Tag: Vol. LXXVIII

THOMASIAN Patrick Leonardo Co placed first in the July medical board exams after registering an 86.83 per cent average. Another Thomasian, Bernadine Chua, posted 85 per cent and placed second.

Aside from Co and Chua, other Thomasians made it to the Top 10. John Paul Gerard Rosales, with an 84 per cent average, placed seventh. Both Mark Sison and Nathaniel Chua clinched the eighth spot after registering 83.67 per cent.

FATHER Fausto Gomez, O.P. led Thomasian winners in the 25th National Book Awards given out by the Manila Critics Circle last Aug. 31 at the World Trade Center.

Fr. Gomez, regent of the College of Rehabilitation Science and former dean of the Faculty of Theology, won the Best Theology Book award for A Pilgrim’s Notes: Ethics, Social Ethics, Bioethics, published by the UST Publishing House (USTPH).

Although failing to gain its third consecutive Publisher of the Year title, the USTPH still received several awards, nominations, and citations.

PRESIDENT Macapagal-Arroyo led the inauguration of the Benavides Cancer Institute (BCI), the first one-stop cancer therapy center in the country, at the UST Hospital (USTH) last Aug. 21.

Named after UST’s founder, Fr. Miguel de Benavides O.P., the institute cost around P350 million to build and houses the most technologically advanced equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the country.

“Hamonado, because it was my late dad’s favorite.”
-Gianna Earnshaw, Psychology freshman, College of Science

“Chicken Cordon Bleu. It has always been included in our Christmas dinner.”
-Reginald Buhay, junior, College of Nursing

“Any salad. My mom’s salads are the best.”
-Ninoy dela Peña, Communication Arts senior, Faculty of Arts and Letters

If you could reschedule Christmas, when would it be and why?

“April or May. Most of the time, we end up doing our plates during the December break, so we don’t get to enjoy the season.”
-William Kelvin Chua, fifth-year student, College of Architecture

“December 16, so Christmas break would be longer.”
-Diana Tongson, Biology sophomore, College of Science

ACCOUNTANTS should not be mere mechanical functionaries of numbers and statistics but should display dexterity in analytics and technology.

Thomasian accountant and philanthropist Washington Sycip, co-founder of the one of the largest accounting firms in Asia, called for the country’s Accountancy curriculum to focus on developing students’ analytical and technology skills rather than teaching them to be mere auditors.

A GROUP of Fine Arts and Design students reaped 16 of the 24 awards in the first Student Advertising Congress at the Cultural Center of the Philippines Aliw Theater last Nov. 23.

THE UNIVERSITY registered notable performances in the professional licensure examinations for engineers last November and October.

Thomasian Bernard Anthony Marcial placed first over-all in the Civil Engineering (CE) board exams, posting a 98.95 per cent average.

UST dominated the CE exams in the 50 to 100 examinees category, as its passing rate surged from last year’s 88 per cent to 94 per cent this year.

NAIPAKITA ng Tomasinong si Arturo Tolentino ang isang magandang mukha ng pulitika sa kaniyang pagsinaya ng mga batas para sa kasarinlan at kaayusan ng bansa.

Bilang isang mambabatas, nakapapaglathala si “Ka Turing” ng higit sa 2,000 batas, kabilang na ang anti-graft law, civil service law, at law establishing the archipelago doctrine for the Philippines. Higit pa siyang nakilala sa buong mundo dahil sa ipinanukala niyang Law of the Sea, na nakatulong sa pagpapalawak ng teritoryo hindi lamang ng Pilipinas kundi ng iba pang mga bansa gaya ng Indonesia at Canada.

A THOMASIAN had been nominated to succeed Artemio Panganiban as Chief Justice.

Justice Angelina Sandoval-Gutierrez earned her Law degree in 1960 at the Faculty of Civil Law and passed the bar examinations at the same year. She was nominated on the basis of seniority, along with other associate justices such as Consuelo Ynares-Santiago, Reynato Puno, Leonardo Quisumbing, and Antonio Carpio.

President Macapagal-Arroyo appointed Puno last Dec.6 as the new Chief Justice, a day before Panganiban was set to retire.