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Since it started six years ago, Inkblots, the UST National Campus Journalism Fellowship, has consistently left its participants wanting for more.

By inviting prominent lecturers in different fields of journalism, the Varsitarian, organizer of Inkblots, has been attracting campus journalists from different universities and colleges from as far as Mindanao in the south and Batanes in the north by hundreds.

MAGKAROON ng magandang produkto ng kosmetiko—ito ang pinaghirapang kamtan ng Tomasinong si Peñafrancia Prieto-Espiritu at naging daan upang magkaroon ng dekalibreng gamit na “gawang Filipino. “

Bilang pagkilala sa angking kagandhan ng Filipino, binuo ni Espiritu ang Philippine Societies of Cosmetic Scientists, nagkaroon ng sigla ang kosmetikong Pinoy. Nakatulong ito sa pagpasok ng mga dolyar sa Pilipinas at pagkilala sa mga medium-scale cosmetic industry.

THERE are two types of teens: “party-philes” or extroverts who are always out with their peers, and the reclusive who would rather read in their room or go out on their own. You get the same types in religious behavior. Young people may either attend Mass and be active in Church activities in groups, or go for more personal and intimate relationship with Christ.

FALSE hope.

UST College Assurance Plan (CAP) beneficiaries will have to bear with more payment hassles this semester when the University refused check payments from CAP after P3.4 million worth of its checks given to the students from Oct. 21 to 25 bounced. CAP scholars will now have to encash their checks after they receive it from CAP.

“Nakakainis kasi isang araw naming pinila ‘yung mga cheke sa CAP, tapos biglang tumalbog pala,” said Communication Arts freshman Ronald James Ranieses.

DALAWANG pahayagang mag-aaral mula sa Unibersidad ang nagkamit ng parangal mula sa ika-26 Catholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) noong Oct. 12 sa Henry Lee Irwin Theater, Ateneo de Manila University.

Tinanghal ang Dapitan ng Faculty of Arts and Letters bilang Best Literary Publication for College at ang Inter nos ng Faculty of Sacred Theology bilang Best Student Organ for College ng CMMA.

THE UST Graduate School Center of Professional Development and Consultancy Services director has been appointed director of the Public and Alumni Affairs Office by Fr. Rector Tamerlane Lana, O.P., to replace Prof. Anna Maria Gloria Ward.

“I do not intend to make any changes in the plans she (Ward) has already started for PAAO,” Dr. Maria Cristina Cabral said. “I will continue the projects of gathering the alumni, improving the Academia and stimulating the University’s public presence through media as what Fr. Lana and Prof. Ward have already prepared.”

THE STUDENTS’ Welfare and Development Board (SWDB) urged the students to maintain a “harmonious environment” through an affidavit of commitment to peace and order in the campus.

According to SWDB director Cresencio Doma, the waiver, which UST students signed last October, serves as a preventive measure against disturbances, that any unrecognized organization, including fraternities and sororities, may cause. It also warns the students of the consequences of the mischiefs that few unrecognized organizations could commit.

A FRESHMAN Journalism student is now under investigation for allegedly plagiarizing an article from Metro magazine.

The student’s article “How to Get that Second Date,” published in the Faculty of Arts and Letters’ student journal, The Flame, last September, appeared similar to Metro’s earlier article “Stealing that Second Date,” published last April and written by Rovilson Fernandez. The similarity was revealed by other Journalism students who had read the April issue of Metro.

The student, however, denied the allegation.

DESPITE an increase in the number of students visiting the UST Health Service everyday, the clinic has reduced its operating hours starting this month to cut costs.

Based on the clinic’s current statistics, an average of 137 students visit everyday—a 33 per cent increase from last year.

But Health Service director Dr. William Olalia said they had to cut operating hours because few students visit the clinic on Saturdays and even less after 5 p.m. on weekdays.

MARAMI tayo kaya tayo mahirap!

This is the idea mainstream media feed to the Filipinos.