Tag: April 30, 2007

THE UST Graduate School’s Psychotrauma Clinic was tapped by the first district of Quezon City to help victims of violence against women and children recover from trauma.

Trained counselors from the first psychotrauma clinic in the country will begin offering free counseling and psychotherapeutic services on July to the 38 barangay units of the district under the Kanlungan para sa Kababaihan at Kabataan (KKK) program of district councilor Joseph Juico.

THE UST Benavides Review and Training Center (UST Benavides) must wait until March 2008 to give board exam reviews after an order by the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) that prohibits the operation of newly-established review centers.

“As much as we would like to start entertaining reviewees this year, we cannot since the center has just been around for a year,” UST Benavides director Amelia Halili told the Varsitarian.

THE P3 billion UST Hospital (USTH) expansion building will begin in May, UST Hospital CEO Dr. Cenon Alfonso said.

“There is no significant stoppage or slippage in the project as scheduled,” Alfonso said in a letter to the Varsitarian. “Phase 2 of the development project is on going.”

The annex became the subject of a column in the Business Mirror last March that alleged the Vatican had issued an order to halt its construction.

ISA NANG malaking karangalan para sa karamihan ang makapagtapos ng kahit isang kurso sa kolehiyo. Subalit isang Tomasino ang namumukod-tangi dahil sa kaniyang pagtatapos ng 10 kurso mula sa Unibersidad.

THE VATICAN has appointed a Thomasian as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao, Cagayan.

A native of the same province, the 45-year-old Fr. Ricardo Baccay, who was ordained bishop last April 10, will assist Tuguegarao Archbishop Diosdado Talamayan, also a Thomasian, who will canonically retire on October 19.

EXAM departmentalization, new curriculum and uniform are the major changes coming next school year as the College of Architecture (CA) “hopes to change for the better.”

New CA Dean John Joseph Fernandez told the Varsitarian that the changes are expected to improve the performances of the students and faculty members and upgrade the college.

THE FACULTY of Arts and Letters will no longer offer the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education (AB-BSE) next year after the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) increased the number of units required to complete the program.

“We are removing the AB-BSE course due to new directives released by Ched that will needlessly prolong the program,” Arts and Letters Dean Armando de Jesus told the Varsitarian.

PRESIDENT Macapagal-Arroyo, who earlier refused to order a retake of the leakage-marred 2006 Nursing Licensure Exam, has issued Executive Order No. 609 directing the Department of Labor and Employment to administer the retake exams through the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC). The PRC is the body that administers professional licensure exams in the country which earlier resisted calls for a retake and re-computed the exams instead.

Below is the UST Varsitarian’s Discussion Paper on the 2007 Elections, which outlines the qualities candidates must have in order to get the Catholic “truth vote.” The paper was shared with student leaders who took part in the Varsitarian election survey.

PARTY-LIST groups of educators, farmers and fishermen, senior citizens, electricians and the disabled have pledged a common platform to fight for the fundamental right to life of marginalized sectors.

Seven out of the Commision on Elections’ final list of 91 party-list candidates have advocated a “pro-life” and “pro-family” platform to block legislation for population control, divorce, abortion, and euthanasia, said Marita Wasan, Pro-Life Philippines executive director.