by Reylan C. Delantar

The City Mayor of Tacloban, Hon. Alfred S. Romualdez, visited Leyte Normal University for a forum held at LNU Student Center Mini- Theater on August 14, 2008, emphasizing the re-classification of Tacloban City from a component city to a highly urbanized city.

        Romualdez cited the minimum requirements for a city to pass the qualifying standards to become a highly urbanized city as stipulated in the Local Government Code. A city must have at least Php 50,000,000.00 annual income and a population of 200,000.

Mayor Romualdez said further that as a component city, Tacloban is still dependent  on the province and is under the supervision of the governor, but the transformation of Tacloban to a highly urbanized city would separate the city from the supervision of the province and will be under the supervision of Malacañang instead.

He also discussed some advantages if Tacloban City would become highly urbanized.

“Aside from the business investors who will be entering the city, it will be entitled to have one policeman for every 500 citizens, compared to one policeman for every 1000 citizens if it will remain a component city.”

by Michael P. Laurente

Twenty five students of Leyte Normal University attended the Ayala Young Leaders Congress (AYLC) Leadership Caravan held last July 23, 2008 at the LNU Student Center, Function Hall.

Aimed to produce more number of delegates to the said congress, the AYLC alumni in the region conducted the said activity. This was the first time that a caravan was organized in the tertiary schools in Tacloban City with Level II recognition by the AACCUP.

The AYLC is a yearly search for student leaders from the junior year or penultimate year who possess strong leadership backgrounds and are equally competent in academics.

Though very small in number, the caravan, through Nimrod Delante (LNU-AYLC Batch 2002), Fernando Tanglao (UPVTC-AYLC Batch 2003) and Nimfa Rayanon (LNU-AYLC Batch 2008), was realized in response to the request by the AYLC Secretariat – Manila.

With the theme “Character Building towards Quality Leadership”, the College of Management and Entrepreneurship conducted a leadership training for CME student leaders on August 6, 2008 at LNU AV Studio.

                The event was participated in by the officers of the Hoteliers and Restaurateurs Circle, Tourism Circle, Entrepreneur’s Club and other class officers of HRM/THRM and HAE 1^st year to 3^rd year classes.

                Mr. Guillermo F. Nival Jr., an AB Philosophy graduate and an instructor in the Holy Cross College of Carigara, discussed the first topic “Character Building.” He emphasized the value of a person’s individuality as it contributes to the success or failure of a group.

                An accounting student and the vice-president of UP ROGIAN of the University of the Philippines Visayas Tacloban College, Ms. Cybele Arianne Lee J. Casimpan, shared the importance of transparency in financial statements and the firm implementation of internal control in an organization.