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Brother Armin Luistro, FSC,Brother Visitor of the De La SalleBrothers-Philippine District has beenelected president of the De La SalleUniversity System effective April 2004.He will spend school year 2003-2004 aspresident-designate, during which he willstudy the nature, thrusts, and challengesof the System schools and affiliates.

Dr. Carmelita Quebengco, De LaSalle University-Manila executive vicepresident, will concurrently serve as the

System’s officer-in-charge for the said period.Br. Armin is currently involved in most of the Boards of

Trustees (BOT) of the System. For 2002, he is BOT chair of fourLasallian institutions and member of six others. This is why, hesays, “while the work is new to me, it is not totally alien.”

For the members of the Philippine Lasallian Family, he standsas an inspiration to the promotion of Lasallian Christianformation. In year 2000, he convened the Federation of LasallianInstitutions (FLI). A year before that, he also stood as convenorand honorary chair of the First Philippine Lasallian DistrictSynod. Indeed a trailblazer, he also founded the De La Salle-Manado in Indonesia in 2000.

Br. Armin received his final vows as a Christian Brother in1988. He received his Lasallian education straight from elementaryto college, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy in1981. He continued his graduate studies on religious education andwas assigned various roles in the ministry until he was appointedBrother Visitor of the Philippines and sub-district of Myanmar in1997.

Today, Br. Armin is also a familiar figure in the internationalfront for his active role in the pursuit of the Lasallian mission. Heis in close coordination with his counterparts in other countries,especially with the members of the Pacific Asia RegionalConference (PARC). Recently, he served as facilitator for a PARCworkshop for Lasallian directors and formators in Thailand. He isalso busy as director of the De La Salle Institute Foundation, anon-profit religious corporation in California, USA.

“The System units canmake individual contributions,but we can certainly do moreand create a more significantimpact as a System,” said Dr.Carmelita Quebengco, DLSU-Manila EVP, who was recentlyappointed officer-in-charge ofthe DLSU System effectiveMay 16, 2003 to April 1, 2004.

As OIC, she will performtasks assigned to the DLSUSystem President. She will

The College ofEngineering is currentlycollaborating with ArciCultura E Sviluppo-Southeast Asia (ARCS-SEA) for the developmentof faculty and studenttraining programs inpreparation for theopening of a biomedical

engineering program in De La Salle University-Manila beginningschool year 2003-2004.

The internship and fellowship training programs are part ofthe provisions of an agreement signed by DLSU-Manila andARCS-SEA, a non-stock organization working for the promotionof children’s rights in Southeast Asia.

Part of the responsibility of ARCS-SEA is facilitating DLSU-Manila’s collaboration with the biomedical engineering departmentof Pisa University in Italy. ARCS-SEA, which is regionallyaffiliated with ARCS-Italy, will also tap the support of its partnerpublic hospitals for the on-the-job training of the engineeringstudents.

ARCS-SEA will work towards the enhancement of the socialdevelopment perspective and content of DLSU-Manila’s curricularcontent, in view of the overall situation of the health sector inSoutheast Asia.

For its part, the University will open opportunities to ARCS-SEA and its partner public school hospitals for seminars,certificate courses, or training opportunities related to MedicalEquipment Management.

The biomedical engineering course will focus on clinicalengineering, medical informatics, and research and biomaterialsdevelopment. It seeks to advance health services by developing thelink between medicine and engineering.

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constantly update Br. Armin ofdevelopments in the System,and consult him on all majordecisions related to the Systemparticularly on policy shifts,growth, expansion,acquisitions, and finances. Shesaid among her priorities wouldbe to look after the growth ofthe individual units while alsofortifying the System synergy.

Quebengco brings with hera solid administrative

background in runningLasallian schools. Within theSystem, she said she would tryto ensure that the Lasalliancommunity would be a healthyand conducive place in which tolearn, grow, and maximizeone’s potentials. She assuresthat any community membermay bring matters to herattention at any time. “I am butan e-mail away,” she said.

Quebengco: System synergy needed

Br. Armin to fill the post in April2004; Quebengco to serve asOIC during the interim

La Salle sets upbiomedical engineeringAnother first in Philippine higher education

ON TOP OF THE WORLD. Student volunteers conduct ecological and historical tours at Biak-na-Bato inBulacan, one of the summer immersion sites of the Center for Social Concern and Action (COSCA).See story on page 6.

President GloriaMacapagal-Arroyo interactedwith Lasallians in a forum titled“A Strong Republic for theFilipinos,” at the Teresa G.Yuchengco Auditorium of theDon Enrique Yuchengco Hallon February 6.

Committed to being a vitalresource for Church andNation, the University sponsorsthe annual GenXchange forumto give Lasallian students anopportunity to interact withsignificant personalities whoare major movers in industryand government.

Among the issues raised bystudents and faculty were onthe US-Iraq conflict, the role of

the students in a strongrepublic, research anddevelopment in informationtechnology, development ofbasic education, globalizationand national economy, thegovernment’s initiatives onhousing, and graft andcorruption.

Arroyo highlightedindependence from class andsectoral interests and thecapacity to execute soundpolicies and deliver essentialpublic services, as twoessential features of a strongPhilippine republic. A strongrepublic requires stronginstitutions such as effectivegovernment, a free enterprise

economy, a true and vigorousdemocratic representation, anda vibrant civil society.

Three years ago, Arroyo,then vice president, alreadyserved as the guest speaker in aforum titled “Gloria Watch:What Now? What’s Next?”Other guest speakers invited oncampus in the past three years

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Brother Rolando Dizon, FSC (right) facilitates the discussion with President GMA. The annual GenXchange serves as avenue for La Salle students and faculty to interact with top leaders in government and industry.

were former President FidelRamos, former DILG SecretaryAlfredo Lim, Jr., and NationalSecurity Council SecretaryRoilo Golez, and BAYANspokesperson Teddy Casiño.

The activity was sponsoredby the University’s Office of thePresident and the MarketingCommunication Office.

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ABUT-TANAW: Campus DevelopmentsVolume 30. No. 2. June 2003Editor: Ruby AñonuevoWriters: Tisha Timbang (AB �93), Naomi Lontoc TupasGraphic Ar tists: Peter Varona, Sergio Bumatay IIIConsultant: Jose Mari Magpayo (AB �81)Director: Reby Gaw (AB �93)Secretary: Virginia Umacob-GasesStudent Assistants: Marco Antonio Dañga, Aaron Say, Donna BarramedaDistribution: Deo Mar te

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About The Logo@...yesterday, it was just an �a� with a flourish, a shortcut for lazy writers, and worst, justanother obscure and unnoticeable key on the typewriter. Today, it symbolizes the link betweenpeople and places where they live and work. Take a look at your e-mail address. It�s right inthe middle of your identity and at that spot on the world wide web (www).

Abut-Tanaw (at) adopts @ as its official logo. Think of it as a signpost to remind you of theplace where you came from and the place you will always want to come back to.

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In one of his meditations,St. John Baptist de La Sallegave this piece ofencouragement to teachers:“The teaching you give theyoung is not a mere matter ofwords, but is accompanied by agreat abundance of grace forthose who respond well, whichwill maintain them in thepractice of good.”

It is this kind of faith inGod’s infinite well of kindnessthat challenges us members ofthe Lasallian community toreview our roles andresponsibilities as we carry onthe University’s vision ofnurturing “a community ofdistinguished and morallyupright scholars who generateand propagate new knowledgefor human development andsocial transformation.”

For the institution, researchis the way to go. To be aresource of Church and nation,

My dear Lasallian family,May the love, peace, and joy of the

Risen Lord be with you!I am writing to answer the many

queries I receive about my health and myministry.

As you may know by now, my doctorsdiscovered on August 23, 2002, that themalignant tumor in my rectum hadcompletely disappeared! Biopsies,ultrasound, and P.E.T. scan tests showedthat I was completely healed. No surgicaloperation was needed. God in his goodnessanswered our prayers and gave me amiraculous cure! Thanks be to God!

Since then I have continued with my chemotherapy twicea month to prevent any recurrence of cancer. This will end inJune 2003. Please continue to pray for me. Thank you.

In their kindness and wisdom, the Board of De La SalleUniversity has decided not to renew my term as President.Thus, on May 15, 2003, I shall leave my post.

I do so with a great sense of fulfillment. I believe I havepursued the university’s twin goals of striving for world-classacademic excellence and becoming a center of Christianformation for our Filipino youth. By all indicators we haveachieved our goals and witnessed a tremendous period ofgrowth and development for the DLSU System.

I wish to thank all of you who have supported me in our

Mental BlankThe long-misplaced clipping entitled Greenovation

Milestones (Abut-Tanaw Vol.30 No.1 dated November 2002)came to hand—hence this note.

Whilst there are hundreds upon hundreds of graduatesfrom various disciplines of the De La Salle College ofEngineering—each and all giving due honor and example ofwhat the spirit of St. La Salle is all about—you havegraciously drawn a mental blank as to the very beginning ofsaid school—and the very cerebral Christian Brother in theperson of Rev. Bro. L. Edward, the point person in thedevelopment and early beginnings of the DLS College ofEngineering.

Let us go back a “few years”—specifically 07 December1941 up thru to the early months of 1945, when the physicalfacilities of De La Salle College were eventually held by theJapanese Imperial Army…when the DLS “moved over” to anarea within the St. Scholastica’s College grounds. Again,during the latter part of 1945, La Salle opened its doors tostudents—and it did have its own high school graduates in1946. I was of the 1947 batch.

Greenovation points out that in 1951, La Salle wasgranted the charter to confer academic degrees to variousdisciplines related to business. NOT A WORD is said aboutthe School of Engineering where its graduates were alreadystamping their footprints of stellar achievements, year in yearout, on having completed their respective government exams.Don’t your notes record the facts?

Rather than continue with your subtle “non-acceptance”on the beginnings of the presently well-recognized DLSCollege of Engineering with your continued silence on theissue, perhaps it is time—as it is never too late (on the basisthat the issue is a matter of principle)—that Abut-Tanaw andthe people behild Greenovation accept and recognize theexistence of the De La Salle School of Engineering as from1951.

I’ll leave it to your sense of fair play to recognize thegraduates from the COE and their accomplishments in theirown fields of endeavor…a mirror of the discipline learned aswell as actions taken; all rooted in the spirit of St. La Sallewhen setting the pace and conduct of their daily lives. Yes, Iam part of the 1951 “Engineering” batch.

