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ALAM niyo bang muntik nang maging “University of the Philippines” ang UST noong 1870?

Noong 1870s, pinagbantaan ng mga rebolusyonaryong Filipino at mga Amerikano na buwagin ang UST dahil nasa ilalim ito ng mga Kastila.

Dahil ang UST na rin ang tumatayong departamento ng pampublikong edukasyon noon, napagkasunduan ng mga Dominikano at liberal na panatilihin na lang ang kasalukuyang pangalan nito, sa ilalim ng ilang kondisyon.

CATHOLIC tradition has it that after death, our souls move on to the next life—leaving behind our bodies to decompose. On certain flights of fancy, we dream of living forever, or if we can’t, we may even imagine our bodies whole and incorrupt years after we die.

Good-quality preservation of the dead includes refrigeration of the corpse. Three days without it, the body would inevitably disintegrate. Bodies of certain saints stay whole and supple several years after their deaths without embalming or any method of preservation, defying natural law.

EVER wonder why you receive junk mail?

Programs using the Internet to steal Internet mailing lists, collect e-mail addresses by searching the web, or gather random e-mail addresses are to blame for what you receive as junk mail—more popularly known as spam.

Spam is unsolicited e-mail, often containing business or sales offers, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists or individuals, or simply, “junk e-mail.”

You SEE them in horror flicks as blood-thirsty, nasty villains with ferocious-looking fangs and sharp claws. We know them in folklore and legends as werewolves and vampires, but is there really a scientific rationale behind all these mysteries? So before you get scared by them this Halloween, better know the rare diseases that have contributed to their legends.

GRADUATE School Regent Fr. Jose Antonio Aureada, O.P. was appointed dean of the Faculty of Sacred Theology (Theology) last Oct. 5, following an election by the Theology faculty council.

Fr. Aureada replaced Fr. Fausto Gomez, O.P., who teaches Theology and Bioethics at the Faculty. Fr. Gomez is also a member of the Dean’s Council of the Graduate School and the Institute of Religion.

As of press time, Fr. Aureada is still unavailable for comment, as he left for a Eucharistic Congress in Mexico. He is scheduled to return on Nov. 22.

GMA NETWORK news director Jessica Soho advised aspiring Thomasian journalists to treat the celebrity status that comes with the craft as “incidental,” during Responsible Broadcast Journalism, a lecture organized by the Metrobank Foundation in cooperation with UST, last Sept. 27 at the Continuing Medical Education Auditorium.

“A journalistic career is far from being glamorous,” she said. “I even teach our young reporters in GMA News to earn their ‘stripes’ through hard work and to be journalists first and foremost.”

TO ENABLE Thomasians to recognize media’s “aesthetic excellence, moral value discernment and social responsibility,” the University launched the first USTV Student’s Choice Awards last Sept. 24 at the Main Building Lobby.

Themed “TV on TV: Thomasian Vision on Television,” the award-giving body will serve as means for students to voice out their views on the mainstream media, said Xialeemar Valdeavilla, UST Central Student Council president.

THOMASIAN students, get ready to be “empowered.”

The central board of students and several student leaders have formally drafted the Magna Carta of students’ rights during the All Leaders’ Meet last Oct. 13 to15 at the San Juan De Dios Educational Foundation in Pasay City.

WHILE the University of Santo Tomas Hospital (USTH) administrators are getting pay cuts, its employees will be enjoying wage increases starting this month.

Based on last year’s Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between USTH and the Sandigan ng mga Manggagawa sa USTH (SM-USTH), employees will be getting a P1,200 monthly wage increase and a P45 daily meal allowance. But the increase is coming during a tough time for the hospital.

THE OFFICE for Community Development (OCD) and the Bamban Aeta Tribal Association (Bata) Training have agreed to promotional and developmental plans regarding the management of the latter’s ancestral land during a planning congress at the Thomas Aquinas Research Center seminar-workshop room last Sept. 29 to Oct. 1.

“Madali lang naman pala ‘yung pagpapunlad (ng ancestral land) kung nagkakaisa (kami),” said sitio Santa Rosa representative Jonathan Cosme.