Tag: May 26, 2003

“TRULY, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life within you.” (Jn 6:53)

Pope John Paul II reiterated this in his latest encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia (Church of the Eucharist), which delves on the life of the Church centered on the Sacrament.

Released last Holy Thursday, the encyclical is marked by the Pope’s most treasured moments with the Eucharist in his more than 50 years in the priesthood.

Eat, drink, and be holy

SA SANDAANG kabataang nakakapagtapos sa hayskul, 45 lamang sa mga ito ang nakakapasok sa mga unibersidad at pamantasan. At sa 45 na ito, kalahati o 20 lamang ang matagumpay na nakakapagtapos sa kolehiyo. Ang tanong: ano ba ang problema?

I see you

tapping your foot

against pavement,

fingers

itching to stroke

the smooth length

of your cigarette,

luggage

ready to be hauled

by airport attendants,

I,

clinging

like a speck of dirt,

on the silver handle

of your suitcase,

waiting for your hand

to close around

the curved metal,

aching to melt

with the sweat

sinking deep

First, some reminders.

This coming school year, students and their parents may again have to claw deeper at the bottom of the barrel as the administration has hiked up tuition fee by a whopping 15 per cent. It is the seventh consecutive year that the price of education in this venerable institution has risen, pulling with it the bar that decides who can enter and avail of its quality and supposedly “catholic” education—“catholic” here meaning universal or for all. This is what the school should try to be, as much as possible.

A JOURNEY of a thousand miles begins with a single step (or something like that).

I have always disagreed with this old saying. Every journey begins not by putting a foot forward but rather with one’s insatiable desire to explore and conquer the world.

As this issue comes out, I finish yet another journey and embark on another one.

For today this V writer will finally lay to rest his days as a campus journalist.

***

STEPPING on the marbled floors of the Ayala-FGU Center building, but I a sense of unfamiliarity creeping in.

I breezed through the throng of people clad in crisp business suits while I struggled with my stilettos and pencil-cut skirt. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up upon the sight of K9 dogs sniffing at everything in sight.

I felt lost right in the heart of this fast-paced corporate jungle. I felt like a complete stranger in the midst of towers and skyscrapers dotting the stretch of the Ayala district.

PRO-LIFERS urge Thomasians to write their Congress representatives to defeat a bill that they say will legalize abortion. The call was made as the bill’s sponsors disregarded opposition in what pro-lifers said was a “rude” way to railroad the passage of the bill.

The House of Representatives’ Committee on Health held its final public hearing on the bill, the Reproductive Health Care Act, last April 29.

Tomasino siya

SA HALOS 40 taong pagsisilbi sa akademya, masasabing malaki ang impluwensiya ng Unibersidad kay Dr. Emmanuel Yap Angeles upang maitaas ang kalidad ng edukasyon sa Pampanga.

Hindi gaanong nakaririwasa ang buhay na ikinamulat ni Angeles sa piling ng kanyang pamilya. Tubong Pampanga ang mga ninuno nila at nakikitanim lang sa mga mayayamang may-ari ng lupa. Sa kabila ng kahirapan, pinapahalagahan ng kanyang pamilya ang pagkakaroon ng maayos na edukasyon.

DESPITE the decision of Father Rector Tamerlane Lana, O.P. to revert to the synchronized medical curriculum and to phase out the problem-based learning method, it seems that the problem has just started.

Professors at the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery are now at loggerheads over how to interpret and implement the Rector’s directive to continue the PBL only with the sophomores and juniors until its phase out.

DEVIATING from traditional methods of training, the University is making a big leap into the technological world by offering the long-awaited non-military components of the National Service Training Program (NSTP)—the Civic Welfare Training Service (CWTS) and Literacy Training Service (LTS)—online.

Unlike other schools, UST is the only university in the country to use an interactive approach on the CWTS and LTS, the non-military proponents of the NSTP.