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07-20-2006, 07:57 AM
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The La Salle Eligibility Scandal
Inquirer
Last updated 05:31am (Mla time) 07/20/2006
Published on page A24 of the July 20, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
De La Salle University asks the National Education Testing and Research Center of the Department of Education to verify the authenticity of scholastic eligibility documents of its students. Two weeks later, La Salle receives the initial verification from the NETRC. It stated that the Philippine Educational Placement Test Certificate of Rating (PEPTCR) of Mark Lester Benitez was fabricated, while the documents of Timoteo Gatchalian III was subject for verification.
SEPT. 30, 2005
La Salle top officials are alerted to the problem. The university attributed the delay to “administrative procedures.” By then, the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) finals series between the Far Eastern University Tamaraws and the Green Archers has started.
La Salle sends a letter to then UAAP president Fr. Max Rendon, acknowledging that one of its basketball players submitted a spurious certificate of his PEP Test, a government exam taken in lieu of a high school diploma. The school vows an internal probe.
OCT. 11, 2005
La Salle publicly admits that it unknowingly fielded an ineligible player in the last three years. The Green Archers offer to forfeit their 2004 men’s basketball crown. Two papers, including the Inquirer, break the story.
OCT 18, 2005
The plot thickens as the Inquirer breaks the story of another La Salle player, Gatchalian, also submitted a fake PEPTCR document. La Salle assures the public that it will get to the bottom of the controversy.
OCT. 26, 2005
La Salle implicates liaison officer Raul Lacson and assistant team manager Manny Salgado as the team officials who helped secure the fake eligibility documents of its two players. Although earlier news reports had leaked the identity of the cagers, it was only then that La Salle officially named the cagers as Benitez and Gatchalian.
NOV. 2, 2005
Team manager Terry Capistrano and head coach Franz Pumaren resign from their posts. Pumaren, however, would later reassume head coaching duties for the Green Archers.
JAN. 23, 2006
La Salle informs the league that it intends to take a leave of absence from the men’s basketball tournament to rebuild its cage program.
FEB. 8, 2006
Noting that basketball is a compulsory sport, the UAAP board turns down La Salle’s request.
APRIL 21, 2006
The UAAP suspends La Salle from all sports in the 2006 UAAP season, stressing that it was La Salle’s responsibility to ensure that the “eligibility documents are to be authenticated and verified.”
APRIL 27, 2006
Describing the UAAP decision as vague, La Salle sends a letter to UAAP president Fr. Max Rendon to seek a clarification and an explanation on the decision. The UAAP responds by saying that the decision was self-explanatory.
JULY 8, 2006
The UAAP men’s basketball tournament begins.
Jasmine W. Payo
The La Salle Eligibility Scandal
Inquirer
Last updated 05:31am (Mla time) 07/20/2006
Published on page A24 of the July 20, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
De La Salle University asks the National Education Testing and Research Center of the Department of Education to verify the authenticity of scholastic eligibility documents of its students. Two weeks later, La Salle receives the initial verification from the NETRC. It stated that the Philippine Educational Placement Test Certificate of Rating (PEPTCR) of Mark Lester Benitez was fabricated, while the documents of Timoteo Gatchalian III was subject for verification.
SEPT. 30, 2005
La Salle top officials are alerted to the problem. The university attributed the delay to “administrative procedures.” By then, the University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) finals series between the Far Eastern University Tamaraws and the Green Archers has started.
La Salle sends a letter to then UAAP president Fr. Max Rendon, acknowledging that one of its basketball players submitted a spurious certificate of his PEP Test, a government exam taken in lieu of a high school diploma. The school vows an internal probe.
OCT. 11, 2005
La Salle publicly admits that it unknowingly fielded an ineligible player in the last three years. The Green Archers offer to forfeit their 2004 men’s basketball crown. Two papers, including the Inquirer, break the story.
OCT 18, 2005
The plot thickens as the Inquirer breaks the story of another La Salle player, Gatchalian, also submitted a fake PEPTCR document. La Salle assures the public that it will get to the bottom of the controversy.
OCT. 26, 2005
La Salle implicates liaison officer Raul Lacson and assistant team manager Manny Salgado as the team officials who helped secure the fake eligibility documents of its two players. Although earlier news reports had leaked the identity of the cagers, it was only then that La Salle officially named the cagers as Benitez and Gatchalian.
NOV. 2, 2005
Team manager Terry Capistrano and head coach Franz Pumaren resign from their posts. Pumaren, however, would later reassume head coaching duties for the Green Archers.
JAN. 23, 2006
La Salle informs the league that it intends to take a leave of absence from the men’s basketball tournament to rebuild its cage program.
FEB. 8, 2006
Noting that basketball is a compulsory sport, the UAAP board turns down La Salle’s request.
APRIL 21, 2006
The UAAP suspends La Salle from all sports in the 2006 UAAP season, stressing that it was La Salle’s responsibility to ensure that the “eligibility documents are to be authenticated and verified.”
APRIL 27, 2006
Describing the UAAP decision as vague, La Salle sends a letter to UAAP president Fr. Max Rendon to seek a clarification and an explanation on the decision. The UAAP responds by saying that the decision was self-explanatory.
JULY 8, 2006
The UAAP men’s basketball tournament begins.
Jasmine W. Payo