Spearheaded and hosted by

the National Board of Direc-

tors and Philippine Institute

Of Civil Engineers (PICE) -

Cebu Chapter, the 36th Na-

tional Convention entitled,

“PICE: Engineering for a

Better Philippines” was held

at the Cebu International Con-

vention Center last November

25-27, 2010.

The convention aims to:

(1) encourage young engi-

neers to try harder to build a

better future for the country;

(2) enhance leadership; (3)

address present engineering

problems in the Philippines;

(4) prepare the students on the

board exams; and most im-

portantly to (5) develop cama-

raderie and rapport to their

fellow PICE members.

Five students from CLSU

-PICE participated in the said

event, namely: Roma Angelie

Figueroa, Nareste Faith

Franada, Bienvenido Magtuto

Jr., Lea Angela Mayo and

Rommel Novesteras.

Continue to page 8.

1000 Coloring Books and Crayons Gift Giving Leslie Joy A. Vizcarra

CEBU CONVENTION: “PICE Strives for a Futuristic Cause” Roma Angelie D. Figueroa

The Philippine Institute

of Civil Engineers - Student

Chapter (PICE-SC) have

given 1000 coloring books

and crayons to kindergar-

tens and elementary stu-

dents in selected schools of

San Jose City and Science

City of Muñoz Nueva Ecija

for the month of January

2011.

The activity with a theme

“Let’s express ourselves: We

draw, you color it”, aimed to

share the artistic skills of the

members, similarly, small

children will convey them-

selves through coloring.

It was one of the members

who have thought, that since

most of the activities con-

ducted are art related, it

would have been nice if col-

oring books are especially

hand drawn by the PICE-SC

members to small children

and will be better if crayons

are included.

The coloring book was

made by PICE-SC members

from sketching the pictures

(animals corresponding to the

letters in the alphabet) to

printing and binding out all

1000 copies, while crayons

were collected from donations

given by the members,

alumni, political individuals,

owners of establishments, and

other concerned people early

last December 2011.

The activity was planned

to be given for Christmas but

due to lack of fund for meet-

ing the 1000 quota and to

long printing process, the

coloring books and crayons

are scheduled to be given on

the month of January as a new

year’s gift.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

DOST Scholarship Grant to Shift

Engineering Course to BS Mete-

orology (2)

Fees obligations taken for

granted (3)

“Uncomfort Room at CEn (4)

The man behind Back drafts (5)

Overlapping activities (6)

Picean Lantern Grab the Awards

for Student Organizational Lan-

tern Category (7)

PICE-SC’s Newly Set of Officers

(7)

PICE CLSU on its 14th anniver-

sary (7)

Bridge Building Competition has

been revived (8)

PICE Conducts Feeding Pro-

gram (8)

Back to Back Seminar Before

Moratorium (9)

The Picean Lantern (10)

The gift giving was sched-

uled in five days, January 11,

14, 25, 26, and 30, on five and

eight day care centers and ele-

mentary schools of Science

City of Muñoz and San Jose

City respectively.

“We are very thankful that

you have chosen our school to

give such wonderful gifts, hope

you’ll be back,” said Habitat

Elementary Master Teacher

Andrea M. Mamaed.

Continue to page 9.

Kindergartens and teacher from Maligaya Day Care Center

pose for a picture with PICE-SC members

NOV. 2010-FEB.2011

DOST Scholarship Grant to Shift

Engineering Course to BS Meteorology

Job security and job bene-

fits, these are the reason why

an individual goes abroad and

neglects his own country.

The scenario is true and

this idealism is well escalated

to the Philippines today par-

ticularly to the needy and

even to the upper class. It is

also the reason why the gov-

ernment through the Depart-

ment of Science

and Technology

(DOST) and State

Universities and

Colleges (SUC’s) offers of

Bachelor of Science in Mete-

orology to students of BSCE

and BSAE.

To shift to a new course is

a great risk and wastage of

time and money as it exposes

you to new environments.

People and facilities and eve-

rything new requires adapta-

tion (mentally, emotionally

and socially) and adjustments.

DOST, on BS Meteorology,

removes the word “great”

from the risk and wastage of

time and money because they

will be offering scholarships

for students who are qualified

and for those who will pass the

scholarship exam.

For needy stu-

dents, scholarships

are good and so is

the assurance (total) of his or

her future occupation. It’s like

having an apple when all you

wanted is an arathilis. It is not

giving up to your previous

course or being a quitter but

just a way of being practical.

Shifting students to other

courses have a negative image

to our society because of

some personal reasons of not

liking or finding such difficult

courses.

But what if the students

don’t like this idea of shifting

course, find it difficult and

actually fail on it? Why it is

not offered to everyone? Why

does BSCE and BSAEn stu-

dents are qualified for it?

