Foreign Exchange Express Diploma see page 5 Delivery see page 8 AN INSTITUTIONAL PUBLICATION OF DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - MANILA VOLUME 29. NO. 2. MAY 2002 INSIDE Lasallian Partners A Meeting Follow the LIDER 2 Council 4 5of Minds Operation Big Brother adopts 3 public schools As part of the La Salle mission to provide quality education to the less privileged, the Lasallian Institute for Development and Educational Research (LIDER) under the College of Education teamed up with three Manila public schools for Operation Big Brother (OBB). Started in 2001, the seven-year pilot project is undertaken with V. Mapa High School, Arellano High School, and G. Perfecto High School. The program has three beneficiaries: the students, the teachers, and the school. A total of 480 students received a complete set of textbooks and school supplies at the start of the school year. Using curriculum, materials, and learning activities similar to those used in Lasallian high schools, the students are also trained in the following subject areas: Science, Mathematics, English, Filipino, and Social Studies. Aside from getting an enriched curriculum derived from Lasallian high schools, the public schools have also benefited from improved facilities. This school year, each of the three schools received a science lab and multimedia learning resources. At the same time, 60 teachers, or 20 from each school, have been given the opportunity to apply for scholarship for a Master’s degree at DLSU-M. They also receive regular in-service teacher training programs to improve their teaching competencies. Furthermore, they receive peer coaching and peer tutoring training to enable them to become effective trainers of their co-teachers. In a related development, Kraft Foods (Philippines), Inc. (KFP) donated two million pesos (P2M) for the OBB. The turnover ceremony of the donation was held at the KFP Plant in Parañaque last February 5. Attending the event for DLSU-Manila were Dr. Carmelita Quebengco, executive vice president; Brother Andrew Gonzalez, FSC, vice president for academics and research; Dr. Allan Bernardo, College of VISITING LIAN. Boats rest at the shoreline of Sitio Kay Reyna, Barangay Lumanyag--site of DLSU-M’s mangrove reforestation program. Lasallian Education dean; and Dr. Sterling Plata, program coordinator. KFP President volunteers, through the Marine Biological Station and the Center for Social Concern and Action, have joined the fisherfolk in the promotion of and General Manager Ferdinand dela Cruz led the company officials in sustainable management of the coastal ecosystem. welcoming the guests from La Salle. KFP’s support for DLSU-M’s project is part of a wider corporate campaign to take more social responsibility, particularly in the education sector. Cultural lab with Asian partners set up Prior to the donation from KFP, the project had already received over P3M In support of regional in Bangalore, India, to study ageing in other corporate and private donations. (See related story on page 4) 400 special kids join cooperation and development, and development; and Universitas DLSU-M joins other Asian Atma Jaya Yogyakarta in Indonesia, universities in establishing the to focus on childhood and Asiatic Laboratory of Cultural and development. annual Olympics Social Studies for school year 2002- The project involves a bigger The Lasallian community through sports like basketball, 2003. network and collective work welcomed 400 special children to the running, and walking. The The laboratory is being towards effective social mini-Olympics held at the DLSU-M participants were also treated to developed as part of the vision that engagement. Furthermore, the Football Field on January 20. parlor games such as sack race, the university is an institution for academic establishments will be Organized by the Center for Social newspaper dance, obstacle course, citizenship and integration and also placed at the service of the Concern and Action (COSCA) through and other interactive games. FTK 2002 a vector for sustainable co- grassroots communities. the Lasallian Outreach and Volunteer served as a venue for healthy development to build new forms of The participating universities Effort, For the Kids 2002 (FTK 2002) competition and interaction among thinking and acting together. and institutes will set up academic carried the theme, “Si Ate, si Kuya, special children and members of the As the Philippine activities, which include representative, DLSU-M’s professional training and Kasama Ko—Ang Saya!” Volunteers Lasallian community. Digging up Clark. from the faculty, staff, and students What started out as a contribution will be on the issue of community activities such as the were given the opportunity to reach supplementary activity of COSCA and women and their work and production of community projects out to children who have physical, the Physical Education Department in development. and social intervention. DLSU-M studies toxic mental, and developmental 1986, with some 50 children The other universities taking Brother Andrew Gonzalez, disabilities. participating, has grown to become part are: Sogang University in Seoul, FSC, DLSU-M vice president for wastes in Clark, Rockwell The program sought to enhance the biggest socio-event in the Korea, to work on the effects of the academics and research, the physical activities of these children University. 