It is not often that I reflect on the formal education I received from the Jesuits, which was from elementary school to sophomore year in college at Xavier University Ateneo de Cagayan. But the tragic drowning of Ateneo de Manila University men’s basketball players Rene Baterbonia and Divine Adili on June 8 and Ateneo’s mishandling...
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Six state-run schools assigned land in 9,450-hectare ‘smart, green and resilient’ city
NEW CLARK CITY — As a strategy, developers set aside land for a school to make real estate projects attractive to potential residents or investors. This government project in Central Luzon has allotted parcels of land to not one but six educational institutions. The scale of the project may explain the plan to put up...
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Committed writing and the necessity of resistance
EDITOR’S NOTE: These remarks were delivered as a message from the family at the close of the 5th Edel Garcellano Conference with the theme “Resistance, Contradiction and Critique: Committed Writing Now,” held at the Ateneo de Manila University last Nov. 29. It’s extraordinary that the conference honoring Edel Garcellano and his work is now on...