The dawn of the Blue Eaglette
A MEMO from Fr. Jose Ramon T. Villarin, SJ, dated March 13, 2015, changed the landscape of high school education at the Ateneo de Manila. After a meeting with the
A MEMO from Fr. Jose Ramon T. Villarin, SJ, dated March 13, 2015, changed the landscape of high school education at the Ateneo de Manila. After a meeting with the
When Ateneo’s junior high school acquired Bellarmine Hall in the first week of classes, college teachers were dispersed everywhere, and I had the misfortune of being assigned one of the
A two-day “creativity conference” at the Ateneo de Manila promises to debunk a persistent myth.
It was at the Ateneo de Manila, with its Jesuitical emphasis on the humanities and theater as character formation, that Leo Rialp, director and actor for the stage, screen and TV, developed a love for theater.
For the first time since 1993, neither Ateneo nor La Salle is playing in the UAAP finals. Last Wednesday’s do-or-die matches went down to the wire—the last dying seconds deciding the fate of the Blue Eagles and Green Archers against the National University (NU) Bulldogs and Far Eastern University (FEU) Tamaraws, respectively.
Twenty-year-old Laura Lehmann has come a long way from admiring beautiful and smart girls on TV to having some heavyweight titles attached to her own name, as well.
In Christmas 1979, The Guidon, Ateneo de Manila’s college newspaper, invited me to write a reflection piece. I remember trying to write it several times, but failed. I guess it was mainly due to stubbornness.
For 23-year-old Francisco Gabriel Mendoza, waking up at 4:30 a.m. means starting your day with your passions clearly in mind. As former member of the Ateneo de Manila men’s football team, Mendoza couldn’t be happier being in the field by 5:30 a.m. “I love the smell of grass in the morning, along with the anticipation that I’ll be playing football before anything else. There’s nothing like it,” he says.
In a surprising move, the brass sections used by member schools of the University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP) have been banned from playing inside the venues of the basketball games. This took effect in the opening game of the Ateneo Blue Eagles against the National University Bulldogs last June 30 at the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena. At presstime, it wasn’t clear whether this was imposed by the UAAP board or the MOA Arena management.
In one of our annual eight-day retreats when we were theologians—the final stage of studies and formation for priesthood—Fr. P. Divarkar, SJ, our retreat director, used this Sunday’s Gospel to introduce the second week of the Spiritual Exercises.
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