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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Mar 28, 2013 1:28:06 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Apr 4, 2013 3:40:59 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Apr 4, 2013 3:49:36 GMT 9
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Post by voltairemad on Apr 4, 2013 18:12:21 GMT 9
Sana magkaroon na ng mga pictures ang UST Sta. Rosa, Laguna and UST General Santos City.
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Apr 9, 2013 1:37:26 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Apr 14, 2013 2:12:44 GMT 9
Martyrs' Monument located in front of UST Chapel. A shrine honoring Nuestra Señora del Rosario, St. Dominic de Guzman, St. Thomas Aquinas, San Lorenzo Ruiz, and the 15 Thomasian Saints and Martyrs designed by Architecture students, Don Isaac B. Ramos, Rafael Antonio V. Alzona, and Jayson D.L. Ramirez. (Photo courtesy of the UST Museum)
18 Bells:
(Right, facing the UST Chapel)
Bell 1: Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Bell 3: San Lorenzo Ruiz First Filipino Martyr 1637
Bell 5: Sto. Domingo Ibañez de Erquicia, O.P. Professor 1633
Bell 7: San Guillaume Courtet, O.P. Professor 1637
Bell 9:Sto. Domingo Henares, O.P. Bishop and Student 1838
Bell 11: Beato Jesus Villaverde Andres, O.P. Professor 1936
Bell 13:Beato Manuel Moreno Martinez, O.P. Student 1936
Bell 15: San Pedro Almato, O.P. Student 1861
Bell 17: San Jeronimo Hermosilla, O.P. Bishop and Student 1861
(Left, facing the UST Chapel)
Bell 2: Santo Domingo de Guzman and Santo Tomas de Aquino, O.P.
Bell 4:San Antonio Gonzales, O.P. Rector 1637
Bell 6: San Lucas del Espiritu Santo, O.P. Professor 1633
Bell 8: Sto. Tomas Hioji Rokuzayemon Nishi de San Jacinto, O.P. Student 1634
Bell 10: San Jose Maria Diaz Sanjurjo, O.P. Bishop and Professor 1857
Bell 12: San Vicente Liem de la Paz, O.P. Student 1773
Bell 14: Beato Buenaventura Garcia Paredes, O.P. Professor 1936
Bell 16: Beato Pedro Ibañez Alonso, O.P. Student 1936
Bell 18: Beato Jose Maria Lopez Carrillo, O.P. Student 1936
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Apr 20, 2013 5:05:21 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Apr 26, 2013 7:12:52 GMT 9
Day in Photos: March 9, 2011
Filipino students, employees, administrators and seminarians from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) gather to form a "Dominican Cross" as they observe the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday, inside the UST campus in Manila, Philippines. Organizers claimed to have more than 20,000 participants during the event and will attempt to the break the "Guinness World Record" as the "Largest Human Cross."www.nypost.com/p/news/international/day_in_photos_march_NnvLh6EjgSo47vzspm9TpM?photo_num=1
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 1, 2013 5:21:55 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 1, 2013 5:40:03 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 4, 2013 2:23:38 GMT 9
2011 Baccalaureate MassPhotos to the credit of owners
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 12, 2013 2:03:41 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 17, 2013 10:47:10 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 17, 2013 10:49:20 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 22, 2013 10:57:39 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 26, 2013 1:32:30 GMT 9
UST Botanical GardenUST Plaza Benavides
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 31, 2013 3:42:58 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Jun 4, 2013 5:18:05 GMT 9
Tambayan ng Eng'g... dati... Tambayan ng AB at Commerce...
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Jun 8, 2013 2:20:04 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Sept 28, 2013 10:41:42 GMT 9
Hindi ba binabaha ang lugar ng UST-Sta. Rosa? Alam ko kasi lubog sa baha ang Sta. Rosa kapag malakas ang ulan...City council wants ban on improvements at UST-GenSan lifted By Mindanews on September 25 2013 4:26 pm
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/25 September) — The city council is pushing for the lifting of an order issued by city government last year banning any development activity at the planned 80-hectare campus of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in two villages here.
In a resolution, the council asked City Mayor Ronnel Rivera to reexamine and decide on the cease and desist order “prohibiting the introduction of further improvement” within the development area of the UST campus in barangays Ligaya and Katangawan that was issued by the City Planning and Development Office (CPDO) in March 2012.
The CPDO issued the order due to the reported failure of UST to seek proper permits and clearances for its initial improvements and structures.
The resolution, which was passed by the council on joint sponsorship during its regular session on Tuesday, cited that the Manila-based university has been planning to embark on several multi-million peso projects in the city, among them the establishment of an agricultural research institution and a medical school.
It said the establishment of the UST campus will “spur economic growth and further development of the city.”
The move would offer equal distribution of development efforts and investment opportunities in the area, the measure said.
The council pointed out in the resolution that the economic gains that would be realized should the UST be allowed to put up their project in two barangays are exceedingly far beyond what the area presently benefits from the coconut trees planted there.
“The establishment of the said project would afford not only the constituents of the barangays and the city but also throughout the Mindanao region of prime and high standard agricultural and medical education due to its immediate accessibility and proximity,” it said.
