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Opinion pieces and personal perspectives from our columnists.
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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
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When Birds Believe They Cannot Fly
A Marxist Critique of Electoral Democracy and the Reverse-Messiah Complex
Karl Benedict D. PerezApril 27, 2026
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The Final Score Doesn't Tell the Whole Story
A retrospective on the Ateneo de Naga League Season 3
Ivan B. ObiasMarch 29, 2026
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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
Zarah A. GayaniloMarch 11, 2026
Cedric Jr. T. CortezMarch 03, 2026
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When Journalism is Treated as Terrorism*
When journalism is criminalized, entire communities are silenced—and democracy is further diminished.
ThePILLARS PublicationFebruary 06, 2026