Tag: Vol. LXXIII

FOR MOST people, sitting in a stuffy theater, listening to Bach?s Baroque pieces and Mozart?s classical compositions is dull and uninteresting.

But the French Spring in Manila packaged such music well in its Chamber Music series in a two-night performance at the Carlos P. Romulo Theater at the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) Plaza in Makati.

DARING, experimental, and individualistic.

These three words best describe the works of six French painters-Valerie Fav, Philippe Cognee, Jerome Fran?ois, Philippe Perrot, Didier Dessus, and Fran?oise Petrovich-featured in the exhibit Peinture [figures] Peinture at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila.

For the past three years, the French Film Festival has been treating Filipinos to a wide range of movies. This year?s festival offered movies that were close to the heart of the Filipinos. Two of the offerings in fact had some connection with the Philippines? experience with colonialism.



Indochine

WHILE most faculty members hop from one lecture to another with the ease and agility of mountain cats, there are those who lumber to their classes in crutches or struggle with the wheels of their wheelchairs. Just the same, they exhibit the same fire and idealism as their more physically able counterparts in imparting solid knowledge to the young.

CAMPUS academic leaders welcomed the news that Asiaweek has stopped its controversial annual survey of Asia?s top universities.
?There are variables in the survey that would be unfair to UST and other schools,? UST Secretary-General Fr. Rodel Aligan, O.P. said. ?That could be the reason they discontinued it.?

When students enter semi-finished classrooms with piles of hollow blocks and sacks of cement around, they could only grumble and bear the inconvenience.
With some of the summer construction projects for this school year still underway, Thomasians can only wait until the seemingly endless renovations and constructions are accomplished.

Delayed planning

The new president of the Central Student Council will propose amendments to the CSC Constitution to prevent controversies that hounded past council elections.

A SCHOOL is only as good as its students. This is the reason UST is seeking to improve its student selectivity despite the demand for more enrollment slots.
Judging by the Asiaweek survey of Asia?s best universities last year, UST is improving its student selectivity. Although it ranked 74th out of 77 participating schools, with an overall score of 41.69 percent, it obtained a 20.96 percent rating in student selectivity, landing 48th place. Among the top four Philippine universities, UST was second in student selectivity.

THE 400th anniversary of UST is still 10 years away, but the University is already at the thick of preparations by welcoming it - not through a party, but appropriately enough, a reassessment of old strengths, a refurbishing of vision, and a renovation of its mission.
In the run-up to the quadricentennial, UST Rector Fr. Tamerlane Lana, O.P. has ordered a revision of the vision-mission statement and formed committees to map out strategic, tactical, and operational plans in consonance with the modified vision-mission.

University officials were optimistic that UST would improve in this year?s Asiaweek survey of top Asian universities from last year?s 74th finish out of 77, a modest improvement from the preceding year?s 78th out of 79. In fact, the University created a steering committee last year to devise a contingency and improve its standing based on the survey?s criteria.