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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 15, 2010 12:03:56 GMT 9
As posted by citrus bean in PEx...
It's quite late to spread the news,
Please watch ANC's Travel Time hosted by Ms. Susan Calo Medina, they featured the University of Santo Tomas in a 2 part special
Date: December 11 and 18, 2010
Time slots: Saturday @ 9:30am (1st airing)
Sunday @11:00pm
Monday @ 6:00pm
meron pa ata pag thursday o friday at 2:30am
I hope someone will record and upload it through you tube.
Thanks!!!
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Post by kiko on Dec 15, 2010 23:03:38 GMT 9
Campus Beat
U.S.T. Writer's Night features new books
December 9, 2010, 1:10pm
The UST Publishing House will be launching six new literary titles at the traditional Writers’s Night, to be held at the GT Toyota Hall of Wisdom at the UP Asian Center tomorrow, Dec. 10.
Five titles are by fellows of the UP Institute of Creative Writing, while the sixth is by a writing fellow of the UP National Writer’s Workshop.
To be launched are: National Artist Virgilio Almario’s “Pitong Bundok ng Haraya,’’ a book of literary criticism structured like a journey; Gémino H. Abad’s “Imagination’s Way: Essays Critical and Personal,’’ a collection of the author’s long and short pieces; Rolando B. Tolentino’s ‘’Gitnang Uring Fantasya at Material na Kahirapan sa
Neoliberalismo: Politikal na Kritisismo ng Kulturang Popular,’’ a collection of critical essays on pop culture, ranging from film to “ukay-ukay” and malling, to almost anything and everything in between; Charlson Ong’s “Blue Angel, White Shadow,’’ a hardboiled detective/murder mystery set in the seedy underbelly of Manila; Romulo P. Baquiran, Jr. “Sagad sa Buto: Hospital Diary at Iba pang Sanaysay,’’ a creative nonfiction piece about his hospital stay, which is both humorous, factual, and profound; and Mésandel Virtusio Arguelles’s sixth collection of poems, “Alinsunurang Awit.’’
The Writers’ Night is an annual event, hosted by the UP Institute of Creative Writing, traditionally a party for all writers, including the writing fellows of the annual UP Writer’s Workshop, and lovers of writing.
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Post by kiko on Dec 15, 2010 23:04:21 GMT 9
Varsitarian reunion set
The Varsitarian, the official student publication of the University of Santo Tomas (UST), will hold its grand-alumni homecoming on Dec. 11, at the Plaza Mayor in UST, Espana, Manila, as part of UST’s quadricentennial celebration.
Cliff Venzon, editor-in-chief of The Varsitarian, disclosed that the reunion dubbed as “Valik-Varsi”, is considered a “special edition” with some of the country’s top journalists and media professionals in attendance.
UST Rector Magnificus Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, OP, who was a Varsitarian editor in the late 1970s, as well as Fr. Norberto Castillo, O.P., former UST rector (1982-1990), and Fr. Albert Alejo, SJ of the Ateneo de Davao will alsograce the event.
Also attending are National Artists F. Sionil Jose and Bienvenido Lumbera, as well as other titans of Philippine literature and the arts Cirilo Bautista, Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo, Normal Miraflor, Eric Gamalinda, Danny Dalena and Remy Boquiren.
There will be a tribute to Varsitarian alumni who have passed away — Ophelia Alcantara-Dimalanta, Wilfrido Nolledo, Jose Burgos Jr., and Eric Giron.
The event will also feature a performance by renowned inspirational diva Jamie Rivera as backed by one of Asia’s oldest symphony orchestras, the Manila Symphony Orchestra.
The Varsitarian was founded in 1928 by Jose Villa Panganiban, the first director of the National Language Institute. It is the only school paper to merit an entry in the Cultural Center of the Philippine Encyclopedia of the Arts for having produced many noted writers and artists.
Interested parties may visit the Varsitarian office at Room 105, Tan Yan Kee Student Center, UST, España, Manila or call at 4061611 loc. 8235, for more details. (FTW)
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Post by kiko on Dec 15, 2010 23:04:53 GMT 9
mb.com.ph/articles/292375/ust-throws-early-christmas-musical-treatUST throws early Christmas musical treat By FRANCIS T. WAKEFIELD December 12, 2010, 1:31pm MANILA, Philippines – Glitz and glamor reigned over the University of Santo Tomas (UST) campus last Dec. 2, as the society’s rich and famous joined university officials to usher in the holidays with the staging of the UST Christmas Concert Gala. Now on its eighth year, the UST Christmas Concert Gala gathered an exceptional pool of Thomasian musicians and artists who rendered wonderful performances for the audience. UST Rector Fr. Rolando Dela Rosa, OP, said that aside from the excellent artists, what makes the yearly get-together more special and significant through the years is the undying spirit of charity among the University’s patrons and friends who have supported the University’s cause to beef up heritage conservation efforts and fund the scholarship program of the UST Conservatory of Music. Dela Rosa also commended Fr. Isidro C. Abaño, O.P. , executive director for quadricentennial activities and highlights, Maricris C. Zobel, art patroness, for spearheading the festival, as chair and co-chair, respectively, of the UST Christmas Concert Gala. BIGGER DREAMS Abaño acknowledged the generous sponsors who have helped in the conservation of some of the most important artworks, particularly paintings, which have been under the safekeeping of the university for decades now. Among them are the much celebrated portrait of a Young Balinese Girl by Locatelli; The Foundation of the University of Santo Tomas by Archbishop Benavidez by D.A. Celis; portrait of Fr. Juan Antonio Zulaybar, O.P., and portrait of San Vicente Ferrer by Juan Arzeo; portrait of Dr. Jose Rizal by Victorio Edades; portrait of Fr. Silvestre Sancho, O.P. - Rector, 1936-44; and portrait of President Diosdado Macapagal by Fernando Amorsolo; Under The Mango Tree by Carlos Botong Francisco, Nuestra Senora de la Paloma (Our Lady of the Dove); Fruit Vendor by Pablo Amorsolo; and just recently, the murals at the lobby of the UST main building. “From these restoration efforts we have built the foundation of a larger dream — to establish an Art Conservation Laboratory Center which will further push our dreams to serve our fellowmen by restoring and conserving more artworks for their cultural and artistic employment and upliftment,” Abaño said. For her part, Zobel said that even though the year 2010 has been a year of change, what with the country having a new President, it’s comforting to know that some things remain constant, among them, the University of Santo Tomas and the Christmas Concert Gala. “It is important to remember that one of the things we should continue to be proud of as a people is the University of Santo Tomas. As we approach its 400th year, it always amazes me to see how UST’s history is completely intertwined with our history – and our future. For me, UST is truly the University of the Filipino people,” Zobel said. Among the outstanding talents who participated are the UST Brass Ensemble and the UST Symphony Orchestra, Coro Tomasino with conductor Prof. Ronan Ferrer; Lourdes Gregorio and Christian Caragayan, sopranos Nenen Alfornon, Naomi Sison and Thea Perez. One of the highlights of the evening was the performance of Conservatory of Music dean and Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) president, Raul Sunico of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Meanwhile, soprano Rachel Gerodias serenaded the crowd with The Messiah and Because of Who You Are, while the UST Jazz Ensemble with Tots Tolentino played the Christmas Song. Tenor Lemuel dela Cruz with the Liturgikon Vocal Ensemble also joined the act with his interpretation of Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee. The UST Singers, 2010 Choir of the World, with conductor Prof. Fidel Calalang, performed three special numbers before the finale number of Pasko sa UST composed by Tonton Africa and Christmas Greetings by all the performing choirs with the UST Symphony Orchestra.
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Dec 15, 2010 23:31:11 GMT 9
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Jan 13, 2011 12:04:30 GMT 9
Golf sa Uste
Papalo na sa Enero 26 ang University of Santo Tomas Quadricentennial Celebration golf tourmament (3rd Titan Open) sa Club Intramuros, Manila.
Ang tee-off time ay mula alas-sais hanggang alas-otso ng umaga o sa ala-una ng hapon para sa “shotgun”.