Trust you will see it in your heart to rectify the oversight.Thank you.

Sincerely yours,

M.J. Igual

FeedbackFirst, let me congratulate you for editing such an

informative, well presented periodical—a pride to have. I justreceived the November 2002 issue of Abut-Tanaw. Kindlycontinue sending it to me.

DLSAA East Coast is very active. Fellow Lasallians doget a chance to mix around during its annual summer picnic. Iregularly run a tennis carnival as a volunteer with theUSTA.com, promoting the game to beginners in the grass rootslevel; also recruited volunteers for the Arthur Ashe Kids Dayprogram during the US Open.

Continue the good work. Will expect your issues regularly.

Best regards,

Alex FernandezLia-Com ‘75

4 Fletcher CourtHillcrest , NY 10977-2303

I really appreciate receiving the Abut-Tanaw issues. I ama BSECE graduate in 1981 and actually was the first female(from La Salle) to receive the degree. It is so nice to see Mr.(Efren) Abueg receive the award and also Mr. FelicitoCaluyo’s name mentioned as advisor to the InternationalJournal Inhenyeriya.

I am so proud of the Earth issue, which showed how wecare. Animo LaSalle!

Is there a way I can receive the issues on a timely manner?Please advise.

Annabelle Barricanow Annabelle Carter

De La Salle University-Manilapromotes the integration ofresearch, teaching, and service.Recent campus developmentsbring to light the efforts byfaculty members and studentswho have taken this direction.There is a remarkableimprovement in the quantityand quality of La Salle’sresearch projects, as can begleaned from the list ofresearches in school year 2002-2003. The various initiatives byour faculty include studies thatseek to preserve our regionalliterature, promote peace,understand our culture in theface of technologicaladvancements, enhance modesof teaching and learning,promote health, createstrategies to develop businessand banking, implementsustainable development, andprotect nature.

Students, for their part,show the development of newattitudes and dispositions thatgo well with their acquiredconcepts, refined sensibilities,and widened imagination. Theyexpress excitement over theprospect of leaving their owncontribution to the worldbeyond campus. In a recentinternational robotics exhibit,for instance, they demonstratedthis kind of excitement as theyshowcased some of their bestprojects, from a millingmachine for the manufacturingindustry to an automatedhospital bed for immobilepatients.

Transitions in theUniversity pave the way for theLasallian community to explorenew ideas, raise questions thatchallenge the variousdisciplines, share experiences,and exchange resources. Over

A Resource of Church and Nationthe years, we have seen thechanges and growth of LaSalle’s research centers thatcontinue to provide training anddevelopment support for bothindustry and government. Withthe assistance of internationaland local funding agencies, wehave managed to strengthenexisting partnerships and toforge new ties with smallcommunities such as theMangyans in Abra and thefisherfolk in Lian, Batangas.

La Salle is set on becominga leading research university inSoutheast Asia. It willundoubtedly be so. At present,all the faculty are into research.To be in an institution thatprides itself as a resource ofChurch and nation, thechallenge is tough. But it helpsto be reminded of the grace thatSt. La Salle talked about—thegrace to give, in honor of God.

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common mission. It has been a realhonor and privilege to serve the bestuniversity system in the country today.

I remain united with all Lasallians! Icall on each one of you to do your shareto educate our youth to becomecommitted Christians and patrioticcitizens. Together we will build astronger country and a brighter futurefor our children.

Live Jesus in our hearts, forever!Animo La Salle!

Your brother & friend,

Brother Roly Dizon, FSC

A Message from Brother Roly

P.S. God’s wonders never cease. I have just received myappointment effective June 1, 2003-July 20, 2006 from PresidentGloria Macapagal Arroyo as Chairman of the Commission onHigher Education! This changes all my plans. Please pray for mein this new and challenging ministry.

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These are just some of thequestions raised during aninformal dialogue betweenalumni and select studentleaders, held last February 12at the Multipurpose Room ofthe Don Enrique T. YuchengcoHall. The event, dubbed“Kapihang Lasalyano,” was thefirst of a series of dialoguesthat would be regularlymounted by the Office ofCareer Services (OCS) ofDLSU-Manila and the Office ofthe Vice President forDevelopment and AlumniAffairs of the DLSU System.

The activity was held towelcome back to their almamater seven successful alumni,to provide the current crop ofstudent leaders a venue to learn

De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU-M) will receivea total of P50 million donationfrom its alumnus EnriqueRazon, Jr. (BS BA ’80) forsports development, whichincludes funds for scholarshipsand improvement of physicalfacilities. The initial release ofthe funds started on January 15.

Razon is the head of theInternational ContainerTerminal Services Incorporated(ICTSI) and a sponsor of theICTSI-La Salle basketball teamin the Philippine BasketballLeague. DLSU SystemPresident Br. Rolando Dizon,FSC, facilitated the negotiation of the saiddonation.

From the total amount, P25 million will beused to fully equip and air-condition thegymnasium at the ninth floor of the PE andSports Center, P20 million for athleticscholarships, and P5 million for a sportssolidarity fund.

The construction of the Physical FitnessCenter on the 9th floor started on the third week

De La Salle University-Manila recently signed up with 12companies for the Applied Corporate Management (ACM)Program of the Business Management Department.

The companies that entered into memoranda of agreement(MOAs) with DLSU-Manila are American Hearing CenterCorporation, Axcess Technologies, Inc., Jollibee FoodsCorporation, Keppel Philippines Properties, Inc., MagsaysayMaritime Corporation, Merck, Inc., Novartis Health CarePhilippines, Inc., Petron Corporation, Pilipinas Shell PetroleumCorporation, Puratos Philippines, Inc., Siemens, Inc., and UnileverPhilippines, Inc.

The ACM Program started out as a partnership with theEuropean Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines. Membercompanies of the ECCP sought assistance in finding a training/education model that would help them in recruiting junior staffwith management potential.

The program, patterned after the dual-technology program inGermany, features three alternate terms of actual experientiallearning in the real world of work (on-the-job training), and seeksto enable students to acquire the necessary knowledge, skills,attitudes, and values of world-class management.

The students’ exposure in the company is now known asManagement Practicum (MANPRA). The 12-term program aimsto train students in all aspects of corporate business management.It also intends to enhance the hands-on experience of the studentsas well as minimize the cost of training future employees fromDLSU-Manila on the part of the participating companies.

Access to electricity inrural communities—this is theprimary goal of a three-yearproject between the College ofEngineering and the JapanInternational CooperationAgency (JICA).

In a Memorandum ofAgreement (MOA) signedrecently, JICA donated P10.8 Mto finance the establishment ofthe Center for Micro-hydroTechnology at De La SalleUniversity-Manila.

This move will strengthenthe University’s capability toprovide technical services in thefields of development, as wellas in the operation andmanagement of micro-hydropower (MHP) plants.The overall goal of the projectis to help the Department ofEnergy accelerate thesustainable MHP developmentfor rural electrification in thePhilippines.

The availability ofaffordable electrical as well asmechanical power and thermalenergy could spur the setting upof agro-processing and cottageindustries, create employmentopportunities in rural areas,generate disposable income,and decrease the drain offoreign exchange spent onimporting fuel oil, rice, andother agricultural products.

The JICA-CommunityEmpowerment Project hasexpected outputs within thespan of three years. These are:improvement of testing andmanufacturing facilities at theCenter; preparation ofreferences of locallymanufactured micro-hydroequipment; operation andmonitoring of demonstrationpower plants; regular trainingfor local manufacturers,nongovernment organizations,and local government units onMHP development,manufacturing equipment andoperation and maintenance;and, establishment andstrengthening of the network fortechnical assistance amongstakeholders concerned.

12 companiessign up for OJTprogram

of January. Office of the Sports DevelopmentDirector (OSD) Danny Jose and Vice Presidentfor System Administrative Services EngineerAurellano de la Cruz, Jr. are tasked as projectofficers. The OSD already received the importedgym equipment amounting to P9 million as partof the donation.

The building is now named Enrique M.Razon Sports Center, after the late father ofRazon who was an athlete of La Salle.

DLSU-M receives P50Mfund for sports

Engineering,JICA tie-upfor ruralelectrificationproject

What was it like to be a student in the ’70s? Was it really terrible going under the scrutiny of the BenchBoys? What did they need to succeed at work? What are the improvements in the University, aside from thenew buildings? How do the students find their curriculum? Have they learned to aspire for their beliefs andto challenge norms?

from the guests, and toestablish a strong and effectivenetwork of La Salle students,administrators, and industrypartners.

Sharing their Lasallianexperience were: MichaelJoseph Estaniel (AB-BSM ’78),Audrey Agatep-General (AB-BSM ’78), Emmanuel Leyco(AB-BSM ’78), Fritz Maramba(BSA ’53), Theresa Mapua-Osmeña (AB Com ’78), BrManuel Pajarillo, FSC (BS Bio’83), and Oscar Razon (BS-MEE ’77).

During the dialogue, thealumni recalled their collegeyears—from the simplepleasures of student life and thekind of learning that they got,to the adjustments of being a

coed in a then male-dominatedcampus and the politicalupheavals of the time.

The student participantswere able to share theirthoughts on current issues,including the kind of educationthat they obtain.

Asked of the lessons theywould like to impart to theyoung leaders, the alumni notedamong other things, the need tostrive for excellence in order tosurvive globalization; theimportance of keeping integrityand determination; the value ofnurturing relationships; and theimportance of asking questions,keeping a critical mind, anddoing one’s best. (RubyAñonuevo)

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A team of MEM students creates a low-cost, automated model for bedridden patients.

RoboticRevolution

The De La SalleUniversity-Manila sponsored athree-day internationalconference on robotics with thetheme “The Convergence ofFuture Technologies withManagement Systems and theEnvironment,” on March 27-30at the Holiday Inn Hotel,Manila.

Dubbed HNICEM 2003,the event presented newtechnologies through technicaland educational sessions with

AutomationNeeded for OptimizingInterface Development, whilenanotechnology refers tomolecular manufacturing inwhich atoms in products arearranged to make them lighter,stronger, cheaper, and moreprecise.

Information technology, onthe other hand, focuses onindustrial applications ofartificial intelligence,telecommunication, multimedia,neural networks, fuzzyalgorithms and evolutionarycomputing, intelligent transportsystems, and human supportsystems.

