Martial Law “historical revisionism” and baldly accusing Philippine senator and vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos of “brutality” have strongly-resonated amongst…

Culture, Education, Society

Tulong Dunong, ACIL, ICTUS, and other memories from up the Hill

April 17, 2014 benign0 4 Comments

If I lower my guard and take the comfy view that I am fundamentally defined by where I was schooled, I’d call myself an “Atenean”. When you are an Ateneo alumnus (and specially when you remain on as a faculty member), you usually come equipped with a lot of connections and the frame of mind…

Civics, Culture, Education, Politics, Religion, Society