Tag: No. 9
USTv Awards tackle May 9 polls
Museum director shows off coloring skills
UST MUSEUM Director Fr. Isidro Abaño shows his prowess as a colorist in “Color More, Stress Less,” an exhibition of his collaboration with other artists, at the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences.
Abaño explores the psychological dimensions of art particularly its soothing qualities by highlighting the recent fad on adult coloring books. He displays an array of colored-pencil artworks on black and white illustrations—mostly from adult coloring books such as Bookware Publishing’s “Books for the Soul” and “Kulay Pinoy,” by artist Vermailene Barrios.
Sunico concert raises funds to promote OFW devotion to San Lorenzo Ruiz
Samonte’s ‘McSketches’: Paper napkin as art
Panitikang Filipino: Yumayabong o naluluot?
BUNSO kung maituturing sa ating mga pambansang pagdiriwang ang Buwan ng Panitikan ng Filipinas (BPF) ngayong Abril na isang malaking hakbang sa pagpapayabong ng pambansang pagpapahalaga sa ating literatura at mga manunulat.
Sa kasalukuyan, ikalawang taon pa lamang nito sa bisa ng Proklamasiyon Bilang. 968, s. 2015, na nilagdaan ni Pangulong Benigno Aquino III alinsunod sa probisiyon ng Konstitusyon na dapat payabungin ang kasaysayan, kultura at sining ng bansa.
Inilarawan ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Panitikan na si Virgilio Almario ang selebrasiyon bilang pagkakataon upang “bigyan ng espesyal na pagtingin at pagmamalasakit ang panitikan ng Filipinas pati na ang mga awtor [ng bayan].”
Panitikan sa panahon ng Internet
MAY BISA ang pagbabasa na humihigit sa nakaimprentang teksto ng mga aklat, lathalain at iba pang mga babasahin.
Bisa na nakapagpapaintindi sa mga bata ng mahahalagang alituntuning-moral sa buhay, sa pamamagitan ng mga hayop na nakikipaghalubilo at nakikipag-usap sa bawat isa. Bisa na nakapagpapalawak ng bokabularyo sa wikang Filipino man o sa Ingles. Bisa na nakapagpapalakbay sa mortal na buhay ng mambabasa tungo sa iba’t ibang dimensiyon ng mundo.
Ngunit ano na nga ba ang kahalagahan ng pagbabasa sa nagmamadaling panahon ng internet at social media lalo na ngayong buwan ng Abril na ipinagdiriwang ang Buwan ng Panitikang ng Filipinas?
Pamahalaang pangmag-aaral noong 1920s
SA BAWAT pagtatapos ng akademikong taon, nagiging maingay ang pulitika sa loob ng Unibersidad partikular sa eleksiyon ng Central Student Council (CSC), ang pinakamataas na governing student body sa UST.
Gayun pa man, alam n’yo bang may nauna nang University-wide student body bago pa maitatag ang CSC?
Sa isyu ng Varsitarian noong akademikong taong 1927-1928, inilimbag ang rekomendasiyon ng isang hindi pinangalanang opisyal ng Unibersidad ukol sa pagtatatag ng “Board of Students,” na naglalayong magsilbing tagapamagitan sa mga mag-aaral at sa mga dekano o sa Rektor.
Sa dalawang sangay ng CSC sa kasalukuyan, mas hawig ang Board of Students sa Central Board kaysa sa Executive Board.
Fr. Lleva: Varsitarian priest alumnus who wielded the pen for Christ
UNTIL his last days, love for writing preoccupied the late Fr. Edgardo “Edd” Lleva of the Diocese of Malolos, staying true to his vocation of spreading the Word of God.
Lleva, who passed away at 65 last May 24 due to cardiac arrest, served as the Varsitarian’s Filipino editor in 1974. He studied theology at the Ecclesiastical Faculties from 1971 to 1975.
His monthly column for the Varsitarian, titled “Psst...atbp.” tackled university issues and student concerns written in a comical and conversational manner. The articles, which had numbers as titles, occasionally involved philosophical musings and biblical terms.
UST dips in QS ranking
THE UNIVERSITY of Santo Tomas dropped two notches in the 2015 ranking of top Asian universities, but improved its score from last year, data from the London-based consultancy agency Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) showed.
UST went down to 143rd from 141st in 2014, but improved its score to 43.5 points from last year’s 42.4 points.
The University of the Philippines (UP) remained the top university in the country despite dropping to 70th from 63rd place last year. UP got a score of 60.2 points, which was higher than last year’s 58.70 points.
Library to launch rare books online
READERS from all over the world will soon be able to access UST’s heritage library and archives online under a digital preservation and re-publication project sponsored by one of the country’s top banks.
Lumina Pandit II: A Continuum, a project of the UST Miguel de Benavides Library in partnership with the UnionBank of the Philippines, aims to refurbish, digitize, and arrange more than 30,000 historical books from the library’s collections dating from 1492 to 1900 using a digital collection management software “CONTENTdm.”
One million pages have been scanned and are being uploaded online.
The project was formally launched last May 26 at the UST Miguel de Benavides Library.