In a committee report, City Councilor Arturo Cloma, chair of the council’s committee on land use, urban planning and development, noted that CPDO chief Nael Cruspero issued the cease and desist order for the project on March 27, 2012 after its proponents reportedly failed to secure the necessary clearances for the construction of a building and the road developments at the site.
He said the order specifically advised the UST management that further introduction of physical improvements into their area should stop pending its application and approval of required local permits like the local zoning permit, building permits and locational clearances.
UST signified to comply with all the requirements and then filed a motion for reconsideration for the lifting of the order but it was denied by the CPDO, he said.
Cloma said the CPDO reasoned that UST needs to first secure the necessary reclassification documents for the site before it would be given any local permit.
He said UST presented to CPDO an order issued by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) that reclassified the site from agricultural to institutional use.
But he said the CPDO explained that it cannot act on the matter as the DAR reclassification or conversion order is not consistent with the classification of the area based on the city’s zoning ordinance.
He said UST countered that that under the existing Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law, the power to reclassify land from agricultural to institutional, commercial or residential was granted by law to DAR and cannot be superseded or amended by any local zoning ordinance.
In the wake of these developments, Cloma said they are supporting the lifting of the CPDO order to allow UST to continue with its planned developments at the campus site.
But he added that they are leaving the matter to Mayor Rivera, who assumed his first term as mayor last July, stressing “it is up to the mayor whether to act on it or not.” (MindaNews)
www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2013/09/25/city-council-wants-ban-on-improvements-at-ust-gensan-lifted/
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Post by sheldoncooper on Sept 28, 2013 22:10:59 GMT 9
Ang ganda ng ust. Syempre namimiss ko yung ibang lugar/structures na wala na ngayon. Tulad nUng mga batibot sa harap ng hospital na tambayan namin nung high school.
Pati sa UST Sta Rosa baha din ang problema? Baka kasama na un talaga sa "destiny" ng school natin hehe.
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Post by sheldoncooper on Oct 1, 2013 18:34:42 GMT 9
Astig talaga ng campus natin. Di nakakasawang tignan. Btw, nagtataka lang kasi ako. There's this book called "1001 buildings to see before you die" and i expected the Main Building to be included there. Pero sa pilipinas, isa lang ang nakasama (DLSU). Di ko lang sure ano ang criteria para mapasama sa book ang isang building.
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Oct 9, 2013 10:26:02 GMT 9
University of Santo Tomas General Santos Campus...
First outside Metro Manila: UST to open campus in Gensan in 2015 By Edwin Espejo Oct 04, 2013 8:06AM UTC
It took 15 years and a change in administration before the University of Santo Tomas finally saw the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.
On Tuesday, October 1, the Sangguniang Panlungsod of General Santos City passed a resolution allowing Asia’s oldest University to reclassify its 80-hectare property in the city outskirt village of Ligaya from agricultural to institutional.
Almost giving up after they were repeatedly snubbed and given the runaround by the previous city administration, representatives of the Dominican-run university appeared before members of the city council and gave a PowerPoint presentation providing the city with snapshots of what UST’s first ever branch outside of Metro Manila would look like.
This time, UST is confident it will be able to accommodate college students when classes are opened in the first semester of 2015.
Politics
Politics played a big part in the delay in granting the request of UST for a city approval to convert its property.
UST acquired the Ligaya land from different owners in 1997 at a cost of Php1.2 million per hectare or some Php96 million in total. It was given assurance by its brokers that they would work for the conversion and development and other permits necessary for the construction of its university campus.
In 1998, however, then re-electionist Mayor Rosalita Nuñez lost to Adelbert Antonino amid charges of corruption. At the time of the purchase of the UST property, it was reported that close allies of Nuñez brokered the deal.
Antonino lost no time rejecting and ending all projects conceptualized by his predecessor, including the proposed multimillion sanitary landfill and sewage treatment projects.
The most controversial among these projects was the application for reclassification of the property acquired by UST on grounds that it will adversely affect the city’s food security. At that time, the Ligaya property was planted with coconut trees. According to University officials, the property has more than 6,000 coconut trees.
Despite assurance that UST will use the property as an agricultural research center for the production and development of virgin coconut oil, Antonino and his city council would not budge.
In February 2001, just three months before the local elections, Antonino resigned, paving the way for then Vice Mayor Pedro Acharon Jr to occupy the top executive post in the city. In the May local elections that year, Acharon trounced Nuñez who was aiming to make another comeback at the city hall.
Acharon also did not give UST the reprieve it was seeking as the Sangguniang Panlungsod was still dominated by partymates from the Antonino-created Achievement with Integrity Movement. He and the city council repeatedly blocked any attempt to re-classify the land, then a requirement of DAR before the latter can issue a conversion permit.
And so for 15 years, and five city councils, UST’s application was placed in the archives.
To keep their hopes of seeing their first ever campus rise outside of Metro Manila, UST had to twice extend its conversion application with DAR.
Exasperated, at one time, some UST officials refused to face members of the 14th Sangguniang Panlungsod who went to their main campus purportedly to seek clarification.
