Filed under: Main
by Phish Torrevillas and Anna Bueno
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LIKE EVERYONE else in his batch, Lisandro Elias Claudio was excited to take up his first Communication subjects during his sophomore year. He was so excited that he wrote his own syllabus right after his very first Comm Theory class under Department Instructor Cheryl Borsoto. Now as the Department’s newest lecturer, Leloy, as he is more popularly known, gets to create his own syllabus for real.
Although he admits it was a bad syllabus, the 2007 Class Valedictorian and champion debater just could not get enough of the academic side of Comm. On his birthday that year, he bought Comm Theory books on Amazon and showed them all to Borsoto.
“I was so proud and I showed it to Ms. Cheryl, ‘Look Ms. Cheryl, I have all these Comm Theory books!’” he says. “Maybe she was probably thinking, ‘Oh my God, this student is crazy. This guy is a total nerd!’”
Filed under: Columns
by Allan Gregory S. Lazaro
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IF SOMEONE told me a year ago that I’m going to be the next Editor in Chief of COMMotion, I would probably have laughed my head off. No, I would probably have smirked and asked what that person was smoking. To say the least, it was an unimaginable proposition. At least it was.
For one, I used to write for The GUIDON’s News Staff and so I was not much into feature articles before. Two, COMMotion’s feature articles back then left much to be desired (at least for my taste). And lastly, being a new publication, COMMotion was still having its own identity crisis. Aside from having difficulty in its style consistency, COMMotion, as a journalism track project, was torn between being a journalistic endeavor and being a public relations tool for ACOMM and the Department of Communication.
Filed under: UpCOMMing
by Austin Claude Alcantara
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FASHION IS in your blood if you’re a Herrera sibling. There’s Teresa, the top model, Tina, fashion show producer, Rosario, fashion stylist and clothing designer, Jon, former model and now a DJ and clothing designer, and Vicky, the youngest girl, who describes herself as a “part-time model, but full time Communication student.”
In just two years of modeling, Vicky has become a Penshoppe endorser and has graced the magazine covers of Meg, Mega and Chalk, proving that fashion does run through her veins. Now a twenty-year old Communication senior in the Ateneo, Vicky took time out to meet with Commotion and talk about her website, what Comm students should always be proud of and how being a Comm student has helped her become a better model.
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Filed under: Columns
by Candice Montenegro, Contributor
I GET excited over the littlest things – bubbles, crayons, FRIENDS replays on Star World – so you can just imagine how elated I get over big stuff.
Right before this school year started, I made predictions. A very One Tree Hill idea, I know, but I made a list of things that I felt would come true this year. I didn’t make the list just so I can check at the end of the year which ones came true and which ones didn’t; I made the list because I wanted to see in words the things that I wish would come true, because somehow it is easier to believe that it’ll happen when you concretize them in ink and paper.
Filed under: COMMpass
by Ryan Edward Chua
WHO WANTS to ride a ferry passing through a river of trash and stench? When I first pitched the idea to some of my friends months ago, they thought it was absurd. The Pasig River, they said, isn’t a place one would want to visit to unwind, relax, or simply enjoy—not even if one is aboard a brand new, fully air-conditioned ferry.
Even so, I brought a co-writer and photographer with me one Saturday afternoon to push through with what I’ve been itching to do since the new Pasig River Ferry Service opened on March 10: have a joyride. The weather wasn’t so good that day with dark clouds covering the sky, but we went all the way from Katipunan to the ferry station in Guadalupe, Makati to see what was in store for us in the new transport system.
