Tag: March 23, 2007

CHANGE is inevitable.

Now that I am opening a new chapter of my life, I look back at the time when I started my studies in this prestigious University. I can still vividly remember when I first set foot on the country’s oldest University. I was confused and fearful of how I would be able to cope up with the challenges college life would bring. I was nervous and scared that I would be facing a war zone of academic assessments, with “troops” I did not even know. But with determination and persistence, I continued and marched with gusto.

SAFETY inside the University has been an issue here with the death of two Thomasian students last year near the campus. University officials have conducted talks with the University-Belt police and the barangays surrounding the University as a result.

Some of the safety measures planned, like the installation of lampposts around the campus, roving guards and tanods outside UST, and the increase of police visibility in the area have been implemented.

so, Manny Pacquiao is running after all.

After months of dilly-dallying, the “People’s Champ” told reporters that he is now ready to step into the political arena. He will be running for Congress in the first district of Cotabato against Rep. Darlene Antonino-Custodio. Pacquiao’s lawyer is set to file his candidacy on March 29, and he is expected to end the “ancient” Antonino dynasty in Mindanao.

STUDENT-discipline officers, for many years now, have been refusing admission to unmarried pregnant students, saying they might scandalize and influence others. Another supposed “reason,” according to sources, is that these expectant mothers should rather devote their time and health on their pregnancy.

THE SERIES of Newsweek reports on social instabilities in Europe due to falling birth rates, declining human and labor resources, an aging population that drains social security systems, and a decreasing youth market should serve us a warning on the costs of electing anti-life politicians come May. The Philippines is expected to hit below 2.1 fertility replacement level by 2025, based on the US Census Bureau and the UN Development Programme’s World Population Prospects.

MORE THAN moving audiences with 20 life-affirming and uplifting stories, CineVita Campus Film Festival, which was sponsored by the Varsitarian, opened an avenue for filmmakers, actors, and media experts to convey lessons, experiences, and challenges to the young Thomasian cinephile.

“Greatness comes not when things always go smooth for you, but when you are tested; for only if you have been into the deepest valleys can you know how significant it is to be on the highest mountains.”

--Anonymous

ALMOST four years ago, I thought of committing suicide.

TRACKING the progress of medicine in the country since the Spanish times, international and local health sciences scholars and archivists held the First International Conference on the History of Medicine recently at the Antonio Vivencio del Rosario Heritage Section of the Miguel de Benavidez Library (formerly UST Central Library). The event sought to boost interest in medical history research.

WHAT was supposed to be a mere class project for a group of UST students turned into San Beda College’s official museum housing the Benedictine educational institution’s 106 years of history.

The San Beda College Museum, inaugurated last Jan. 27, was the work of Graduate School students Bryan Brigoli, Maureen Runas, and Joseph Renta for their subject, Museum Interpretation and Design, under Prof. Corazon Alvina.

INUDYOK ng Tomasino at Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Literatura na si Bienvenido Lumbera ang mga estudyanteng manunulat na isalin at ihubog ang kahalagahan ng kasaysayan sa kanilang mga akda sa kanyang pananalita sa ika-39 St. Thomas More lecture na ginanap noong Pebrero 9 sa Thomas Aquinas Research Center.

“Ang paglikha ng akdang pampanitikan ay proseso ng pagsanib ng manlilikha sa daloy ng mga pangyayaring nagsasangkot sa kanya sa pagsulong ng panahon tungo sa tinuturing na kasaysayan,” ani Lumbera.