For the last 15 years, also, all UST could do was to repeatedly announce it was going to build a campus in General Santos.
At some point, however, UST entertained thoughts of relocating to nearby Sarangani where the family of former Gov. Miguel Rene Dominguez offered to donate 5 hectares for its campus site.
Reversal of fortunes
But this year, the stranglehold of the Antoninos was finally broken as Adelbert’s daughter and then re-electionist Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio lost to Ronnel Rivera. Seven of Rivera’s lineup for the 12-elective city council seats also won. With Vice Mayor Shirlyn Bañas-Nograles – a running mate in the elections – there to break any tie in nominal voting, Rivera is now assured of passage of significant local ordinances and resolutions. (AIM has five councilors in addition to the carryover ABC chair and SK representative to bring the city council into a 7-7 composition)
Rivera and his slate, earlier in the May 2013 election campaign, vowed to reopen the UST issue and give it favorable endorsement.
On Tuesday, October 1, UST Vice Rector for Academic Affairs Clarita Carillo and in-house lawyer Paterno Esmaquiel led a team that appeared before the Sangguniang Panglungsod to brief the city councillors of their plan to establish a campus in the city.
Esmaquiel said the proposed UST campus will cost the Dominican fathers some P100 million (US$2.3 million). And if granted their request, they could open the university as early as 2015.
“UST Gen-San is most likely to be a ‘carbon copy’ of UST España, depending on the final outcome of our planning committee’s study,” UST Rector Fr. Ernesto Arceo was quoted by the UST student publication The Varsitarian.
Like the España campus, a hospital and church will also rise in General Santos, the Varsitarian further reported.
However, the UST lawyer also said they will instead open a campus in Sta Rosa, Laguna if they cannot secure the necessary permits and resolutions from the city government in Gensan.
Heated
Discussions turned into heated exchange of accusations after AIM councilor Richard Atendido took the floor to deny politics was involved in the denial of UST application by the previous administration which prompted Nuñez, now a city councilor, to appeal to let bygone be bygones.
“Let us forget the past and move forward,” Nuñez said.
But it only worsened when Councilor Vivencio Dinopol, another AIM councilor, told UST to first seek extension of its land conversion application with the Department of Agrarian Reform before asking the city government to reclassify its property, and after he coaxed UST representatives to secure a recommendation from Mayor Rivera.
He was schooled by Councilor Arturo Cloma, a lawyer and sponsor of the resolution, who cited a Supreme Court ruling that allowed local government units to re-classify agricultural lands within its territory sans DAR clearance for conversion.
Councilor Franklin Gacal Jr also angrily rebutted Dinopol and said that although they are party mates of the city mayor, they are not his rubber stamp. He reminded Dinopol that the city council is a co-equal branch with the executive department.
Although it was a matter of fact, Gacal obviously took a dig on previous city councils, where Dinopol and Atendido were members and who were said to be at the beck and call of Adelbert Antonino even though the aging former city mayor held no official function and position in the city government since his 2001 resignation.
Done deal
In the end, Atendido could only offer muted resistance as the prevailing sentiments in the city council point to another looming political defeat for the Antoninos.
Atendido and the rest of the opposition councilors later joined the rest of their colleagues in the city council for a photo opportunity with UST officials, an opportunity that did not happen during the incumbencies of the Antoninos and their ally Acharon, now a member of the House of Representatives.
Mayor Rivera, who took the UST issue against the Antoninos in the May 2013 elections, said he will endorse the proposed college campus of the España-based Catholic University.
“I am in full support of UST,” Rivera said.
With that, it is now a done deal for UST.
asiancorrespondent.com/114028/first-outside-metro-manila-ust-to-open-campus-in-gensan-in-2015/
UST General Santos Courses offered (initial)
Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education (major in English, Science and Math) Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy Bachelor of Science in Accountancy Bachelor of Science in Entertainment and Multimedia Computing Bachelor of Science in in Tourism
Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology Bachelor of Sciences in: Geodetics , Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Chemical Engineering. BS in Microbiology BS in Chemistry
spgensantos.ph/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/SPPR-NO.-2013-9294-UST.pdf
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Oct 31, 2013 20:03:24 GMT 9
Para may idea kayo kung saan ang UST Sta. Rosa campus...University of Santo Tomas was ranked 470th in 2008 by QS among the top universities in the world (Ateneo, U.P. and De La Salle ranked number 254, 276 and 455, respectively). This 400-year old university is the oldest in Asia and the biggest Catholic university in the world, in terms of student population.
Soon, UST will start constructing a 44-hectare teaching hospital campus in Sta. Rosa; it’s going to be 5 times the size of its Espana campus that’s 21.5 acres. (Don’t drop your jaws yet; UP Diliman sits on a 493-hectare property: )
The campus will be huge, that, according to my sources in UST, it is envisioned to include a commercial complex and a residential development within that are aimed for the families of its doctors, faculty members, officials, employees and students.
Aside from the medical science and allied courses, UST Sta. Rosa will also be a center for IT learning.
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Nov 22, 2013 22:38:35 GMT 9
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