In our ‘Introduction to Journalism’ class under the ever-greatest David Nye, our final project/examination was to make our own newspaper. Ours was named, “The Messenger.” It might sound very simple, but I’m telling you all: The contents of this shit are far in being ‘simple.’ Always remember that whenever I am involved, simple things turn GREAT–it’s a fact.
I’ve been an outspoken person eversince I was exposed to the evils of this world/country. Sometimes, I was labeled by others as a ‘cynic,’ ‘fiend,’ ‘activist,’ and believe it or not–’antagonist.’ Honestly speaking, I just don’t give a damn about these aliases; I care more on the effect of my works/words.
What you are about to read came from observations, personal experiences, and (ehem) courageous efforts. This is my commentary section for “The Messenger,” all of these are my personal opinions–backed up by facts. Ask the whole LPU community if doubt kills you. Oh, btw, I was typing this while I was having an intense hand-to-hand combat against drowsiness. Seriously. Antok na antok pa’ko nung lagay na yan! And, believe it or not–this is another product of CRAMMING. It is already a given fact that, “you can’t rush art.” This one serves as an evidence to that statement:
The Outspoken
By Jeremy Lopez
Too soon for college level
The LPU Independent Sentinel, or whatever they want to be called, released their first issue months ago. The paper’s layout was good although there is a minor flaw (miscalculated years of being present in LPU’s circulation). What about the paper’s content? Now let’s do business.
So they call themselves the “INDEPENDENT SENTINEL” despite the fact that their funds are coming from the school’s finance department, and their articles being filtered by the school’s higher-ups, their advisers. Okay, that is very independent–for them. What can be considered as terrifying in this ‘official paper of LPU’?
A student who has a copy of the Sentinel’s issue, and other past issues might think twice if he/she really is in college. Why? The content’s are simply VERY HIGH SCHOOL. From the construction of the articles–I doubt they were all newsworthy, nor adhere to journalism’s 4Ds–up to the editorial cartooning.
A journalism-enthusiast student might ask his/herself this question upon checking the ‘works’ of the people from Sentinel, “Am I really in college?”
How they executed the paper brought them to this point–the thought of all Sentinel writers haven’t recovered yet from their “high school days.”
A college paper full of literary pieces and immature articles, don’t they sound alarming enough?
Newspapers are for news, not for literary pieces; their very own Imaginaccion was made for poems, short stories, et al. The Sentinel paper is for news, not for crap. Things have really changed.
Sentinel, then, was the hottest of all the organization’s in LPU for the contents are all worthy, and that it is LPU’s own version of The Daily Tribune–a school paper “without fear or favor.” Gone were the good old days.
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Another sign of immaturity and incompetence, and stupid grants for qualification to be a part of LPU is how the members of the Tau Gamma Phi treat yours truly.
Members of the said fraternity know how to look (to provoke a fight). They already mastered it. In fact, the eyes of these fools served as a laser target. “Whoever was the target of their ego’s just gave themselves a free ticket for a beat-up.”
Fraternity members keep on following me, inside or outside the school. I am not doing them any harm. They don’t know when to stop. Good thing–it’s better to be at peace, than to be the one being hurt.
If they think they are wise-enough, they ought to swim first in a pile of blood. Cool , eh?
SAO must do something about these bandidos.
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As of now, there are tensions inside the executive council of Cirkulo Musikero–the first (1) reason is that one of the officers inside the council is not acknowledging the President’s authority, for she prefers the Adviser, and (2), the organization’s Adviser thinks he is the President of the organization. He is the man who filed an impeachment complaint against me.
Stealing CM is like stealing Windows from Bill Gates.
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SAO issued another order declaring the old College shirt as NULL. Thus, requiring students to purchase the all-new college shirt; design is okay, the price is more okay.
SAO knows how to do business.
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The KEEP RIGHT policy is an international policy. Something tells me that majority of Lycaeans do not know how to read nor write. The policy is not effective, not only for Lycaeans, but to all Filipinos as well.
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The Messenger is full aware of the performance of the CAS council, as well as the performance of Vice President JM Villanueva–the king/queen of absences during important meetings.
Mr. Villanueva, don’t waste the votes of those people you made believe in your idiocy.
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Elections for the 2011 Student Council is far from launching, but members coming from rival parties are starting to show their existence.
Officers, who call themselves ‘objective,’ started to wear clothes that correspond to their party’s official color.
As of now, The Messenger keeps on seeing students, or should I say, INCUMBENT officers of both LYCESGO and other concerned colleges wearing PINK.
What a shame it is, KALAYAAN. Let’s call it, PREMATURE CAMPAIGNING.
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A lot of crappy stuffs came out the moment the hostage-taking fiasco at the Quirino Grandstand came to its end.
The next day, Lycaeans were talking about Venus Raj–the said event is a solid evidence that all of us Filipinos, “take serious things lightly, and light things seriously.”
What a shame.
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A handful of students are still running from the hallwaysof CAS. What are they, a ninja now?
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College is supposedly a center, or institution for people who has a bright plan for his/her future.
The Independent Sentinel, along with others, are enough to declare that these people make the student body of LPU think twice regarding their status in education.
What a shame.
Too soon for college level students.
How was it? Bad? Perfectly done? Â Annoying? Beautiful? Hey, is that a sweat dripping from your forehead? Oh, I saw you frown! Geez.. You were affected! You were fuckin’ and awesomely hurt! Hahahahaha! The truth really is ugly isn’t it? Tsk. Sucks. Well, this is my own brand of JOURNALISM. This is indeed a “Liberated Journalism” by none other than the one and only Jeremy Lopez.
This is the kind of writing our newspapers don’t have — broadsheet or tabloid. A lot of people will get mad, that is so expected. An addition to the roster of my enemies is another expected fact.
But, hey! I won’t be doing this if I wasn’t that ready. By saying “ready” means I have a lot of supporting documents. So, let’s argue. What? You don’t want to? That’s pussy. No matter how great your rebuttal is if I have bases, it will be pointless in the end — no matter how long the route is. Just accept the truth, even though it hurts.
It pays (sucks) to be observed by me. Go ahead, sue me.