1997 Korean crisis on the society represented the University during Asian countries give support to La Salle research team and the setting up of responses in the meeting of the project directors DLSU-M’s College of Engineering excellent electrical and temperature- terms of training and education; N. last December 10-12 at Assumption (COE) is currently conducting a insulating properties. PCBs do not have Niketan Institute of Social Work and University in Bangkok. The meeting research project on Polychlorinated any distinguishing features and can be Don Bosco Shelter in Mumbai, looked into the significance of the Biphenyls (PCBs), one of the 12 detected only through laboratory India, to look into the plight of project on the global and local persistent organic pollutants banned analyses. Although their manufacture streetchildren and their levels. worldwide, in some of the country’s and distribution was curtailed in the development; Bangalore University reported environmental hotspots. late ’70s, PCBs remain a major Recently chosen by the Asian component of many industrial SDRC to improve NSO poverty tracking Regional Research Program on materials today. Environmental Technology (ARRPET) Funded by the Swedish The Social Development combining the results of NSO’s two as the National Research Institute on International Development Research Center (SDRC) of DLSU-M national surveys, namely the Family Industrial and Hazardous Wastes, COE Cooperation Agency (SIDA), DLSU-M recently signed a Memorandum of Income and Expenditures Survey has started its research in areas like and the Asian Institute of Technology- Agreement (MOA) with the National (FIES) and Annual Poverty Indicator the former US military base in Clark Thailand started the ARRPET project Statistics Office (NSO) to help improve Survey (APIS), the joint project will be and the former power plant facility in following a memorandum of the methodology of tracking poverty able to determine the poverty and Rockwell, Makati to assess the present agreement on 25 October 2001. in the Philippines. welfare status of Filipinos from 1997 management of PCBs in these places Dr. Susan Gallardo of the COE Titled “Mapping and Tracking to 2000. and to develop an appropriate Research, Training, and Consultancy Poverty through the Use of Non- The FIES estimates the poverty technology for the effective treatment heads the research institute. Her Income Poverty and Welfare incidence in the country, while the and disposal of this pollutant. research associates are Dr. Julius Measures,” the MOA primarily aims APIS attempts to assess the poverty PCBs are mixtures of synthetic Maridable, Dr. Leonila Abella, and Dr. to construct non-income based situation of the Filipinos using 23 organic chemicals that have been Joseph Auresenia, all faculty members BEATING THE ODDS. Olympic participants aim for poverty and welfare measures to be widely used since 1930 in many see DLSU-M studies, page 4 gold as their friends from La Salle cheer on. used in monitoring poverty. By see SDRC to improve, page 4 industrial applications because of their THE FUTURE BEGINS HERE. THE FUTURE BEGINS HERE. WWW.DLSU.EDU.PHWWW.DLSU.EDU.PH 2 MAY 2002 EDITORIAL ABUT-TANAW: Partnerships Volume 29. No. 2. May 2002 Editor: Ruby Añonuevo Writers: Reby Gaw (AB ’93), Marjorie Ann Duterte (AB ’97), Naomi Lontoc Tupas, Tisha Timbang (AB ’93) About The Logo Graphic Artists: Peter Varona, Sergio Bumatay III @...yesterday, it was just an “a” with a flourish, a shortcut Consultant: Jose Mari Magpayo (AB ’81) for lazy writers, and worst, just another obscure and Director: Susan Claire Agbayani unnoticeable key on the typewriter. Today, it symbolizes the Secretary: Virginia Umacob-Gases link between people and places where they live and work. Student Assistants: Donna May Barrameda, Michelle Mauricio Take a look at your e-mail address. It’s right in the middle Distribution: Andy Riberta of your identity and at that spot on the world wide web (www). Abut-Tanaw is published by the Marketing Communication Office of De La Salle University-Manila for the school’s alumni and friends. Abut-Tanaw (at) adopts @ as its official logo. Think of it as a signpost to remind you of the place where you came from Abut-Tanaw: 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila, Philippines and the place you will always want to come back to. Tel: 526-5913, 524-4611 Locals 144 & 246. Fax: (632) 526-5913 http://www.dlsu.edu.ph Our Shared Mission on human and Christian education By Brother Rolando Dizon, FSC President, De La Salle University System The future is full of opportunities for the realization catalyze the process, we hasten the realization of our vision of the Lasallian Shared Mission. and consequently the Shared Mission.