Next year’s election period officially begins on January 10, according to the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC)’s recently promulgated Resolution No. 9981. The resolution also prescribes the calendar of activities in connection with the National and Local Elections (NLE), set to be held on May 9, 2016. Campaign period for candidates running for President, Vice…
The Student Handbook is revised every three years. Following a rigorous revision process that began last year, the new handbook is in effect beginning this academic year (AY). At the start of the term, freshmen students were given copies of the new handbook. Both the University Student Government and the Graduate Student Council prepared for…
Last August 20 to 24, DLSU hosted the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Asia Conference in Makati Shangri-La. Aside from hosting HPAIR, DLSU has sent delegations to various international conferences, one of which is the National Model United Nations (NMUN), attended by thousands of students from all over the world. These international…
Majority of the seats in the University Student Government (USG) remain unoccupied following the failure of the General Elections (GE) held in March earlier this year, where only 35.9 percent of the University’s undergraduate population exercised their right to vote. In April, the USG Legislative Assembly (LA) approved guidelines for the Special Elections, which, at…
Amid various curricular and logistical issues resulting from the K-12 enhanced basic education program, DLSU Chancellor Dr. Gerardo Janairo and Vice Chancellor for Academics Dr. Robert Roleda ensure that the University is currently preparing for its upcoming effects. The K-12 program added two years to the previous four years of the high school level, resulting…
Ed Sheeran. Zedd. Walk the Moon. These are just a few of the musical artists who have paid the Philippines a visit in recent months as the country continues to attract both high-profile and lesser known performers to its shores. Our staffers—along with a few guests—give their opinions on which musical acts should drop by…
Flipping through the pages of Carlo Vergara’s highly-adapted Zsazsa Zsaturnah, or Gerry Aranguilan’s international award-winning Elmer, she looks like a regular comic book fan raving on these local graphic novels—you wouldn’t have guessed that she was also a comic book artist herself. A newcomer in the comic book scene, Rysa Antonio (IV, CAM) is already…
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Unapologetically Hipster
What is a hipster? How do we even begin to define the hipster? Is it the skinny jeans or the tinted Instagram filter that gives it away? Or is it the coffee shop abode and the weekend hiking plans? In a campus swarming with canvas Herschel backpacks, bleach white Stan Smiths, and comments like, so…
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Second chances: A kickout’s journey
Behind the thousands of students who have marched down the aisle and accepted their diplomas as successful graduates of the University are students who may not have been so fortunate. Having reached the end of their rope, they were forced to leave the University, as society branded them with a harsher, more traumatizing label—kicked out.…
Some origin stories aren’t as poetic as the narrative of the Holy Bible’s Genesis, or as abrupt and mystifying as the beginning of Kafka’s Metamorphosis. Some origin stories, when stripped of metaphors and other literary techniques, become stories of human passion. As much as we’re often overwhelmed in our academic affairs on campus, some Lasallians…