The LaSallianAn On-the-Go Culture/Cutting Lines In this day and age, we have streamlined countless everyday activities to maximize time. Time is gold or rather money, as some would like to say, and society has created ways for us to bypass the requirement of waiting in life, or at least minimize it. We have cell phones to…
Less than a century ago, a certain Nikola Tesla was making breakthroughs with his numerous inventions. He was such a brilliant mind that he predicted the technology that will enable people from Europe to communicate with people from Asia via a device smaller than their hand. He also predicted a specific technology which would connect…
It has been six years since I first entered De La Salle University (DLSU) as a Mechanical Engineering freshman (froshie seems to be the term nowadays). Honestly, I was afraid of the new world I was getting into, but I was also enthusiastic because I believed that I was just moving on from my previous…
The first meeting of the Convention of Leaders (COLE) was last October 11, 2012, at 6 pm in the evening. The convention was attended by the various stakeholders in the University, and where pertinent University concerns were discussed along with updates regarding student services and Student Government (USG) projects. Constitutional amendments, revisions and the…
Last September 19, a minor fire incident in the Information Technology Services (ITS) office affected servers in the registrar and the accounting office. The situation resulted in long lines, pending requests and inaccessible records for two days. The incident lays bare the issue of whether the ITS office is secured to provide a reliable…
It was in 1975 when La Salle gained University status; with this came the need for internationalization. According to Reodel Masilungan, Director for the International Center, though the University has been accepting resident foreigners ever since its conception, it was during the 1970s when the University began to accept non-resident foreign students which continued until…
Since the start of the school year, the different units of the University Student Government (USG) have been active in fulfilling campaign promises from the candidates during the General Elections and initiating projects for the student body. While the Office of the President focused on educating students about national issues, the other offices, particularly that…
This October, the University Student Government (USG) had made public two official stands, as decided by the Legislative Assembly (LA). These pertain to the stances of the USG on the Reproductive Health Bill and the Cybercrime Prevention Act. “This is actually the first time I’ve seen the student body this agitated about national issues,” says…
The financial crisis of 2008 has left much of the world in turmoil, while leaving one economic powerhouse relatively unaffected and still fast growing after the crash. Prior to the meltdown that shook the biggest economies in the world and even after that, China experienced double digit growth. Last year, China overtook Japan as the…
By Julio C. Teehankee Close to two and a half decades ago, I had the special privilege of serving as one of the editors of the bastion of issue-oriented critical thinking and the official student publication of De La Salle University – The LaSallian. From a cub reporter, in my froshie year, covering the twilight…