STARTING this school year, students will now pay P150 to finance the operations of the Varsitarian.
The paper sought the 25-percent increase in a continuing effort to improve its quality of journalism in the service of the Thomasian community. It has a circulation of more than 40,000 copies published fortnightly.
This year, it will also come out with magazines, special supplements, and a coffee table book honoring the “400 Greatest Thomasians” as part of UST’s Quadricentennial celebration.
Other publications include the literary magazine “Montage,” Ustetika literary folio, features magazine “Tomasino,” and a new edition of “The Varsitarian Campus Press Stylebook.”
The ‘V’ will also have an improved website, www.varsitarian.net, which will offer better graphics, videos, and photo galleries.
Besides publishing, the Varsitarian also organizes and finances annual activities such as the Inkblots National Journalism Fellowship, Ustetika Literary Awards, and the Pautakan Inter-collegiate Quiz Contest.
Two other annual extra-editorial activities are funded in full by the paper: the UST J. Elizalde Navarro Workshop in Criticism on the Arts and the Humanities, and the UST CineVita Film Festival.
The Varsitarian is likewise a generous and regular donor to UST’s Literature department, Literary Society, Journalism Society, and the Philippine Center of the International P.E.N. (Poets and Playwrights, Essayists, Novelists).
“Rest assured that the Varsitarian will not only maintain, but also continuously improve, all editorial and extra-editorial works,” said new editor in chief Alexis Ailex Villamor.
