Tag: Vol. LXXXVII
USTv Awards tackle May 9 polls
Museum director shows off coloring skills
UST MUSEUM Director Fr. Isidro Abaño shows his prowess as a colorist in “Color More, Stress Less,” an exhibition of his collaboration with other artists, at the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences.
Abaño explores the psychological dimensions of art particularly its soothing qualities by highlighting the recent fad on adult coloring books. He displays an array of colored-pencil artworks on black and white illustrations—mostly from adult coloring books such as Bookware Publishing’s “Books for the Soul” and “Kulay Pinoy,” by artist Vermailene Barrios.
Sunico concert raises funds to promote OFW devotion to San Lorenzo Ruiz
Samonte’s ‘McSketches’: Paper napkin as art
Panitikang Filipino: Yumayabong o naluluot?
BUNSO kung maituturing sa ating mga pambansang pagdiriwang ang Buwan ng Panitikan ng Filipinas (BPF) ngayong Abril na isang malaking hakbang sa pagpapayabong ng pambansang pagpapahalaga sa ating literatura at mga manunulat.
Sa kasalukuyan, ikalawang taon pa lamang nito sa bisa ng Proklamasiyon Bilang. 968, s. 2015, na nilagdaan ni Pangulong Benigno Aquino III alinsunod sa probisiyon ng Konstitusyon na dapat payabungin ang kasaysayan, kultura at sining ng bansa.
Inilarawan ng Pambansang Alagad ng Sining sa Panitikan na si Virgilio Almario ang selebrasiyon bilang pagkakataon upang “bigyan ng espesyal na pagtingin at pagmamalasakit ang panitikan ng Filipinas pati na ang mga awtor [ng bayan].”
Panitikan sa panahon ng Internet
MAY BISA ang pagbabasa na humihigit sa nakaimprentang teksto ng mga aklat, lathalain at iba pang mga babasahin.
Bisa na nakapagpapaintindi sa mga bata ng mahahalagang alituntuning-moral sa buhay, sa pamamagitan ng mga hayop na nakikipaghalubilo at nakikipag-usap sa bawat isa. Bisa na nakapagpapalawak ng bokabularyo sa wikang Filipino man o sa Ingles. Bisa na nakapagpapalakbay sa mortal na buhay ng mambabasa tungo sa iba’t ibang dimensiyon ng mundo.
Ngunit ano na nga ba ang kahalagahan ng pagbabasa sa nagmamadaling panahon ng internet at social media lalo na ngayong buwan ng Abril na ipinagdiriwang ang Buwan ng Panitikang ng Filipinas?
Pamahalaang pangmag-aaral noong 1920s
SA BAWAT pagtatapos ng akademikong taon, nagiging maingay ang pulitika sa loob ng Unibersidad partikular sa eleksiyon ng Central Student Council (CSC), ang pinakamataas na governing student body sa UST.
Gayun pa man, alam n’yo bang may nauna nang University-wide student body bago pa maitatag ang CSC?
Sa isyu ng Varsitarian noong akademikong taong 1927-1928, inilimbag ang rekomendasiyon ng isang hindi pinangalanang opisyal ng Unibersidad ukol sa pagtatatag ng “Board of Students,” na naglalayong magsilbing tagapamagitan sa mga mag-aaral at sa mga dekano o sa Rektor.
Sa dalawang sangay ng CSC sa kasalukuyan, mas hawig ang Board of Students sa Central Board kaysa sa Executive Board.
Faculty fears due to K to 12 allayed
THE UST administration has vowed to retain the ranks and salaries of faculty members to be reassigned to the Senior High School (SHS) next academic year as part of measures to deal with the impact of the K to 12 basic education reform.
“Tertiary faculty members who will be borrowed by the SHS shall maintain their rank and rate,” according to a memorandum released by the Office of the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs (OVRAA) last Dec. 11.
UST Faculty Union (USTFU) President George Lim also said salaries of tenured faculty would not be cut despite the reduction in loads. Lim said the maximum load of tenured faculty members would be reduced to 21 units from 24 units by 2017. The extra units will be distributed to other faculty members.
Collective bargaining agreement review gets going
LONG-DELAYED negotiations to increase salaries and other benefits of faculty members under a collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with the University administration will soon begin, the faculty union president bared.
Dr. George Lim, UST Faculty Union (USTFU) president, said he was awaiting UST’s financial statements from the Office of the Vice Rector for Finance which will be used as basis by the USTFU negotiating panel in proposing “economic benefits.”
UST mentors to appeal SC K to 12 ruling
THE FIGHT to stop the implementation of the K to 12 scheme is not yet over, as petitioners are set to file a motion asking the Supreme Court (SC) to reconsider its March 15 decision not to issue a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the basic education reform law.
Rene Luis Tadle, lead convener of the Council of Teachers and Staff of Colleges and Universities of the Philippines and former external vice president of the UST Faculty Union, maintained that the K to 12 law—which adds two more years to high school education—was unconstitutional and that the government was not prepared to implement it.
