Tag: January 30, 2007

SA KAUNA-UNAHANG pagkakataon, iniluklok ang isang guro sa Dangal ng UST Hall of Fame matapos niyang magkamit ng tatlong parangal sa mga nakalipas na Dangal Awards.

UNIVERSITY officials cautioned President Macapagal-Arroyo against pressing on with the overhaul of the Constitution as Thomasians participated in the prayer rally organized by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) last Dec. 17 at the Rizal Park in thanksgiving for the decision of the House of Representatives to stop its charter-change initiative because of widespread protest against it.

NASAKSIHAN ng University of Santo Tomas Press, ang pinakamatandang palimbagan sa buong mundo sunod sa Cambridge University Press, ang mahigit na 400 taon na kasaysayan ng bansa mula sa pagsakop ng mga Kastila.

Hanggang sa kasalukuyan, hindi pa kailanman nagsara o naipasara ang UST Press maging noong 1941 nang sumiklab ang Ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig at noong 1972 nang ibinaba ni dating Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos ang Batas Militar.

UST’s Intercultural Studies (CIS) placed second runner-up and received P100,000 at the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) for Best Higher Educational Institute Research Program in the National Capital Region (NCR) last Jan. 25, at the Philippine International Convention Center.

“Among the entries, UST is the only institution that can boast a research center that deals with intercultural studies,” Ched-NCR office Director Dr. Amelia Biglete told the Varsitarian.

ADVANCES in media technology have so enthralled today’s journalists to the extent that they have neglected the fundamentals of press practice, said Jullie Yap-Daza, one of the most popular and distinguished UST alumni in the media.

Delivering the fourth annual Jose Villa Panganiban (JVP) Professorial Chair for Journalism lecture last Jan. 22 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex, Daza tackled the topic, “The Challenges of a Multimedia Journalist,” and drew from her experience as the only Filipino journalist to have enjoyed equal success in both print and broadcast.

DONATIONS have deluged the University’s Bicol Relief Drive and organizers said the campaign is successful in helping the victims of super typhoon Reming in Bicol.

Office for Community Development director Joey Cruz told the Varsitarian that some P354,000 in cash and two truckloads of relief goods have been donated to the relief campaign by Thomasians, many of whom do not want to disclose their identity.

THE UNIVERSITY posted an 89 per cent passing rate in the Nursing Licensure exams last December as 34 of 38 Thomasian examinees passed. The national passing rate was 49.1 per cent.

Only one Thomasian examinee from the fraud-marred June 2006 exams took the December exam.

Despite improving its passing rate from last June’s 83 per cent, UST failed to enter the top 3 performing schools in the 30-99 examinees category. No Thomasian also made it to the top 10.

WITH only two months left before the school year ends, campus activist organizations are demanding that the University refund the tuition increases imposed last June without prior consultation with the students.

Student activists under the coalition, Refund Now, held a picket last Jan. 19 in front of St. Raymund’s Bldg. to demand the refund and to warn against a new tuition increase next school year.

CATHOLIC social ethics based on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas justifies any move by the Philippines to cancel its foreign debt which has become oppressive and unjust, said Fr. Fausto Gomez, O.P., a member of the Holy See’s Pontifical Academy for Life.

CONSTRUCTION of UST’s extension campus in General Santos City in central Mindanao will start this summer, UST Rector Fr. Ernesto Arceo, O.P. said.

“One of the reasons why we have to establish the initial structures is that the University’s permit to convert the agricultural land to an institutional area will expire by January 2008,” Arceo told the Varsitarian. “If we don’t put up a structure by that time, we have to apply for an extension of the permit which could delay our expansion plans.”