Why PAG-ASA does have a

slowly diminishing number of

employees? It is because of

the benefits working abroad.

Is there a chance that those

students would not end up the

same way?

Courses having basic sub-

jects would not be a problem

to students even though it has

different applications. It may

not be offered to everyone for

three reasons: (1) It is not the

best student they want but the

best student with a needy life;

(2) They do not want too

many graduates of BS Mete-

Editorial

The Picean

orology because they don’t

want it to go obsolete like

nursing; and (3) job opportu-

nities recedes the number of

graduates.

The reason why engineer-

ing students qualifies in it is

because they do not just

know the basic theories of

mathematics and physics.

They can also apply it to eve-

ryday life.

The issue of PAG-ASA

against diminishing employ-

ees calls for the reason of

greater benefits attainable

abroad and definitely bigger

salary that assures his/her

family’s future. The Philip-

pines has been endowed with

colonial mentality and the

chance of passing it to the

new generation is high. And

for that reason, everything

may repeat itself over and

over again.

R.DC.N.

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The PICEAN

PICE CLSU SC CLSU Science City of Muñoz, N.E.

Editor in Chief: Leslie Joy A. Vizcarra

Associate Editor: Rodel DC. Natividad

Managing Editor: Pennylane S. Manalo

Section Editors: Whilly G. Corpuz

Sarah Jane L. Ortiz

Aaron B.

Staffs: Aiviji D.R. Baluyo

Raymond Jay Bergonio

Christian R. Costales

Victor Carlos F. Dela Cruz

Roma Angelie D. Figueroa

Kenneth E. Francisco

Roma Jane G. Garcia

Remus O. Luzadas

Charisse Joy P. Urbano

Lay-out Artist: Emmanuel R. Cochingco

Graphic Artist: Jonathan O. Felipe

Cartoonist: Cristian L. Garcia

Advisers: Engr. Jose A. Matutino

Engr. Ritchie C. Malasan

Engr. John C. Udarbe

President: Cristian L. Garcia

Second Sem A.Y. 2010-2011

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F e e s O b l i g a t i o n

Ta k e n f o r G r a n t e d By Leslie Joy A. Vizcarra

Being part of an organization lies an ob-

ligation to participate in the different activi-

ties conducted by an organization. Even

though it’s a minor or a major activity, it

always requires fees and mostly these fees

came from the contributions of the mem-

bers.

Before entering the organization, every

member was informed about the advantages

and disadvantages of being a member. And

most of all who joined have a motive for the

advantages, not bothered with the disadvan-

tages.

Paying contribution for the activity, I

think is a disadvantage for a student organi-

zation member since you have to share

some of your allowance or savings

just for the organization to conduct its activ-

ity. However, this disadvantage of paying

fees is worsening from those who don’t

mind their obligation on paying their fees.

They enjoy the name of the organization yet

they don’t mind paying the fees required for

the organization to keep on progressing.

A member will not pay his/her contribu-

tion; later on another member will not pay

his/her contribution and for some time many

will not pay their contributions. With this

thinking, the loyalty with the organization is

tainted since there is no willingness left to

be part of the progress in an organization.

Because of accumulated debt, the organi-

zation has to limit the activities they have to

conduct. Then who must be blame?

For some reason the one who is blamed

is the officer in charge of collecting fees.

They have blamed him/her for not continu-

ing on asking for their payment. The mem-

bers who do not pay are just looking for

someone to blame. Why not blame them?

A member may face financial problem

and can have this as an excuse. They can

pay their contribution in later time but they

must keep in mind that they must pay it

once they have their money.

Now, the PICE-CLSU is in its

14th year of continuous serving and

maintaining the good and respected

name of the organization and being

one of the luckiest to join conven-

tions make it admired by most of

the civil engineering students.

There are many services and rules

that they have to follow before they

have to be a certified PICE member.

And all of these are already experi-

enced by the 16th batch of applicants

where as is the PAPA – batch. They

began their service since July 15

2010 and they must comply with the

assignments and tasks members

asked them to do.

They need not to know only the

members but as well as their co –

applicants, too. Wearing their PICE

identification card and for boys they

must tacked their shirt in since it is a

way on how the members will recog-

nize them.

For some activities, applicants had

their own designated works helping

and assisting the members. Every

applicant must experience to eat in a

“boodle fight” and to dress up differ-

ently (insects, businessmen, engi-

neers, and portraying fictional char-

acters) which is named as “Hell

Week”. They have one week of early

morning meetings and one last week

of hard work to show how much they

are dedicated to be a PICE member

and to the organization itself.

Through hardships and services,

some of them make it up to the

screening but some of them do not.

