Tag: September 29, 2014

THE UNIVERSITY’S two high schools again bested other secondary schools in Manila in the National Achievement Test (NAT) taken by fourth-year students last March 5.

UST Education High School (EHS), the University’s laboratory high school, topped 18 schools in cluster three, or schools with 100-199 examinees, after posting an average score of 65.91 percent.

EHS got the highest scores in four subjects, namely: Critical Thinking (71.5%), English (79.40%), Filipino (70.25%), and Math (59.89%). It placed second and third in Araling Panlipunan (70.09%) and Science (47.03%), respectively.

EHS had a total of 108 examinees this year. Last year, EHS belonged to cluster four, or schools with 55-99 examinees.

THE GENERAL Education departments of the University are set to be transferred to different colleges from the supervision of the Office of the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs (OVRAA), adopting the organizational structure of other local as well as foreign universities.

The departments of Philosophy, English, Literature and the Humanities, History, Foreign Languages, and Social Science will be under the helm of the Faculty of Arts and Letters (Artlets), while the College of Education will absorb the Filipino department. Its offices, however, will remain at the Main Building.

SECURITY officials nabbed a 22-year-old man last Aug. 2 for allegedly stealing several gadgets and a pair of leather shoes near the open field.

The UST security office said the suspect, Mark Galvan, was brought to the Sampaloc Police Station 4 after verification with the victims and from CCTV footage. But Galvan, who had posed as a jogger, was later released after reaching a settlement with the victims.

Security records showed Galvan entered the campus on a motorcycle, telling security guards he would go to the Santisimo Rosario Parish Church. He instead went around the field looking for potential victims, like varsity players and joggers, whose bags were unattended.

THE EMERGENCE of online social networking has changed the way people look for love from a rusty vending machine, where they get to grip an easy picking process, even sexualized, that is.

New technology has given us a number of dating apps, which take the edge off the traditional face-to-face dating practice. These applications seem to have won their clientele by stitching the lives of two strangers on a faster pace and effortless matchmaking by adding a location-based feature that enables users to scour possible partners within close proximity. This system translates to “hooking up."

With most applications available for free, it is not surprising that they top the charts of Google Play and App Store.

PAANO maging Filipino sa isang globalisadong mundo?

Higit na bibilis ang ragasa ng globalisasyon sa bansa dahil sa integrasyong pang-ekonomiya ng Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) sa darating na 2015. Sa pamamagitan ng integrasyon, magkakaroon ng iisang merkado sa rehiyon na siyang magpapadali sa pagluwas at pag-angkat ng mga produkto ng bawat bansa, sa pagpapadala at pagtanggap ng mga manggagawa, sa pamumuhunan at pagpapalitan ng serbisyo at higit sa lahat, mas mapapadali ang pagkawala ng mga Filipino.

Bukod sa kakulangan sa kalidad na mga produkto na maaaring makipag-sabayan sa produkto ng mga karatig-bansa, pag-usad ng pasukan sa Setyembre at agarang pagpapatupad ng K-12, hindi pa rin handa sa globalisasyon ang mga Filipino.

EARLIER this month, Senator Grace Poe endured long queues and congested train stations when she rode the notoriously inefficient Metro Rail Transit (MRT) Line 3 at the height of the rush hour. Poe wanted to experience firsthand the ordinary commuter’s daily woes. Her photo standing in line to purchase a ticket and riding the train while talking to another passenger made the rounds online and drew cheers from netizens. It became viral because netizens found pleasure in seeing a high government official, who is entitled to a luxury vehicle and a personal driver, experience the hardships of taking the MRT to school or work.

ARE FILIPINO taxpayers burdened with an “inequitable” and “outdated” tax system?

The answer is yes, as far as Sen. Juan Edgardo Angara is concerned.

“The country’s current tax system is terribly outdated and inequitable. Since (the enactment of the current Tax Code in 1997), prices have increased, and the cost of living has roughly doubled,” he said in an email to the Varsitarian. Angara chairs the Senate Ways and Means Committee, which is the tax-writing committee of the upper house.

WITH the advent of technology, one action could change one’s fate.

Several doors opened for Gerald Tamayo, a 10-year-old kid asking for alms along Dapitan street, when a video showing how he solves Mathematical equations given by the College of Commerce and Business Administration students went viral.

Chelsea Luzanta, the marketing student who took the video of Gerald, did not expect the video would be a hit. 

“He said that he’s good in math so we asked him questions to test his skills and surprisingly, he got it all right,” Chelsea shared.

The night she uploaded the video on her Facebook timeline, Chelsea was surprised by the overwhelmingly positive response. 

FIVE Thomasians and 25 other dancers from different schools brought home the gold medal in the mega crew division of the 2014 World Hip Hop International dance competition last Aug. 10 in Las Vegas, USA.

Juan Paolo Lorenzo Escano, a sports science senior; John Michael Fitzgerald Domingo, an architecture junior; Maria Bettina Pe, a physical therapy freshman; Rene Ignacio III, a fine arts freshman and Ryan Ramos, pre-school education freshman, were among the crew members of the A-Team.

MAHALAGA ang gampanin ng mga rehiyonal na panitikan sa pagpapayabong ng pambansang panitikan.

Ito ang naging sentro ng talakayan sa idinaos na taunang pambansang kumperensiya ng Unyon ng mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas (UMPIL) na pinamagatang “Rehiyonal na Panitikan bilang Pambansang Panitikan” noong ika-28, 29, at 30 ng Agosto sa Communication Auditorium ng College of Mass Communication, University of the Philippines (UP) – Diliman.

Pagsasalaysay ni Rosario Lucero, propesor ng Filipino sa UP, nagsimula ang muling pagkabuhay ng interes sa rehiyonal na panitikan sa pangangailangan ng mga mag-aaral ng panitikang Filipino na bumabalik pa sa kanikanilang mga probinsiya upang humagilap ng mga lumang teksto at akda.