Tag: August 9, 2001

SEVERAL UST students boycotted their classes and rallied on campus last July 3 to protest this school year’s tuition increase.

The rally started in front of the Roque Ruaño Building where several Engineering students, who walked out of their classes, joined the protest.

The group, led by UST-Anakbayan and Alliance of Concerned Thomasians (ACT-Now!) members, then marched to the Albertus Magnus Building and to the St. Raymund’s Building.

to promote awareness and understanding of the plight of Filipino child laborers, the Office for Students Affairs (Osacs), the Community Development Coordinating Council (CDCC), and Community Service (ComSerV) unveiled a year-long project with the theme, “The Thomasian Year for the Filipino Child”.

In an interview with the Varsitarian, CDCC director Prof. Jose Cruz III said that the project was the brainchild of the student leaders from ComSerV, who attended a forum on child labor.

A MULTI-AWARDED playwright was recently appointed junior associate of the UST Center for Creative Writing and Studies (CCWS).

Jose Victor Torres, a member of the Writers Bloc of the Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta) Playwrights Development Program, will join Rebecca Añonuevo, Michael Coroza, Ramil Gulle, and Lourd de Veyra as junior associate of the center. F. Sionil Jose and Cirilo Bautista have been reappointed as senior associates.

THOMASIANS, beware. Two students were recently victimized by hold-up men in the University premises.

College of Science student Diana Marie Nitural, a resident of the Clinical Division Dormitory, was held up on Dapitan St. last July 3 at around 10 a.m.

According to Nitural, Jeff Cruz, a resident of 6 Leon Rivera Street, Blumentritt, grabbed her arm, held her at knifepoint, and forced her to give him her money.

She said Cruz forced her to hug him, to avoid making the bystanders suspicious.