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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.

SOME 100 Civil Engineering (CE) seniors of the Faculty of Engineering (Engineering) helped build houses for the residents of the fire-torn Bataan Shipyard and Engineering Corporation compound (Baseco) in Tondo last Aug. 23 to 27, as part of their department’s outreach program.

According to CE department head Engr. Peter Lim, the outreach program is in coordination with Gawad Kalinga (GK), a non-government charity organization.

“Immersion din ito ng mga estudyante sa industry ng profession na pinapasukan nila,” he added.

THE CONGRESSIONAL investigation on the alleged corruption in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has led some congressmen to UST, but for nothing, as former AFP finance chief Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia, who was confined at the UST Hospital (USTH), was a “no-show” at a specially arranged hearing held for his convenience at the UST Continuing Medical Education Auditorium last Oct. 14.

“Kahit maliit, may magagawa rin.”

Ito ang iginiit ni Arsobispo Gaudencio Rosales ng Maynila nang ipakilala niya ang “Pondo ng Pinoy” sa mga lider ng maralitang taga-lungsod noong Setyembre 17 sa Thomas Aquinas Research Complex.

Programa ng Caritas Manila ang Pondo ng Pinoy na naglalayong makalikom ng pera para sa mga proyektong pangmahihirap tulad ng micro-lending program para sa kabuhayan at pabahay, mula sa mga tig-25 sentimo na donasyon ng mga mamamayan.

ITS NAME means a spring where animals gather and drink to nurture their needs and restore their strength. And truly, the people behind the soon-to-be-born Tubugan Research Center envision it to be a place where people may re-learn the importance of nature, and hand-in-hand, appreciate and protect its legacy.

Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous. —(1 Peter 3:8)

GOOD choice.

With the appointment of former UST Rector Fr. Rolando de la Rosa, O.P. as the new Commission on Higher Education (Ched) chairman, better days are forthcoming for the Commission.

Fr. De la Rosa’s appointment, as Rev. Fr. Ernesto Arceo, O.P., prior of the Philippine Dominican Province, would describe it, is only proper since the Order pioneered the tertiary education system in the Philippines.

IMAGINE a barkada trip in Cagayan de Oro. For three days and two nights, you enjoy the waves of Lauremar beach and discover the wonders of nature in this paradise. Thanks to the Department of Tourism (DOT), this may not only end up as a dream.