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After completing the pre-law program, a college senior applies for admission to the Philippine Bar. During undergraduate studies, she was found responsible for misappropriating funds from the student government to cover a campus charity drive; she received a one-semester suspension. She did not disclose this disciplinary action in her pre-law moral character evaluation. The Bar’s Committee on Moral Character denies her admission for lack of candor and for not showing good moral character. (a) Name the central doctrine governing admission to the practice of law implicated by these facts. (b) Apply the doctrine to the facts and determine whether the denial of admission was proper, explaining how past misconduct, rehabilitation, and candor influence the decision.