Tag: November 14, 2006

AS FAR AS former Sen. Francisco Tatad is concerned, restoring the country’s frayed moral fibers begins with unnerving the peddlers of contraception and abortifacients in Congress.

Tatad, an AB Philosophy alumnus and former Varsitarian literary editor, urged the pro-life community to support a resolution calling for the expulsion of the Philippine Legislators’ Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) from the Batasan Complex during the 13th Asia-Pacific Congress on Faith, Life and Family last Oct. 8

“The self-appointed task of the Muslim brotherhood, as for all Islamists, is not to modernize Islam but rather, to Islamize modernity.” -Denis Macshane, Newsweek reporter

MUCH has been said about the “veil” issue that is causing a rift between Britain and the Muslim community. For House of Commons leader Jack Straw, wearing veils in his office is socially divisive, a mark of separation than unity. Many Islamist-cum-fundamentalists are interpreting Straw’s comments as sacrilegious.

“The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” --Dutch computer scientist Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

ALTHOUGH artificial intelligence (AI) is relatively a new discipline–its development is traced to 1951—it has faced numerous issues that computer professionals have been trying to address with dissertations and studies.

MATAPOS ibasura ng Korte Suprema ang people’s initiative, sumikad ang paa ng Malacañang na isulong ang Charter Change (Cha-cha) sa pamamaraan ng constituent assembly para mapalitan ang kasalukuyang bicameral-presidential na gobyerno sa isang federal-parliamentary.

Gil Perez, a Spanish guardia civil stationed at the governor-general’s palace during the Spaniards’ early years in the Philippines, was surprised when he found himself one day not in Manila, but in Mexico City.

WHAT makes all graduating students grin months before they march is to face the camera for a yearbook photo shoot, where they are expected to beam in their retouched looks.

What can make all graduate students grim months after they marched is to get hold of that yearbook that looks like somebody’s slam book.

I still remember grabbing my copy of the 2005 Thomasian. Besides the fact that errors on names, honors, and affiliated orgs were corrected only in later copies after some gripes, the yearbook was in bad taste.

THE PROPONENTS of the people’s initiative preach change (“pagbabago, ngayon na”) from the current bicameral-presidential system. But their initiative, far from initiating reform, was deformed from the start.

TODOS los Santos pa lamang, nagtitirik na ng kandila’t nag-aalay ng bulaklak at panalangin ang mga Pilipino para sa kanilang mga mahal na yumao upang gunitain ang Araw ng mga Kaluluwa.

Bagaman malungkot ang dahilan ng pagbisita sa mga patay dahil sa masakit na pagkawala ng ating mga mahal sa buhay, nagiging masaya pa rin ang pagdiriwang ng Undas sa tuwing magkikita ang mga magkakapamilya sa puntod ng namayapang minamahal.

SO YOU want to know what happened to her, don’t you? Why this room had never been occupied for years? Well, the last girl who lived here was Rinna, and in the beginning everyone thought of her as nuts, always complaining of flowers and all.

WITH the installation of Fr. Ernesto Arceo, O.P. as the 94th Rector of the University, several academic officials and heads of different colleges have expressed their hopes and expectations for his four-year term.

“He will be a great leader who will effectively lead UST toward its 400th year,” Fr. Hilario Singian, O.P. vice prior provincial of the Philippine Dominican Province, told the Varsitarian.

Vice Rector Fr. Juan Ponce, O.P. said Arceo would continue the University’s vision under his predecessor, Fr. Tamerlane Lana, O.P.