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TELEVISION host and University of the Philippines (UP) economics professor Solita Monsod called for government initiative as well as individual efforts to prevent future fiscal “crises” during a lecture on socio-political issues last Nov. 12 at the Martyrs’ Hall of the UST Central Seminary.

“The challenge is you’ve got to change the environment in which you live in, starting with ourselves and our own surroundings,” Monsod said during the symposium titled “Nation-Building and the Present Political Scenario: The Fiscal Crisis and the Future of the Republic”

PINARANGALAN ng Unibersidad ang 11 retiradong non-academic na manggagawa nito noong Nob. 19 sa Main Bldg. dahil sa kanilang humigit kumulang na 20-40 taong serbisyo sa UST.

Inulan ng parangal at pasasalamat sina Lorenzo Bertolano, Rolando Ferrer, Remigio Paragas, Julio Manganti, Jr., Cirilo Santiago, Roberto Fajardo, Oscar Teodosio, at Abelardo Santelices ng Buildings and Grounds Department (B&G), Cecilio Buenaventura at Tomas Padullo ng Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, at Crispino Paldeng ng Faculty of Engineering.

UST alumna and Philippine Daily Inquirer founder Eugenia Duran-Apostol urged campus writers and media practitioners to practice “fearless journalism” last Nov. 22 in her lecture, “Huwag Magpakatuta: Journalism Ethics in the Philippines,” at the University of the Philippines (UP) Film Institute Cine Adarna.

WITH hopes of attaining a more comprehensive journalism education, the UST ArtLets Alumni Association, Inc. launched the Center for Journalism Excellence last Nov. 30 during the 40th anniversary celebration of the Faculty of Arts and Letters (Artlets) at the Polkabal and Pandango Ballrooms of the Manila Hotel on Roxas Boulevard.

In his introductory speech, BizNews Asia publisher and ArtLets Alumni Association vice-chairman Tony Lopez told some 500 ArtLets alumni that the Center aims mainly to “put more journalism in the ‘excellent’ things” today.

A RESERVED Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadet won the National Philippine Army ROTC Rifle/Pistol Shooting Competition 2004 held last Nov. 26-28 at the Camp Riego de Dios in Tanza, Cavite.

Cadet Renz Louise Urbano, an Engineering freshman, placed first in the Caliber .45 Pistol category, besting the other shooters from the country’s 13 regions.

A UST freshman died after shooting himself in the head inside his room in Tondo, Manila last Dec. 1.

According to police reports, 16-year-old Karlos Moses, taking Occupational Therapy in the College of Rehabilitation Sciences (CRS), locked himself up in his room at about 4:30 p.m., after coming home from school. At about 8:00 p.m., his family heard a gunshot.

Police reports revealed that the victim used his father’s .45 caliber pistol, but the cause of the suicide is still undetermined.

The family refused to comment.

THE “MOTHER” of the country’s oldest theater group, Repertory Philippines, Zenaida “Bibot” Amador left behind a legacy of theater excellence and a “brood” of world-class stage artists when she died of lung cancer last Nov. 28.

Amador formed Repertory Philippines Foundation Inc. as president and artistic director in 1967, training theater hopefuls including Lea Salonga and Monique Wilson of Miss Saigon fame.

MANILA Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales has urged educators from the Catholic Education Association of the Philippines-National Capital Region (CEAP-NCR) to take up the mission of “integral evangelization.”

“The Church’s primary intent is evangelization through education. It is the stand of the Church, then, now, and in the future,” Archbishop Rosales told an audience composed mostly of educators from Catholic schools last Nov. 19 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex auditorium.

THE UNIVERSITY may have failed to notch top spot in eight recent licensure exams, but Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Dr. Armando de Jesus assured that UST is “still among the top schools.”

“It’s not always that we can expect to land in the topmost place,” he told the Varsitarian regarding UST’s performance in the Engineer, Interior Designer, Librarian, and Teachers licensure exams.

A GROUNDS maintenance crew who allegedly stole a wallet from a fifth year Electronics and Communications Engineering student last Dec. 4 at the Colayco Park was arrested by a University security guard.

According to head guard Joel Marie Gomez, Rolly Casica initially denied the theft, but the guards insisted on checking his locker, where they found the money which student Jerome Albert Bayot claimed was his.