Dr. Elmer Dadios of theManufacturing Engineering andManagement (MEM)Department was the generalchair of HNICEM 2003. Dr.Susan Roces of the Chemical

five plenary speakers, namely,Toshio Fukuda of NagoyaUniversity and Kauro Hirota ofthe Tokyo Institute ofTechnology, Japan; OussamaKhatib of Stanford University,USA; Michael Purvis ofPortsmouth University, UK;and, Lito Zulaybar of IntelPhilippines. HNICEM is ashort form for six areas in thefield of robotics, which are

humanoid, nanotechnology,information technology,communication and control,environment, and management.

The term “humanoid” is anacronym that stands for HumanUnderstanding and Machine

Engineering Department andDr. Alvin Culaba of theMechanical EngineeringDepartment co-chaired theprogram.HNICEM 2003 is co-sponsored with Robautronix,the Commission on HigherEducation, and the Departmentof Science and Technology.

the patient could be done automatically and periodically with thebed’s programmable feature. The members pointed out that thetilting occurs in precise and accurate angles and time intervals.The bed can also be angled using manually.

Another significant feature of the bed is its convoluted foamthat allows more air to cushion the patient and thereby lessen thechances of developing bedsore.

The students revealed that abroad, the cost of a lateral turningbed ranges from US$1,000-$3,000. Theirs took only aboutP30,000 or a little more than US $500 to be completed.

What they initially thought to be their ultimate goal—a goodproject (or make that, a very good project) to get the grade to makeit to graduation—has changed in the course of their research. Forwho would not wish to see a valuable work put into use?Philippine hospitals need not look far nor take too long to discovera new way of greatly improving their patients’ well-being. (RubyAñonuevo)

Bedsore-free hospital bed

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2. Salome Tan Pre-School 1999-2000Malate, Manila

3. Our Lady of Assumption Parish 2000-2002Pasay City

4. Leveriza Barangay Hall 2002-2003Pasay City

Teodoro has been in bed foralmost 12 weeks, old age and sicknesstaking their toll on his body. At timeswhen his mind is lucid, he prays notso much for himself but for his lovedones and caregivers not to break andbe burdened by his condition. It islucky if he could as much lift his backto face the side of the bed.

If not monitored closely andregularly, the state of Teodoro—similar to that of countless others whoare incapacitated—can lead to furtherdeterioration. People in manyhospitals and even those at homeknow how big a challenge it is to keeppatients from developing bedsores.

This challenge came to theattention of a group of DLSU-Manilastudents when they visited theMedical Center of the DLSU-HealthScience Campus about a year ago, insearch of a subject for their thesis inthe Manufacturing Engineering andManagement (MEM) program.According to Julirose Gonzales, a member of the team, a nursetold them how an automated bed would greatly help her and herpatients. With the prodding, too, of her doctor-uncle who wouldconstantly ask her to embark on a medical research project,Julirose together with Elizabeth Marie Abad, Raymond Catañag,Audrey Mae Gatmaitan, and Mark Ivan Policar decided to developan automated lateral turning bed.

Under the guidance of Dr. Nilo Bugtai, the proponents soughtto integrate electronic, mechanical, and programming knowledgeinto their project. For several months, they conceptualized,designed, and redesigned the mechanism that can tilt the patientperiodically to allow sufficient blood flow in the body. With acontrol panel attached to the bed, the user can change angles andtime intervals depending on the needs of the patients.

During a recent campus exhibition of some of DLSU-Manila’srobotics projects, the MEM team demonstrated how the tilting of

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faculty members. By sharing their expertise, theUniversity becomes a hub for generating newknowledge for the Filipinos and inspiring them totake action.

In recent years, DLSU-Manila has beenrecognized for its strength in the area of research.Locally, it serves as a Zonal Research Center for theNational Capital Region, which is under theCommission on Higher Education. Internationally, itranked as the number one Philippine university inthe area of research, according to the Asiaweek 2000survey. It was at the heels of all these undertakingsand achievements that Issues Café was finallylaunched in 2000.

Here are some of La Salle’s recent kapihanhighlights:

Revealing the results of an extensive research onthe country’s labor and migration problem, Dr.Tereso Tullao Jr., full professor of the EconomicsDepartment, and Stella Go, associate professor of theBehavioral Sciences Department, raised the

question, “Whoreally benefitsfrom RP laborand migration?”While givingtheirrecommendationson how to maximize the potential of thecountry’s human resources, they noted howmigration contributed further to the growinggap between the rich and the poor. Migration

has in fact not served the poorest segment ofPhilippine society.

In another series, Dr. Eric Punzalan, associateprofessor of the Chemistry Department, and Dr.Susan Gallardo, full professor of the ChemicalEngineering Department, traded their expertise andviews on solid waste management with privateenvironmentalists and the Metro ManilaDevelopment Authority. Gallardo, in yet anotherforum, showed another option to improve theenvironmental condition, i.e., by reducing pollutantsfrom vehicles emission. She discussed her recentresearch: a catalytic converter, which serves as analternative technology for tricycle.

Focusing on the daily life amidst terror, Dr. RolyBuendia, professor of the Political ScienceDepartment, presented policy recommendations forthe Philippine government in managing the conflictand threats posed by international terrorism. Hisproposal was based on his study on world terrorismand separatism in the Philippines.

On the issue of health, Dr. Luisa Enriquez,associate professor of the Physics Department,asserted that cancer mortality could be cut downand curbed through genetic testing. Working withexperts from St. Luke’s Medical Center, sheconducted a research study aimed at developingpreventive measures against cancer formation.

Facing the challenge of the rapidly advancingtechnology, Dr. Elmer Dadios, full professor of theManufacturing Engineering and ManagementDepartment, and Dr. Oussama Khatib, professor ofComputer Science at Stanford University, sharedtheir expertise on robotics and showed how today’srobots are moving closer to the humanenvironment. An exhibit of robots was mountedduring the forum to showcase the designs of youngLasallian talents from the College of Engineering.

With the growing research culture at DLSU-Manila, Issues Café has more stories lined up—all

timely and responsive in support of the Lasallianmission to serve God and country.

Opening Our Doors to the Media

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By Naomi Lontoc Tupas

Manny Belino�s QuestThe 2nd Lorenzo M. Tañada CHIMES Award

A legend tells of a time long ago when men, driven withwanderlust, searched for the Fountain of Youth in a distant, mythicland. It was said that water from this fabled fountain ceased themortal body from ageing and protected it from ailments anddisease. Whosoever tasted the sweet water and bathed in it shallbe blessed with eternal youth. However, like all things too good,there was a catch, a string tied to the precious gift: one mustremain near the Fountain and continue to draw and drink andbathe from its waters for its promise of youth to be fulfilled. Menfrom all parts of the old and new world, from all points in time—from Alexander the Great to Juan Ponce de Leon—set out to findboth riches and youth.

and DLSU-Manila to name a few, Belino isan accomplished and respected engineer.However, a few outside of his circle ofpeers know that Belino has a master’sdegree in Theological Studies from no lessthan Harvard University. Armed with that,he integrates applied ethics in his studiesand the courses he teaches. When askedwhat one more thing he wants toaccomplish after the CHIMES conferment,Belino simply said, “Before I turn 50, Iwould like to write a number of books, oneparticular book is about engineering ethics,which considers Filipino cultural values in

practice of the (engineering) profession….” Speaking on behalf ofthe other finalists of the CHIMES award, he stated that, “Theaward is a response to the call of the present time: back to virtues,back to positive Filipino values, especially in a country like ours themoral fabric of which has been seriously damaged. Today there isan ethics boom—a heightened awareness or increased interest notonly in the study of ethics across disciplines but also in the practicalaspect of promoting values in the academia, industry, andgovernment.”

And for almost half of his life, he shares his belief and valuesystem to many young men and women. Likewise, his students alsotaught him “…how to enjoy living as a young person, not to worryso much about many things…(but) to enjoy the present…to becreative.” With such insights, he declares that his disposition in lifeis to remain young as he continues his ministry to the youth. Forthis endeavor, Belino does not have to travel far and wide in searchof the mythical Fountain of Youth. He has found it in the goodnessof the heart of the Lasallian community and in the power of theLasallian education.

For Dr. Manuel Belino, such an arduousexpedition ended, neither in the swamps ofFlorida nor in the jungles of Cuba where theFountain is said to be hidden, but at De LaSalle University-Manila, where he has beenteaching and transforming the young for thepast 20 years. Recently, the De La SalleUniversity System conferred on Belino, anassociate professor of the MechanicalEngineering Department, the Lorenzo M.Tañada CHIMES Award, one of the highestawards given by the institution. Given toindividuals who are “filled with Gospel zeal,who recognize Christ in others and whosebehavior reflect Christian values,” the award is likened to thesound emanating from the church belfry, calling the people “togive attention and highlight lives steeped in faith gleaned throughexamples given others.”

Statesman exemplar Lorenzo Tañada (HS ’18), for whom theaward was named, embodied the ideals and values fosteredthrough education by the University to its young students. Theseare to stand up for the Common Good, to live with Honesty andIntegrity, to strive for Meritocracy and Excellence, and to renderService to others. In his years of teaching and community service,Belino tried to impart these values to his young students for heconsiders his career more of a vocation, a ministry in which hemolds the hearts and minds of young people in the service ofChurch and Nation.

Indeed, Belino has found the right mix of science and religion,in his quest for imparting knowledge and values to the young.Proven by the numerous awards he received from prestigiousprofessional and academic organizations such as the PhilippineSociety of Mechanical Engineers, Mapua Institute of Technology,

“Before I turn 50, I wouldlike to write a number ofbooks, one particular bookis about engineering ethics,which considers Filipinocultural values in practiceof the (engineering)profession….”

DLSU-Manila’s Issues Café forum offersbreakthrough reports and inspiring campus storiesthat the outside community could also learn from.

A solar-LPG powered tricycle for sustainabledevelopment. A new species of reef coral discoveredin Spratlys Islands. Micro-hydro power generation tosupport hundreds of Tingguian families in Abra.Genetic testing to prevent cancer. Robotics for thePhilippines. And the list goes on.