Some quits, while some remains. It

has become part of the tradition that

every applicant should be screened

before they have to be initiated in

order to be a member.

N a k e d T r u t h By Sarah Jane Ortiz

What will happen if proper information,

a key to success, is not practiced? What is

the need for a business correspondence and

office communication seminar if it is not

practiced? Will it hinder success? Will it

make a difference? Will it make partitions

in a supposedly rigid structure?

Undeniably we never get drained of

rumors, complains and justifications every

time we got an encounter to an informa-

tion. We are vigilant and we shed hunger

for truths. We even go to this school for

this purpose to gain knowledge based on

collaborative information.

The problem starts when this informa-

tion are disorganized or not delivered

through a medium where it can be fully

utilized. There will be a disorder and worst

is failure. Failure for a just and humane

society where people should be fed by

what they are hungry for.

How to see the truth in information?

Proper information can be disrupted

through illogical distributions, incorrect

medium or media, insertion of personal

opinions and critiques, incapacity of a per-

son to fully utilized and distributes infor-

mation.

Proper information provides or intro-

duces a “thing to know” to a person which

will benefit oneself or others in extension.

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What is your stand? What must be done

to those who are continuously not paying

their organizational fees?

B e i n g a P i c e

A p p l i c a n t By Aiviji Baluyo

The Philippine Institute of Civil En-

gineers of Central Luzon State University

Student Chapter (PICE SC- CLSU) being

established and founded in the year 1996

has its yearly membership hiring and tradi-

tion. What are these traditions and how do

the applicants be able to overcome with it?

For comments and suggestions for

the opinions please text us your

feedback:

Name/course/year/message to

09165169709 or 09055091490

or email: naeciples09@yahoo.com

A sPice in College Life

By Aaron B.

Friends my name is Aaron, a stu-

dent member of the Philippine Institute

of Civil Engineers at Central Luzon

State University. I am proud to be part

of CLSU, one of the country’s best In-

stitutions.

Many people say college is the hard-

est stage of student life. It is because

many of the college students start to

live alone. Far from what we actually

experienced while we are in elementary

and high school.

College shows us to live life on our

own way. To choose what we want to

be for our future. Being far from our

parents is hard. It feels like you are start

learning to stand at your feet.

CLSU is recognizing different kinds

of student organizations and each or-

ganization are aiming to help the CLSU

community in achieving its goal. Peo-

ple behind the success of CLSU’s most

prestigious events are with the help of

student organization. Joining a student

organization is a great risk: (1) parents

approval; (2) conflict with study; (3)

time management; and (4) ability to be

active in the organization’s activities.

And I had to experience all that.

A lot of things change in my life

when I join PICE-SC, one of the coun-

try’s best student organizations. It

teaches me on how to motivate myself,

to learn and to create something that

gives me purpose and meaning to oth-

ers. So many people walk around with

meaningless or say doesn’t have spice

in their life. Others seem half asleep

even doing things they think are impor-

tant while others don’t mind at all.

Being in a student organization, I

noticed that some complain about doing

many things however they don’t notice

the good things it will provide.

We grumble about having too much

work while others don’t have to. We

complain waking up early in the

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“Uncomfort”

Room at CEn By Charisse Joy P. Urbano

Two years have passed since I enter

the College of Engineering and I never

seen the comfort room in the college

without spider’s web, trashcan full of

waste, and continuously dripping water.

Even students of this college go to

other college just to use comfort rooms.

The comfort room which must be one

of the most cleanest and convenient part

of the college turned out to be the oppo-

site. The foul smell in the men and

women C.R. spread outside the college

lobby.

Then with this comfort room as nui-

sance in the college, who must be

blame?

Most of the students blame the jani-

tors who neglect their duties especially

on cleaning the CR. I noticed that they

indeed clean the CR after class before

5pm but they did not monitor the needed

supplies in the CR for maintaining the

cleanliness. Sometimes, they don’t mind

cleaning the CR at its fullest when I saw

a sanitary napkin in the cubicle for a

week. The mirrors is not clear at all and

always blurry.

Next, the students, the blame can’t be

morning conducting such activities while

others have no reason to be early and

just care to study.

But I think it’s the twist of being with

an organization, you are now a family. A

family can argue, complain and fight

with problems yet later on there will be

answers with each help.

The PICE-SC gives me a lot of op-

portunity to learn something new to

manage myself to experience different

kinds of activities and to enjoy my col-

lege life. Joining a student organization

teach me on how to devote myself to

loved others, myself and the community.

In your opinion, would it be interest-

ing to have a spice in college life?

always on the janitors since the students

must take good care and use of the college

comfort room. It is student’s duty to put

their waste on proper trash bins as well as

drain of the cubicle after use. Students must

be aware of keeping the CR clean.