Maaaring kontakin ng mga nais lumahok ang UST event’s secretariat at hanapin si Malou o Grace sa mga tel. nos. na 7842-402/0922-8642629 o si Dr. Ian Laurel sa 0920-9507154.Abante ToniteUST QUADRICENTENNIAL WEEK EVENTS
January 24, 2011
OPENING OF THE QUADRICENTENNIAL FAIR
3:00 pm UST Plaza Mayor
OPENING OF THE JUBILEE DOOR
OPENING EUCHARIST FOR THE Q WEEK
5:15 pm UST Chapel
January 25, 2011
Q SHORT FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS NIGHT
7:00 pm UST Plaza Mayor
January 26, 2011
Q PARADE
8:00 am Mendiola to UST Plaza Mayor
OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITIES OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS (ICUSTA) CONFERENCE
9:00 am UST Chapel
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA OPERA
5:00 pm UST Medicine Auditorium
January 27, 2011
ICUSTA CONFERENCE
9:00 am UST TARC (Thomas Aquinas Research Center) Auditorium
UNVEILING OF THE QUATTROMONDIAL MONUMENT
6:30 pm Quadricentennial Square
Q GRAND PROGRAM
7:00 pm UST Grandstand and Open Field
January 28, 2011
UST ALPA (ALUMNI PRIESTS ASSOCIATION) HOMECOMING
8:00 am UST Central Seminary Gymnasium
Q THANKSGIVING MASS
5:00 pm UST Grandstand and Open Field
ONE@400: Q GRAND ALUMNI HOMECOMING DINNER
7:00 pm UST Plaza Mayor and Benavides Park
(Tickets sold at P1,590 may be purchased from TicketNet at all SM Department Store Customer Service Areas and at the Araneta Coliseum ticket booths. You may call 911.5555 or visit www.ticketnet.com.ph.)
January 24-27, 2011
QUADRICENTENNIAL FAIR
 
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Jan 21, 2011 10:25:04 GMT 9
UST bares activities for 400th anniversary
abs-cbnNEWS.com
Posted at 01/19/2011 6:28 PM | Updated as of 01/19/2011 6:28 PM
MANILA, Philippines - The University of Santo Tomas (UST), one of the world's largest Catholic universities in terms of enrollment, is all set to celebrate its 400th anniversary this month.
The Quadricentennial Week begins on January 24 with a Mass and the Opening of the Jubilee Door at the UST Chapel.
Also to be held that day are the Quadricentennial Fair and the Fit, Fab and Well@400: UST Physical Wellness Program.
On January 25, the awarding ceremony for the Q Short Film Festival will be held at the Plaza Mayor, to be conducted by the Office for Quadricentennial Activities and Highlights together with the Central Student Council and local student councils. With the theme "Anong Kwentong UST Mo?", the Q Filmfest will showcase students' campus lives caught on film.
A Q Parade and street dance competition will be held on January 26 from UST to the University Belt area and back to the 84-year-old UST campus on España Boulevard. This will be participated in by students from faculties and colleges from UST and the university belt area.
Alumni performers will stage the opera Cavalleria Rusticana at the Medicine Auditorium on the evening of January 26.
UST will also host the 10th Biennial Conference of the International Council of Universities of St. Thomas Aquinas (ICUSTA) on January 26 to 27.
The UST Central Seminary, on the other hand, will host the Alumni Priests Association (ALPA) Homecoming on January 26 to 28 at the UST Central Seminary Gymnasium. The seminary is the forerunner of UST way back from its foundation in 1611.
To be unveiled on January 27 at the Quadricentennial Plaza is the QuattroMondial Monument by world-renowned sculptor Ramon Orlina, a UST graduate himself.
A Grand Program and Final Countdown to 400 Years will be held on the evening of January 27 at the Grandstand with a variety show featuring Thomasian talents, alumni professionals, and artists. Faculties and colleges will also hold simultaneous activities for alumni at the different buildings.
Finally, the yearlong quadricentennial celebration will formally open on January 28 with the Quadricentennial Thanksgiving Mass at the Grandstand. His Excellency Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefet of the Congregation pou L’ Education Catholique, will be the main celebrant, while Rev. Fr. Bruno Cadore, O.P., Master of the Order of Preachers, will be the homilist. January 28 is also the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of UST.
The Mass will be followed by a Grand Dinner for alumni at the Plaza Mayor. Tickets for the dinner are available through Ticketnet.
QUATTROMONDIAL MONUMENT.
On January 27, 6:30pm, Thursday, a day before the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of UST, the University will witness the unveiling of the QUATTROMONDIAL Monument by world-renowned Thomasian sculptor Ramon Orlina at the Quadricentennial Square.
The UST hospital expansion, construction begins this july2011.
Quadricentennial Thanksgiving Mass
January 28 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm
UST Grandstand and Open Field
MAIN CELEBRANT AND HOMILIST
His Eminence Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski
Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education
Legate of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
CONCELEBRANTS
H.E. Edward Joseph Adams, D.D., Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines
H.E. Gaudencio Cardinal B. Rosales, Archbishop of Manila
H.E. Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal, Archbishop Emeritus of Cebu
H.E. José T. Cardinal Sánchez, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy
H.E. Nereo P. Odchimar, President of CBCP
Fr. Bruno Cadore, OP, Master of the Order of Preachers
Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P., Rector, University of Santo Tomas
Fr. Rodel Aligan, OP, Prior of the Convent of St. Thomas Aquinas
Bishops from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines
Religious and Diocesan Priests
HIGHLIGHTS
Holy Eucharist
Pre-recorded Message of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
Rite of the Lumina Pandit
Plenary IndulgenceUST 400 YEARS (1611-2011) “UNENDING GRACE” COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS
The technical description of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) 400 Years (1611-2011) “Unending Grace” stamps are as follows:
Kind of Issue: Commemorative
Denomination and Quantity: Php7.00 / 100,000 pieces
Date of Issue: January 25, 2011
Last date of Sale: January 24, 2012 (or as stocks allow)
Size: 40 mm x 30 mm.
Sheet Composition: 40 (4 x 10)
Souvenir Sheet: Php 37.00 / 10,200 pieces
Size of Souvenir Sheet: 110 mm. x 75 mm.
Perforation: 14
Printing process: Litho offset
Paper: Imported Unwatermarked
Printer: Amstar Company, Inc.
Designers: UST Quadricentennial Committee headed by
Rev. Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P.
Rector, University of Santo Tomas
Photos: Donald Tapan
Design Layout Artist: Jesus Alfredo Delos Santos
Designer of Souvenir Sheet: Ramon Orlina
Designer of Souvenir Folder: Jonathan Gamalinda
Design Coordinators: Dr. Ngo Tiong Tak
Jonathan Gamalinda
Designs: Three of the block of four stamp designs of the 400 years Commemorative Stamps for UST are edifices or buildings which are considered National Cultural Treasures. These are Design 1 which shows the Main Building; Design 2, shows the Central Seminary; Design 3, shows Arch of the Centules and Design 4 features the Painting entitled, “The Foundation of the University of Santo Tomas,” by Archbishop Benavides. The Souvenir Sheet features the design of Ramon Orlina that shows the Quattro Mondial Monument and Benavides Monument done in 1889 by Tony Noel with the University of Santo Tomas logo and the Main Building.
philpost.gov.ph/web/ust-400-years-1611-2011-%E2%80%9Cunending-grace%E2%80%9D-commemorative-stamps/
UST Quadricentennial Special Commemorative Php 200 bill
 UST set to open Quadricentennial Week
January 21, 5:45 p.m. - UST WILL open the Quadricentennial Week on Monday (January 24) in the run-up to a Thanksgiving Mass on January 28 to be led by a top Vatican official.
Fr. Rolando de la Rosa, O.P., Rector of the University, bared the official list of activities for next week in a press conference on Friday (January 21), at the same time unveiling a number of commemorative items for UST's 400th year festivities.
The Rector also announced that the University has received a donation of P5 million from the PLDT group of businessman Manuel Pangilinan, to be used for a fund that will support the University's Simbahayan project which aims to rehabilitate 400 villages nationwide.
UST medical alumni in the United States have also raised $1 million to build the Alumni Center that will replace the old UST gym, while the new UST Sports Complex will be opened in August, the Rector said.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) representatives and Fr. De la Rosa unveiled the commemorative 200-peso bill and gold and silver medals at around 12 noon Friday at the Main Building Lobby.