Every month, La Salle looks into its rich stableof research projects and institutional developmentsto share to the outside community some really goodstories. Reby Gaw, director of the MarketingCommunication Office (MCO), says various topics—ranging from science and engineering to technologyand social sciences—are gradually finding their wayto the public’s consciousness through Issues Café, amini-kapihan monthly forum.

Issues Café, a media forum sponsored by MCO,aims to provide insightful discussions on importantsocietal issues based on the research outputs of

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ou have seen this scene on the big screen: eccentricgenius John Nash, played by buffed, ruggedlyhandsome Russell Crowe, staring intently at a lightedelectronic board. Numbers began to glow, then swirl,forming a mass of illuminated geometric shapes.Then picture this: a petite woman, with dusky skin

and longish hair, skimming a page full of equations from a two-inch hardbound book. Every now and then, she scribbles silentlyon a fresh, blank piece of paper, and only the incessant drone ofthe air conditioner can be heard. An hour and 16 minutes havepassed since then.

It all began in her elementary days when, then Ederlina“Lynne” Ganatuin, had her first taste of studying for free, at apublic school named after the famous Filipino hero of the pen andpaper, Graciano Lopez Jaena. Graduating from elementary, shestill opted to study at Ramon Magsaysay High School, a knownpublic school with a good roster of alumni, to help her parents out.In college, for a person who loved arranging and re-arrangingnumbers into perfect formulas, it was only logical to try her handin acquiring a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics for Teachers atthe then Philippine Normal College—again on a scholarship sheapplied for from the Department of Science and Technology(DOST).

After graduation, she immediately put her education degree touse and taught in one of the universities in the metropolis. While

In one of his recentcolumns in the Philippine DailyInquirer, Conrado de Quirostells of his growing preferencefor exploring the country ratherthan places abroad, particularlyduring summer. He explainsthat it is due largely to “therealization—which happens asone grows older and hopefullywiser—that the strangest, mostexotic, most mysterious places,are the ones closest to you.” Headds, “The logic of that

teaching, friends of hers, including her future husband, RizaldiNocon (currently a dean at the College of Saint Benilde), decidedto look for—what else?—scholarships to finance their graduatestudies. Her former college professors advised her to inquire at DeLa Salle University-Manila. And the rest, they say, is history.

A believer of the integral benefit of scholarships, Lynne Noconlost no time in applying for a full scholarship at the StudentFinancial Assistance Program (now named Scholarship andFinancial Assistance Office). She went the whole nine yards—from the usual paper work to be filled out to the rigorousinterview. Of course, it did help that she was an exemplarystudent during her college days and that she was practicing hercalling of teaching. Nocon easily clinched the scholarship from theStudent Financial Assistance Program (STUFAP) and proceededto make inroads in finishing her degree in Master of Science inTeaching Major in Mathematics, with a good track record, at that.

While studying her master’s at De La Salle, Nocon decided toapply as a part-time teacher at the Math Department. Afterfinishing her graduate studies with distinction, she applied and washired as a full time faculty member in 1996. However, with aninsatiable thirst for knowledge to quench still, this wife and motherof five, continued to pursue further studies in mathematics. Thistime, she availed herself of the privileges from De La Salle’sInstitute for Faculty Development, and aimed to acquire adoctorate degree in mathematics. For her dissertation, she turned

again to DOST to give her a grant forher research.

And like John Nash, who, fiction ornot, was a natural “code-breaker” inespionage jargon, Nocon’s dissertationcovered the field of coding theory andinformation theory. Solving kilometricequations as her daily mental staple,Nocon concentrated on the “constructionof new types of codes whose propertiesare known to be ‘good’ in terms of itsapplicability in the binary case.” Simplyput, her research “…is geared towardthe hope of unraveling the usefulness ofthis new type of codes whose algebraicproperties may prove to be ‘good’ interms of its power to detect and correcterrors.” In the near future, her researchmay be an important key in practical,everyday applications in data security(encryption), disk space saving, andcheaper, faster, and more efficienttransfer of information. Seeing the valueof her research, the Philippine Councilfor Advanced Science and TechnologyResearch and Development(PCASTRD), the sectoral council ofDOST tasked to develop, integrate, andcoordinate the national research systemfor advanced science and technology (S& T) and related fields, chose herresearch as the second prize for theOutstanding Dissertation Award inDecember 2001. She also received herPhD in Math with High Distinction in

1999.All her hard work paid off. A year after her accomplishments

with her doctorate studies, she was appointed vice chairperson ofthe Mathematics Department. After that, this scholar, in the truesense of the word, was recommended to the vice dean position bythe then outgoing dean Dr. Yolando Beronque to the incoming deanDr. Gerardo Janairo.

Looking back, Nocon professes that her scholarships throughthe years developed and launched her successful teaching career.She is also thankful that she made the right choice to apply in DeLa Salle for her scholarships because her exposure here developedher talents and skills in teaching and research. She says that DeLa Salle gave her the works in terms of support—from the bestmentors to very challenging opportunities for research. Not onlythose, but she also ticked off the things she thought that a De LaSalle scholarship gives to teachers like her that some universitiesare unable to grant. To mention a few: deloading, researchincentives, materials, academic linkages to other institutions ofhigher learning abroad, and even a computer for one’s use. Hercareer in teaching at the University likewise gave her a widerperspective in teaching that helped develop her person beyond theintellectual aspect of one’s being.

Asked what her future plans in academia and one could almostguess what they are: to go back to teaching, her first love, after herone-year stint as vice dean, more researches, and further post-graduate studies abroad—still on a scholarship, what else?

Few may know it,but DLSU-Manilahas been providingscholarships,especially forteachers, to carryon its mission ofpromoting higherlearning anddeveloping theresearch culture ofthe University.Here’s the story ofa faculty memberwho pursued hereducation withpassion whileenjoying the freethings that wentwith it.

statement goes further than youcan imagine: The strangest,most mysterious, mostsurprising people are the onesclosest to you.”

For La Salle students, thejoy of experiencing suchwisdom need not take them tosome lost time in the future.Through the University’sSummer Immersion Program,they are able to make theirsummer break not onlyenjoyable but also productiveand meaningful.

ancestral land is located insidethe Bataan National Park andsurrounded by Subic Bay andForest, and China Sea. Studentparticipants got their chance tointeract with the members ofthis community, which allowedthem to understand the Aetas’environmental and culturalconcerns.

For the group of volunteerswho had their summer getawayat Biak-na-Bato in Bulacan, theecological and historical toursproved equally challenging.Climbing their way to thehistorical huge split boulder atthe Biak-na-Bato NationalPark, the participants relivedthe glory of our forebears’heroism. It was in this placethat the revolutionary forcesduring the Spanish regime hid,and where the MalolosConstitution was signed byGen. Emilio Aguinaldo andPedro Paterno. For the students,the Biak-na-Bato experiencewas not merely a kind ofenvironmental education; theactivity allowed them to dosome soul-searching as theyexplored the mountain and itscaves, walked under the giantshadows of ancient trees, andenjoyed the waters of the coolriver.

At Mt. Banahaw inQuezon, volunteers had theopportunity to witness themountain pilgrims andexperience a different kind ofspiritual activity. Considered aplace for “psychic recharging”and home to different popularreligions, the mountain is nodoubt getting threatened by thegrowing number of its visitors,many of whom no longer give itdue respect and protection.With Lasallians, theenvironmental watchdogs of thesacred mountain hope toeducate, especially the first-time visitors, on how to make atruly meaningful journey.

Another group of Lasallianvolunteers went to theDamascus Foundation(Rehabilitation Center) inBulacan. There they had thechance to interact with drugdependents now taking the pathto a wholesome and productivelife. They conducted a varietyof teambuilding activities andlistened to the drug dependents’stories.

For COSCA, the activity-packed summer went byquickly—but such is always thecase for experiences that onefinds good and beautiful. (RubyAñonuevo)

Ecological and historical tours help Lasallians discover some of the country’sendangered parks, as well as the communities that nurture them.

Lasallian Summertime

Handled by the Center forSocial Concern and Action(COSCA), the summerimmersion provides anopportunity for students todiscover some of the country’srich heritage by integrating withDLSU-Manila’s partnercommunities. Through serviceand volunteerism, they are ableto share their expertise andtalents and, at the same time,learn from people whose livesare different from theirs.

In April this year, about 80

student volunteers visited fourimmersion sites: Sitio Kanawanin Morong, Bataan; Biak-na-Bato in San Miguel, Bulacan;Mt. Banahaw in Dolores,Quezon; and Pulong Sampalocin Bulacan.

Perched at the tail end ofthe Zambales mountain range,Sitio Kanawan has a dirt roadthat leads to a hanging bridgeof about 30 to 40 metersspanning the Batalan River.Home of the Magbikin Tribe(Aetas), the 165-hectare

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ByNaomi Lontoc Tupas

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To continue its effort in developing a competitive advantage throughresearch and technological innovation, the Center for Ecology and NaturalScience Research (CENSER) under the College of Science (COS) hasimproved its structure by establishing six research units.

Except for the Marine Science, which is already an establishedcomponent, the new units beginning school year 2003-2004 are Molecular Biology, Computational Sciencefor Modeling and Simulation, Materials Science and Synthesis, Biodiversity and Conservation Science, andApplied Science for Human Development.

The Marine Science Unit (MSU) is located at Barangay Matuod, Lian, Batangas, operating under thename Brother Alfred Shields Marine Station (SMS). Its general function is to conduct researches on marineand aquatic resources. Its major aim is to promote the protection and conservation of the marine resourcesof the country. The identification, isolation, and extraction of possible useful chemical compounds frommarine flora and fauna and molecular studies are the primary concerns of this unit.

In the process of completing its physical facility, the Molecular Biology Unit (MBU) will be housed atSTRC room numbers 201, 203 to 205. The major thrust of this unit is to develop researches on themolecular aspects of biology, chemistry, and biochemistry. Some of the target research areas includegenetic engineering, molecular studies on the bases and cure of certain human diseases,development of genetically engineered drugs, and bio-informatics.

The Computational Science for Modeling and SimulationUnit (CSMSU) is a resource agency forresearches that may require complex andhigh-end computations to include simulationand modeling. In solving the traffic or garbageproblem in Metro Manila, for example, aresearch model will be developed. This unit willalso handle recommendations by the MBU, suchas the simulation of the possible pathways oractions of a drug.