Also, the staffs who are responsible in

renovating the college CR must take neces-

sary action. Until now, I don’t know who’s

in the position to make such action, isn’t the

college student council? Or the college staff

itself. But the problem with the CR can’t

resolve quickly. Water lines in the sink and

cubicle are not normal and the tiles are de-

stroyed already.

When will be the “uncomfort” room be-

came a true comfort room? Who must take

action? Whose fault is this? Now, you an-

swer?

“PABATI” SECTION

“gsto qng greet ung mga tropa q,,sa tambay ba-

hay ni cathy, ung mga KAPUSOyan q, ung mga

bordm8ts q at lhat ng klasmeyt q xa philo,hahaha”

- Danyel (BSCE4)

Sa aking BF. Tsaka pla lhat ng ksama sa aming

association sa flirting.. ung teachers dun.. tsaka

estudyante.. ahahapati mga alumni ..

- Janine Biendima (BSCE3-1)

Happy GIFTS day! Hi din kay Eugene.

Sa lahat ng BSCE3-1 keep it up. If we hold on

together… Leyzlie (BSCE3)

Hi to Mika Payumo (BSCE2) and Zez Soriano

(CFY) at kina christian agustin, jonatan ricoperto,

tuzon, aldrin,guya,galapon,ariel, sanepa, rodiel,

kenny, diana, rona, maryrose

- Billy Bugayong (BSCE3-2)

CE department accreditation. Fighting!! =)

" binabati ko ang aking sarili ng belated happy

bday(feb3), pati sa mga tropang "tukmolz explicit"

at "wapakz", sa mga juliet at kilo batch at sa mga

bagong halal, gudlak..."

-Daniel Sarmeinto (PICE Alumnus)

hi s mga past and present boardm8s ko..sa mapa-

logs at s lht ng sib..at s BSCE4-2

-Anna Marie Reyes BSCE4-2

BSCE2 gogogo… galingan ninyo sa drawing

Mga kumare binabati ko kayo.. Airens, hello din.

Kilala niyo kung sino kayo..

Chukahamnida PICEAN!! =)

“CE is not EC. If it is EC, then it is not CE.”

The Man behind Back Drafts Pennylane Manalo

PICE is known as “back draft master” since he came. Defi-

nitely, he’s all responsible for the design layouts. I don’t know

how he acquired such great talent but we’re proud and grateful

to have him as our PRESIDENT.

For the first

months of being a

member of this

o r g a n i z a t i o n ,

mostly of the ac-

tivities are back

drafts on different

shows, contests,

pageant, and even

seminars. All we’re

doing is to sketch

on Styrofore, to cut

Styrofore, to paint

Styrofore, and to

add designs to Sty-

rofore. We admit

that this kind of

activity will not

give us the title of “BEST STUDENT ORGANIZATION” but

then, I realized that this is where we are great.

When I’m still an applicant, it’s our task to know all the

members of the organization, not just knowing but memorizing

their names. That time, he’s an inactive member because he

needed to work so it’s quite hard for me to remember whose

Cristian Lucquias Garcia was. I just notice him because of his

curly hair

I don’t even think that he will be this responsible as a leader of

an organization and I don’t even think that he will be our presi-

dent. I asked him why he accepts

the position, “I just want to try,

I’ve never been a leader or head

of anything” he said.

He did his best to improve the

organization, especially in devel-

oping the unity of each member.

He managed to handle the mem-

bers, we follow his instructions

and he always guides us with eve-

rything we do. He improved the

documentation and completion of

activities on his term with the

help of Sib Leslie and Sib Victor.

He’s an effective president.

We had a lot of activities, we even

won the best SO lantern in all

categories last Lantern Festival. We also had community ser-

vices, feeding programs, coloring books and crayons gift giving

program in different elementary schools, bridge building compe-

tition and many more. Now, we can say that we’re not just the

best in back drafts but also in different aspects of activities

mainly concern in helping other people in the best way that we

can.

Papa Batch as a Student Picean Ramond Jay Bergonio

First week of July 2010 when 60 applicants with the batch

name of PAPA have shown interest in joining the Philippine

Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE-SC CLSU), a recognized

organization in the College of Engineering and last September

2010, after all the dedications, courage and services , 18 de-

serving civil engineering students came part of the organiza-

tion.

This batch is now experiencing the benefits of being a mem-

ber of PICE-SC CLSU. They experienced to enjoy and to learn

through activities. Being able to call the other members “sibs”

like they were siblings set their attachment stronger. They were

able to maximize their skills and talents in art related activities

and they were given help as much as sibs can.

