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2024-2025 Issue

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Opinion pieces and personal perspectives from our columnists.

Have we truly stopped being someone's backburner?
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Have we truly stopped being someone's backburner?

The tragic truth is that the Philippines itself has become the world’s backburner. We are the ones who tear out our own hearts just to keep everyone else warm. We are good enough to keep the engine running, but never invited to sit at the table. We are passionately remembered in moments of need and seamlessly forgotten in moments of abundance. When the crisis passes, so does the attention. Because when the time comes for global decisions to be made, wealth to be distributed, or power to be shared, the world suddenly looks the other way. We are left waiting in the dark, hoping to finally be chosen.

Anyanna Mariae M. SabioJune 18, 2026
PL Ako Sa'Yo*
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PL Ako Sa'Yo*

On Academic Validation

Ivy Jane B. PeñaredondoMay 31, 2026
No, apathy is not the problem!
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No, apathy is not the problem!

In 2010, a student leader stood before his own institution and said: we are the problem. Paul Francis Lagarde's Washday piece, sharp, unsparing, and written from the inside, refused the easy comfort of blaming disengaged students and turned the mirror on the leaders doing the labeling. It is, sixteen years later, still one of the most honest things anyone in AdNU student politics has put to print about apathy.

ThePILLARS PublicationMay 23, 2026
HEELocracy
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HEELocracy

A take on power, class, and the women who shatters ceilings with every step of their heels

Lenin Faith I. BabiloniaMarch 29, 2026