August - October 2018
Volume 3 Issue 1
Groufie. Grade 11 students participate in Campus Tour Groufie Challenge during Orientation Week. Photo by Juvilee Galacgac.
East Campus power failure affects students’ acads Admin sets contingency plans Charles Jeffrey Reyes and Lexi France Angeles DLSU-D East Campus experienced major power outages for almost two weeks starting on Aug. 29 due to the malfunction of the transformer and the vacuum fault interrupter of the electrical substation that powers the University’s East Campus. The power outages prompted the administration to suspend the classes due to the unconducive environment in the classrooms.
Regular classes in all buildings in the East Campus resumed on September 12. Senior High School (SHS) classes held at the Junior High School (JHS) Complex, however, were not affected.
Affected classes During the two-week power outage, most of the SHS classes held in CIH, PCH, and COS buildings were suspended. The following week, the
classes in the COS building were transferred to vacant classrooms in the JHS Complex. “The suspensions due to power Power, see page 2
SHS faces insufficiency of teachers Faculty lacking due to department transfers Enrico Jose Taguinod and Lexi France Angeles DLSU-D Senior High School (SHS) faces an insuffiencent number of teachers to handle all classes at the start of the academic year due to a number of faculty members who were temporarily assigned in SHS returned to their respective college departments.
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After an election with the presidents of Senior High School (SHS) classes, the SHS Student Council (SC) Executive Board for the academic year 2018-2019 was officially announced last Sept. 27.
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last year, the law (stating) that [the] SC officers will come from the roster of (class) presidents.” Lina stated that the SHS cannot use the party list system due to the previous constitution. Future parties must first form their own bylaws and a governing body should also be firmly established beforehand. “Support from the admin is badly needed to push the partisan election, which I think we can have under this new admin,” Lina added. Additionally, Lina also shared her expectations for the new set of SC Executive Board. “First is to build or update (the) constitution and bylaws.
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his thoughts about his responsibility as president. “May halong kaba, gulat, at saya. Kinabahan ako kasi kahit may experience na ako (bilang) student council president noong Junior High, bagong school ‘to (kaya) hindi ko alam kung paano ang kalakaran ng proposals and how to execute it here…(Pero), masaya [ako] kasi nagkaroon ng tiwala (yung) old and new students…sa akin.” he said. Furthermore, Lina elaborated the election process and addressed why the student body was not included in the elections. “The reason why only class presidents have the authority to vote is (because) we just followed the old constitution and bylaws used
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Rommel Tuppal (ABM23) was elected as SC president, while Joshua Paulino (ABM12) was elected as vice president. Paolo Jimeno (ABM11) and Leslie Baltazar (STM24) were elected as the secretary and treasurer respectively. A representative from each strand was also chosen among the Council of the Presidents. These are Miguel Nolito Teodoro (STM21) for STEM, Jileen Marie Tagalog (HMS13) for HUMSS, Narumie Sarmiento (ABM16) for ABM, Kate Ignacio (ICT11) for ICT, and Nathaniel Vergara (TVL12) for TVL. They will be joined by SC Adviser Patricia Lina. After the election, Tuppal expressed
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are substitute teachers that handle and regularly meet these classes while the new teachers finish the recruitment process. On the other hand, STEM had two teachers who transferred from JHS and 11 college faculty members who returned to their college departments. Meanwhile, for TVL, one JHS teacher transferred to SHS, while three left for their mother departments. Due to this, students expressed their disappointment with the University’s lack of preparation for the SHS program. “I think the school should have done a better job in providing substitutes and (ensuring) that the students are up to date with their lessons,” Joshua Pablo (HMS21) stated. Additionally, Pablo stressed that the scarcity of teachers directly affect the students’ learning experience. “I find it alarming because it really hinders a student when it comes to studying for a particular subject,” he added. Meanwhile, there was a lack of teachers who will handle the Filipino Teachers, see page 2
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Tuppal, Paulino, Jimeno, and Baltazar. Photo by James Zagada.
Currently, a gradual transfer of Junior High School (JHS) teachers to the SHS is being done in order to address the issue. However, there is a noticeable difference in the number of JHS teachers who transfered to SHS and the number of college faculty who returned to their departments. Twenty one college faculty returned to their mother departments, while only seven JHS teachers transfered to SHS. According to HUMSS/ABM Track Coordinator Robbie Ann Jesser Eullo, the college professors were only temporarily assigned to teach in SHS. “They are only considered as onloan faculty of SHS for about two years. [Since the agreed two-year term has already passed], they (must) return to their mother departments,” Eullo said. In HUMSS/ABM, four teachers transferred from JHS, while seven college faculty members returned to their mother departments. Additionally, they are currently in the process of hiring two more teachers. Eullo assured, however, that there
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