Our profile of international student life in this month’s edition of The LaSallian, as we head into Term 2, 2011, is an overview of DLSU’s global ties. The most impressive fact is that currently we have close to one thousand international students on campus as full time undergraduate and graduate enrollees. Also we are hosting 31 new exchange students from five different countries who will be with us until the end of the term.
This month, the Menagerie underwent a mission. We circled the four biggest universities and got the inside information about each school. For this mission, the agents took part in the activities of each university, as if they were the university’s students. To discover what activities and “local norms” were present in a specific university, the assigned agents interviewed the “locals.”
The DLSU Green Spikers continued to assert their dominance in the Men’s Volleyball Division of the UAAP, as they defeated the hapless University of the East (UE) squad, 25-17, 25-15, 25-14, in a one-sided 53-minute affair, Jan. 12 at the Fil-Oil Arena in San Juan to end their first round of UAAP Men’s Volleyball action…
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Green Tennisters off to scorching start
After last season’s bridesmaid finish to the University of Santo Tomas, the DLSU Green Tennisters used that defeat as a motivation for this season’s campaign. True enough, their hard work during the off-season is paying off as the revenge-minded Tennisters were able to start the season and the year right by pulling off back-to–back wins.…
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Lady Tennisters demolish first assignment
Jan. 8 of this year marked the beginning of the UAAP Season 73 Tennis Tournaments as each team of the participating universities gathered at the Rizal Memorial Tennis Center to hold their opening ceremonies. Jan. 8 was not just about the beginning of yet another exciting set of wars on the tennis courts; it also…
A year ago the two teams suffered the same fate, finishing last in both divisions, and yet a year removed from their dismal performances, the DLSU Green and Lady Fencers churned out stints that was as opposite as black and white. The Lady Fencers went from being the bottom-feeder at the end of last year’s…
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Editorial: Who’s under arrest now?
The German Science of Police tells us that a policeman has both an economic and social duty. Apart from ensuring the enforcement of the law, the policemen in the old Western culture answered to health concerns, urban planning and vigilance in the market; policemen then were tasked to empower the population. Civilians back then were…
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Loving and leaving
Watching all the episodes of the Friends series and reading too many novels set in New York has enticed me to take a big bite of the Big Apple. For so long, I’ve entertained fantasies of walking the halls of Columbia and living the life of a starving writer, or reading hundreds of manuscripts as…
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What were you doing before the internet?
An intriguing question, isn’t it? Many of us would rather not even think about those “dark ages” anymore. I have painful recollections of spending long hours in the school library looking for decent material about Levi Celerio before the internet existed. It makes sense; a lot of readers may not even know who he is.…
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Manny Matters
The biggest boxing story for the past year was, to nobody’s surprise, the Manny Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. fight that never happened. “Pretty Boy” had more conditions than a kidnapper, ranging from the split of the earnings of the potential mega-buck fight to the blood test he wanted Pacquiao to take before and after the fight.…