Last year, the USG constitution was opened for revisions. The reviews and eventual amendments were spearheaded by the Legislative Assembly (LA). However, because much of the LA’s focus was on revisions of the Student Handbook (the current one now bears the revisions), only four resolutions materialized with the addition of five more last term. As…
Month: November 2012
With less than 6 months to go before the 2013 National and Local Elections, political factions in the Philippines are currently mobilizing their resources and manpower in anticipation of campaign season. Certain political factions, however, are being ruled out of the game, as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) under Comelec Chair Sixto Brillantes Jr. has…
Last month, President Aquino found himself on the line in an interview for Radio New Zealand, in which a reporter questioned his administration’s spotty human rights record. Aquino promptly dismissed such allegations as having come from the ‘’leftist community’’ who are ‘’good at propaganda’’ and then went on – with subsequent help from his…
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The essence of support
Facing battles would never be the same without a bunch of people screaming and showing support. In all the games I have watched, support has turned double-digit disadvantages with just a few minutes left in the game into victories sports leagues and spectators would remember for years and even decades after. Lasallians, in my view,…
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The capacity to listen
This coming November 24, Pope Benedict XVI will be appointing six new members to the Catholic Church’s College of Cardinals. What brought on mass exultation among the Filipino faithful is the inclusion of beloved Manila Archbishop and Primate of the Philippines, Luis Antonio “Chito” Tagle, in the list. Tagle’s cardinalhood has once again stirred Vatican…
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Grades do matter
A couple of weeks ago, I heard that only one student had filed a case against a professor for missing class and a few alleged grading issues last term. Apparently, the student’s grade was corrected, but in a surprising upturn of events, the student pushed through with the case. An average student would normally say,…
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DLSU Synchro Peri Green Team
The DLSU Synchro Peri Green Team (SPGT) performs beneath the different elite sport organizations of the Green-and-White. Until today the team suffers is overshadowed throughout the university grounds, which has disabled the team’s potential to expand. DLSU SPGT established its name in 2000, under the management of PE Department Head Dr. Elizabeth Mascardo, a pioneer…
With the second half of the 75th UAAP season fast approaching, no other sport draws more attention than volleyball. Coming off a championship run, a win against the University of St. La Salle Lady Stingers from the recently concluded UniGames in Bacolod City, the DLSU Lady Spikers has set the team’s eyes on a third…
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UniGames 2012: A trial run for the UAAP
DLSU made sure that its second half teams are physically and mentally ready prior to their respective UAAP campaigns that would start this November by wreaking havoc in this year’s UniGames. The Green-and-White squads bagged a total of three gold, four silver and a bronze in this year’s UniGames. Six of eight podium finishers will…
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Joaqui Trillo: A tale of an Archer
A true green blooded Archer, Joaqui Trillo, embodies the Animo spirit of De La Salle University. One of the last graduates of De La Salle High School Manila in the existing Taft campus and a 1971 graduate of BS Business Management, Trillo was born and raised a Lasallian. He played for the Archers for four…