Tag: No. 7

A NEW collective bargaining agreement with the non-academic employees remains remote as the Samahang Manggagawa ng UST (SM-UST) elevated the dispute to the Court of Appeals, arguing that Labor Secretary Patricia Sto. Tomas might have abused her authority in ruling on a compromise that the Union says is not advantageous to it.

THE UNIVERSITY has three new departments: the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Mathematics and Information in Computer Technology (ICT) and the Department of Environmental Sciences.

Fr. Jose Antonio Aureada, O.P. said a fourth new department is being eyed—the Department of Literature. At present literature is subsumed under the Department of Languages.

The Department of Environmental Science would focus on improving the basic six-unit science subjects with emphasis on the environment.

AFTER his failed confirmation as Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman, UST Civil Law professor Justice Alfredo Benipayo was appointed solicitor general last Oct. 14.

According to Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye, Benipayo was chosen by President Macapagal-Arroyo from a short list of candidates recommended by a search committee. Benipayo’s appointment papers were signed by the President last Oct. 11.

Benipayo assumed the post, vacated by now Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo, immediately after he took oath last Oct. 14.

It is Sunday. And like all the other Sundays of my life, it spells a kind of ordinariness: the light is stable in the vision and the objects sit quietly in their given places. The radio blares the romantic songs of Basil Valdez, and on the opposite room, three people play poker. The dogs are pretty contemplative, having been fed just enough to maintain an animal kind of stupor.

“I BOUGHT this notebook to write my dreams in. But it has too many blank pages. I don’t have enough dreams…Maybe dreams just don’t happen when we go to sleep. Wishes, desires, aspirations, visions—aren’t those dreams too? And stories, especially stories…fantasies, fictions, lives imagined, worlds conjured…”

DESPITE a dip in the passing rate, UST got the top spot in the over-all ranking for 100 or more examinees in the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Licensure Examinations last month.

The University registered a 52 per cent passing rate compared to last year’s 55 per cent with 138 out of its 265 examinees passing.

The national passing rate was 18 per cent.

“Now I plead, with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgement” - 1 Corinthians 1:10

I EXPERIENCED a total culture shock when I went to this remote place in Abra, just a mountain away from the Kalinga province.

SA PAGPASOK natin sa ika-21 siglo, panibagong hamon na naman sa Pilipino ang suriin ang kanyang katauhan at pag-isipan kung saan niya ilalagay ang sarili sa mundo. Sa panahong ito, unti-unting nabubura ang mga bakod ng mundo at ang kaalaman ang siyang nagiging sandata sa makabagong digmaan.

THREE a.m., October 24. I had a trouble sleeping despite a busy week. I cited three possible reasons for my anxiety: the Coke Light I had during dinner, the fact that I was sleeping over at another house, and the uncertainty of what may come out of Inkblots 2002.

THE EIGHTIES were a historic decade for the country and for the Varsitarian. Despite the lifting of martial law in 1981, the dictatorship was still in place, as shown by the imprisonment of government “enemies” and other atrocities under the mask of a returned democracy.