President and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Commander in Chief Benigno Aquino III awarded the Cadet and Cadette of the Year awards to two DLSU students during the AFP’s 77th Anniversary held last December 21, 2012 at the AFP General Headquarters, Quezon City. Cadet Colonel Iceal Estrella, 1st class (IV, AB-PLM), corps commander…
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Graduate studies orientation held
The third Term Institutional Orientation for New Graduate Students for AY 2012-2013 was held last January 5, 2012 at the Teresa Yuchengco Auditorium (TYA). The regularly held orientation seminar serves as a primer for new graduate students to orient them to the different rules, regulations, facilities and offices of the University. Among the policies and…
In an email interview with The LaSallian, Ambassador Ma Ke Qing sheds some light into Philippine-China relations. 1. How would you describe Philippine-China relations? China-Philippine relations are characterized by a legacy of a thousandyears of amicable exchanges between our two peoples. Exchanges between Chinese and Filipinos date back to at least the Tang Dynasty (7th…
TO : The Academic Community FR : Br. Ricky P. Laguda FSC President and Chancellor RE : New Year’s Message Happy New Year to everyone! Welcome back to the third term of AY 2012-2013. As we begin the new year, let us look back with gratitude with the way God has been good to…
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Six facts about the DLSU 100-peso bill
1. The DLSU 100 peso bill was released on December 7, 2012, during the Animo Christmas celebration. The proposal, submission, evaluation and eventual approval of the bills took two years to complete. 2. The De La Salle Centennial Banknotes were made in celebration of a hundred years of Lasallian presence in the country…
Every day, Marivic Hernais pores through catering requests and invoices, receivables and payables, and yellow PPR and PRS forms. And yet despite the heavy sheaf of papers squeezed in the folders before her, she never, ever forgets a debt. Hernais manages the day-to-day operations of Zaide Food Corp., and for all the years she’s…
Fina, a recent graduate from the University got excited as soon as her phone rang. She had been waiting for a call back from a company that interviewed her a week ago. To her disappointment, the call came from an unknown company that apparently got her contact information from DLSU. Most of the University’s graduates…
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Quota Courses: The wrong perception
The perception of prospective students entering in different universities in the country is that there are some degree programs that are harder to get in than others. The term ‘quota courses’ pertains to courses that are harder to get into and require a higher score in the admissions test than other degree programs. As such,…
DLSU’s College of Education (CED) allegedly failed the University’s recent mock Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools (PAASCU) accreditation held last last November 12-13. In an interview with The LaSallian last November, DLSU President and Chancellor Br. Ricky Laguda FSC explains, “The desire of the University is always to put its best foot forward with or…
Last month, the hoarding of rooms for scheduled activities nearly had the USG penalized. USG Vice President for Internal Affairs Robert Hechanova, however, clarified that the USG was, in a way, penalized as some USG activities had to go through a more stringent manual approval process. The penalty was a result of three venue reservation…