Tag: Vol. LXXX

LET ME not face a time where there will be no doctor who can cure, no mentor who can teach, no engineer who can build, and so on and so forth.

Last November, the National Statistics Coordination Board (NCSB) released a report that disclosed the decline of the Philippine educational system from 1990 to 2005.

DELAYED obedience is disobedience.

This is one maxim I learned from my aunt a few weeks ago.

As a Med-Tech intern in the Out Patient Department of the UST Hospital, we are being honed to perpetually be on the move and to do our duties properly and instantaneously since we deal with real people whose lives can be jeopardized by mishandling and misdiagnosis.

JUST when you think our country has not done something to alleviate the growing climate change problem, think again.

Both local and international scientists hailed the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 for creating a recess in the ever-hastening global warming process.

Pamantíng – (png) maliit na piraso ng metal na ginagamit upang makalikha ng apoy

KUNG HUNYO 12 ang araw ng Kalayaan, bakit sa Hunyo 9 walang pasok?

Ito marahil ang tanong na bumabagabag sa mga kabaataan ngayon matapos ilipat ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ang bakasyon para sa Araw ng Kalayaan.

THE WORLD appears to have reached an unprecedented era of ruthless and merciless capitalist speculation as can be gleaned from oil prices spiraling out of control.

Aggressive expansion and the use of power-hungry air-conditioners may have jacked up UST’s electric bill in the past few years, but the rising power consumption trend appears to have stabilized, data obtained by the Varsitarian showed.

EVERYDAY, housewife Lorna Galang of Silang, Cavite braves the heat just to get her supply of cheap but poor-quality rice from the state-run National Food Authority (NFA).

FOR STEPHANIE Pagarigan, a member of the UST badminton team and a Sports Science junior, rice is important for a student-athlete like her.

“It’s hard to separate rice from our diet because rice is the main quick source of energy. Athletes’ metabolism rates are different,” Pagarigan said.

She regularly eats four-and-a-half to six servings of rice a day as part of her regular diet.

AFTER two years of protracted negotiations, faculty members are set to get an P18-million windfall along with a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the University that may be concluded this July, aside from higher salaries, adjusted benefits, and the customary signing bonus.

EVERY Thomasian must contribute to the betterment of the University and prevent “institutional sclerosis” from setting in, Quadricentennial UST Rector Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P. said during his installation last June 10.

The comebacking rector said inititiative, co-responsibility and accountability are needed to overcome the “organizational malady” of passing the buck to the one who’s on top.