The LaSallianThe lights were dimmed and the stage was set. Just as the dust from last season’s UAAP battles had settled, the drums began to beat to again to mark a new beginning. The stands were filled with cheering fans from each of the eight member universities. Without a doubt, the excitement in the air all…
Studying in a university with a student culture like La Salle’s can be overwhelming for the unprepared. So many student groups – all with varying cultures – can get one swallowed up in the thick of an organization’s activities, with new friends to make and people to meet, sometimes more than one can care to…
Last term, just before the academic year reached its conclusion, I overheard a simple argument about which college in DLSU is toughest. It was an interesting topic to argue about even if the clash was rather biased and devoid of reasonable facts. At the end of the squabble, I have to say that my ego…
The 14th annual Global Development Network Conference (GDN) with the theme “Inequality, Social Protection and Inclusive Growth” was held last month at the Asian Development Bank Headquarters in Manila. It was the first time for a Southeast Asian country to host such event. There are many issues surrounding social protection as an aftermath of the…
A unit in DLSU costs Php 2,387. For 18 units’ worth of classes, the standard load of a DLSU student costs Php 42,966. Three years of this kind of eighteen units with miscellaneous fees amounts to more than half a million pesos. For these hefty sums, parents would expect returns from the investment in a…
Campus Services Volunteer Program (CSVP) is, as the name suggests, a volunteer program where students participate in the affairs of the Office of Associate Vice-President for Campus Services. The volunteer program is mainly headed by former University Student Government (USG) Vice President for Internal Affairs and now Santugon president Robert Hechanova. He was approached by…
“In other universities, especially abroad, they wouldn’t have a venue where different members of an academic community can openly and freely discuss [national] issues and concerns,” says Migi Moreno, University Student Government (USG) President. The Committee on National Issues and Concerns (CoNIC) is a university-wide multi-sectoral committee placed under the Office of the President. The…
Last June 11, a score of De La Salle Araneta University (DLSAU) students, led by Supreme Student Council (SSC) President Robert Gatbonton, assembled in front of the university’s gates to call for the resignation of DLSAU President Br. Narciso “Jun” Erguiza FSC. The publicly disseminated manifesto consolidated by the SSC, with the assistance of the…
In a recently published issue of The LaSallian, the Student Discipline Formation Office (SDFO) recorded 25 cases of academic dishonesty in AY 2012-2013 – the most commonly committed major offense in the previous year’s accounting for a quarter of the total number of major offenses. School’s provisions The Oxford Dictionary (2013) defines plagiarism, a…
Pursuant to its theme of uniting all organizations, the Council of Student Organizations (CSO) has recently revised their accreditation model to facilitate a system in which organizations will be graded accordingly along with their respective efforts. This initiative aims to address certain constraints that have been present in the current accreditation model. Deviating from the…