After just one year of the implementation of the Rationalized Classroom Utilization (RCU) program, the University had decided to revert to the old four-day class schedule. In light of the shift from the alternative scheduling scheme, the administration will instead employ a focus on risk reduction and management. Dr. Corazon C. Subido, Director for the…
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Built to last
On December 2, 2010, DLSU formally started the construction of the Henry Sy Sr. Hall, now referred to as the Centennial Building. The building is the centerpiece of the University’s Centennial Renewal Plan, a long-term project that will construct, or rather, renovate the different academic facilities in campus. Moreover, the building will address the perennial…
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Agree to disagree
“I am a Lasallian, and I am damn proud of it,” says a student leader who knows that his education is a privilege. “I will miss you Kuya and Ate,” says a student, informed about the security agency change in DLSU. And, “I attended your CEO’s talk,” says a responsible and competent student to a…
Kenichiro Yagi had long windswept hair, a lean-jawed face and cold, black eyes. He spoke simply and was straight to the point, even if I understood him only through a translator. Yagi is Japanese, and when I think of Japan, I remember Yagi. Yagi used to run an Internet-based fish market in Ofunato City, a…
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Scarborough: Battling over rocks
As the eyes of the nation were fixed on the Corona saga, a US nuclear submarine quietly made its way to Subic Bay in April. Another threat to the nation’s ‘executive power’? Claimed linked to the Scarborough standoff, the Left argues the United States is exploiting the situation to regain political clout in the area…
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A sense of what?
Following North Korea’s shelling of the island of Yeonpyeong, Defense Minister Kim Tae-young of South Korea abdicates his post. The decision came amid criticisms of his decisions after the Cheonan’s sinking. In an attempt to restore the military’s reputation, President Lee Myung-Bak accepted Kim’s resignation, though the former tried to convince the latter to reconsider.…
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Rant and Rave: ‘Rock of Ages’
Rating: 3.0/4.0 Three years ago, a Broadway musical hit New York; Rock of Ages captured the best and the worst of 1980’s Hollywood. Written by Chris D’Arienzo, the musical made its way to the silver screen with the help of musical director, Adam Shankman, the same person behind Hairspray. Shankman, however takes a different approach,…
Rating: 2.0/4.0 A few hundred years into the future, North America crumbles and becomes a new country called “Illea”. In this new country, the Prince must choose his future bride from a lottery of potential princesses. Another dystopian read has found its way to the shelves and it is none other than The Selection by…
Rating: 4.0 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is one of the leading foundations of the most common love story subplots, at least in this day and age: that is, a working class girl who has a certain prejudice against a wealthy man, who is a little too proud to pronounce his true intentions, but…
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Tribute to a Green Batter: Paolo Mallari
“I’d rather put a mark on the inspiration. If there would be an inspiration out there, I want it to be me,” Paolo Mallari shared with The LaSallian last March 2010. Paolo Gerardo B. Mallari, more commonly known as Pao, passed away in a vehicular accident that caused his ribs to puncture his lungs in…