Tag: June 30, 2008

FIRST days can be exciting but also daunting for college freshmen, especially in a new environment like UST.

Understanding that freshmen students can still be groping in the dark in their first few weeks in the University, four guidance counselors from the Faculty of Arts and Letters (Artlets) and the Colleges of Science, Commerce and Fine Arts and Design shared their tips to help freshmen cope with college life and get the most out of their stay in UST.

TEODORA “Doring” Agcang was standing by a street lamp on España Street when I first saw her. It was past midnight last June 6 and I was looking for a way back to my apartment on G. Tolentino Street, just a block away from P. Noval.

Walking alone from school was not a good idea so a friend suggested that I take a pedicab.

THE NAGGING dilemma of hunger is an “unacceptable issue which is a result of lack of respect for life,” Pope Benedict XVI said in the recent United Nations Food Summit last June 1.

In his message, the Pope stressed that in order to fight hunger, people’s rights and dignity must be upheld.

“The primary right to food is intrinsically linked to the safeguarding and defense of human life,” the Pope said. “Each person has the right to life.

WHAT schools need today is to emphasize philosophy in order to bridge the widening gap between faith and reason.

This was the urgent call of Pope Benedict XVI, who stressed that Christian faith must be rooted from a concrete historical context, which would make men understand truths about faith better during a symposium last June 5 to 8 at the Vatican’s Clementine Hall.

“Modernity is not simply a historically datable cultural phenomenon,” the Supreme Pontiff said. “Faith must begin with the real, concrete human situation.”

AMID global warming, measures to check excessive carbon emissions have become more pressing.

Recent findings from the US Energy Information Administration indicate that buildings are responsible for almost half of all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually. Not only that, buildings also consume six times as much fossil fuel energy and produce six times as much GHG emissions as all cars and trucks combined.

Hence, the urgent need for the building industry to go green.

Green is in

FEW things in the world would inspire frantic album sales, with emotion being at the top of this scant list. Perhaps, American Idol (AI) winner David Cook uses emotion fact to its full extent in his 10-track solo album, Analog Heart.

Before shooting to AI stardom, Cook had a fledgling career as an underground artist. It was during this time when the Oklahoma native released his independent album, Analog Heart, recently made available online and now a favorite among AI fans.

MAKING a locally animated film at par with Disney productions has always been in the back of every Filipino animator’s mind, and Reggie Entienza’s Urduja (2008) shows this.

BROWSING through the pages of an Inquirer issue dated June 20 to monitor stories on inflation, the NBA finals as well as Ces Drilon’s post-Abu Sayyaf ordeal, I chanced upon an opinion letter written by Noli N. Reyes, a professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the University of the Philippines-Diliman which led me to rethink the options I have initially listed above as prospective fillers for this rhetoric bun on paper.

LET ME not face a time where there will be no doctor who can cure, no mentor who can teach, no engineer who can build, and so on and so forth.

Last November, the National Statistics Coordination Board (NCSB) released a report that disclosed the decline of the Philippine educational system from 1990 to 2005.

DELAYED obedience is disobedience.

This is one maxim I learned from my aunt a few weeks ago.

As a Med-Tech intern in the Out Patient Department of the UST Hospital, we are being honed to perpetually be on the move and to do our duties properly and instantaneously since we deal with real people whose lives can be jeopardized by mishandling and misdiagnosis.