The DLSU Green Spikers made quick work of the Adamson Soaring Falcons in a, 25-14, 25-19, 25-18, three-set sweep last January 12 at the FilOil Flying V Arena in San Juan City. Myco Antonio led the Taft-based squad with 13 points while Philip Cerveza and Kevin Dela Vega carried their defensive duties with a…
Year: 2013
The Lady Spikers will face the Lady Eagles in a familiar finals duel tomorrow, 3 pm at the Arena in San Juan. Last year, the ladies in Green-and-White beat the Lady Eagles, but tomorrow’s match may be a different story. The Lady Spikers, the defending champion, is set to face the only unbeaten team this…
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In Review: Sin Tax Law
Late last year, President Benigno Aquino III signed Republic Act No. 10351, otherwise known as the sin tax reform bill. The law increases taxes on alcohol and cigarettes. The law, on average, increases the prices of cigarettes sold by pack from P11.50 to P23.50 and will continue to increase each passing year as per evaluation.…
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President and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Commander in Chief Benigno Aquino III awarded the Cadet and Cadette of the Year awards to two DLSU students during the AFP’s 77th Anniversary held last December 21, 2012 at the AFP General Headquarters, Quezon City. Cadet Colonel Iceal Estrella, 1st class (IV, AB-PLM), corps commander…
The Green and Lady Spikers started 2013 with a bang, sweeping lower-seeded opposition in the first UAAP volleyball tournament weekend action of the year. Last January 5, the Green Spikers beat rival, the Ateneo de Manila Blue Spikers, 25-14, 25-18, 25-15. The Lady Spikers followed suit with an easy, 25-15, 25-8, 25-8, win against the…
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Rant and Rave: Dream Team
Rating: 4.0 “There will never be another team like it. There can’t be.” – Magic Johnson When you ask basketball fans what “heaven” for them is, none would say it’s a cloudy community with St. Peter at the gates. Instead, they would either give you their favorite team winning the championship, or the fan’s “dream team”,…
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Graduate studies orientation held
The third Term Institutional Orientation for New Graduate Students for AY 2012-2013 was held last January 5, 2012 at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium (TYA). The regularly held orientation seminar serves as a primer for new graduate students to orient them to the different rules, regulations, facilities and offices of the University. Among the policies and…
In an email interview with The LaSallian, Ambassador Ma Ke Qing sheds some light into Philippine-China relations. 1. How would you describe Philippine-China relations? China-Philippine relations are characterized by a legacy of a thousandyears of amicable exchanges between our two peoples. Exchanges between Chinese and Filipinos date back to at least the Tang Dynasty (7th…
Rating: 4.0 Bestselling author of The Gemma Doyle trilogy, Going Bovine, Beauty Queens, and many other short stories, Libba Bray comes back to the table better than ever with her latest fictional piece. No matter what timespan you are in or what generation you are born to, all human heartbeats sound the same, and emotions…