The central bank will be releasing 10 million copies of the bill amounting to P2 billion, and 400 commemorative medals. BSP officials said the 200-peso bill will be legal tender but the medals will have no value.
The bills feature the Quadricentennial logo (tongues of fire forming the letters U, S and T emanating from the Main Building) on the dorsal portion, while the medals bear the engraved image of Msgr. Miguel de Benavides, O.P., founder of UST and third archbishop of Manila.
The central bank will also release 400 special copies of two uncut 200-peso bills equal to P400, matching UST’s years of existence.
Fe de la Cruz, BSP director for corporate affairs, told the Varsitarian currency overprints are rare and only events of great importance are allowed to have an overprint on Philippine bills. “It has to be very special on a national level," she said.
"This [currency overprint] symbolizes BSP’s recognition of the significance of UST as an educational institution,” De la Cruz added.
The Philippine Postal Corp. also unveiled commemorative postage stamps featuring key landmarks of the campus which were declared national treasures last year, like the Main Building and the Arch of the Centuries.
Elenita San Diego, manager of the postage and philatelic department of Philpost, said post offices nationwide will soon begin using the stamps.
“We will also ask the members of the Universal Postal Union to use the stamps,” San Diego said.
PLDT corporate communications chief Ramon Isberto also handed P5 million to an endowment fund intended for the Simbahayan project.
Touted as the Quadricentennial centerpiece project, Simbahayan will rehabilitate 400 villages through medical, literacy, housing, and peace “interventions.”
“This is a very unique celebration. It is not usual that an institution is celebrating its 400th anniversary,” Isberto told the Varsitarian in an interview. “That is why Mr. Pangilinan decided to support this community service [project].”
Smart Communications, Inc., a PLDT subsidiary, launched on Friday Smart SIM cards and limited-edition prepaid cell cards with a photograph of the Main Building.
They will be available next month.
Smart also bared the Sweep or wireless communication technology that will aid the University’s electronics engineering program.
“Oftentimes, schools are having difficulties in coping with the latest technology. This will help the engineering program on the latest trend in electronics,” Isberto said.
“We will first introduce the program, and later on we will build a Sweep laboratory,” he added.
De la Rosa, meanwhile, thanked the UST Medical Alumni Association in America for raising $1 million for the UST Alumni Building, which will be opened in 2012.
De la Rosa also said the inauguration of the new UST Sports Complex will be on August 15. The gym will have a seating capacity of 5,000.
The Quadricentennial Week will start with the opening of the Quadricentennial Fair at Plaza Mayor at 8 a.m. on January 24, followed by the Opening Mass and the opening of the Jubilee Door at the Santisimo Rosario Church at 3:00 p.m.
There will be a parade within the University Belt on January 26 at 8 a.m. On the same day, UST will open the two-day 10th Biennial Conference of the International Council of the Universities of St. Thomas Aquinas (Icusta).
The Quattromondial Monument by National Artist Ramon Orlina will be unveiled on January 27 at the Quadricentennial Square. A grand program will follow at 7 p.m. to serve as a countdown to the culminating activities on January 28, the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas.
On January 28, a Thanksgiving Mass will be offered by the Papal Legate, Archbishop Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski, the Polish Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education (for Seminaries and Institutes of Study), at 4:30 p.m. at the UST Grandstand. ONE@400: Q Grand Alumni Homecoming Dinner, will follow at 7 p.m.
Father Rector also said UST will repeat an activity during its 300th anniversary in 1911, when the University fed the poor in Intramuros.
“So we will do the same, the poor can come to UST, and we will eat with them,” he said.
UST was founded on April 28, 1611 in fulfillment of Archbishop Benavides' wish to open a seminary-college to prepare young men for the priesthood.
Benavides bequeathed P1,500 and his personal library to the project in 1605. On November 20, 1645, Pope Innocent X elevated the college to a university.
In 1680, it was placed under Spanish royal patronage. On September 17, 1902, Pope Leo XIII made the University of Santo Tomas a “Pontifical University.” Pope Pius XII bestowed upon it the title of “The Catholic University of the Philippines” in 1947. Cliff Harvey C. VenzonVarsitarian
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Jan 28, 2011 13:44:25 GMT 9
Monument marking UST's 400 years unveiled
By NATE C. BARRETTO
January 27, 2011, 7:52pm
MANILA, Philippines – The countdown to 400 years of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) peaked last night with university officials, teachers, students, alumni, and guests witnessing the unveiling of the Quattromondial monument, followed by a grand fireworks display at the stroke of midnight.
The eve of the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of UST, was marked by the unveiling of the monument dedicated to the institution’s 400 years of service through education as the oldest existing university in Asia.
The QUATTROMONDIAL, now the centerpiece of the Quadricentennial Square, was made by world-renowned Thomasian sculptor Ramon Orlina.
It stands as the symbol of UST’s timeless legacy to the Church, the Filipino nation and the family as the Royal, Pontifical and Catholic University of the Philippines.
“The QUATTROMONDIAL is also a monument of gratitude to the Almighty for the gift of unending grace,” said Rev. Fr. Rolando dela Rosa, UST rector.
For Thomasians, the monument is also a symbol of pride as hundreds of thousands of products of the university had excelled and contributed to the improvement of the Filipino way of life through the past four centuries.
UST officials said today’s feast of St. Thomas Aquinas is particularly special because it marks the official celebration of the 400th anniversary of UST, which was founded on April 28, 1611.
It was originally established in Intramuros, Manila and named Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario before being renamed after St. Thomas Aquinas, the foremost Dominican theologian.
At 5 p.m. Friday, His Eminence Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education and Legate of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, will be lead the celebration of a thanksgiving mass at the UST Grandstand and Open Field.
His concelebrants include H.E. Edward Joseph Adams, D.D., Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines; H.E. Gaudencio Cardinal B. Rosales, Archbishop of Manila; H.E. Ricardo J. Cardinal Vidal, Archbishop Emeritus of Cebu; H.E. José T. Cardinal Sánchez, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Clergy; H.E. Nereo P. Odchimar, President of CBCP; Fr. Bruno Cadore, OP, Master of the Order of Preachers; Fr. Quirico T. Pedregosa Jr., OP, Provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines; Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, O.P., Rector, University of Santo Tomas; and Bishops from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines Religious and Diocesan Priests. (Nate C. Barretto)Manila BulletinUST in its 400th year
By JOSE DAVID LAPUZ, UST Professor of Political Science and the Life of Rizal for 37 Years (1970-2007) and KNIGHT GRAND CROSS OF RIZAL (KGCR) of the Knights of Rizal
January 27, 2011, 11:07pm
MANILA, Philippines – The University of Santo Tomas formally commences its Quadricentennial Anniversary in this month of January up to December, 2011. UST is, of course the oldest existing university in the Philippines. UST was founded on April 28, 1611, by the third archbishop of Manila, Msgr. Miguel de Benavides, OP, together with Frs. Domingo de Nieva and Bernardo de Santa Catalina. Originally, it was first called Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Santisimo Rosario and later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas in memory of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
After 400 years in the life of UST, what significant changes have occurred as far as the place of universities in the international commerce of knowledge is concerned? Today we note that although the role of universities is still very great, there is now in existence a large number of communication systems within multi-national agencies quite apart from universities, as well as extensive exchange of mass media using the satellite broadcast technology.
Today, after 400 years, UST confronts and engages the many intellectual developments that have occurred in world order studies over the years. Firstly, a whole new orientation to international relations and world order studies has emerged. This new approach attempts to combine a theory of popular struggle with a vision of a just world order. It is less preoccupied with constructing blueprints of world order and more concerned with an ongoing political process particularly as reflected in the struggles of the oppressed.
It is less legalistic in the approach and more appreciative of the cultural, economic, historical, and psychological underpinnings of political and legal structure. Finally, this new approach is less interested in agreement at the intergovernmental level and more oriented to popular participation and to alternative conceptions of governance and development that go beyond classical, liberal and Marxist ideas.