The Materials Science and Synthesis Unit(MSSU) is in charge of developing or synthesizingnovel or improved materials. Studies on solid-state

on the Roll

One and a half hours more. What is it worth? To some, maybenot much. But to busy professionals, managers, and executives,every second counts. This kind of outlook permeates the Office ofthe University Registrar (OUR), which has implemented a NoLunchbreak policy in its Front Desk operations. From 12 noon to1:30 p.m. (standard lunch hour in DLSU-Manila), the OURcontinues to service students and alumni who need to secureimportant DLSU-Manila documents.

The Front Desk is a special section of OUR which centralizestransactions for securing transcript of records, diplomas,certifications, and for receiving faculty attendance forms, andother inquiries. It has three staff members and is open 8 a.m.-8p.m. Mondays to Fridays, and 8 a.m.-12 noon Saturdays.

An innovation that has afforded the OUR to serve its clientsmore efficiently, the Front Desk used to have 14 windows. Alumniand students who needed to get a diploma, for instance, used to gothrough a number of these windows to complete a transaction.This, in addition to the number of offices they had to visit forclearances.

However, with the new setup, the OUR eases the process ofsecuring university documents. This unit also offers a clearanceprocessing service for a fee so that the applicant would no longerhave to personally go through several offices. The applicant simplyneeds to fill out the form, pay the Accounting Office the assessedfee, and pick up the needed document after a few days. If thisarrangement will still prove to be inconvenient, a few pesos moreand the OUR will send the document to the applicant’s preferred

By Reby Gaw

Like your reliable round-the-clock convenience store, DLSU-Manila’s Office of the University Registrar provides students andalumni documentary services in ways most suitable to them—faster and hassle-free.

address via a courier delivery system.Aside from the improved services

that facilitate transactions, theRegistrar’s clients are now morecomfortable waiting in an air-conditioned area with a sofa andnewspapers, which was not the casebefore when people had to line upoutside the windows. Moreover, theFront Desk has allowed face-to-facetransactions, which has proven to be lesscumbersome both for the staff and theperson being served. Of course, theadditional one and a half hours atnoontime break allows the staff toservice walk-in applicants, especially the alumni who may betaking those precious time-off from work.

Getting the documents to the alumni on-demand is ofparamount value to the Office, but equally of great importance isthe credibility and authenticity of the documents. The OUR guardsthe integrity of all its documents, and has introduced a number ofinnovations to deter forgers and diploma hawkers.

To check the authenticity of documents by individualsclaiming to be La Salle graduates, the OUR now offers a service tohuman resource managers and other potential employers.Diplomas, TORs, and certifications can now be verified at theoffice, free of charge. It is, after all, its way to guard the name of

by Tisha Timbang

Six InterlockingScience Paths

DLSU-Manila’s CENSER creates six units, improvesresources management.

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physics as well as polymers are some of the sample studies that may be conducted in this unit. Other highlytechnical studies will be determined in the future.

The Biodiversity and Conservation Science Unit (BDCSU), as the term implies, is concerned with thestudies of conservation and biodiversity. Identification and conservation of the Philippines’ endangered floraand fauna is the major thrust of this unit. As an offshoot, a botanical garden and natural history museum areset up within the compound of the SMS in Batangas. The botanical garden housing the gene and seedbanks will seek to address the problems of the dwindling natural flora and fauna of the country.

The Applied Science and Ecology for Human Development Unit (ASEHDU) sets its focus on humanstudies. One of the key areas of research for this unit is disease management and dynamics. In tandemwith the MBU, this unit targets the development of new and improved drugs that are socially andeconomically feasible under the local setting. Studies on the dynamics of a disease are also the priorities ofthis unit.

“These units are interlocked and interdependent with each other,” said Dr. Ferdinand Fajardo, directorof CENSER. He added that this is intentionally done and designed to break the barriers within and amongthe four departments of COS, namely the Departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics.

Breaking the barriers to Fajardo means making studying “easier and more flexible.” The institution ofsix units creates an environment where ideal learning and inquiry are made possible for both students andfaculty members. Fajardo is optimistic that with the new developments in his college, more opportunities forpartnerships with industry and organizations will be brokered and breakthroughs will be unfolded.

Records

DLSU-Manila and its graduates and students. For those who finished their degrees in 2001 and up, the OUR

guarantees the delivery of diplomas and TORs soon after thecommencement exercises.

Still unsure how to claim you diploma? Whether through theFront Desk or through express delivery services, you are assuredof an efficient service and a shield to protect your honor as aDLSU-Manila alumnus.

For inquiries about the services of the Office of the UniversityRegistrar, send an email to registrar@dlsu.edu.ph or visit thewebsite at www.dlsu.edu.ph/offices/registrar.

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Hot off the DLSU PressIn Disarming Peter: Retrieving a Christian Ethic ofNonviolence in the Philippine Context, Fr. DanielKroger, OFM banks on a Christian perspective in tracingthe history and development of the ethic of nonviolencefrom the time of Jesus, through the Middle Ages, underthe Marcos regime, and up to EDSA 1 and EDSA 2.

Txt-ing Selves: Cellphones and Philippine Modernity by RaulPertierra, Eduardo Ugarte, et.al. explores the reasons for and impact ofmobile phone usage in the Philippines. It utilizes the theoreticalconcepts of global modernity and complex connectivity to shape andinform the interpretation of data culled from questionnaires, focusedgroup discussions, in-depth interviews, and archival research.

Paz Verdades M. Santos’ Hagkus: Twentieth-century Bikol Women Writers is more than adirectory of Bikol women writers cum anthology oftheir selected works. This scholarly, extensivelyresearched volume evokes the sense and sensibilityof Bikol womenfolk as they grapple with the realitiesof a sociocultural landscape dominated by men.

Emerita S. Quito’s recent opus Critique of Historical Theoryreviews the ideas of philosophers of history, between those who see aplan in history and those who believe otherwise, the scientists’ viewrelevant to the philosophy of history, and the uncommon stance ofArnold Toynbee, Jean Paul-Sartre, and Wilhelm Dilthey. Dr. Quito alsoelucidates on the relation between the Philosophy of Man andPhilosophy of History, and then caps her work with a cogent andincisive critique.

The Essential Arcellana, edited by New York-based writer andpublisher Alberto S. Florentino, assembles the finest representativeshort stories, essays, and poems of National Artist Francisco Arcellanawho “considers himself the rival of no established writer and olderbrother to the young.”

Bullets and Roses: The Poetry of Amado V.Hernandez is a collection of 46 poems translated intoEnglish and with a critical essay by the foremostFilipino poet in English, Cirilo F. Bautista. This Bautistawork will surely whet the appetite of readers with hisfresh and incisive insights on poetry and his skill intranslation.

In recognition of the numerous achievementsand contributions in the fields of education andphilosophy by Professor Emeritus Emerita Quito,a professorial chair named in her honor wasestablished on November 21 at a ceremony heldon campus. The event coincided with thelaunching of her book, Critique of HistoricalTheory, published by the DLSU Press.

Her friends and former students at DLSU-Manila initiated the establishment of TheProfessor Emeritus Emerita S. QuitoDistinguished Professorial Chair in the Historyof Thought. Rene Fuentes,president of the DLSU

Science Foundation,presented thecommemorative plaqueon behalf of thedonors.

Quito graduatedas a Bachelor of Artsin Philosophy magnacum laude and Masterof Arts meritissimusat the University ofSanto Tomas. Shewas PhD cum laude

Two governmentdepartments—the Commissionon Higher Education (CHED)and the Department ofEducation (DepEd)—recentlyorganized a series of seminar-workshops for schooladministrators from thedifferent regions of the country,with La Salle faculty as mainresource speakers.

La Salle faculty members conducted a basic course inInternational Relations for Foreign Service officers andemployees of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) andsenior officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines fromFebruary 25 to March 6.

Sponsored by the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), thecourse was intended to assist government employees andofficials acquire a rudimentary knowledge of the basicconcepts and theories of International Relations (IR).

Dr. Renato Cruz de Castro designed the course anddelivered the lectures on the theories, concepts, and issues inIR. Dr. Wilfrido Villacorta discussed the IR of East Asia.Atty. Chito Gascon talked about International Law, whileGerardo Largoza taught International Political Economy.

This class is the first of four classes in basic IR that willbe conducted for DFA employees and Foreign Serviceofficers by DLSU-Manila faculty this year. Meanwhile, DeCastro delivered lectures recently on the nature andinstruments of foreign policy in a course on Policy Analysisconducted by the FSI.

Faculty members of theCounseling and EducationalPsychology Department(CEPD) and counselors of theCenter for Counseling andDevelopment (CCD) playedprominent roles in the nationalconference-workshop of thePhilippine Association ofCounselor Education, Researchand Supervision (PACERS)held at the Bayview Park Hotelon February 20-22.

This year’s annualconference theme was

Quito ProfessorialChair established

at the Universite de Fribourg.She became full professor

at DLSU-Manila in 1973,then became dean of theDLSU Graduate School ofEducation in 1978. Sheserved as vice president foracademics in 1991 andbecame senior adviser onacademic development thefollowing year.

In 1985, she was theawardee of the FirstMetrobank FoundationSearch for OutstandingEducators. She received theFrench Decoration Chevalierdans l’Ordre de Palmes Academiques in the sameyear.

Her commitment to education is seen in heraccomplishments and involvement in the differentsectors of society, making her academe’sprominent member. Her work, “La notion de laLiberte participae dans la philosophie de LouisLavelle,” is included in a prestigious series ofphilosophy in Europe.

She has also written 60 articles released invarious publications including the ManilaChronicle, Sophia, Unitas, Dialogue, theEducation Journal, Philippiniana Sacra, and thePESP Yearbook. Her books and book reviewshave been published in the Philippines, France,and Malaysia.

She has lectured in some of the mostoutstanding universities and educational

institutions in Manila. Her internationalexperience includes lectures in Singapore, Seoul,Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Australia, andHawaii.

The UNESCO twice commissioned her towrite a country report. She was electedRapporteur-General at the General Meeting ofExperts in Philosophy in the Asia-Pacific Regionheld in Bangkok in 1983.

On November 25-26, 2002administrators of the country’stop 25 higher educationinstitutions (HEIs) gatheredtogether at the CSBInternational Center for aseminar on strategic planning,which was part of theManagement DevelopmentProgram of CHED.

