Tag: Vol. LXXXV

TWO Thomasian artists emerged victorious in the recent Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) Art Competition at Pasay City last June 24.

Jesus Santos’ “The Unseen Beauty Beyond Poverty” bested 294 pieces in the representational category. He also won last year’s grand prize in the same category with his entry, “Kanlungan.”

Santos used dark colors such as brown and gray to portray the depression brought by poverty. He used the rule of thirds to place a subject behind a more vibrantly colored and light-infused background to break the monotony of the composition.

WRITERS and friends paid tribute to the late writer-editor Norma Miraflor last June 22 at the UST Center for Creative Writing and Literary Studies.

Miraflor, at one time editorial director of the Singaporean publishing firm MPH and a highly successful editor with an international reputation, passed away last summer in Australia, where she had been partly based with her husband. journalist Ian Ward.

The cause of her death was not officially known, although friends said she was suffering from breast cancer. Still others said she died of a massive stroke shortly after arriving in Australia from heat-choked Manila. She was in her mid-sixties.

LEO BOBADILLA lived a simple life. He was a fisherman living in a rundown shack near the shore of Santa Filomena, Romblon who would rise every day at 2 A.M. to let his net trap sleeping fishes. This, along with the responsibility of raising and tending to his sickly seven-year-old daughter, was his life. His wife had left him five years ago, choosing to marry a rich man from the city.

For someone like Leo, the early morn was a call for his thin downbeat body. Lying on a rough tattered mat that lied on the cold floor, he woke up to massage his poor daughter’s back. This was the third time that she was wheezing and coughing blood. His heart broke as he saw his daughter’s twitching eyes as she bore the pain in her chest.

Leo’s heart sank.

SA PAMAMAGITAN ng makabagong teknolohiya na karaniwang gamit ng bagong henerasyon, maaari nang mapasiglang muli ang panitikang pambata sa bansa.

Noong 2011, naging hudyat ang pagbabagong-anyo ng mga aklat pambata nang inilunsad ng Vee Press, isang digital publisher ng Vibal Foundation, ang kuwento ng “Ibong Adarna” sa isang e-book application.

Ang naturang paglulunsad ay sinundan ng iba pang mga kuwentong nasa e-book, kabilang na ang mga gawa ni Eugene Evasco tulad ng “Kata-Kata: Paghahanap kay Ma’ajarat-Tornorka,” “Naglalakbay si Tulalang sa Araw at Buwan” at “Mahiwagang Kamiseta.”

SA PAGPAPATULOY ng isinasagawang seryeng panayam ng Kritika Kultura, isang online journal tungkol sa mga usaping kultural ng Department of English sa Ateneo de Manila University, naganap ang isang komperensiya tungkol sa kasalukuyang kalagayan ng mga bansang decolonized, partikular na ang Pilipinas, noong Hunyo 28.

Pinamagatang “The World-System of Decolonization,” binigyang kahulugan ni Charlie Samuya Veric, isang propesor ng naturang unibersidad at miyembro ng Techncal Panel on Literature Education ng Commission on Higher Education, ang dekolonisasyon bilang pagiging malaya ng isang bansa mula sa mga mananakop.

MATATAGPUAN sa Unibersidad ang isang hardin na nagkakanlong ng maraming uri ng mga halaman at mga paru-parong nagmula pa sa iba’t ibang bahagi ng bansa.

Noong Disyembre 1948, pinangunahan ni Padre Angel de Blas, dating rektor, at ni Eduardo Quisimbing, isang tanyag na botaniko, ang pagbubukas ng botanical garden sa Unibersidad.

Dating kilala bilang Pharmacy garden, ang naturang hardin ay matatagpuan sa pagitan ng UST Main Building at Santisimo Rosario Church.

THE University once again dominated the June 2013 Pharmacy licensure examinations, with six Thomasians entering the Top 10.

Data from the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) showed that 293 out of 365 Thomasians made the cut this year, or an 80.2-percent passing rate. This was lower than last year’s 88.92 percent, with 281 passers out of 316 examinees.

UST emerged as this year’s third top-performing school. Last year it was second.

Leading the new batch of Thomasian pharmacists is Clinical Pharmacy summa cum laude Ryan Justin Raynes, who ranked second with a 93.65-percent score.

A MANILA Trial Court has sided with the private firm operating the carpark in a financial row with UST, prompting the University administration to file an appeal to overturn what it thinks is a “glaringly erroneous” ruling.

Presiding Judge Paulino Gallegos of the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 47 on Jan. 29 ordered defendant UST to pay Selegna Holdings Corp. P186 million representing revenue losses supposedly caused by deviations from a 15-year build-operate-transfer (BOT) contract.

“Defendant UST is hereby directed to strictly comply with the terms and conditions of the contract on the yearly escalation of the parking fee covered by the BOT,” the decision stated.

The freshman batch of 2013 got a welcome rite they would never forget, less than a week after stepping inside UST at the start of Academic Year 2013-2014.

Wearing masks, face paint and carrying their college colors, thousands of first-year students marched around the campus and passed through the Arch of the Centuries to the drumbeat of the UST Yellow Jackets last June 7.

This tradition enables freshmen to connect with UST’s 402-year-old history, Secretary General Fr. Winston Cabading, O.P. said in an interview.

Cabading said that unlike in previous years, the “Thomasian Welcome Walk” was held earlier to avoid heavy rains.

BAGONG istilo ng pagpapangkat at paraan ng pagtuturo ang ipapatupad sa mga pinakabatang Tomasino.

Simula ngayong taon, mayroon nang bagong sectioning scheme ang UST High School (USTHS) upang magkaroon ng pantay na distribusyon ang mga mag-aaral na may iba’t ibang kakayahan at pag-uugali.

Ang nakagawiang paglalagay ng cream sections o ang grupo ng mga mag-aaral na mayroong matataas na marka ay tuluyan nang bubuwagin. Sa halip ay ikakalat sila sa iba’t ibang klase.

Ayon kay Marishirl Tropicales, punong-guro ng USTHS, magiging tulong ito sa mga mayroong suliranin sa pag-aaral. Ang mga bagong sections ay magbibigay daan para sa “peer tutoring and support.”