Tag: October 10, 2002

THE UST Singers swept the major awards in the Tonen 2002 International Competition for Chamber Choirs last Sept. 20 to 22 in Monster, Netherlands.

Tonen is an annual choral competition joined by selected groups from all over the world.

The UST Singers topped all three categories in the competition, namely secular, sacred, and folklore.

UST Singers member Joshua Badilla said that the audiences and the jury were impressed by their performance.

IN RECOGNITION of her 50 years of service to the Thomasian community, a Faculty of Arts and Letters (AB) literature professor was conferred the title professor emeritus at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex Auditorium last September 24.

Dr. Milagros Tanlayco was honored for her loyalty to UST, her commitment to instruction and her excellence in scholarship. The title is the highest honor the University accords on its professors.

According to Rector Fr. Tamerlane Lana, O.P., conferring on Tanlayco the prestigious honor was an easy choice.

THE FRENCH government, through its Ambassador to the Philippine Renee Veyret, bestowed on UST Center for Human Resources and Development director Atty. Manuel Beaniza with the Ordre de Palmes Academiques during the French National Day.

According to Veyret, Beaniza was among the 10 Filipinos whom the French government considered as cultivators of Franco-Philippine relations and achievers in French education, culture, and the arts.

Friday at 6 pm,

another promised call

in your last letter.

This week

I weave

in and out of spaces

left by mobs

cluttering the paths,

breathing in the coming weekend’s relief

after that damned history test.

I hail a taxi

and rattle through highways

congested with rush-hour vermin

lurching

stopping

lunging forward

dodging pedestrians and stray dogs

and a hundred

LAST September 21, the inferno of Marcos’ dictatorship was ignited once more as the UST Center for Creative Writing and Studies (UST-CCWS) held it’s 10th USTINGAN, a round table discussion on literature and other related issues. The lecture was dubbed as “Martial Law and Literature”.

Key speakers were writers who survived and fought the regime, namely, poet and screenplay writer Jose “Pete” Lacaba; feminist writer and critic Dr. Lilia Quindoza-Santiago, and National Artist for Literature and UST-CCWS senior associate F. Sionil Jose.

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous hand.” - Isaiah 41:10

ACCEPTING failure is never easy. This is especially true when one has wallowed in success many times. And by these conquests, one ‘s strength and power is normally measured by peers.

However, can strength and courage be truly measured by success alone?

IT WAS a cruise of “Titanic” proportions.

For five days, home was aboard the Star Cruises Superstar Leo, the first and largest megaship in the Asia-Pacific.

Organized for our Tour and Travel Operations and Management course, the international cruise to China, Vietnam and Hong Kong aimed to prepare us for our future roles as professionals, to apply principles and concepts of the course and to gain first-hand experience of the luxury cruise industry.

Day 1: Aboard the Superstar Leo

MOST decades in the Varsitarian’s history saw the young staffers expressing their thoughts and sentiments through their articles, energized as their pens were by journalistic freedom.

But the Varsitarian staffers of the 70’s could only write under the black cloud of martial law.

IT SEEMS that the Congress has distorted priorities. Several problems owing to the poor economy, crime and corruption, and terrorism are drowning the nation, but Congress has chosen to prioritize in its legislative business a bill that abets pre-marital sex, contraception, and abortion.

IT IS very disappointing to see an empty locker, especially if you keep important and expensive things in it. Such was the case of two lockers at Laboratory Five of the Faculty of Pharmacy.

On the day of the returning, a sign of semester coming to an end, two groups of students where shocked to see their lockers open and empty—they had nothing to return.