The main resource of the

seminar-workshop was Dr.Roberto Borromeo, chair of theEducational LeadershipDepartment, who spoke on“Strategic Planning for HigherEducation Institutions,”“Methodologies for StrategicPlanning,” and“Institutionalizing StrategicPlanning in HEIs.” Otherspeakers from La Salle were

CHED, DepEd resource speakers from TaftLeonida Africa and NenitaHabulan.

For DepEd’s similaractivity for high schoolprincipals held on February 5-8in Baguio City, the invitedresource persons from DLSU-Manila included Borromeo andHabulan, as well as Dr. AllanBernardo, Dr. Adelaida Bago,and Dr. Flordeliza Reyes.

More workshopsfor DFA, AFP officers

“Counselor Competencies forResponding to Violence andTrauma.”

Among those who madepresentations were CEPD ChairDr. Barbara Wong-Fernandezand faculty members Dr.Imelda Villar, Dr. Jose AlbertoReyes, who also serves asdirector of CCD, and Amparode Guzman, CCD counselor.

Doctoral students of theCEPD also made paper andposter presentations of theirresearch projects.

Counseling experts joinnational confab

Meanwhile, DLSU-Manila’s counselor educatorsand counselors have beenappointed in the PACERSboard of directors for 2003-2004. They are: Wong-Fernandez as chairperson, Dr.Julian Montano as vice

chairperson, and Dr. NancyRayos as president. Montanoand Rayos are also fromCEPD. Counselors Liza Suarezand Susan Estanislao areserving as treasurer andmember, respectively.

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College1. Liberal Arts

2. Education

3. Business & Economics

4. Engineering

5. Science

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9

12

10

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14

10

6

11

10

External

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5

3

1

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URCO cites 86 facultyresearchers

Acknowledging its vibrant research culture, DLSU-Manilathrough the University Research Coordination Office (URCO)recognized 86 faculty researchers during the Annual FacultyResearch Recognition Program on March 12 at the Waldo PerfectoSeminar Room.

Br. Rolando Dizon, FSC, president of the DLSU System, ledthe awarding ceremonies of faculty members who completed theirresearch projects this school year in the fields of social sciences,arts, business economics, science, engineering, and educationalmanagement.

Of the 86 awardees, 17 are from the College of Business andEconomics (CBE), 16 from the College of Education (CED), 28 fromthe College of Liberal Arts (CLA), 15 from the College ofEngineering (COE), and 10 from the College of Science (COS).This school year, 68 projects were completed in which 51 wereinternally funded, while 17 were URCO-administered, externallyfunded.

For 13 years now, URCO has been spearheading researchactivities that fuel the University’s journey to research excellence. Ithouses the completed research projects that are published eitheras trade books or textbooks for both the Lasallian community andexternal audiences.

New DLSU

administrators

Augustinian writingwinner

Dr. Ismael Maningas of the Religious Studies Departmentrecently won the top prize in the 6th Annual Writing Contest on theLife and Works of St. Augustine for his research titled “The Pre-and Post- Conversion of St. Augustine: A Critical Analysis in theLight of Religious Education.”

Sponsored by Colegio San Agustin Makati, the contestattracted entries from as far as North America and Africa.

Maningas received a certificate and P15,000 in cash. Thesecond prize went to Susan Tan of Carol Stream, Illinois, USA forher work, “St. Augustine: The City of God and the Evolution ofthe Philippine City of Man,” and the third prize, to Friar EdgarTanga Ngowi of Kilimanjaro, Tanzania for “Grace and Free Willin A Contemporary World: An Augustinian View.”

Their works will be published in the next issue of the biannualSearch, a scholarly publication of Colegio San Agustin.

Medina included inASEAN anthology

“Tree,” a short story by Dr. B.S. Medina Jr., retired UniversityFellow and full professor of DLSU-Manila, has been included inan anthology of ASEAN Short Stories, People on the Bridge,published recently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The anthology is a compilation of short stories by 50 eminentwriters from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore,Thailand, and the Philippines. The book also features the stories ofFilipino writers Nick Joaquin, Gregorio Brillantes, AdrianCristobal, Edilberto Tiempo, Bienvenido Santos, Lina EspinaMoore, Carmen Guerrero Nakpil, Alfred Yuson, and Linda Ty-Casper.

Medina continues to write fiction and essays in Tagalog andEnglish, and has won several honors, including the SoutheastAsian Writer (SEAWRITE) Award in 1994, the Palanca Hall ofFame Award in 1995, the Palanca Grand Prize for the novel,Moog, in 1993, and the Philippines’ Centennial Literary Prize forthe novel, Huling Himagsik. “Tree” was taken from his collectionof stories in English, Fifties.

Faculty completes Japanese-backed research

Dr. Florencia Claveria, former College of Science dean andfull professor of Biology, recently returned from a one-yearresearch engagement in Japan.

She pursued research on parasitology with Japanese scientistsat the National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases at theObihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine inHokkaido, Japan.

With her colleagues at the Biology Department, Claveria iscurrently conducting ultrastructural studies on Sarcocystis spp.infection in different livestock species.

Dr. Corinne Grace Burgos of the Mathematics Departmentrecently won the prestigious Jan Tinbergen Award sponsored bythe International Statistical Institute (ISI) for her paper titled“Inference for Non-ignorable Sampling Designs.”

Burgos is the second Filipino to win the award. The awardingof cash prize and a commemorative statue will be held at the 54thISI Session in Berlin, Germany on August 13-20 this year, duringwhich she will also present her paper.

The competition was participated in by young statisticians (31years old and under) from developing countries, or countries withan annual GDP per capita of less than US$4000.

The paper is a result of her dissertation, “Bayesian PredictiveInference for a Finite Population Mean under Selection Bias.” Forthe paper submitted to ISI, she had to simulate hundreds moreexamples to show the long-run accuracy and precision of themethodology she introduced in her graduate research.

Dr. Balgobin Nandram, professor of Statistics from WorcesterPolytechnic Institute (WPI), Massachusetts, and adjunct professorof UP-Los Baños, served as her research adviser.

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National Geographicfeatures biologyprofessor�s research

2002. Her paper, “Animal Movement Analysis: ATool for Biodiversity Conservation,” was aboutusing state-of-the-art GIS program to map outspatial movement, ranging patterns, and habitatuse of the tarsier.

GIS Day, started in 1999, is an annualworldwide event observed every November 14 tocreate greater awareness on GIS technology and

its extensive application and benefits. The 2002 event carried thetheme “Enabling Communities.”

There were only two awards for the Best Paper category.Arboleda bested 17 other GIS experts from various local and foreigncompanies and institutions.

Dr. Irene Neri-Arboleda, assistant professorial lecturer of the BiologyDepartment, was recently featured in the National Geographic Channelfor her work on the Philippine tarsier.

Arboleda’s work was the first extensive radiotelemetry field studyon the ecology and behavior of this nocturnal, insectivorous animal.The field research was a component of her Master’sdegree on Applied Ecology at the University ofAdelaide, South Australia. She cited two prominentprimatologists, Birute Galdikas of Indonesia andJane Goodall of Tanzania, whose pioneering worksin the field served as inspiration.

The film primarily focused on the uniquecharacteristics and behavior of the Philippinetarsier, known scientifically as Tarsius syrichta. Theanimal’s dwindling rainforest habitat is a majorconservation concern. Lito Pizarras, a Boholanowhose lifetime passion for this tiny animal earnedhim the nickname “The Tarsier Man,” was alsoinvolved in the film.

The National Geographic episode on the Philippine tarsier wasfirst shown in November last year.

In related news, Arboleda won Best Paper Presentation-FirstRunner Up during the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Day

Beginning May 16, Br.Andrew Gonzalez, FSC willoversee the academic andresearch programs of all theunits of the DLSU System. Hewill report directly and serve asadviser to the System Presidenton academic matters. He willalso chair the SystemCommittee on Academics andResearch, which will becomposed of the academic vicepresidents of the System units.

College of Education DeanDr. Allan Bernardo fills in Br.Andrew’s position of VicePresident for Academics andResearch for DLSU-Manila.Bernardo also sits as the chairof DLSU-Manila’s GeneralEducation Committee.

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MLA acknowledgesCruz�s contribution

Dr. Isagani Cruz, UniversityFellow and full professor of theDepartamento ng Filipino, made asubstantial contribution to theproduction of the 2001 ModernLanguage Association (MLA)International Bibliography, which isinitially released in electronic format.

Compiled by the ModernLanguage Association of America, the

bibliography is a major reference work in the fields of literature,linguistics, and folklore. MLA staff members and a vast networkof distinguished scholars from all over the world compiled andindexed the articles and journals for the MLA InternationalBibliography.

Executive Director Rosemary Feal expressed gratitude forCruz’s assistance to this endeavor. Feal gave emphasis on Cruz’scontribution that provided an important resource service to bothscholars and the international academic community.

Youngstatisticianwinsinternationalaward

Best poster paper onreforestation

Dr. Minda Follosco-Edmiston of the Biology Department, withco-author Dr. Yolina Castaneto of the Nueva Vizcaya State Instituteof Technology’s College of Forestry, won first prize in the BestPoster Paper Competition during the 11th International Workshopof BIO-REFOR in Seoul, South Korea from October 8 to 12. Thewinning poster paper was titled “Biofertilization ofTectona philippinensis Benth. &Hook. for Upland Rehabilitation.”

She also presented her paperon “Rooting of Stem Cuttings inIntsia Bijuga (Colebr.) Kuntzeof family Caesalpiniaceae”.

The workshop includedtwo days of technicalsessions and three daysof field trip where theparticipants visitedvarious areas of forestrestoration andrehabilitation.

attended the Star Scholars Orientation Programlast February 21, held at the M. GaerlanConservatory.

Philippine Bank of CommunicationsPresident and CEO Isidro Alcantara, Jr (ABEconomics ’74) delivered an inspirational talk.Physics major Tanglaw Roman, one of themembers of the pioneer batch of the StarScholars and a BPI Science awardee, also sharedhis experiences as a scholar.

Participated in by the candidates, theirparents, and school officials, the orientationprovided a glimpse of La Salle’s academiccommunity, as well as its facilities through acampus tour held after the main program.

The Star Scholars Program is the mostcomprehensive scholarship program given by anyuniversity in the country today. Those selectedfor the program have the unique opportunity toearn a master’s degree or go into medicine properafter finishing their undergraduate degree on fullscholarship. An average of 15 students arechosen after a rigorous interview process.