This batch learned how to socialize in other organizations as

part of the participant organization in Triangular and Quadran-

gular Match with JBEES and Kappa Phi Mu respectively; as co

facilitators in the Fun Run with the Library staffs; as back

draft makers and stage preparation organizers in different events

in CLSU and many more. Through the development of socializa-

tion of this newly members it made them closer to the members

of the other organizations.

Second semester is near to finish, soon PAPA will no longer

be the youngest batch and they may face new experiences. PAPA

batch as a whole were happy and satisfied for being a part of the

organization. They wish and expect to have more activities that

they will enjoy and participate to be more productive. They also

said that they will make the activities better and successful for

them to experience the best college based organization in CLSU.

PICE-SC President -Cristian L. Garcia

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For those who are interested to be a Picean student

in CLSU. You can apply next semester , June 2011.

Open to all 2nd year and above CE students. Feel

free to ask some questions in our office at the col-

lege of Engineering. See you there future sibs.

This man really thinks on having a job as soon as he graduate to pay

the debt of his family. He said that he will not take the board exam yet

but to find any job as much as possible and preferably overseas. He

will do everything to make his family well off and I think this man will

be successful for he got amazing skills. Job will find him.

Overlapping activities Leslie Joy A. Vizcarra

The month of February in CLSU is

packed up with events and activities.

Since moratorium is near, every or-

ganizations or groups have to beat the

deadlines to fulfill all the required

number of activities just to be recog-

nized or maybe they just believe in a

saying ”Save the best for last,” as they

are competing for the best organiza-

tion. So where was PICE at that time?

With the weapons being prepared-

brush, cutter, and pencils, the Philip-

pine Institute of Civil Engineers mem-

bers seems like in a battle of beating

the deadlines. Members are rushing in

front of PICE office doing the cutting,

lay-outing,

putting glit-

ters and

painting with

some speed.

All of these

works are

done in a

large scale

since the

venue or

stage for

most of the

activities or

events are

full-sized.

This kind

of work is

not new for

PICE-SC and it seems like the mem-

bers are already used to it. The skill of

the president, who is the real talented

one with this kind of stuff, is already

acquired by the members. Members

were able to do the “fading effect” in

which the colors of the cut-out letters

are painted from dark at the bottom till

fade in the end. Glitters are done the

same.

For some time, the members will

be seen holding a saw, a hammer, a

shovel or any tool use for digging.

Setting up a stage or arcs for starting

and finish line of a marathon are al-

ready part of PICE-SC activities. The

skill of a civil engineer to be is taken

advantage of by other organizations

or groups.

With the activities and events

popping up in February, these kinds

of works are simultaneously done by

PICE along with the activities they

want to fulfill aside from back drafts

or stage preparations. For PICE to

keep on progressing as a student or-

ganization, they must accept the re-

quests given by other organizations or

groups to earn funds for other PICE

activities.

The members must be divided to

accomplish activities since there are

some times when the schedules for

events are overlapping.

Some members may be seen in Mali-

gaya Elementary School feeding se-

lected malnourished grade 1 students, a

few may be seen in a supermarket in

San Jose City looking for the materials

needed for the back drafts (styrofores,

paints, and glitters), others is with

Aiviji, who is the PICE representative

for CLSU Most Beautiful Face looking

for the dress and clothes to wear on the

main event , some are in the stage (most

commonly in the CLSU Auditorium)

putting up

the cloth to

have a nice

background

of the stage,

and the rest

are in front

of the office

making use

of the excess

materials

doing cut-

outs for the

back drafts.

Would you

believe these

were done in

one day! Not

only once but

many times with different activities in

the month of February.

Many completions are to be passed

in the Office of Student Affairs but al-

most all looks the same- back drafts and

stage preparations. To prove that PICE

could conduct quality activities, the

members must face the overlapping

schedules for the activities.

“For PICE to keep on progressing

as a student organization, they

must accept the requests given by

other organizations or groups to

earn funds for other PICE

activities.”

ACTIVITIES AS REQUESTED: A request for back draft (left) and a request to build the arc for start

and finish line for fun run (right).

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The Picean lantern won all

the titles namely: Most Radi-

ant, Most Symbolic, Most

Creative and Best Lantern

for Student Organizational

Lantern Category in the Lan-

tern Festival held last Decem-

ber 17, 2010 at the University

Grandstand Central Luzon

State University.

The festival is comprised

with different events such as

float parade, façade, street

dancing, lantern making, bat-

tle of the comedian, dance

craze, singing contest, and

Mr. and Ms. Lantern focused

on the theme: “One Beat,

PICE on its 14TH

ANNIVERSARY By Roma Jane G. Garcia

PICE together with its

alumni members celebrated

its 14th anniversary last Feb-

ruary 5, 2011 at Bluewaters

resort located at Science City

of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija.

