After losing their first two games in UAAP Season 76 against the UST Growling Tigers and the UE Red Warriors respectively, the DLSU Green Booters have managed to bounce back. As a matter of fact, head coach Hans Smit’s squad is currently at third place in the season standings, above their tormentors at the onset…
With an undefeated start to their UAAP 76 campaign, the DLSU Green Batters have shocked everyone as they stand as the surprise league leaders. However, things aren’t looking too good for the DLSU Softbelles as they currently sport a win-loss record of 1-5 in the UAAP 76 Women’s Softball tournament, tied with the ADMU Lady…
In line with the University’s goal to develop world-class facilities for its students, constructions and renovations will be on full-scale this year with progress in the Campus Renewal Plan in the Manila campus, and with the development of two new research centers in the DLSU Science and Technology Center (STC). STC research centers Two…
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Behind tuition increases
Brace yourselves — a tuition increase is underway for AY 2014-15, but final decisions are still being deliberated by the Multisectoral Committee on Student Fees (MSCSF). As a channel for University stakeholders, the MSCSF formally convenes to review tuition fee increase proposals and reconcile concerns between different sectors of the University. After which, the decision…
The Philippine nation weathered on powerfully through a stormy 2013, battered as it was with the many threats to national security from the South, tightening international tension and militarization over hotly contested waters, May elections, the abolition of discretionary funds in the legislature, high-profile prosecutions and resignations in government, a sudden plummeting of the stock…
The Student Affairs office may be planning stricter measures to regulate the room-to-room (RTR) advertising of student organizations, especially those that were not officially authorized or approved. The discussion in the Student Leadership, Innovation, Formation and Empowerment (S-LIFE) office has even reached the level of students and administration proposing a banning of unauthorized RTRs to…
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Fraternity hazing around DLSU
Despite De La Salle’s requirement of a signed and notarized non-fraternity contract from all of its students, fraternities remain at large around the University premises given recent cases attesting to harmful fraternity activity. In early December, The LaSallian received a report that a freshman from DLSU was beaten by members of a fraternity, purportedly from…
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For politics’ sake
Politics is a word that people may have many mixed definitions of, but ultimately it is a reference to citizens and how they influence each other. More importantly, it is about how governance is achieved and maintained, and the process surrounding the attainment of this governance. At the national level, politics is an object of…
In 2012, Edgardo Pamintuan, Mayor of Angeles City, Pampanga, was ranked eighth in the annual World Mayor rankings. This came as a call for pride for Angeleños and even more so Kapampangans. Even Oscar Rodriguez, mayor of the City of San Fernando, also lauded Pamintuan with his honor, calling it, “another feather in the cap…
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Forgoing real benefits
Recently, 31 government-owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs) have been reported to be giving illegal bonuses to their employees in 2012. The total amount of the bonuses that were simply just as lavishly given was Php 2.313 billion. Reports range from the bonuses being approved by the regulatory commission, the Government Commission for GOCCs (GCG), to…