Tag: May 26, 2003

FORMER UST Growling Tigers team captain Emerson Oreta and slotman Alwyn Espiritu were tapped to play for the men’s national basketball team that will see action in the 2003 Vietnam Southeast Asian Games in December.

UST and national team head coach Januario “Aric” del Rosario hopes that Espiritu’s inclusion in the national team roster will boost the latter’s confidence in the upcoming Universities Athletic Association of the Philippines basketball tournament. Espiritu will be playing his last season for UST.

WITH an exceptional display of firepower and stingy defense, the UST Growling Tigers dismantled the winless Ateneo Team B, cruising to a 101-80 victory in the 9th Fr. Martin’s Cup Basketball Invitational Tournament last May 18 at the San Beda College Gymnasium.

Fr. Lana re-appointed

School year 2002-2003 saw the reinstallation of Rev. Fr. Tamerlane Lana, O.P. as the University’s 93rd Rector on June 26, 2002 at the Santissimo Rosario Parish.

In his acceptance speech, Fr. Lana enunciated his vision to upgrade the University as a center and leader in the pure and the applied sciences, in research, and in community development, in time for 2011.

No-smoking policy

The University started to strictly implemented a no-smoking policy on campus.