Tag: November 24, 2005

FAITHFUL to the tradition of promoting campus journalism, the Varsitarian once again gathered prominent media personalities and aspiring campus writers from all over the country in Inkblots 2005, the seventh UST National Campus Journalism Fellowship.

Over 200 eager writers from different universities and colleges as far as Tuguegarao in the North and General Santos City in the South braved miles to learn from the masters themselves and from each other.

THE ABORIGINAL Aytas of Tarlac are now slowly being consumed by westernization. But with the help of the UST Office on Community Development’s (OCD) Distance Learning Education (DLE) program by organizing annual celebrations of the Araw ng Katutubo, the Aytas are now being taught the importance of preserving their rich culture without severing any link or knowledge about the modern world.

With its green rolling hills and a majestic view of the Pinatubo in the horizon, Bamban, Tarlac has been the home of the indigenous Aytas for thousands of years.

CRITICAL bioethical issues are affecting the Philippines and Asia. The Philippines remains the battleground of the global population-control debate, a signal of how social and fertility engineering has remained resilient despite the overwhelming data showing that population control has no scientific, economic and philosophical validity.

MY GENERATION must have been a bit too young to fully know the late Nick Joaquin, who, to most writers, symbolizes an era that is now fading. Most of us probably know him by his “greatest hits” like Summer Solstice, which was made into a movie a few years ago. I wouldn’t have started reading his works if it wasn’t for May Day Eve, which appears to be a staple selection in high school English textbooks.