Editor’s Note
As we set our goal during the start of the year, we wanted the university to see us make a fresh comeback, as if we were the newly formed pearl in an oyster’s shell. With A.Y 2015-2016 ending, we’re proud to say we have succeeded, and we are to conclude with our year-ender magazine, Omega. On its fourth installment, we’ve changed Omega’s concept and brought it to the next level; recreating a new image, a new standard. In line with our pearl anniversary, the main feature is the 30th year of the fight for press freedom in the campus; the negotiations and struggles which led to the birth of LPU- Manila’s official student publication, The LPU Independent Sentinel. Through the years, The Sentinel, no matter how many challenges and changes it underwent, lived as the watchdog which brings news that matters. It has also trained and witnessed the development of many student journalists. Featured here are some of the people behind the years of The Sentinel. Read through the inspiring stories about their Sentinel memories, life after graduation, and the road that led them to where they are now. Just like how pearls mean precious things, or all the best within us, we consider every publication we produced as the gemstones dedicated to our beloved stakeholders. Despite having setbacks laid before us, we’ve kept moving forward. Realizations, revelations, hesitations, expeditions, confrontations, transformations, hallucinations – there’s no end to it! But we’ve survived – it seems you did too. And the next stage is ready. Hang in there guys. You got this.
Rholynda Chryse E. Gonzalo Editor-in-Chief, Omega 2016 Features Editor, The LPU Independent Sentinel 2015-2016