A second development is that world politics studies or estudios sobre politica mundialmente today are more transdisciplinary than some 400 years back. There are now more courses in the departments like history, sociology, anthropology, and economics, and a greater variety of approaches to world order problems. For example, there are ecological approaches to economic development, economic approaches to peace, and peace and conflict approaches to world economics.
Thirdly, the study of world order has become more attentive to the interlinkages that exist among world problem areas. Now courses deal systematically with the relationship between military spending, economic development and human rights.
Fourthly, there is increasing interest in the role that culture plays in shaping world order. Cultural factors are being studied for their effects on political legitimacy, economic development, resource utilization, and conflict formation.
Finally, international relations thinking today, as compared with the thinking 400 years ago, while being sensitive to the local struggles, is also more holistic. The recent appreciation of the earth as a delicately balanced ecological system has reinforced earlier ideas of the wholeness of the human family. As Prof. Richard Falk of Princeton University writes, feeling, thinking, and acting as a planetary citizen is what international relations studies is increasingly about.
These are just a few of the developments that I believe are making international affairs studies a richer, more meticulous, and more rigorous field of study. These developments now confront and challenge UST after 400 years. Unquestionably, further developments can be expected in the years ahead as more and more educators, professors, researchers, scientists, and academicians in universities become concerned about making their teaching more pertinent and germane to the search for peace and human well-being and prosperity in today’s rapidly changing world.
I, for one, as a professor of Santo Tomas University for more than three decades, have always loved UST as a place of light, of learning, and as a great factory of ideas. Today, as we happily celebrate its Quadricentennial, we must outline a framework for viewing the supra-national or macropolitical role of universities which identifies various levels of involvement in the international political and knowledge systems. Our perspective of UST must now focus upon features of the interdependence, domination, and autonomy which have a special policy relevance for the Royal, Pontifical, and Catholic University of Santo Tomas as it reconsiders its stance, after 400 years, toward its religious, moral, cultural, social, and political roles in both national and international settings. Then UST will have richly deserved its description as “Christianae Sapientiae Emicantissimum” or “Most Replendent Light of Christian Wisdom.”
As a simple teacher who has delivered, in more than three decades, numerous and numberless lectures, speeches, addresses, symposiums, seminars, colloquia, conferences, forums and other academic discussing in UST, this place of purest light, this shelter of thought and ideas, I feel truly humbled and exalted, genuinely delighted and honored, as UST continues, through long centuries, to welcome to its groves of academe every ray of genius and every brilliance of intellect. May God sustain UST with His peace and love and grant her His constant and unceasing guidance. In Jesus’ name I pray.Manila BulletinSt. Thomas Aquinas, Patron of all Catholic schools
January 27, 2011, 11:01pm
On Friday, we celebrate the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas, Patron of all Catholic educational institutions. The celebration commemorates the publication of his greatest work Summa Theologica, which earned him reknown as one of the greatest philosophers and theologians of all time. His feast day used to be celebrated on March 7, the day he passed away, but it was changed to January 28 when the Catholic Calendar was revised in 1969.
St. Thomas Aquinas was born in circa 1225 in Roccasecca, near Naples, Italy, to an old high-born south Italian family. He received his first schooling in the Benedictine monastery of Monte Cassino, where the Abbot was his father's brother. He studied at the University of Naples where he earned a degree in theology. He assumed the habit of St. Dominic at the age of 17. In 1245 in Cologne where he studied under the tutelage of Albertus Magnus. After securing his degree, he lectured and preached in many places, becoming known for his wisdom, simplicity, humility and prayer. In 1248, he was appointed second lecturer and magister studentium in Cologne. In 1252, he went to Paris for further studies. After teaching in Paris for several years, he moved on to Rome and other Italian towns. He continued to serve in his order and advised the Pope on affairs of state. About 1266, he began writing the Summa Theologica which is considered the best theological book ever written.
St. Thomas was offered the position of archbishop of Naples and Abbot of Monte Cassino, but he refused both. In 1274, Pope Gregory X directed him to attend the Second Council of Lyons. He was to investigate and, if possible, settle the differences between the Greek and Latin churches. Far from healthy, he undertook the journey. On his way, he stopped at the castle of a niece and there became seriously ill. He desired to end his days in a monastery. But the Dominican House was too far so instead, he was taken to the Cistercian monastery of Fossa Nuova. After a lingering illness, he died on March 7, 1274.
St. Thomas was canonized on July 18, 1323, by Pope John XXII. In 1567, he was proclaimed a Doctor of the Universal Church by St. Pius V. On August 4, 1880, he was designated Patron of all Catholic universities, academies, colleges, and schools throughout the world.
As we celebrate the Feast Day of St. Thomas Aquinas, let us be inspired by his example of humility and simplicity. May the teachers of today learn from his teachings on how to impart good education to their students.Manila BulletinUniversity of Santo Tomas celebrates its Quadricentennial Jubilee
January 27, 2011, 10:57pm
MANILA, Philippines – Founded on April 28, 1611 by the third Archbishop of Manila, Miguel de Benavides, OP., the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas (UST) was first called Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario, later named Colegio de Santo Tomas in memory of the foremost Dominican Theologian, St. Thomas Aquinas. The original campus was located in Intramuros, the Walled City of Manila. In 1624, the Colegio was authorized to confer academic degrees in theology, philosophy, and the arts. Pope Innocent X elevated the college to a university on November 20, 1645. In 1680, King Charles III of Spain granted the title of “Royal University,” and in 1902 Pope Leo XIII gave the title “Pontifical University.” In 1947, Pope Pius XII bestowed upon it the title “The Catholic University of the Philippines.” Inspired by the ideals of St. Dominic de Guzman, and guided by the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas, UST dedicates herself to the pursuit of Truth through the production, advancement, and transmission of knowledge for the formation of competent and compassionate professionals, committed to building the family, the nation, the church and in service of the global community.
The twelve strategic areas where UST endeavors to mark excellence are: Thomasian identity, teaching, research, community and extension services, human resources, physical resources, financial resources, growth and expansion, public presence, information technology, leadership and governance, and student welfare.
On January 25, 2010, the National Museum, by virtue of the powers vested in it by Republic Act 4846, as amended by Presidential Decree 374 and Republic Act 8492, declared the UST Main Building, the Arch of the Centuries, the Central Seminary, and the Open Spaces in the University Campus as National Cultural Treasures. Rev. Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, OP., UST Rector, and Rev. Fr. Quirico T. Pedregosa Jr., OP., UST Vice Grand Chancellor received the declaration from National Museum Director Corazon S. Alvina.
The 400th year foundation jubilee of the UST is highlighted in the Quadricentennial Week (January 24-28, 2011) with Eucharistic celebration, opening of the Jubilee Door, Quadricentennial fair and film festival, international conference, and grand alumni Homecoming dinner.
The Quadricentennial theme, “UST: Building the Church, the Nation and the Family, Our Birthright and Destiny,” aptly captures the University’s humane contribution in the educational, social, political, economic and religious realms in the Philippines and in the international community. Now, with 19 Faculties and Colleges, UST’s roster of great alumni that includes national heroes, Presidents of the Republic of the Philippines, artists and outstanding professionals adds luster to her glory. Through the decades and years, the University has put up banners of pride on remarkable lists of board topnotchers, champions and awardees in academic, scientific and sports competitions.
The Quadricentennial logo, “Tongues of Fire” features the UST Main Building Tower, a symbol of stability and integrity which houses the cross that serves as a shining star guiding university faculty, students, and alumni in life’s journey. The tongues of fire actually spell out the letters – U.S.T.
The centerpiece project of the 400th anniversary of UST, the SIMBAHAYAN project (Thomasians for the Church, the Nation and the Family) which aims to achieve 400 interventions for the development of villages for the poor, was built by Thomasian alumni in various parts of the country. It also vows to preserve and advance its European and Asian cultural heritage through research, teaching and various extension services.
Several infrastructural, academic, cultural and sports developments were initiated to commemorate the Quadricentennial jubilee:
The construction of the Plaza Mayor in front of the Main Building; the improvement of then UST Central Library, now named Miguel de Benavides Library with ongoing Lumina Pandit Exhibition of Historical Treasures; the construction of a new sports complex; the path walk from the Arch of the Centuries through the central garden leading to the Plaza Mayor; and, a scholarship for future teachers attuned to the University’s objective of contributing to national development and social transformation.
