Tag: Vol. LXXIII

TERRORISM spares no one.

In the Philippines, Irish missionary Fr. Rufus Halley, MSSC, 57, was buried last Sept. 1 at the Columban Father’s plot in Cagayan de Oro City after he was killed Islamic militants.

Investigations showed that Fr. Halley, who spent 30 years of missionary work in the Philippines, was a victim of a foiled kidnapping by six suspected members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Two suspects were arrested by local authorities.

FROM 1930 to 1934, the Varsitarian came under three consecutive Ilocano editors in chief from the old Faculty of Philosophy and Letters—Ricardo Dulay, Efren Peña and Virgilio Floresca.

It is said that Dulay initiated the “Ilocano dynasty.” He was accused of nepotism, having 95 percent of his staffers from his college. But they proved hardworking as he was. The Varsitarian was able to produce lengthy but philosophical editorials and editorial cartoons that stirred the University spirit.

REHABILITATING the UST Hospital does not only mean reviving its financial health and public image. It also means fostering industrial peace to ensure smooth operations and delivery of services.

Summit Ventures Management and Marketing Group, Inc., which took over the hospital’s management in September 2000, is seeking to arrest the financial erosion of the hospital. Pilar Almira, chief operating officer and USTH Board of Directors chair, said that USTH is performing positively for this fiscal year.

IMMEDIATELY after those three hijacked airliners were caused by terrorists to nosedive into each of the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, I received through short messaging service (SMS) Nostradamus’s supposed “prophecy” regarding the event. I’m sure most of you received it, too. It was so moronic it still makes me cringe whenever it recurs in my memory.

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THE FALL each one of us undergoes is but a normal process. Unlike the ROTC, no one is exempted from it. Perfection is only for the gods, but for us humans, flaws, failures and mistakes are all part of the world we, fortunately or unfortunately, live in.

However, there is one thing that separates us from one another.

Among all those who failed, some have recovered, some have not.

Attitude towards these failures is what makes the difference.

MULI’Y nais naming ipauna ito: Pinasasalamatan ng Varsitarian ang dalawang patnugot ng aming edisyong Filipino, sina Prop. Michael Coroza at Prop. Reynaldo Candido. Maraming salamat po sa inyong patuloy na pagsuporta at pagtulong upang mapaunlad ang wika!

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“I’m the woman who has awoken

I have found my path and will never return.”

-Meena, founding leader of RAWA

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Three young girls huddle in a corner of a dilapidated home crying, endlessly. They struggle to convince themselves that they are just having a nightmare and their mother is not dead.

Taking sides is sometimes the hardest decision to make. The rule: It is better to take side with the Montagues or the Capulets than to be in the middle.

But, it is also true that options are not limited to two. One can choose not to take sides, which sometimes is the best choice.

FORMER UST-ROTC Commandant Maj. Demy Tejares has broken his silence and implicated his successor in the UST Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and five dismissed corps cadets for the murder of the Mechanical Engineering student Mark Welson Chua last March. He also implicated the former head of the National Capital Region-Regional Community Defense Group (NCR-RCDG), which oversees the ROTC program in Metro Manila.

PRESIDENT Macapagal-Arroyo stressed the importance of the “skilled classes” composed of engineers, teachers, information technologists, and other professionals to rebuild the country economically.

The skilled classes are important in sustaining a country’s economy, the President told Thomasians during her new weekly broadcast show, “May Gloria ang Bukas Mo,” taped at the Medicine Cinematorium last Nov. 10.