Tag: April 13, 2011

FACEBOOK is not just a place for social networking.

Aboitiz Power, one of the country’s biggest power firms, launched a Facebook application promoting environmental awareness last February 25.

Aptly called “Alter Space,” the game’s goal was to reduce one’s carbon footprint by doing tasks such as recycling and conserving n electricity.

The main concept of Alter Space is for players to take care of their own little planet. They need to balance their Happiness, Current-cy (the game’s term for money) and carbon footprint (CF) levels while accomplishing tasks.

CHARITY Anne Reyes and her batch mates are a “dying breed”.

They are the last of a group of students under the multi-disciplinary course offering an AB degree in Social Sciences and a BS in Secondary Education. But the program has been scrapped and Charity, an AB-BSE student who once admitted despising the heavy academic workload, is not exactly excited about it.

In her senior year as a History pre-service teacher, she eventually realized that the double load of student work she had endured for four years would be integral to her development as a more or less complete individual.

THE FACULTY of Engineering returned to the top of the university-wide quiz contest, ruling both the Team and Individual categories in the Quadricentennial edition of the prestigious Pautakan 2Q11 tournament.

A packed Medicine Auditorium saw the re-emergence last February 28 of the Engineering team that once dominated the competition. It regained the championship in dominating fashion with 260 points, leaving perennial title-holder Faculty of Arts and Letters (Artlets) and the College of Nursing to battle for spoils.

POPE Benedict XVI has called on Catholics to rediscover the Holy Bible, at the same time laying out guidelines for the proper interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures in his latest apostolic exhortation.

The pope’s post-synodal document titled, Verbum Domini, reflects the outcomes of the 12th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the “Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church” held in October 2008.

The document focuses on Catholic practices and beliefs such as the liturgy, the need for biblical preaching, biblical studies, and the interpretation of the Scripture, among others.

IN THE midst of the world’s rapid modernization, devoted Catholics remain courageous to defend their faith against the continuous secularization of Christianity.

Oscar de Tagle, an international economic consultant and former Varsitarian Alumni Editor, is among the few concerned Catholics who wrote A Layman’s New-Style Apologetics, a specific text dedicated to defending the Catholic faith against the negative influences of modern philosophies and ideologies.

Apart from the modern ideology which recognizes man’s ability to handle life on his own, de Tagle noted that there still remains a natural instinct within him “to acknowledge and worship a supernatural Creator and Preserver.”

ANG PAGTATAPOS ay isa sa mga pinakanatatanging yugto sa buhay ng isang Tomasino dahil ito ang araw na nagtatakda ng kaniyang tagumpay matapos ang ilang taong pagsisikap sa pag-aaral.

Ang proseso ng pagtatapos sa Unibersidad ay dumaan sa ilang mga pagbabago, pati na rin ang mga katibayan ng pagtatapos at mga parangal na ibinibigay ng Unibersidad sa mga nagsisipagtapos.

Bago ang taong 1926, tanging ang mga titulong licentiate, master, at doctoral ang pinagkalolooban ng seremonya sa kanilang pagtatapos dahil sa kanilang matagumpay na pagtatanggol ng kanilang dissertation. Ngunit dahil sa petisyon ng mga mag-aaral ng Abogasya, pinagpasyahan ng noo’y rektor P. Manuel Arellano, O.P. ang pagkaroroon ng seremonya sa pagtatapos ng mga mag-aaral sa kursong ito.

RELIGIOUS movies and independent films made by Thomasian filmmakers were showcased in the fifth CineVita Film Festival last March 15 to 17 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex Auditorium.

CineVita is the film program of the Varsitarian. It espouses film as a tool for meaningful expressions of life.

The festival was opened by Ikaw Ang Pag-ibig (2010), which was directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya and produced by the Archdiocese of Nueva Caseres and Star Cinema, ABS-CBN’s film outfit. The movie tells the story of how the family of a video editor, Vangie Cruz (Ina Feleo), struggles when her brother, Fr. Johnny (Marvin Agustin) is diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The family then seeks the help of the Our Lady of Peñafrancia.

MAUSOK, mabaho at magulo nang sumakay si Girlie sa bus. Hindi man lang niya namalayang pauwi na siya. Makasakay lang ng bus ang nasa isip niya.

Umupo siya sa may dulo ng bus para wala siyang katabi. Ganoon naman parati kapag sumasakay siya ng bus.

Umarangkada ang sasakyan sa kahabaan ng EDSA nang mapatunganga si Girlie sa sidewalk na tanaw niya mula sa pagkakaupo sa tabi ng bintana.

Sanay na siyang mamasahe pauwi dahil ayaw na ng tatay niyang umupa siya ng dorm malapit sa paaralan. Ngunit sa kasanayang ito, may sama pa rin ng loob si Girlie sa ama dahil maaari naman siyang mangupahan para hindi na niya kailanganing mamasahe lalo na’t maraming napababalitang akdisente at nakawan sa pagbibiyahe.