A total of 34 Star Scholars from four batchesattended their first general assembly organized bythe Scholarship and Financial Assistance (SFA)Office. It was the first event to be held since theStar Scholars Program’s inception in 1998. Todate, there are 45 undergraduate and graduateStar Scholars, including those who are taking upmedicine at the DLSU College of Medicine inDasmariñas, Cavite.

The meeting served as a venue to discussimportant issues and concerns, such as theguidelines for Star Scholars who are in graduateschool, their sessions with their respectivementors, the University Fellows, and the newlanguage program available for those who wishto learn foreign languages as an elective, overtheir regular program requirements.

Assistant Vice President for AcademicServices Agnes Yuhico and SFA DirectorSeverina Kikuchi also congratulated the StarScholars who won various awards in the localand international scenes in the past two years.

In related development, 52 top high schoolseniors from various schools in the country

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Industrial engineering (IE) students proved their mettle against tough competition in therecent 15th Inter-University Quiz Contest held at the University of San Carlos (USC), CebuCity.

The IE Team won first place and bested 10 other schools across the country, winning itsfourth title in five years. Joining the team were IE seniors Lynn Lennie Tan, Tonee CharmaineCo, and Raymond Regulacion, and juniors Jocelyn Tan and Star Scholar Wilfrido Kabiling.

Tailing them in runner-up slots were the teams of University of the Philippines-Diliman andMapua Institute of Technology.

The Philippine Institute of Industrial Engineering (PIIE) Student Chapter Committee,headed by Willy Zalatar of the IE Department, organized the contest. IE Department facultymembers Richard Li and Eric Siy served as the team coach and the representative to the Boardof Judges, respectively.

AdCreate Society, theorganization of Advertisingstudents in La Salle, rankedsecond place at the PhilippineAssociation of NationalAdvertisers’ – IntegratedMarketing Communication(PANA-IMC) Awards for itstop-to-toe body and shampoobar called Azul.

AdCreate Society produceda tri-media advertisingcampaign as well as non-traditional advertisements, to

IE students winInter-university Quiz

AdCreate bags PANA-IMC awardmarket the product whichwould cater to the D and Emarket at P10 per bar.

The group is composed ofDianna Aaron, Paul Canlas,Howard Dee, Michelle de laCruz, Joyce Espartinez,Jennifer Go, Kim Mallari, PiaMontemayor, Joel Pedro,Markson Tan, Kandice Ting,Koreena Tulio, LourdesVeracruz, and KarismaVelando. The group broughthome P10,000, medals for each

presenter, and a plaque ofparticipation for the school.

Millete Zamora and DenisGutierrez, faculty members ofthe Marketing ManagementDepartment, served as theiradvisers.

The PANA- IMC Awardsheld on November 22, 2002 atthe Manila Hotel capped thethree-day seminar workshop onmarketing and advertising forstudents and youngprofessionals.

Star Scholars hold first GA

alumni news

Outstanding youngentrepreneur

A Lasallian was honored by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in an awarding ceremony held at the MalacañangPalace. Luis Raymund Villafuerte, Jr. (AB ’90) was namedas one of The Outstanding Young Men for 2002 in the field ofentrepreneurship.

The young Villafuerte was also given the 2002 WorldYoung Business Achiever (WYBA) Award for Excellence inInternational Operations. At 34, he is the president of amulti-million dollar exporting business, Lara’s Gifts andDecors, an information technology (IT)-enabled servicecompany, Digitext Asia Corporation, and a multimedia outfit,the Bicol Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The WYBA Award isan internationally-recognized search for the outstanding first-generation business movers and shakers under the age of40.Villafuerte received in 2001 the Agora Award forOutstanding Achievement in Export Marketing. In the 12years since he started Lara’s Gifts and Decors, he hassustained a whopping 93 percent yearly growth rate. Over thesame period, yearly sales have always been at least doublethat the previous year. From a backyard industry run by acouple plus two helpers, the company has grown to become atwo-hectare operation giving livelihood to more than 500 in-house employees and 2,000 subcontractors in the countryside.

Outstanding FilipinoThe Philippine Jaycee Senate and Insular Life recently

honored Dr. David Consunji (HS ’39) as one of the fouroutstanding professionals who received the 2002 TheOutstanding Filipino (TOFIL) Award. Founder of one of thelargest construction companies in the Philippines, D.M.Consunji, Inc., Consunji was recognized for his achievementsin the construction industry. He was also recognized as the“infrastructure philosopher” and the “grandfather of physicalplanning” for the landmark structures he has built through theyears.

The TOFIL Awards has been in existence for 15 years. Itwas created to recognize the extraordinary contributions ofFilipino men and women in diverse fields towards nation-building.

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Board topnotcher the world overNorman Gabriel (BSA ’99) was recently ranked in the

Top 5 of the Certified Internal Auditors Exam. The exam wasgiven by the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) to more than10,000 examinees the world over. Reflecting competence inthe principles and practices of internal auditing, the IIA’spremier certification, the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA)designation, serves as the only internationally accepteddesignation for internal auditors.

School Year 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02 02-03*

*SY 2002-2003 scholarship grants for summer term not included

SCHOLARSHIPGRANTSFIVE-YEAR RECORD

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Graduate

Total

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3614 4310 4146 4003 3400

6422 7294 7124 7513 7380

New PICPA-USA headRufino Quicho, Jr (Lia-Com ’67) was elected as

president of the Philippine Institute of Certified PublicAccountants (PICPA)-USA. He is the first Lasallianpresident of the San Francisco (SF) Bay Area association ofPICPA-USA.

Quicho was inducted as 2003 president on January 25 ina ceremony held at the Marriot Hotel in Burlingame, SF. Heis also a former director of the De La Salle AlumniAssociation of Northern California in the 1990s.

Agora awardeeFrancisco Enrique Bernardo III (BSIME-ChE ’86),

president and chief executive officer of the JAD Group ofCompanies, was chosen as 2002 Agora awardee forentrepreneurship. His company, which started in 1993 as amanufacturing company that produced plastic cotton budssticks, now boasts of a wide-range of diversified services,from paper and cotton manufacturing to IT services providersand human resources services.

The Agora Awards was founded in 1979 primarily formarketing teachers and practitioners. Adopted in 1997 by theAsia Pacific Marketing Federation, the award has gainedprestige in the business circuits, becoming a benchmark ofexcellence in the fields of marketing management, marketingeducation, entrepreneurship, and export marketing.

Hats off to our alumni achievers!

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The Team A of De La Salle University(DLSU)-Manila unseated defending championAteneo de Manila University (AdMU) in thegrand finals of the 2nd Inquirer IntercollegiateDebating Championship (IIDC), hosted by theUniversity of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman.

Going through the entire tournament withouta single defeat, the champion team beat each ofthe five Ateneo teams they faced en route to thetitle. In the final round, they secured a 6-5decision against AdMU Team E, proposing themotion “This House would deputize civil societygroups in the fight against crime.”

Jan Livia Tiu was chosen as the tournament’sBest Speaker, while Brian Duruin was ranked 7thBest. TL David placed third and, in a separateevent, won as Best Public Speaker of thecompetition.

Other La Salle teams also grabbed wins.

Students of the College ofBusiness and Economics(CBE) won the 4th Inter-Collegiate Finance Contest(ICFC) held on October 4,2002 at the Grand BoulevardHotel, Manila.

The DLSU-Manila teambeat two-time defendingchampion University of thePhilippines, which receivedfirst runner-up honors. Ateneode Manila University settled assecond runner-up andUniversity of Santo Tomas asthird runner-up. A total of 51schools competed in theelimination rounds that wereheld per region in August andSeptember last year.

The La Salle contingentwas composed of team captainJose Juan Diego Carballo,Management of FinancialInstitutions (MFI) major,Robert John Abada, AppliedEconomics and Accountancymajor (AE-BSA), CarloAngelo Licuanan, Economicsand Accountancy major,Cecilia Sicangco (AE-BSA),and Mary Adrienne Zalamea(MFI). The faculty coacheswere Arnel Onesimo Uy, whoteaches Accountancy andFinancial Management, andMark Bautista, who teachesComputational Finance.

The ICFC is an annualevent sponsored by the JuniorFINEX Committee of theFinancial Executives Instituteof the Philippines (FINEX).

FINEX in collaborationwith the Jose B. FernandezCenter for Banking andFinance and the Asian Instituteof Management prepared thequiz questions. The topicsincluded accountancy,banking, financial analysis,economics, statistics, businesslaw, international trade, andcurrent events.

The champions receivedthe ICFC trophy, a cash prizeof Php 30,000, individualmedals, and IT scholarshipsworth Php 22,500 per teammember donated by NIIT ofPLDT.

DLSU-Manila’s official student publication,The LaSallian, pulled a surprise win in therecent Newspaper of the Year on-sitecompetition sponsored by the United States-based Associated Collegiate Press (ACP). Thestudent paper won in the Non-weekly Categoryof the contest. Its winning entry was theDecember 9 issue, with a banner titled “Are wesafe?”

Inquirer IntercollegiateDebating Champions

Team B of DLSU-Manila ranked eighth and wentto the octofinals before bowing out to fellowLasallians JM Junio, Christian Ong, and LuigiMapa, who represented DLSU-College of SaintBenilde (CSB), which ranked ninth. DLSU-CSBthen went on to face DLSU-Manila Team A inthe quarterfinals. DLSU-Manila Team C,represented by Duffie Osental, Stephanie SarahTan, and Miguel Jalandoni, likewise reached theoctofinals, but were stopped by a moreexperienced UP-Diliman team.

The IIDC is one of the two nationaltournaments held in a year. It adopts the AsianParliamentary format—three speakers to a team,points of information allowed. From a teamcount of around 20 last year, participationswelled to 67, with universities from Baguio toMarawi being represented.

Finance teamtopples UP,Ateneo bets

2002 BPI Scienceawardees

Lasallian students Karen Joy Nomorosa, Jose Eduardo Ang,and Nicklaus Erick Sy were recently added to the exclusive list ofrecipients of the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) ScienceAwards.

Of the 18 nominees for the BPI Science Awards 2002, theUniversity Honors and Awards Committee selected the threestudents based on their academic performance and theircontributions to industry and nation-building. Candidates for thesumma cum laude and consistent members of the first honorsDean’s list, the recipients have actively participated in communityservice as well as held major leadership positions in their respectivestudent organizations.

