Tag: July 15, 2006

TO WORK abroad, one need not enter a Nursing program.

Due to the rising demand of audiologists in the country and in other parts of the world, the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery is now offering a two-year masteral (MA) degree program in Clinical Audiology.

“Many Filipinos seek jobs outside the country that many resort to enter a nursing school after graduating in a four year course,” Martinez said. “For an audiologist to work abroad, they only have to pass the interview of their employer.”

THE AVERAGE Thomasian may have been used to speaking in “Taglish” or a mix of Filipino and English

But to Marilu Madrunio, the newly appointed chair of the UST Department of Languages, “code-mixing” or the interchanging of English and Filipino words should be shunned.

DESPITE the 5.5 per cent tuition increase this year, the University still enjoys robust enrollment.

UST Asst. Registrar Chin Uy said that the enrollment increased from 31,782 last year to 32,239 this year.

“Enrollment is still on-going in the Graduate School and the Institute for Physical Education and Athletics (IPEA), so we are even expecting that number to increase until the second week of July,” Uy told the Varsitarian.

Uy explained that the rise in the number of enrollees is due to the quality of education that the University offers.

“BINGO!” cheered a lady who bagged cold cash and who suddenly forgot the pain of her multiple kidney operations during a bingo game hosted by the UST Hospital (USTH).

The USTH Nephrology Section held the Mobile Charity Bingo for around 850 dialysis and kidney patients in Luzon last June 25 at the Engineering Sports Complex

The bingo game was part of a series of events organized by the Philippine Society of Nephrology (PSN) to instill awareness on kidney diseases last June’s National Kidney Month.

FORMER UST Rector Fr. Tamerlane Lana, O.P. was named among this year’s 10 Outstanding Manilans for his exemplary spiritual leadership last June 23 at the Manila Hotel. The city of Manila awards the title “Outstanding Manilan” to Manila residents who have made significant contributions within and outside the city.

Lana was cited for his leadership of UST and his attempts to make UST a center for contextualized theology in Asia.

CONSERVATORY of Music Dean Raul Sunico and cello instructor Renato Lucas won the Best Instrumental Performance award for their recording of George Canseco’s “Gaano Kadalas Ang Minsan” in the 19th Awit Awards on June 15 at the Casino Filipino Theatre in Parañaque.

The Awit Awards were organized by the Philippine Association of the Record Industry that recognizes local music talents. “Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan” is one of the songs from the album Romanza, featuring musical pieces of Sunico as the pianist and Lucas as the cellist.

THE UNIVERSITY has joined, last June 14, the Save La Mesa Coalition (Slamec) in its cause to prevent a government-controlled corporation from putting up a housing project near the La Mesa reservoir.

NURSING Dean Glenda Vargas and the other members of the Technical Committee on Nursing Education of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) have resigned to protest the CHED’S alleged inability to foster quality nursing education.

The mass resignation was reportedly sparked by the CHED’s appointment of George Cordero, president of the Philippine Nurses Association, as a member of the technical committee.

Vargas and the others reportedly said the appointment would constitute conflict of interest since Cordero owns a nursing school.

THE UNIVERSITY’S founder, Fr. Miguel de Benavides, O.P., was unrecognized in his hometown of Carreon de los Condes in Palencia, Spain for the past 400 years until last July 1, when a bronze statue of him was unveiled there with Spanish and Filipino Dominicans and Spanish government officials in attendance.

THREE hundred and thirty-three years of Spanish presence in the Philippines was not enough to make the Spanish language popular among Filipinos.

This is the sad reality that the Spanish language faces in the country, one of many former Spanish colonies. During the Marcos regime in 1973, Spanish ceased to be an official language in the Philippines. It became non-compulsory in the college curriculum in 1987.