The Manila Bulletin led by its Chairman Dr. Emilio T. Yap, Directors, Officers, and Editors, congratulate the University of Santo Tomas headed by its 95th Rector and Chairman of the Quadricentennial Commission, Rev. Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, OP., University Officials, Faculty, Staff, and Students, on the occasion of its Quadricentennial Anniversary, and wish them all the best and success in all their endeavors.Manila BulletinPope tells UST on its 400th year: Focus faith in Christ
January 29, 2011, 12:51pm
Spectators are treated to a grand fireworks display at the open field of the University of Santo Tomas in Manila that began five minutes before midnight Thursday to celebrate the school’s 400th anniversary on Friday, January 28, 2011. (Photo by LJ PASION)
MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — Pope Benedict XVI on Friday afternoon urged the University of Santo Tomas, on the occasion of its 400th year, to focus its education programs on “faith in Jesus Christ.”
The Holy Father said this through a message read by Vatican official Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski during UST’s quadricentennial mass at the UST campus in Sampaloc, Manila.
Grocholewski, Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education, is the Pope’s extraordinary envoy to the Quadricentennial celebrations.
The Holy Father wants UST to ensure that education given to its students is centered on faith in Christ, as he praised the only Pontifical university in Asia for its achievements in the past 400 years.
“While we rightly praise the long-standing faithful activity and the merits of this famous Pontifical University, We desire that, in the future too, it will take care to give young people a proper education, in such a way that first place may be given to faith in Christ …,” the Pope said in his message.
Quoting the Catechism, Pope Benedict said faith in Christ is “more certain than all human knowledge because it is founded on the very word of God who cannot lie.”
UST, the Pope said, has “copiously” produced many “mature fruits,” and the 400th year anniversary was an occasion to give thanks to the “Divine Teacher.”
“Indeed, throughout the centuries, it has contributed, and continues to contribute much to the educational, cultural, and religious development of the young people who live in the Philippines,” he said.
“What is more, it has great importance for propagating and strengthening the Catholic faith in Asia. For it has provided higher education for hundreds of priests and bishops, religious and lay faithful, who, subsequently in the various provinces, have worked hard and competently build up the Kingdom of God,” the Pope added.
Meanwhile, two UST graduates turned celebrities said they were honored to be immortalized in bronze after UST officials unveiled the QuattroMondial monument Thursday evening.
Beauty queen-turned actress Charlene Gonzales-Muhlach, who finished AB Psychology in 1999, and actor Piolo Pascual, an BS Architecture graduate in 1997 felt honored to see the masterpiece of prominent sculptor Ramon Orlina.
“It's such an overwhelming experience. And sobra akong excited and happy and humbly grateful," said Gonzales.
"It's really a privilege. It's an honor. First time. I don't know what to feel. It's a major milestone in my life and not just my career. For me, nothing else gets better than this," said Pascual.
The 10 meter-high monument cast in bronze consists of four human figures representing UST's core values of excellence, spirituality, tradition and erudition.
After the unveiling ceremonies, Thomasian celebrities and other personalities graced the barrio fiesta-like “Q” grand program at the UST Grandstand Thursday night (January 27) for a grand celebration to welcome the University’s 400th year anniversary.
Flashy motorcycle stunts and men rappelling from the UST Main Building to the football field opened the four-hour celebration simultaneously with performances by dance groups Hotlegs and the Maneouvers.
Amadea Medina, the oldest living alumna, was then introduced to the crowd by Arts and Letters graduate Jeffrey “Mr. Fu” Espiritu as part of the Q Prayer led by 399 other students, administrators, non-teaching staff and alumni.
Medina, 103, graduated magna cum laude from the College of Education. “UST was then a castle in a desert in my time. Look at it now. I’m so happy to be part of it,” Medina said.
UST performers traced Miguel de Benavides’ journey of fulfilling his dream of building an institution of learning through dance.
Veteran actor Albert Martinez also shared his experience as a student of the Education High School and the Faculty of Engineering.Manila BulletinFond UST memories
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo (The Philippine Star) Updated January 30, 2011 12:00 AM
Last January 28, the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (UST) celebrated its 400th anniversary. Your Chair Wrecker nurtures fond memories of years spent in the UST College of Arts and Letters (Artlets). Our Artlets batch was the very first to be produced by the Communication Arts Department.
It is easy to remember my UST years with fondness.
Who can forget how easily the UST campus can transform into a facsimile of Venice with the slightest downpour? Who can forget the sight of silly Thomasians who would bravely wade bare footed into the floodwaters along Espana and Dapitan Streets? They valued their shoes, which are replaceable, more than their feet.
Who can forget the memories of sex segregation when male and female students were compelled to take separate stairways to upper floors of the campus buildings? There was this old Dominican priest, Fr. Modesto Mata, OP, who made it his mission to break up boy-girl tandems in the campus, even when sex segregation was already lifted.
When a boy and a girl were seen walking together, Fr. Mata would position himself right in the middle of their path, forcing them to create a wider gap.
Maloy Panlilio, one of the femme fatales of Artlets, used to hitch up her skirt to show more of her beautiful legs. Maloy would lower her skirt whenever she passes the Main Building, the usual hunting ground of Fr. Mata. Because of his age, many of us wondered if Fr. Mata was a vestige of the Spanish Inquisition.
Who could forget the other femme fatales of the late 1960s UST campus? In the Commerce Building alone, where Artlets is also housed, any heterosexual male student’s heart would pound faster upon the sight of Grace Lesaca, Vini Luciano, Aileen Samson, Marylocke Sardalla and Martha Martinez, to name only a few. From my psychology class, my neck stretched by easily two more inches just to catch a glimpse of Grace Lesaca walking to her class.
Who can forget the historic Main Building where a thousand ghost stories have emanated? When we walked down from the top floor where the UST radio studio was located, our female classmates would make it a point to be closer than usual to us males. With all my 6 feet and 250 pounds then, a time when your Chair Wrecker could still play competitive basketball and Jai alai, the ladies must have felt more secure. Or were they were simply using the fear of ghosts as an excuse for the intimacy?
Who can forget the trouble our ethics professor got into with Artlets Dean, Fr. Tomas Martinez, OP, for stating in class that under certain circumstances like as a release for high tension masturbation is not a sin? Fr. Martinez was a very kind soul but he could not betray his Dominican conservatism. It was an exception which could have found acceptance in a Jesuit campus but not in UST.
Who can also forget how poor Fr. Martinez reacted when UST had its very first campus demonstration in 1968, keeping in step with the campus activism of the period. Fr. Martinez reacted as if the end of the world was happening already. He went on the intercom which is linked to every Artlets classroom and led everybody in prayer. Actually, the issues of the demonstration were generic. Thomasians just would not have it said that we did not have a campus demonstration.
Your Chair Wrecker was active in campus theatre, the Aquinas Dramatic Guild. A dream role was chosen for your Chair Wrecker King Henry VIII in The Royal Gambit. How lucky could a guy get with six of the most alluring girls of the campus to play the role of my six wives? Alas, the production was aborted. God must have read my mind.
We used to go to “Los Indios Bravos” and “When it is a gray November in your soul Coffee Shop” on A. Mabini in Ermita for some culture and artistic pretensions. We reveled to the music of the Beatles, Monkees, The Association, Peter Paul and Mary and Tom Jones. It was in our generation when marijuana and uppers became the entry point of what is now a serious national drug problem. We were keeping in step with the Beatles whose music also started to reflect the youth’s new form of high. For me, the spirit in the bottle was still the preferred morale booster. The conservative in your Chair Wrecker simply rejected Mary Jane and drugs.
Who can forget that melee during an inter-collegiate basketball game at the university gym? A commotion occurred outside of the gym and a chase ensued. Obviously one group was outnumbered. The chase headed in our direction and just then somebody among the pursuers shouted: “Yung malaki na naka blue (The biggie wearing blue)!” Your Chair Wrecker happened to fit the description to a tee. Luckily, the mob got their biggie in blue and it was not me.
