Tag: Vol. LXXVI

THE UST Medical Alumni Association (USTMAA) in America reaffirmed its support for the University by pledging to donate more than $100,000 over a five-year period during its 12th annual grand reunion and clinical convention last June 20 to 24 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“It is their way of maintaining ties with the school,” Faculty of Medicine and Surgery dean Dr. Rolando Lopez said. “They are manifesting their loyalty through the help they give.”

DESPITE her achievements and accolades, she refuses to be flattered, and insists her achievements are mere products of chance and by a person who just happened to be at the right place at the right time.

KEEPING up to beat with the times, the Conservatory of Music (Music) will soon be adding new majors to its curriculum.

In an interview with the Varsitarian, Music Dean Raul Sunico said the College is planning to introduce Jazz, Music Therapy, and Musical Recording soon, but only Jazz would be implemented next year due to the lack of faculty, rooms, and facilities.

“You have to make changes in the curriculum no matter how good it is, because there will always be something new (to add),” he added.

WITH the help of a multi-million peso donation, the University of Santo Tomas Hospital Clinical Division (USTH-CD) is set to improve its facilities and give more support to its Charity Section patients.

According to Regan Duka, administrative assistant of the UST Grants Office, the Santo Tomas Charity Foundation Inc. (STCFI) received some P4.6-million from the Mercury Drug Corporation, UST Medical Alumni Association, Consuelo Madrigal Foundation and other private donors during its launching last April.

WOMEN and the importance of relationships characterize the pages of Katrina Tuvera’s first ever collection of short stories, Testament and Other Stories (Anvil Publishing, 2002).

The stories manage to stand on their own even as Tuvera relates the different versions of women’s sadness and loneliness. The stories cater to a wide range of generations including Tuvera’s.

TO DISCOURAGE “blood pimping and prostitution” in the University of Santo Tomas Hospital (USTH), the UST Blood Bank has embarked on weekly blood drives starting with junior medical students last June 25.

According to Dr. Manuel Barnes, the blood bank director, regular voluntary blood donation from the University’s 30,000 students can adequately supply the bank’s needed 600 blood bags per month.

“If more Thomasians are motivated (to donate blood), we can eliminate paid ‘donors’,” he explained.

ACADEMIC discourses are not necessarily only produced by academics. In the case of Panitikabataan2004, students get to deliver studies and treatises that could give academics and scholars a run for their money.

The unique conference and paper presentation was organized by the University of the Philippines (UP) Institute of Creative Writing and the UP Writers’ Club, with funding from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts last July 2 PanitiKabataan 2004 was subtitled “the first student conference on Philippine literature.”

“None of us lives for himself, nor dies for himself. If we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for Him.” - Romans 14:7-8

WITH the high cost of living these days, it’s really hard to survive with only a sari-sari store as source of income. And it has been tough to make ends meet for my mom who raises two teenagers on her own.

Di kita mailabas.

’Sing bigat ka ng pinaghalu-halong banana cake,

pulboron, beef steak, ubeng mamon,

kwek-kwek, pansit kanton, avocado shake,

at Lydia’s Lechon –— namumuo, pumupuno,

nagkakagulo sa t’yan. Ngunit pilit kong iniipit,

pinipigil, tinitiis hanggang sa tuluyang mamilipit sa sakit

at kahit anong pangungulit,

ayaw pa ring lumabas, dumulas, lumagaslas,

sa kabila ng panlalamig, paninigas, panginginig,

at pagmamanhid ng aking mga paa’t

HE WAS ALREADY working as a full-time architect in Manila for almost two years when he realized that it was not the life he wanted. But he was unsure of what exactly he wanted to be. Then it came to him like a vision: the answer to his dilemma was right under his very nose and scattered around his house all this time — comic books!

From architectural blueprints to his original comic book artworks, Gerry Alanguilan has taken the big, bold step to fulfill the thing he aspires for the most: to draw as no one has ever drawn before.