Tag: February 20, 2003

COME February 22, Thomasian brains will be pitted against each other again in the ultimate intellectual battleground called Pautakan.

Already on its 26th year, Pautakan is considered the longest running inter-collegiate quiz contest in the country.

This year, 10 teams will try to take the Pautakan trophy away from last year’s champion, the Faculty of Arts and Letters.

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN campaign against Iraq has provoked the most thunderous debate since the Persian Gulf War about the justness of war. It is good that everyone seems involved in the debate. But particularly for the Philippines, the debate has been one-sided. Only the pacifists of the left seem eager to dominate the discourse. So what the nation is having is just a tired echo of the debate on the Gulf War 10 years ago when anti-West pacifists insisted on peace at all costs, never mind if Iraq burned Kuwait’s oil fields to the ground.

I may not be a party animal, but I can distinguish a party from a gathering pretending to be one.

I am, of course, referring to the “street party” that took place in front of the Main Building last Jan. 31. It was more of a presentation for a speech class rather than a street party. And if someone would insist it was, it was something that did not measure up to the street parties before.