The lone female Lasallian awardee, Nomorosa, a BS inComputer Science Major in Computer Engineering student,received an outstanding academic achievement for computerengineering last year and was cited as the best marketer by studentorganization AIESEC. As a student leader, she served as theexecutive secretary of the Student Council’s executive board. Someof her research works are on network monitoring systems using theremote monitoring standard, networking in the year 2010, personalfirewalls, and web caching.

Consistently a first honor student, Ang, who is taking up BS inMathematics with specialization in Actuarial Science/Statistics, hasconsistently earned the highest grade among the Dean’s Listhonorees since his freshman year. While heading the MathematicsCircle as president, he also served as a Legislative AssemblyRepresentative for the Student Council.

A pioneer Star Scholar, Sy, a BS in Chemical Engineeringstudent, has consistently bagged awards from the quiz bees heldon and off campus. For three years now, he has held majorpositions in the Chemical Engineering Society, including theposition of president. His research projects are “In vitro propagationstudy of Pterocarpus indicus in a fed-batch fermentation system”and “Enhancement of Distillation Principles Using DISTIL 4.1Student Version.”

The BPI Science Awards promotes science and technology inthe country by encouraging promising young scientists andresearchers to pursue higher levels of excellence in their area ofspecialization.

Bayer Philippines choseStephanie Sunshine Sy, a BSApplied Economics and BSAccountancy major, as one of thePhilippine delegates of the BayerYoung Environmental Envoys sentto Germany on November 16-23,2002

The trip provided theparticipants a first-handexperience of the broad spectrumof environmental measuresemployed by the industry andgovernments of highly developedcountries. Sy joined other studentsfrom Thailand, Singapore, andIndia.

Sy was chosen after anintensive nationwide search ofyoung leaders who have shown agenuine concern for theenvironment. Those selectedattended an intensive eco-campprogram in Baguio City inSeptember. The eco-campparticipants underwent acombination of interactiveclassroom activities and eco-toursof environmentally challenged orenvironment-friendly sites. Theprogram gave the participants anoverview of the Philippineenvironment and the currentefforts of various sectors ataddressing the problems.

Bayer�senvironmentalenvoy

The awarding ceremony was held on March9, during the closing keynote of ACP’s 19th

Annual National College NewspaperConvention in Seattle, Washington, DC.Student Publication Office Director KristinePineda and Mauro Cabading III attended theconvention and received the award.

The entries were judged for generalexcellence—a criterion covering the quality ofthe reporting, writing, editing, design,photography, and examples of special projectreporting and editorial page leadership.

American campus presscites The LaSallian

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The Marketing Communication Office(MCO) received two Anvil Awards from thePublic Relations Society of the Philippines(PRSP) for its public relations projectsduring ceremonies held on February 21 atthe Intercontinental Hotel in Makati City.The MCO was given an Anvil Award ofExcellence for the DLSU SystemPresident’s Report, and an Anvil of Meritfor the DLSU-Manila Admissions Video.

The DLSU System President’s Report,titled Voices, is a comprehensive summaryof the achievements and accomplishmentsin the past school year of the DLSU Systemschools. It was cited for its “unselfishrecognition of the various stakeholders inthe school community, giving them the

The ASEAN UniversityNetwork/Southeast AsiaEngineering EducationDevelopment Network (AUN/SEED-Net) has chosen theChemical Engineering (ChE)Department of DLSU-Manilato host graduate students fromother member institutions in itsMasters program. Most of thelikely candidates will be fromthe countries of Cambodia,Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.

With its high percentage offaculty with doctoral degrees,varied areas of research

A research team from theCollege of Business andEconomics (CBE) recentlydeveloped a model fordetermining the cost for degreeprograms at the tertiary level.This was the output of aresearch project titled “AComprehensive Cost Analysisof Degree Programs forSelected Higher EducationalInstitutions (NCR Pilot Study-Phase 1),” which wasadministered by the DLSU-Angelo King Institute forEconomics and BusinessStudies (DLSU-AKIEBS).

The Commission on HigherEducation (CHED) funded thestudy for the CHED ZonalCenter at DLSU-Manila.

The research team iscomposed of CBE Dean Dr.Michael Alba, BusinessManagement Chairperson Dr.Andrea Santiago, andEconomics faculty membersDr. Cesar Rufino, GerardoLargoza, and Mitzie Ponce.

The DLSU-Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (DLSU-AKIEBS) is conductingresearch work on “Agricultural Distribution Services and Trade,” a project between DLSU-Manila and theBureau of Agricultural Research (BAR) of the Department of Agriculture (DA).

Under a Memorandum of Agreement signed by DLSU System President Brother Rolando Dizon, FSCand DA Assistant Secretary Segfredo Serrano, the DA-BAR provides P2.5M funding for Phase One of theproject, targeted for completion by July 2003.

The research program aims to evaluate and analyze the efficiency of the distribution marketmechanism, determine the causes and consequences of market inefficiency, and analyze the exportmarket environment for agriculture, particularly the changes in demand patterns and marketing practicesas well as the regulatory regimes in the export market.

Likewise, the program is created to develop appropriate models that highlight the relationship of thedistribution sector with the agriculture production and processing sectors, and that provides acomprehensive database on prices, distribution services, and agriculture trade.

DLSU-AKIEBS Executive Director Dr. Ponciano Intal Jr., who teaches at the Economics Department,is the project coordinator. Other members of the research team are Dr. Cesar Cororaton, Dr. MyrnaAustria, and Dr. Cesar Rufino of the Economics Department, Dr. Louie Divinagracia of DLSU ProfessionalSchools’ Graduate School of Business, Dr. Ather Sajid of DLSU-AKIEBS, and Raymund Habaradas of theBusiness Management Department.

The BAR commissioned the research program as part of the DA’s efforts to implement Republic Act8435 or the Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA), which intends to raise thecompetitiveness of Philippine agriculture in the world market.

The Lasallian Institute forDevelopment and EducationalResearch (LIDER) of theCollege of Education (CED)will soon release the results of arecent baseline study onmathematics and scienceeducation in the Philippines,supported by a P1.8-millionresearch grant from the JapanInternational CooperationAgency (JICA).

Dr. Allan Bernardo, theCED dean during the course ofthe project, said that the JICAproject was conducted todiscover the knowledge, beliefs,and practices in the teaching ofmathematics and science inpublic schools in three regions,namely Bicol, Cebu, and Panay.

The project involved 20

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specialization, significantpublications to refereedinternational scientific journals,and numerous acquisitions oflaboratory equipment andinstruments for research, theChemical Engineering Programwas deemed by the AUN/SEED-Net Steering Committeeas a strong program.

Last year, in aninternational meeting held atDLSU-Manila, AUN/SEED-Net urged the University toaccept more international

Keeping collegecosts down

Boosting RP�s agriculture

Back to basicscience and math

students, particularly from thementioned neighboringcountries, who want to obtaingraduate degrees in engineering.

At the same time, theorganization promised tofacilitate more study grants forgraduate and postgraduateprograms from Singaporeanand Japanese higher educationinstitutions to COE facultymembers. These academiclinkages will further strengthenthe roster of PhD holders fromthe College.

Anvil for academic PR

Economics professor andDLSU-AKIEBS ExecutiveDirector Dr. Ponciano Intal Jr.served as project leader.

Developing acomprehensive cost analysis ofmajor degree programs offeredby higher educationalinstitutions (HEIs) in thecountry is an important step inaddressing major issuesinvolved in the financing ofhigher education.

As the project providesvaluable insights on howresources are spent and forwhat purposes, it providesstakeholders in higher educationrelevant information needed toanswer questions regarding theuses of funds and to makeappropriate policyrecommendations.

The pilot study paves theway for developing a normativefinancing formula that can beused to determine budgetallocations for state universitiesand colleges. In normative

financing—a budget allocationprocess used by countries suchas Australia and the UnitedKingdom—educationalinstitutions are given a budgetaccording to a formula thatconsiders the cost to educate astudent taking a particulardegree.

In layman’s terms,government will be “buying” aparticular number of studentstaking a particular degree,which is in line withgovernment priorities. Thistransforms the system frombeing input-based to beingoutput-based. Moreover, themodel can be used by all HEIs,whether public or private, inarriving at useful estimates ofstudent costs.

Phase Two of the projectwill cover colleges anduniversities throughout thecountry, and will involve thedifferent CHED Zonal Centers.DLSU-Manila will integrate thenationwide survey.

schools per region, 10 of whichrepresented the elementary leveland the rest, high school. Atotal of 720 mathematics andscience classes were covered atthe elementary level, while 480came from high school. Anestimated 1,200 teachers and18,000 students were surveyedas part of the study.

Bernardo said that JICAhas been extending variousprograms to the Philippinegovernment and for education-related projects, and regularlycommissions private researchcenters like LIDER to assist theDepartment of Education.

The new project is a movetowards the School-BasedTeacher Education Program, orSBTP. Bernardo explained that

in the past, teachers weretrained using the CascadeModel—with new knowledgehaving to pass from thenational to the regional to thedistrict levels before beingbrought to the teachers in theclassroom.

The researchers for theproject conducted classroomobservations and collected thelesson plans of the 1,200teachers, aside fromconducting teacher and studentsurveys. They would giverecommendations on how to

effectively carry out a school-based training.

The main project officersaside from Bernardo were Dr.Auxencia Limjap, director ofDLSU-Manila’s SummerInstitute of Graduate Studies(SIGS), and Dr. MaricarPrudente, chair of the ScienceEducation Department. Threeregional consultants and sevenresearch assistants conductedfieldwork, with 30 fieldassistants supporting them.

Bernardo pointed out thatLIDER’s new task is consistentwith the community service andresearch thrust of theUniversity. Part of the CEDvision-mission is to support thedevelopment of the country’seducation sector, particularly inthe public school sector.

opportunity to share their experiencesand achievement, while at the sametime reminding them to remainfaithful to the mission and vision ofthe university.”

On the other hand, theAdmissions Video, produced by

Creasia Inc. for DLSU-Manila,showcases the best features of theUniversity communicated throughthe eyes and voice of a youngLasallian. It was cited for “guidingthe Filipino youth as they makedifficult choices on their future.”

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