PICE as a well known

college based organization in

CLSU gave out a full blast of

activities for this month long

celebration of its anniversary.

This year’s PICE presi-

dent, Cristian L. Garcia

headed this event together

with the rest of the officer of

the organization.

All of the members have

their shares to make the cele-

bration memorable.

The PAPA batch was the

one who prepared the foods

for the occasion and the

OSCAR batch was charged

for the hall and preparation of

the place. The rest was taken

care of the other batches.

The foods that were pre-

pared by the PAPA batch are

chopsuey, chicken and

menudo for lunch, gelatin for

dessert and some liquors to

spice up the moment of cele-

bration.

The whole day was spent

in swimming, singing , and

playing games such as long-

est line, finding the pin and

bubblegum star.

Members said that they

have enjoyed that day and

somewhat made it memorable

for each of the members that

PICE has really gone thru a

long time.

P I C E - S C ’ s N e w l y S e t o f O f f i c e r s Christian R. Costales

The Philippine Institute

of Civil Engineers-Student

Chapter (PICE-SC had

elected their newly set of

officers last February 18,

2011, 6:30 in the evening at

room 405 College of Engi-

One Heart, One Celebration

Moving in Harmony this

Christmas Season.”

PICE-SC, TAU (Tau Alpha

Upsilon), APE (Alpha Phi Epsi-

lon), GE (Gamma Epsilon),

JODERA and Rodeo Club are

the participants in the student

organizational lantern category.

All the lanterns are made of

indigenous non-plastic materi-

als and are judged on its ap-

pearance, description and on

how it is constructed.

PICE-SC members said that

they have to work overnight for

the lantern to beat the submis-

sion and judgment day which

was a day before the lantern

festival.

The participants made a de-

scriptive essay about the lantern

as a requirement for judging

last December 16, 2010. The members took for a picture for winning the best lantern

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Picean Lantern Grab the Awards for Student O r g a n i z a t i o n a l L a n t e r n C a t e g o r y

Whilly G. Corpuz

neering, CLSU.

The said program was

started with an opening prayer

led by Neil Aldrin Villesco,

former PICE-SC Vice Presi-

dent External followed by the

remarks given by one of PICE-

SC advisers, Engineer Ritchie

C. Malasan. “Elect those who ,

you think would be the right

one to every particular posi-

tion,” he said.

The former PICE-SC presi-

dent, Cristian Garcia opened

the election for presidency by

letting the members cast their

votes in a piece of paper which

led Anna Marie Reyes, Sarah

Jane Ortiz, Kenneth Francisco,

and Daniel Perez as nominated

candidates for presidency.

Anna Marie Reyes domi-

nated the other candidates gar-

nering 23 votes from 41 possi-

ble votes by the members.

Continue to page 9 The new set of officers for PICE-SC CLSU SY 2011-2012

PICE Conducts

Feeding Program Whilly G. Corpuz

The PICE-SC facilitated

a nine-day feeding program

to selected grade I students

at Maligaya Elementary

School from February 14-18

and 21-24, 2011.

PICE, through this activ-

ity showed their support to

the DOH with their bout

against malnutrition.

They chose 24 of the

lightest pupils among grade

I, and monitored their con-

dition from the 1st day up to

the 9th day.

Everyday, the school can-

teen prepared meals for the

students with one boiled egg

to sustain each child with

right amount of nutrients

they need.

On the last day, the pu-

pils will be checked if there

is an improvement on their

body mass index.

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Bridge Building Competition has been revived Remus O. Luzadas

The bridge with the highest

strength to weigh would be

t h e w i n n e r .

The awarding of the winners

will be held on February 24,

2011 at Water Resources and

Management Center in

CLSU.

The winners of the 2nd

Bridge Building Competition

using uncooked pasta are:

Lennielyn Ariane Sinchioco,

Ervin Jake Cristobal,and Ha-

zel Jade Ordanel who gar-

nered the first place, Aldrin

De Leon, Kenny Peria, and

Christian Pimental for the

second place and Criseldo

Calderon, Lyndon Corpuz,

and Dahn Mark Credo for the

third place.

For the barbecue stick

category, the winners are:

Isael Arquero, Angel Flores,

Aurelio Corpuz , Jomel Gon-

zales, and Alvin Tangonan

having a bridge that carries a

ratio of 346.62 for the first

After three years, the Phil-

ippine Institute of Civil Engi-

neers revived its long-awaited

activity - the 2nd Bridge

Building Competition last

February 17-21, 2011 held at

the College of Engineering

Central Luzon State Univer-

sity.

The competition was di-

vided into two categories:

using uncooked pasta for

bridge design contest and

using barbecue sticks for

bridge building designed for

strength.

