Tag: August 9, 2001

The University has formed the Disaster Preparedness Committee (DPC) to respond immediately and effectively to such emergencies as typhoons, floods, fires, and earthquakes.

In a meeting last July 31 at the Rizal Conference Hall, DPC chairperson and UST Vice Rector for Finance Fr. Roberto Pinto, O.P., presented the safety guidelines to cope with emergencies.

According to DPC member Dr. Lito Maranan, each building in the University has an assigned evacuation area, where students, faculty members, and administrators will stay during emergencies and drills.

ON SEPTEMBER 5, 1992, the then newly-elected Master of the Order, Rev. Fr. Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., arrived at the curia of the Dominicans. An unassuming 36-year-old Argentinean welcomed him at the corridors and led him to his room. As they walked along the corridors, they passed by a beautiful gallery that featured the portraits of all the previous Masters of the Order. Earlier, the young Argentinean mischievously hung Radcliffe’s tiny-framed photo next to the full-sized portrait of his predecessor Rev. Fr. Damian Byrne, O.P.

A THOMASIAN topped this year’s Pharmacist Licensure Examinations with a 92.27 percent score, leading five other Thomasians in the Top 20.

Cum laude graduate Andrea Chua never expected to land first in the board and only wished to be in the top 10.

“(It was) unexpected. Masaya ako because I was able to bring glory to the University,” she said.

Pharmacy Assistant Dean Priscilla Torres said Chua and the other honor graduates were really expected to land in the top 20.

IT HAS been six months since the nation ousted a president from office.

I can still remember the various rallies students, University officials, and employees attended, together with people from all walks of life, in which they chanted, street-danced, and partied.

SA LOOB ng mahigit sa dalawang taon kong pananatili sa Varsitarian, ilang beses din akong nagkaroon ng pagkakataong makatagpo ng mga taong nag-iwan sa akin ng mga karanasang hindi ko malilimutan. At ang mga aral at alaala ng mga karanasang ito ang isa sa mga itinuturing kong gantimpala ng aking pagiging isang manunulat.

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Noong Disyembre, 1999, gumawa ako ng isang artikulong nagtatampok sa mga pulubing nasa paligid ng UST. Dito ko nakilala sina Lola Eden, Aling Pacita, Mary Ann, at ang mga batang sina Lito, Jestres, Johnson, at Jovelyn.

ANG TOTOO’y umasa akong may kahit kapiranggot na sasabihin ang Pangulong Arroyo ukol sa isyu ng Reserve Officer Training Corps sa nakaraang State of the Nation Address (SONA).

A world of flawed people trying hard to be perfect can be cruel, especially to those who are not faultless. We commit a lot of mistakes even in just one day, we hardly remember we did them. But some errors don’t go unnoticed. And when that happens, faultfinders can be merciless.

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I could see that she was trying to hold back the tears and look calm and strong. And then, she just cried.

Like the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), the party list system in the Philippines has good and sound intentions based on the laws that created it. But alas, the party list system and the ROTC are no longer true to their objectives—they have been bastardized by people with cruel and selfish intentions. But the party list system should not be abolished like the ROTC (I am for the abolition of ROTC, but of course, with reservations). The problems of the party list system owe to the law itself and the confusion of the Comelec in implementing it.

POISONOUS, rare, expensive, and has a strange name. Most of all, it is very effective in detecting cancerous tumors.

The name is Gadolinium, a silvery-white metal, called “gad” by surgeons and radiologists. It is increasingly being used in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

MRI uses radio waves and a strong magnetic field to diagnose medical conditions like breast cancer, brain tumor, heart disease, and joint disorders.

THOMASIAN physical therapists stole the limelight in Singapore as they presented their research papers to a captive international audience during the Inaugural Physiotherapy Congress.

“It was an honor for the University to represent the Philippines in this prestigious congress,” said Dr. Anna Lea Enriquez, the Research Management Group Coordinator for the College of Physical Therapy (CPT).