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FEU Advocate · December 22, 2025

Benevolence or compromise?: Beneath Del Monte PH’s 100-year legacy

In time for their upcoming 100-year anniversary, Del Monte’s legacy as one of the leading food corporations in the country resurfaced and gained traction online. Vast fields, lush fruits, farmers with high morale—putting all of these together, the company presents an ideal landscape of an agricultural business free from corporate greed. Despite this, agrarian advocates deem Del Monte’s commitment to sustainable farming questionable given their history of complicity in exploitation.

FEU Advocate · December 21, 2025

Have a jolly ₱500 Christmas!

For many Tamaraws, the holiday season has become less about celebration and more about balancing budgets for the Christmas festivities. Rising costs have turned yearly traditions into careful negotiations within families, leaving students and families alike to navigate the pressure of celebrating Christmas amid economic realities.

FEU Advocate · December 08, 2025

Diverse beliefs, shared resilience: Faith practiced at FEU

In a multifaith community like Far Eastern University (FEU), students cope with stress in many ways; one of the most universal is prayer. Whatever your religion is, prayer offers a moment of calm amid daily pressures. In today’s digital age, finding quiet reflection is hard, yet prayer remains a refuge that keeps practitioners grounded in a world that never stops.

FEU Advocate · November 21, 2025

Door Dashers: ‘Fastest Campus Leavers’

Students leaving campus immediately after class—a trend known as the ‘fastest campus leavers’—has become a familiar routine in college life. Bags zip shut as soon as classes end, students rush their way through hallways, while others are already halfway to the bus terminal. Some rush out of practicality—avoiding traffic, securing a jeepney seat, or escaping the noise and weight of a long academic day. But beneath all these reasons sits the most universal one of all: the simple longing to go home.

FEU Advocate · November 15, 2025

Faces against corruption, impunity, and dynasties

Fraudulence, betrayal, and oppression fuel a simmering rage that echoes through the agony and misery of the marginalized sectors. This pattern has spurred movements in countries, including Indonesia, Nepal, and Thailand, where citizens seize the opportunity to hold politicians accountable publicly. Meanwhile, the Philippines faces the same crisis, yet its approach to accountability is from collective stances but is modeled as a mere public stunt.

FEU Advocate · November 14, 2025

Frankenstein and the price of creation

The dead rise once more, but this time, not by lightning alone. In Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ (2025), resurrection is an act of arrogance disguised as genius, and love becomes both salvation and a curse. While audiences may expect gothic horror soaked in candlelight and grave soil, what del Toro delivers is far more unsettling: a mirror, held up to humanity’s oldest sin—the desire to be God.

FEU Advocate · November 10, 2025

The before, during, after: Unlearning earthquake safety misinformation

When a 5.0-magnitude earthquake from Zambales rippled through Metro Manila on October 11, the city fell into a quivering silence. At Far Eastern University (FEU), students rushed outside as phones lit up with alerts and anxious messages. Within minutes, social media was filled with rumors, false warnings, and conflicting safety tips. What began as a brief tremor quickly spiraled into a frenzy of confusion and fear—on the ground and online.

FEU Advocate · November 07, 2025

The lamp beyond the ward: How a student nurse helped a worker in crisis

When a condominium worker collapsed outside his workplace, help should have come right away. But as nearby barangays declined to assist and no ambulance arrived, second-year Far Eastern University (FEU) student nurse Alexandra Ortega refused to stand by—stepping in to save a stranger’s life when the system failed to respond.

FEU Advocate · November 06, 2025

Behind FEU alumna Jamela Alindogan’s enduring pursuit of truth and purpose

Amid every protest, war, and national crisis, journalists stand at the line between chaos and truth, staying long after the cameras are gone, witnesses to the events that change the course of ordinary lives. Among these witnesses to history is Far Eastern University (FEU) alumna Jamela Alindogan, where these moments are not merely assignments but the lived reality.

FEU Advocate · November 02, 2025

To hope we meet again in body and soul

Memory is both a blessing and a curse; it reminds us of those with whom we shared our hopes and dreams, but eventually, no new memories will be created. At the same time, it brings long periods of grieving that turn into yearning. Thus, at their final resting place, we tend to seek solace and cling to memories, hoping that their death is an illusion and that another lifetime together awaits.