After one year in office, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno met with various media representatives earlier today in a press conference held at the Henry Sy, Sr. Hall. The event was organized by the Judiciary and the DLSU College of Law (COL) spearheaded by COL Vice Dean Jocelyn Cruz. Sereno says the press conference is…
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The Asian Law Students Association (ALSA), together with DLSU College of Law (CoL), sponsored a two-day conference on the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium starting August 28, with the conference involving delegates from 15 countries in Asia. Among the distinguished speakers who participated in the conference include Chief Justice of the Republic of the Philippines Ma. Lourdes Sereno,…
An approximate 400,000 showed up for the August 26 “#MillionPeopleMarch” against the pork barrel and corruption in government, including La Salle, Ateneo and Juana Change. Coinciding with the revolutionary spirit of National Heroes Day, hundreds of multisectoral groups converged in a peaceful protest against the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) at Luneta Park this…
Two DLSU Chemical Engineering teams emerged victorious at the Inter-U 2013, quiz show that was held at the Bulwagang Tandang Sora College of Social Welfare and Community Development in the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus. The event was organized by the UP Chemical Engineering Society as part of their Students’ National Chemical Engineering Conference 2013.…
The Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) is a discretionary fund available to members of Congress supposedly appropriated for small-scale community projects that fall outside the scope of the national infrastructure program. The cost of which are spread among all taxpayers. It was previously called the Countrywide Development Fund (CDF) until its name change during the…
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Lasallians mobilize for Sagip Metro 4
Goods to the rescue. Volunteers transport donations from the South Gate to the Yuchengco Lobby, where the repacking and sorting of goods took place. The monsoon rains intensified by tropical depression “Maring” have resulted in 19 deaths, 11 injuries and around thousands of families being displaced from their homes throughout Luzon. The rains have even…
Saw it coming? La Salle’s Physics Department, in partnership with other units, is developing weather forecasting website SIGWA to foresee atmospheric conditions in more than a hundred sites in the Philippines. At the onset of the storms and monsoon rains, DLSU’s own recently launched weather forecasting website SIGWA has recorded an almost 90 percent accuracy…
The Judiciary held formal hearing today to hear the sides of the government side (Ombudsman) and the complainant side (Tapat) on the case filed by the complainant, calling for the nullification of the Article VIII of University Student Government (USG) Code of Conduct. Arguments and rebuttals During the discourse between the complainant and the government,…
In its attempt to evaluate possible issues concerning the enrollment for the second term of Academic Year 2013-2014, the USG has once again sponsored a multi-sectoral forum held at Waldo Perfecto Seminar Hall this afternoon. The forum, in particular, emphasized the recent change in the enrollment schedule, which has evoked mixed responses from the student…
Jam Padilla clarifies particular points on the definition of partisanship. Beside her is RVR COB student Alphonse Valenzuela, partisanship lobbyist. Last July 24, Alyansang Tapat sa Lasalista (Tapat) filed a complaint against Article VIII of the University Student Government (USG) Code of Conduct. Article VIII prohibits any form of partisanship from all members of the…