Who would believe that a Pontifical University will have a safe zone and an unsafe zone? The Education Building was considered the safe zone. Beside it, the Engineering Building was considered the unsafe zone. When the 1968 NCAA Basketball Champions, the Letran Knights, brought their victory motorcade to UST, considered a sister institution, a desk was hurled from the Engineering Building. Luckily, it landed on the roof of one of those American cars from the 1950s which are as hard as combat tanks and the desk just bounced off the car roof without harming anyone.
Who can forget the V, the Varsitarian, the UST student publication? The V has produced its fair share of the Who’s Who of Philippine Journalism. Who can forget such cerebral professors like Ting Pantoja, Emerita Quito, Josie Acosta and the late Ofie Dimalanta?
Thank you UST for all the fond memories oh yes, the education too!Philippine Star
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sayang i wasn't able to attend the reunion kahapon ;( ust rocks!!!
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Post by tgf1016 on Jan 29, 2011 3:13:55 GMT 9
i hope may magpost ng pictures ng events dito, i wasn't able to attend the reunion last night, bummer! duty calls kasi eh  .... ust rocks!!! |
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UST sports SCOOP topic
(The Philippine Star) Updated February 25, 2011 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines - Sports activities lined up in the celebration of the University of Santo Tomas 400th Year Anniversary will be the main topic of discussion in today’s SCOOP Sa Kamayan weekly session at the Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura. Alumni of the country’s and Asia’s oldest university, headed by Mozzy Ravena and sportswriter Tina Maralit, will discuss their plans to commemorate UST’s contribution to the country’s sports development program. Ravena, Maralit and company will be bringing the list of Glowing Goldies (now Growling Tigers and Tigresses) who played for the country during the forum, sponsored by Coca-Cola Bottlers Philippines, TV-5, Mang Inasal and FILA. Philippine Star400 years ng UST @ SCOOP
Pag-uusapan ang mga nakatakdang gagawin sa palakasan sa ika-400 taong anibersaryo ng University of Santo Tomas sa lingguhang sesyon ng SCOOP Sa Kamayan sa Kamayan Restaurant-Padre Faura sa Ermita, Manila ngayon.
Bisita ang mga nagtapos sa pinakamatandang uniberssidad sa Asya at sa bansa, sa pangunguna nina Mozzy Ravena at sportswriter Tina Maralit, para magdetalye sa mga kasapi ng Sports Communicators Organization of the Philippines (SCOOP), ng kanilang mga plano sa selebrasyon ng kontribusyon ng pamantasan sa paglago ng isports sa bansa.
Bibitbitin nina Ravena, Maralit at mga kasama ang Glowing Goldies (ngayo’y Growling Tigers at Tigresses) na mga nagmarka sa pagkatawan sa bansa mga palaro sa abroad.Abante ToniteGrand 10-piano concert in UST quadricentennial year
SUNDRY STROKES By Rosalinda L. Orosa (The Philippine Star) Updated March 05, 2011 12:00 AM
How to match the UST Conservatory’s recent concert “Sampung Mga Daliri atbp” at the CCP main theater? To begin with, the ten-pianos, as Fr. Rector Rolando de la Rosa points out in his message, is a unique, distinct innovation introduced by the Conservatory 27 years ago.
Further, the diverse program which ranged from Beethoven to pop music composers, was interpreted by a huge cast of 4,500, according to Dean Raul Sunico, a cast of students, faculty and alumni as instrumentalists, conductors and singers.
Sunico also disclosed that they were only half of the entire Conservatory population; even then, one wondered whether there was pandemonium backstage that evening. But with the absolute discipline onstage, order must have prevailed backstage.
Ten piano students performed with orchestra or ensemble for the first half of the program, with two playing on each piano for Beethoven’s opening “Egmonst Overture” with the UST Orchestra under conductor Jeffrey Solares who, with the pianists, conveyed grandeur and majesty while crystallizing Goethe’s dramatic Spanish-Flemish conflict. The total synchronization between pianos and orchestra was to characterize the rest of the program.
“Carmen Fantasy” featured the UST Wind Instrument under Michael Jacinto. Without the strings, the ensemble seemed rather too brassy and noisy, obliterating somewhat the melodious passages. But the pianists beautifully intoned the melody of the “Habanera” aria for which they were the principal players.
Kabaitan Bautista’s “Contagion” (on a theme by Nirvana) was fascinatingly creative, its lines flowing, with one of the pianists interspersing the work with a percussive accompaniment produced by a stick striking against the piano board.
In Lecuona’s “Malagueña and Andalucia”, the pianos often overpowered the guitars owing to the very nature of the instruments. However, the performers captured the composer’s lively rhythms.
Ricardo Calubayan conducted the UST Rondalla Ensemble in his own arrangement of A. Molina’s Lulay and P. Umali’s Pandangguhan, giving them a distinctively native and charming quality. Timothy Sosmeña drew lusty applause as he conducted the USTeMundo in his own inventive arrangement of the Sampung Mga Daliri. Theme, with a contingent of percussion players simulating ethnicity as they struck sticks against wood (or metal?), the pianists providing the melodic counterpoint.
After intermission, the student pianists were replaced by faculty and alumni, the rapport with the orchestra as flawless and precise, but the pianists now obviously taking on more technically challenging pieces.
Selections from Saint-Saens’ “Carnival of the Animals” were arresting for being eloquently descriptive and, more particularly, for the vibrant, buoyant and robust baton-wielding of Renato Lucas over the UST Symphony Orchestra. Listening to “The Swan”, ballet-lovers must have called to mind great ballerinas — e.g. Karsavina, Toumanova, et al — exquisitely depicting the swan.
The concert had something for everyone; jazz and pop music aficionados felt elated over the UST Jazz Band’s 50s and 60s medley (arranged by Emy Munji) which included “I’ll Remember April,” “Historia de un Amor,” “I’m in the Mood for Love,” “If I Give My Heart to You” under the versatile Rañera.
Faculty and alumni pianists again enchanted in Strauss’ Fledermaus Fantasy this arranged by Kabaitan Bautista, as they highlighted the lilt of the florid waltzes.
Ako’y Isang Tomasino and the original UST hymn, the latter by Julio Esteban Anguita, rendered by the Coro Tomasino, Liturgikon Vocal Ensemble and chorus classes, roused the college spirit of Thomasians present. Jun Francis Jaranilla, bass baritone was the brilliant soloist. Earlier, voice faculty soloists vastly enriched the chorus in Kundiman Medley, with piano arrangement by Sunico and orchestral arrangement by conductor Rañera.
“The March and Dance” from Verdi’s Aida had three trumpet and three trombone players on one side of the stage, three trumpet and two horn players on the other, the two groups exchanging alarums in bristling martial fashion.
All choirs consisting of some 200 singers and the symphony orchestra under Rañera produced a massive, thunderous, overwhelming volume — an awesome climax to the grandest concert yet presented by the UST Conservatory, indeed a befitting celebration of its quadricentennial year.Philippine StarUST forms human cross for Guinness Book record
By Evelyn Macairan (The Philippine Star) Updated March 10, 2011 12:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines - An estimated 24,000 students attempted to rewrite the Guinness Book of Records by forming the largest human cross at the University of Santo Tomas (UST) yesterday.
Fr. Winston Cabading, vice rector for religious affairs, said the students wanted to make the Guinness record in time for the yearlong quadricentennial celebration of UST.
“It was the students who requested that we also do something for the Guinness Book of World Records so we thought on Ash Wednesday we could attempt the biggest human cross,” he said.
Cabading said they decided to form a human cross because the cross is a symbol of the tree of life for them.
“This is not only an attempt to form the biggest human cross, this is also a spiritual event for each one of us because it is the beginning of Lent,” he said.
Cabading said it was also the perfect way to express that the Thomasian community is pro-life.
“Therefore, the prayer of the Church for the protection of life will signify the oneness of the Thomasian community in the mission of the Church to protect and preserve life,” he said.
UST hired the services of the accounting firm SGV & Co. to document the event and a helicopter to get an aerial shot of the Dominican cross.
Out of 43,000 students, 24,000 were to be part of the historic event since that was the capacity of the open field. There were representatives from the faculty and from the administration.
Eighteen entry gates were placed for the volunteers to pass through.
They swiped their identification cards so their names would be recorded and their presence counted.
