First term student entrepreneurs pose with the student members of the Animo BIZ approval committee after the Animo BIZ product presentation. Photo from the Animo BIZ Facebook page De La Salle University’s first student entrepreneurship area, the Animo Business Innovation Zone (Animo BIZ), will celebrate its opening tomorrow, July 15, 2013 at the renovated…
Author: Michelle Sta Romana
The Student Government Annual Recruitment (SGAR) ended last June 21, concluding a four-day recruitment period spearheaded by the Executive Board offices and College Governments of the University Student Government (USG). The SGAR serves as a recruitment period for freshly elected Executive Board (EB) members to seek potential officers for their committees. In addition to the…
Following the viral reaction online, several organizations, requesting anonymity, launched rush donation drives in order to provide monetary assistance and support for the families of the pedicab drivers Carcillar and Mateo. These donation drives were done in the span of one week and amassed funds enough to cover the estimated expense for funeral services…
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FYI for Freshmen: The Taft environment
As a new batch of freshmen students set foot into DLSU, they face different apprehensions adjusting to the Taft environment and the lifestyle demands of a college student. Office of Counseling and Career Services (OCCS) Director Dr. Susana Estanislao says that adjusting to a new environment is the hardest step for college students. She elaborates…
Surpassing expert projections, the Philippines saw a 7.8 percent surge in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the First Quarter (Q1) of 2013, exceeding projected figures of a 5 to 6 percent GDP growth this year, reports the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). GDP is one of the prime indicators of a country’s economic…
With the Philippine midterm elections happening next Monday, have Lasallians prepped their bets? The study conducted by three psychology majors published in The LaSallian last March revealed that 34 percent of DLSU students would be politically involved, if granted a proper avenue for participation. The April releases of the Social Weather Station (SWS)…
Commemorating the 27th EDSA anniversary, President Benigno Aquino III signed a law that will compensate victims of human rights violations committed by late dictator and former President Ferdinand Marcos’ security forces during his reign. Known as Republic Act (RA) 10368 or the Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013, the law will distribute…
DLSU is no stranger to political activism. In 2009, DLSU and other Lasallian schools joined demonstrations condemning the Maguindanao Massacre. Likewise, the De La Salle Brothers of the Philippines last 2005 called for the resignation of former President Gloria Arroyo over alleged poll fraud in the 2004 Presidential elections, accompanied by demands from Lasallian crowds.…
It was a quiet, idyllic, ordinary March morning, when the students of De La Salle University Science and Technology Complex (DLSU-STC) suddenly started seeing red. Yellow, too – then black, orange, white and blue, marking the start of the premiere campaign period and subsequent student elections in the DLSU-STC campus. A perplexed DLSU-STC…
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Back to the 80’s: DLSU’s first GC
[widgetkit id=7218] We are the champions. DLSU held a thanksgiving night and commemorated its athletes with an 80’s-themed variety show, clad with celebrity appearances at the Henry Sy Sr. Hall (HSSH) grounds as part of the University’s Animo Year-end Thanksgiving celebration for DLSU’s first UAAP General Championship. The concert drew several hundred DLSU athletes, students,…