THE OFFICIAL newsletter of the Faculty of Sacred Theology, Inter Nos, was elevated to the Hall of Fame of the Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) for winning the Best Student Organ for College for three consecutive years during the CMMA night last Nov. 10 at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza in Makati City. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was guest of honor.
“Winning three consecutive times itself is not an affirmation to guarantee the spot in the CMMA Hall of Fame,” Sacred Theology senior and former Inter Nos editor in chief Emmanuel Contreras told the Varsitarian. “We had to prove that we had maintained the quality of our newsletter.”
Inter Nos comes out annually and publishes scholarly articles, features, inter-faith reflections and literary pieces on socio-religious issues. The 2005 issue for which Inter Nos won its third CMMA was themed “Reconciliation and Renewal towards the Recovery of a Nation”.
“We decided to make the theme about reconciliation because that was the time when divisions in the country were becoming very apparent,” Contreras said. “As much as possible, we made our themes relevant to national issues.”
Criteria for the students CMMA Awards are: “love for God, love for truth, love for natural environment, promotion of positive Filipino values, and love for family life.”
Meanwhile Cliffhanger Productions, a group of UST student filmmakers, bagged the Best Short Film for Hamburger, about a child who wants to give his grandmother a hamburger for her birthday gift. The father, a driver, scolds the child for pestering him only to find out to his regret that the child meant well.
The CMMA was established by the late Archbishop of Manila Jaime Cardinal Sin in 1987 to recognize media works that promote Christian values. R. S. Mejia