After the event, SGV would add the numbers and announce the official number of participants in a few days.Philippine StarUST Cross Video Updated Quadricentennial Calendar of Events
JANUARY 2011
21-23 = Meeting of Dominican Regents of Asia Pacific
o time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
o (*January 23, 2011 = 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.)
24 = Quadricentennial Mass for the Students
o time: 3:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
o venue: UST Chapel
- Procession around the campus
- Opening of the Jubilee door
- Mass
24 -27 =
* FIT, FAB AND WELL @ 400: UST PHYSICAL WELLNESS PROGRAM
o time: 6:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
o venue: Park next to the Health Service Building
24 -27 = Quadricentennial Fair
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* Q Parade
o time: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 n.n.
o venue: from Mendiola to UST
* ICUSTA Concelebrated Mass
o time: 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
o venue: UST Chapel
* ICUSTA
o venues: TARC SWR, TARC Auditorium, and Seminary Gym
* ALPA Host Batch Thanksgiving Mass
o time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
o venue: Seminary Gym
* Operas Part 1: excerpts from Die Fledermaus and La Traviata; Part 2: Cavallera Rusticana
o time: 5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
o venue: Medicine Auditorium
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* Q Grand Program
o time: 6:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m.
o venue: UST Grandstand
* ICUSTA
o venues: TARC SWR, TARC Auditorium, and Seminary Gym
* ALPA Host Batch Thanksgiving Mass
o time: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
o venue: Seminary Gym
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* ALPA Homecoming 2011
o time: 7:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
o venues: Manila Hotel, UST Main Library, Central Seminary Gym, TARC Auditorium, Central Seminary Garden, Seminary Grounds)
* Quadricentennial Thanksgiving Mass and Grand Alumni Homecoming
o time: 4:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
o venue: Plaza Mayor
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• ALPA Homecoming 2011
time: 7:00 a.m. – 12:00 n.n.
FEBRUARY 2011
1-24 = 70th Year Celebration of the Annual National Painting Competition and Exhibition
venue: UST Grounds and Museum
3, 4, 7, 8, and 9 = Velada Tomasina
venue: Plaza Mayor, Benavides Garden and UST Museum
11 = Wreath Laying at the Plaza Santo Tomas in Intramuros
venue: Plaza Santo Tomas Intramuros
16-18 = EDU_QUAD (Teaching and Learning Technologies)
venue: Medicine Auditorium
17 = USTv Students’ Choice Awards Q Edition
venue: Medicine Auditorium
24 = Q Fashion Show
venue: Plaza Mayor
28 = Q Fashion Show Exhibit (until March 12)
Venue: UST Museum
MARCH 2011
25 = Baccalaureate Mass for the Quadricentennial graduates
venue: UST Grandstand
JUNE 2011
6 = Opening of AY 2011-2012
venue: UST Chapel
JULY 2011
19 = Opening of the UST Museum Visual Arts Gallery
venue: UST Museum
AUGUST 2011
12-14 = Operetta on the Life of Msgr. Benavides
venue: Cultural Center of the Philippines
15 = Inauguration and Blessing of the UST Gymnasium
venue: New building beside the Multi-Deck Carpark
SEPTEMBER 2011
1-14 = UST Exhibit in Paris
venue: UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
24 = Q Special Lecture sponsored by the UST Graduate School
venue: Medicine Auditorium and TARC
29 = Rosarium
venue: Park at the left of Main Building
NOVEMBER 2011
22 = Unveiling of the UST Martyrs’ Monuments
venue: Park in front of the UST Chapel
DECEMBER 2011
1-2 = Grand Christmas Concert Gala
venue: UST Chapel
JANUARY 2012
23 -25= Velada Tomasina
venue: UST Grounds and UST Museum
27 = Closing Ceremony of the Q celebration
venue: Plaza MayorUST Quadricentennial Lectures
FROM THE OFFICE OF THE VICE RECTOR FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
SCHEDULE OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CONFERENCES
* September 15 to October 1, 2010. TOURISM CONVENTION SERIES: Series of lectures on varied topics: from street food to quality education reforms, from street noise to cultural heritage; Organized by the College of Tourism and Hospitality Management
* September 30, 2010 CME Auditorium. NATIONAL CULTURAL TOURISM CONFERENCE. Featuring the Ambassadors of India, Myanmar, Pakistan, Romania, and the representatives of the Embassies of Spain, Russia and Turkey as well as the Philippine Department of Tourism as resource persons on the topic “The Prospects of International Cultural Tourism.” Organized by the College of Tourism and Hospitality Management
* October 20-21, 2010 Albertus Magnus Auditorium. NATIONAL CONVENTION FOR TEACHER EDUCATION. Features notable Thomasian educators and alumni as speakers; Organized by the Student Teachers Association of UST (STAUST)
* October 18-20, 2010 Benavides Auditorium. PAMBANSANG SEMINAR-WORKSYAP SA PAGPAPAIGTING NG KADALUBHASAAN SA WIKA AT PANITIKANG FILIPINO (PART 1). Seminar-workshop on current topics on Filipino language and culture that gathers teachers, curriculum planners, translators, scholarly and creative writers; Organized by the UST Department of Filipino
* October 21-23, 2010 Albertus Magnus Auditorium. 6TH JOINT CDCE-CETA CONGRESS, THEME: ACUMEN IN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TEACHING. (in collaboration with the UST Department of English)
* December 3-4, 2010 Civil Law Auditorium. 3RD PHILIPPINE PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH CONGRESS: TRENDS, INNOVATIONS, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP – CONNECTING TIES IN PHARMACY. Gathers pharmaceutical scientists from industry, academe & government and provides a forum to present research outputs and interact with experts; Organized by the Faculty of Pharmacy and Research Cluster for Natural and Applied Sciences
* January 19-21, 2011. QUADRICENTENNIAL NUEROSCIENCE SUMMIT 2011 6TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING, UST NEUROSCIENCE. Aims to pique the interest in the neurosciences and behavioral medicine and provides a venue for sharing updates and current trends in the basic and advanced clinical aspects of neurology and psychiatry; features international; (as host)
* January 21-22, 2011 Manila Hotel. 4th THOMASIAN INTERNATIONAL NURSING CONFERENCE. Theme: “The Thomasian Nurse: Building the Church, the Home and the Nation…Our Birthright and Destiny” Organized by the College of Nursing
* January 26-28, 2011 Medicine Auditorium. INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITIES OF ST. THOMAS AQUINAS (ICUSTA) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. Theme: “The Role of Universities in Fostering Catholic Principles in Public Life”; Gathers presidents/heads of foreign and local institutions of higher learning that adhere to the ideals and teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas
* February 2, 2011 TARC Auditorium. HONORARY PROFESSORIAL LECTURE IN CHEMISTRY. A lecture follows the bestowal of the Honorary Professor title to Prof. Salvador Alegret of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in recognition of his significant contribution to the development of Analytical Chemistry in the UST Department of Chemistry; Organized by the College of Science
* February 2011 Manila Hotel. EDU QUAD. An international conference on technologies for teaching and learning which focuses on the four cornerstones of technology integration in education: Quality, Universality, Access, and Development; serves as an opportunity to gather and link key administrators, scholars, researchers, and educational technologists from both the academe and the industry. Organized by the Educational Technology Center
* January 31 to February 2, 2011 TARC Auditorium. MECH EXPO 2011: NATIONAL MECHATRONICS AND ROBOTICS CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION. Features research colloquium, seminar, competition, and exhibition on mechatronics and robotics; Organized by the Faculty of Engineering
* March 2011 Medicine Auditorium. 1st NURSING STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE. Plenary and parallel sessions showcasing the scientific studies of nursing students in Asia; Organized by the Faculty of Nursing
* April 29 to May 7, 2011 CME Auditorium. 21ST PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF ACADEMIC BIOCHEMIST: THE ANNUAL CONVENTION. (as host)
* May 19-20, 2011 TARC Auditorium. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH, ENGLISHES AND ENGLISHING IN THE MULTILINGUAL AND MULTIMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS. Organized by the UST Department of English
* May 19-20, 2011. MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY OF THE PHILIPPINES ANNUAL CONVENTION. (as host)
* May 23-26, 2011 Medicine Auditorium and TARC Auditorium. THOMISM AND ASIAN CULTURES: CELEBRATING 400 YEARS OF DIALOGUE ACROSS CIVILIZATIONS. An International Conference in Philosophy that features lectures from scholars representing at least 4 international organizations and 4 local associations in Philosophy; Organized by the Department of Philosophy
