Tag: March 2, 2002

LEO ANGELO Doble of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and Margaret Therese Colosso of the College of Architecture won the Mr. and Ms. Thomasian Personality at the University Grandstand last Feb. 15. The Student Organizations’ Coordinating Council (SOCC) organized the event.

Colosso was an early favorite and bested the other contestants in theme wear, sports wear, casual wear, and formal wear. She was also named model discovery of the year. Duke Samson of the Conservatory of Music was named male model discovery.

ARE THE acts of war of United States President George Bush and known terrorist Osama Bin Laden justified?

UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery Regent Fr. Jerry Manlangit, O.P. raised this question in his lecture titled “St. Thomas on Bush and Bin Laden” at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex last Jan. 23.

The lecture is part of the “Linggo ng IR,” the annual event sponsored by the Institute of Religion.

ADDITIONAL laws for e-commerce ensure progress.

This was according to Globe Telecom senior vice-president for the corporate and regulatory affairs and spokesperson Atty. Rodolfo Salalima during his lecture titled “E-Commerce, Where To?” at the Chiang-Ching-Kuo Conference Hall last Feb. 5

“E-Commerce depends on the technology we are using. Our technologies are moving so fast and yet our laws can not keep up with them,” Salalima said.

IT ALL ended in an unexpected fashion.

The Faculty of Arts and Letters defeated the Faculty of Engineering in latter’s own game to end a 13-year drought in the “Pautakan 2002: The Silver Edition,” the UST annual intercollegiate quiz contest last Feb. 23 at Medicine Auditorium.

“It really paid off all the effort, all the sweat, ang dami naming pinagdaanan and we are so happy (we won),” said a jubilant Prof. Rhodora Lintag, one of coaches of the all-male AB squad, after the contest.

TO MAKE the UST Conservatory of Music a foremost venue for the cultural advancement in our country is the vision of the newly appointed dean of the Conservatory of Music, Raul Sunico, an acclaimed pianist based in New York.

“I want to see the day when the Conservatory leads the way towards the Renaissance here in our country,” said world-class pianist Sunico who succeeded Dean Erlinda Fule.