FOR THE THIRD straight year, the University bagged the “School of the Year” award in the Philippine Quill Awards, last May 17 at the Marriott Grand Ballroom in Pasay.
UST won a combined 19 Awards of Merit and Awards of Excellence in the Student Quill division to defeat Angelicum College, Bataan Peninsula State University, Colegio de San Juan de Letran and the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde for the School of the Year award.
Eight awards were given to the Varsitarian alone, including the trophy for excellence in publication.
“My dream is to see a stage full of awardees from UST, and tonight, we proved that,” UST Media Studies Department Chairman Jose Arsenio Salandan told the Varsitarian.
For this year, 64 student awards were given to schools in Metro Manila as well as Pampanga, Bataan, Rizal, Laguna and Cavite.
UST took home four Awards of Merit for the following entries: the Varsitarian editorial “Aquino’s Last SONA: Unpresidential, Philistine, Bitter,” the Varsitarian Papal Visit microsite, the documentary “Maneobra: Ang Bagong Dati” and “UST Tiger Radio Summer Airing.”
UST also had 15 Awards of Excellence, including the Varsitarian’s “16th Inkblots: the UST National Campus Journalism Fellowship,” “Botomasino 2015: A Special Coverage of the UST Student Council Elections,” “The Botomasino Special Supplement,” “Papal Visit Infographics” and “Special Supplement for the Papal Visit.”
The Tomasian Cable Television was also given Awards of Excellence for its shows “Tomasiknow,” “Tombayan,” and “UST Halalan 2015.”
Communication Arts students also garnered an award for the work “KaABagan Marketing Plan.”
Completing the list were academic projects by Journalism seniors: “Age Does Not Matter,” “Innovations for Agricultural Efficiency,” “Newshub: Traffic Story,” and “Newshub: UP Diliman Story.”
The Varsitarian had two finalists for the Philippine Quill Top Award, namely: “Botomasino: A Special Coverage of the UST Student Council Elections” and “Papal Visit Infographics.”
“Sukat,” a television documentary from Colegio de San Juan de Letran, bagged the Philippine Student Quill Student Quill Top Award.
A student entry qualified for “Award of Merit” if it obtained a score of 4.75 to 5.25. Those with 5.26 to 7 were given the “Award of Excellence.” The top five winners were automatically nominated for the Top Award.
The annual awards were organized by the Philippine chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, a global network of around 15,500 business communicators in 80 countries. Clarence I. Hormachuelos