The first category which

used uncooked pasta was

joined by four groups consist-

ing of three members and

each have one week to make a

bridge made up of uncooked

pasta in their homes.

The bridges were submit-

ted on February 17 and dis-

played at the lobby of College

of Engineering on the 18th and

21st for the students to vote

their desired bridge. The

bridges were judged accord-

ing to the following criteria:

durability, creativity, com-

pactness, presentation, and

people’s choice.

The second category was

held in the afternoon of Feb-

ruary 21, 2011 at room 405 of

College of Engineering which

used barbecue sticks to build

bridges that will be judged

according to strength by car-

rying the provided weights by

the PICE-SC.

Seven groups took part in

the 2nd category consisting of

five members each. Barbecue

sticks, cutter and a roll of yarn

were provided and each group

was given three hours to make

the bridge they planned.

place followed by second place

winners with a bridge that carries

a ratio of 189.83 by Jhumer Bal-

doz, Gilbeys Cabral, Roel Dela

Peña, Kelvin Del Rosario, and

Ritz Cesar Valdez for and the

third place winners with a

bridge that carries a ratio of

173.51 by Ervin Jake Cristobal,

Melvin De Vera, Rodel Nativi-

dad, Lenielyn Ariane Sinchioco,

and Cris Anne Viernes.

The first place winners in the

barbecue stick category does not

expect to win and statement

quoted, “Hindi namin inaasahan

na ganun ang kalalabasan ng

ginawa naming bridge dahil wala

kaming plano sa umpisa pero

bigla nalang nagkaroon ng ideya

habang ginagawa namin.”

First place winners receive

P1,500 for 1st place, P800 for

the 2nd placers and P500 for the

third placers. All the contestants

received certificates for partici-

pating in the said activity.

The WINNING BRIDGES: The upper part are the bridges made up

with barbecue stick which are judged to strength and on lower

part are the bridges made up with uncooked pasta judged accord-

ing to appearance.

Cebu Convention…

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The 3-day National Con-

vention consisted of several

activities including the 13th

National Civil Engineering

Student’s Conference which

tackled about leadership,

entrepreneurship, and pre-

sent engineering profession

and also, the 10th National

Bridge Building Competi-

tion, in which the said stu-

dents, also took part.

PICE National Conven-

tions are usually held twice

a year at different cities all

over the Philippines.

engineering were discussed by Engr.

Ananias C. Gloria Jr. Different tech-

niques and hints for solving problems

possible for board examinations are

shared.

To wrap up the seminar, Engr.

Wilfredo Andales, one of the boss of

Review Innovations, encouraged the

attendees of the seminar to review for

their board examination and he espe-

cially endorsed their review center

through the achievements they have re-

ceived from the success of aspiring CE

students who have top or passed the

board examination.

Transit versus Total Station Seminar

Engr. Bienvenido M. Magtuto, Sr.

served as the resource speaker for the

Transit versus Total Station Seminar to

115 second year CE students in the after-

noon of February 24, 2011.

Engr. Magtuto is a geodetic engineer

having his own land surveying business

in San Jose City, Nueva Ecija. With his

staffs, they shared information regarding

transit and total station method, two of

some methods used in land surveying.

Equipments and tools concerning

land surveying were brought by Engr.

Magtuto to let the 2nd year students ex-

perience to use the two land surveying

methods, moreover, to let the students

see equipments especially used in land

surveying since the equipments available

in the college aren’t enough.

The plotting of points in field survey

was also discussed.

The seminar was closed by Engr.

Joseph Frank Nagal, instructor for the

2nd year course subject, Elementary Sur-

veying in the College of Engineering

CLSU, who hoped that his students have

learned and experienced transit and total

station methods.

PICE-SC CLSU conducted two

seminars: Geo-technical Engineering

and Civil Engineering Board Examina-

tion Seminar (in the morning) and

Transit Versus Total Station Seminar

(in the afternoon) last February 24,

2011 held at Water Resources and

Management Center Central Luzon

State University.

Geo-technical Engineering and the

Civ il Engineering Board

Examination Seminar

Review Innovation (RI), a review

center in the Philippines for Civil Engi-

neering and Geodetic Engineering, con-

tacted PICE-SC CLSU to be the organ-

izer for the seminar regarding the

course subject related to geo-technical

engineering and also to promote their

review center to 4th civil engineering

students in CLSU.

The three-hour seminar was attended

by 87 fourth year (4th) and fifth (5th)

year CE students. Started at eight in the

morning, Engr. Ariel P. Santos, one of

RI lecturer, shared and discussed infor-

mation regarding to geo-technical engi-

neering which is similar to soil mechan-

ics, a course subject taken by CE stu-

dents.

