The LaSallianOver the course of 28 years, from 1980 to 2008, more than 31,000 people died of 310 cases of fire, according to a survey of EM-DAT, the international disaster database of the Center for Research and Epidemiology of Disasters. A couple of weeks ago, classes and student activities were disrupted at Br. Andrew Gonzales Hall…
A friend once told me that in governance, the last name’s the charm. It is a well known trend that has not lost its luster throughout Philippine history. A less popular idea, however, is that this family affair does not necessarily equal pursuits of tyranny. It is assumed by common folk that this trend is…
I’m the type of person who has random things on my head. I usually have what we Filipinos would call “trips” or rather crazy ideas. One of my “trips” is the dress code. It has been tried, tested and revised for a couple of terms already and this is an issue we can all relate…
The re-accreditation ladder has been climbed by the top 10 organizations under the Council of Student Organizations (CSO). Four professional organizations hailed from COB-SOE, three from COE, and one each from CCS, COS and CLA were this mid-year’s cream of the crop. The usual players still placed while some got defeated.
A student pays P930 each term for services and activities of the University Student Government (USG), the Council of Student Organizations and the Student Publication Office, according to the information campaign released by the Office of the USG Treasurer last month, but where does the money go?
The DLSU Green Archers Developmental Team dropped a 71-59 decision to the National University Bulldogs (NU) Team-B in the championship game of the Father Martin Cup (FMC) held, Oct. 24 at the San Beda Gym in Mendiola.
Back during the time when basketball players sported shorts that were so short it would get them arrested by the Discipline Office (DO) had they been current students of the University, there was a man who once donned the Green-and-White jersey and shattered statistical records almost on a yearly basis.
The UAAP season will start on Jan. 8 and the Green Woodpushers have already gone through inevitable changes when they lost last year’s silver medalist Dominic Layugan, a member of the last champion team of the squad in 2008, back when they were led by John Paul Gomez and another Former Rookie of the Year.
Honeymoons don’t last long. Noynoy Aquino’s honeymoon with the Filipinos, as the new president, certainly didn’t. The anti-wangwang [siren] campaign, Aquino’s first, was a promising entry point for his administration. It gave the impression that the Aquino administration can empathize with what is a daily problem for Filipinos. His first issued memorandum on the retraction…
DLSU ranked in the 451-500 range in this year’s Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, an annual ranking of the world’s top universities. The University’s rank declined from the 401-500 range in 2009 and 2008. Three other Filipino universities entered the top 500: Ateneo de Manila University at 307, University of the Philippines (UP) at…