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UNIVERSITY officials are optimistic a consortium of banks which had agreed to finance the P3-billion expansion of the UST Hospital will soon release funds for the ambitious project, a move expected to clear once and for all a controversy that has spilled over to the opinion pages of several newspapers.

UST Rector and hospital chairman Fr. Ernesto Arceo, O.P. is lashing out at critics of the hospital upgrade and expansion, pointing out that the University only wanted to put an end to years of financial losses.

BILANG simbulo ng pagsisimula ng isang panibagong kabanata sa kasaysayan, isang tradisyon na ang paglalagay ng panulukang-bato o cornerstone bago itatag ang isang gusali. Isang angkop na halimbawa nito ang seremonya ng cornerstone laying noong 1911 na opisyal na naglunsad sa pagtatayo ng bagong kampus ng Unibersidad.

Pinangunahan ng matataas na opisyal ng Unibersidad, tulad nina Padre Jose Noval, O.P., ang rektor, at si P. Florencio Llanos, O.P., ang bise-rektor, ang seremonya na ginanap noong Disyembre ng taong iyon. Isinabay ito sa pagdiriwang ng ika-300 anibersaryo ng pagkakatatag ng Unibersidad.

HOURS before he irretrievably rested his pen, veteran journalist and former presidential press secretary and Varsitarian news editor Jesus “Jess” Sison rose from his bed and had dinner with his kids.
“We were very happy when we saw him because he had been lying in his bed ever since he was first hospitalized,” Sison’s eldest daughter Milen de Quiros, 50, said.

THE FACULTY of Arts and Letters Student Council has asked for a review of an alleged policy by the College of Education that “empowers” security guards to cut the hair of students.

The policy was brought to the attention of the student government in a grievance complaint filed by an AB-BSE student who said that the guard posted at the Albertus Magnus Building last July 5 did not allow him and his classmates to enter the building unless they cut their hair. In order to get to their classes, they said they subjected themselves to a haircut by the guard.

THE YOUNGEST and the only Southeast Asian to receive the award for Outstanding Student Achiever of the World is a proud Thomasian.

Leonard Faustino, a 16-year-old Medical Technology freshman, accepted the recognition last July 9 at the 16th World University Students Assembly in Seoul, South Korea.

Conferred by the Universal Peace Federation, World Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (World CARP), and the United Nations Veterans Foundation to 19 other students all over the world, the award recognizes exceptional academic and humanitarian efforts.

HOTEL and Restaurant Management (HRM) students bagged maajor awards in the wedding-themed Manila Food and Beverages Exposition last June at the World Trade Center in Pasay.

Seniors Gwen Anais Gatchalian, Maria Elena Dumalaog, and Frances Casey Santos won the grand prize in the cake-decorating competition while sophomores Angelica del Rosario, Katrina Lopez, Jodel Porto, Anthony Tamayo, and Patricia Villamar grabbed first prize in the on-the-spot table-setting category.

ACCOUNTING students will soon get training on a widely used business software, boosting their chances of being employed in big companies and business process outsourcing (BPO) firms.

German business software giant SAP has agreed to give the license for free, while a consulting firm will provide training and modules. Germany’s Deutsche Bank, which has BPO operations in the Philippines, will give financial assistance.

UST leaped the bar of excellence anew, registering impressive performances in three licensure examinations while making ripples in the individual test rankings.

Thomasian graduates stamped their class in the Pharmacy, Architecture, and Nutrition board examinations to reaffirm the University’s status as one of the best academic institutions in the country.

With four Thomasians landing in the top 10, UST emerged as the top-performing school in the Pharmacy board exam, posting a 91-per cent passing rate compared to a 57-per cent national passing mark.

THE LATEST in eye treatment technology that would free people from using eyeglasses and contact lenses is now available at the UST Hospital.

The Allegretto Wave Excimer Lasik (Laser-Assisted In-Situ Keratomileusis) System, which the UST Hospital bought from Germany last April, boasts of an 8.5-second refracting ability which can restore a person’s vision to 20/20 with minimal risk of corneal drying or swelling due to bacterial infection.

THE FATE of the Human Security Act of 2007 rests in the hands of the Supreme Court amid apprehensions on the anti-terrorism law from Church leaders and human rights groups.

The government has started implementing the law despite appeals from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) and other groups for a thorough review.

“Many voices are apprehensive about the law on the basis of constitutionality and provisions that may legalize objectionable methods of quelling opposition,” the CBCP said in a statement last July 8.