For the application, sample prob-

lems related to geo-technical and civil

Back to Back Seminar Before Moratorium Victor Carlos F. Dela Cruz

PICE-SC’s Newly Set of Officers

- - - from page 7

Other newly set of officers were as

follows: Vice President (Internal) -

Emmanuel R. Cochingco; Vice President

(External) - Fatima Buenconsejo; Secretary

-Leslie Joy Vizcarra; Asst. Secretary -Victor

Carlos Dela Cruz; Treasurer- Roma Jane

Garcia; Auditor -Christian Costales; Public

Relation Officers- Whilly Corpuz and Ray-

mond Bergonio; Business Managers- Cha-

risse Joy Urbano and Rizalino Badua; Mas-

ter Initiator- Remus Luzadas; Lady Initiator-

Catherine Solayao; and 5th, 4th and 3rd year

representatives for Daniel Perez, Pennylane

Manalo, and Herson Herrera respectively.

The newly elected president said that she

will try to be an effective president but with

the full cooperation and support of every

member.

With the guide of the former president,

the newly elect president will conduct the

remaining activities before the scheduled

moratorium in preparation for her role next

semester.

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Engr. Wilfredo Andales promoting Re-

view Innovation

1000 coloring books…

- - - from page 1

PICE-SC President Cristian Garcia said

that the first gift giving of coloring books

and crayons was much appreciated. “I hope

that you will continue the gift giving for the

next years with better coloring books and

more school supplies,” he said.

“Let’s express ourselves: We draw, you

color it”

ANGEL IN DISGUISE

By Kenneth E. Francisco

Life seems to be a death,

Boredom is what I feel

in every breath,

Life seems to be colorless,

Nobody offers caress.

Until one day you came into my life,

Add color to my lonely, deadly life,

You gave me the brightest star,

Which makes me forgot my

problems for a while.

You’re an angel in disguise

that fell from the sky,

Yet no wings for you to fly,

Still you’re the best gift

God gave me,

Coz’ you showed me

how life was meant to be.

A moment with you

seems to be forever,

And I promise to leave you never,

You’re the greatest thing I

received from my Lord.

The Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers Student Chapter presents a lantern,

empowering the heart of Christmas with harmonious relationship among the colleges of

CLSU.

The corners of the lantern represent the eight colleges of Central Luzon State

University. Each corner possess same brilliance from the light that symbolizes the calm

yet harmonic relationship among the colleges having the same aim of making their fields

excel and so with CLSU.

The center of the lantern depicts the main theme of Christmas. A globe is re-

volving in the center of the lantern with the heart beside it. The globe portrays the CLSU

community. The globe moves in a cyclic way symbolizing “no stop” and means harmo-

nious relationship in the university. Inside the heart is a red light. The globe and heart

unites to bring harmony. The light that gives the symbol of love sharing, and unity…

depicting Christmas.

As a whole, The Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers Student Chapter portrays

the lantern like a body. The center is the heart that beats and moves in such a way the

other parts of the body which are the corners of the lantern representing the colleges will

be in harmonious relationship celebrating Christmas.

Different indigenous materials are used. Tall grass remains firm and rigid among

other grass and as with CLSU it symbolizes its strong foundation among other universi-

ties. Grass seems like a mediocrity as a material that has no use at all but as it remains

firm to be stepped up and avoided paved its way to be noticed and serve its purpose.

Behind the flat surfaces of the carton, is the corrugated texture which we cannot see be-

forehand. This corrugated feature serves its purpose to be recognized as a designed mate-

rial other than a box. The fruits or flowers of hardwoods, which are all came from a shell

depicts warmth protecting its main core giving the symbol of caring and love.

-description of the Picean lantern submitted last Lantern Festival 2010

THE PICEAN LANTERN

THE DIFFERENCE By Aaron B.

I got up early one morning And rushed right into the day I had so much to accomplish That didn’t have time to pray

Problems just troubled upon me And heavier it came each task

I wondered why God didn’t help me He answered, but you didn’t ask.

I wanted to see joy and beauty

But the day toiled on gray and bleak I wondered why God didn’t show me

He answered, but you didn’t seek

I put myself into God presence And I used my entire key to the lock I wondered why God didn’t take me

He said: My child but you didn’t knock

I woke up early this morning And paused before entering the day

I have so much to accomplish That I need take time to pray

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DID YOU KNOW…

PICE CLSU was founded by fifteen 4th year and 5th year CE students in 1996.

PICE-SC CLSU grabbed the champion and 1st runner up in Bridge Building Competi-

tion in BACOLOD PICE CONVENTION and BAGUIO PICE CONVENTION respectively.

PICE CLSU is the only PICE student organization who call each other “sibs” (sibling)