* September 15-16, 2011 Medicine Auditorium. CHEMISTRY NOBEL LAUREATES LECTURE FORUM. In celebration of the International Year of Chemistry in 2011, aims to inspire the Science students to pursue research in their respective fields and to give them the opportunity to interact with highly recognized scientists like the Nobel Laureates in Chemistry; includes a forum with high school students from public and private science high schools to encourage more Filipino students to pursue a profession in science and technology; Organized by the College of Science
* September 24, 2011 Medicine Auditorium. SPECIAL CONVOCATION ON THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY VIS-A-VIS POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Organized by the UST Graduate School
* October 2011 Benavides Auditorium. PAMBANSANG SEMINAR-WORKSYAP SA PAGPAPAIGTING NG KADALUBHASAAN SA WIKA AT PANITIKANG FILIPINO (PART 2). Seminar-workshop on current topics on Filipino language and culture that gathers teachers, curriculum planners, translators, scholarly and creative writers; Organized by the UST Department of Filipino
* October 20-22, 2011. TARC Auditorium. GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON ETHICS IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. A gathering of prominent scientists & philosophers to a discourse on Ethics & the Applications of Emerging Technologies as they affect human welfare and shared security; Organized by the UST Graduate School and the Ecclesiastical Faculty of Philosophy
* October 23-25, 2011 TARC Auditorium. SOUTHEAST ASIAN CONFERENCE IN MEDICAL PHYSICS. (as host)
* October 2011 CME Auditorium. PHILIPPINE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY ANNUAL CONVENTION. (as host)
* November 24-26, 2011 TARC Auditorium. ASIAN WOMEN FORUM: SEEDING CULTURES OF PEACE & DEVELOPMENT. A gathering of global women leaders & women of faith to a dialogue & conversation on the primordial role of women in peace facilitation; in mainstreaming an education for a culture of peace & dialogue; and in building an ecologically sustainable future for the world; Organized by the UST Graduate School and the Institute of Religion, in collaboration with Religions for Peace Asia
* November 29-December 2, 2011. 10TH WORLD CONGRESS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF DACRYOLOGY AND DRY EYE. First time since 1982 that the international medical congress will be held in Manila, it gathers eminent ophthalmologists from all over the world devoted to the study and management of tear and lachrymal diseases; (as host)
* November 2011 Medicine Auditorium. LEGACIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS IN THE LAST 400 YEARS. An International Conference on the contributions of the University of Santo Tomas in the last 400 years across different disciplines and its major contributions to the Filipino Nation and the Asia-Pacific Region; Organized by the Faculty of Arts and Letters
* October 2012 Medicine Auditorium. 8th PAN PACIFIC CONFERENCE ON REHABILITATION. An international biennial conference which for the first time will be held outside Hong Kong; gathers rehabilitation specialists, including physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, and rehabilitation medical doctors and students; Organized by the College of Rehabilitation Sciences
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Apr 7, 2011 17:06:21 GMT 9
Conferment of the UST Quadricentennial Golden Cross Award to Her Excellency Madame Irina Bokova
The University of Santo Tomas, on the occasion of its 400th year of foundation, will award the Quadricentennial Golden Cross Award to the UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova. The award is the highest award granted by UST and is given to persons who excel in the promotion of the arts, humanities and the sciences, or who have distinguished themselves by their total commitment to the service of humankind. The convocation will be held on 25 March at 9:00 AM at the UST Medicine Auditorium. A press conference at the UST CME Auditorium is scheduled at 10:30 AM.
The Director General will be meeting Secretary Br. Armin Luistro, FSC of the Department of Education at 12:00 NN of the same day. A high-level dialogue with the Director General which will be hosted by the DepEd and attended by senior officials of CHED, TESDA, DOST and DFA follows. The theme of the dialogue will center on interfaith dialogue, education, and building a culture of peace in fighting poverty. This will highlight the Philippines’ initiatives and achievements in UNESCO’s fields of competence, specifically in education and culture, and in view of UNESCO’s leadership in the promotion of culture of peace, the Philippines’ leadership in interfaith initiatives.
The Director General will be hosted to a dinner by Secretary Albert del Rosario of the Department of Foreign Affairs on the evening of 25 March.
On 26 March 2011, the Director General will be hosted by the National Commission on Culture and Arts to a meeting, cultural presentation and dinner.
Her Excellency Mme. Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, will undertake an Official Visit to the Philippines on March 25 to 26, 2011 to take part in bilateral meetings with senior government officials in order to discuss UNESCO’s present and future cooperation with the Philippines.
The Director General is expected to arrive on 24 March 2011 and will call on the President in the afternoon of the following day, 25 March.
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Fireworks display after the Baccalaureate Mass 2011
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Photo by Khing ZalameaUSTHS Alumnus-turned-UP President to be Feted by Thomasian Alma Mater
ST High School Alumni Association Inc.
Hon. Alfredo E. Pascual, the class valedictorian of UST High School Batch 1965, was recently appointed as the 20th President of the University of the Philippines (UP) System.
Hon. Pascual had long been a UP “resident.” UP was where he graduated cum laude in Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1969; where he taught for one year, in the Department of Chemistry in 1969; and where he earned his degree in Master of Business Administration in 1972. (He also attended the EC-ASEAN Teacher Program on Management of Strategic and Organizational Change in 1988 at the I NSEAD— Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires or the European Institute for Business Administration—in Fontainebleau, France.)
He went on to teach at the Ateneo De Manila University, where he was a part-time instructor for the Departments of Management Engineering (1973-76) and Business Management (1977-78); and at the Asian Institute of Management, from 1980 to 1989. At AIM, he was The American Express Foundation Professor of Financial Management , Faculty Chair of the Master in Business Management I program, and Director of the Advanced Bank Management program.
By then a 14-year academic veteran, Hon. Pascual was also building up what would become a 27-year wealth of banking, finance and management experience. This includes stints at Procter & Gamble PMC, as Industrial Engineer then as Department Manager; Bancom Development Corporation, as a Project Manager then Assistant Treasurer; as Assistant Vice President for Corporate Finance at Philippine Pacific Capital Corporation (now RCBC Capital); Vice President for Investment Banking at First Metro Investment Corporation; Vice President for International Finance at State Investment House Inc.
Most of all, he had a 19-year stint at Asian Development Bank, pursuing pioneering projects and initiatives as he handled such positions as the ADB Private Sector Group’s Principal Investment Officer then Project Finance Head; Director for two successive divisions: Private Sector Infrastructure Finance and Capital Markets & Financial Sectors; and, ultimately, Adviser for Public-Private Partnership in Infrastructure.
Hon. Pascual also held corporate board directorships in 14 different institutions worldwide: nine in India, two in China, and one each in Hong Kong, the Netherlands and the Philippines. He has four major published works involving infrastructure and finance that have seen print in the Philippines, Paris, California and London.
He is also the recipient of several major awards, including theDistinguished Alumnus Award from the UP College of Business Administration in 2009; the Innovation Award for the SME Sector Development Program in Pakistan from the Asian Development Bank in 2003; the Project of the Year Award for North Luzon Expressway from Project Finance International, London, in 2001; and the Presidential Achievement Award (1983) and the Presidential Award from the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (1981).
The 62-year-old Hon. Pascual, who replaced then outgoing UP President Emerlinda R. Roman, was one of 11 nominees to the UP presidency in December 2010. He has held two UP posts right before being appointed UP President: Alumni Regent and Alumni Association President, both from 2009 to 2012. [He has also been a Senior Adviser of Tusk Advisory PTE (Singapore) since 2008.] His stint as UP President officially began on February 10, 2011, and ends on February 9, 2017.
Hon. Pascual is slated to be honored by the University—led by Rector Magnificus Rolando V. De La Rosa, O.P. and including the UST High SchoolAdministration and the USTHSAAI Board—with a testimonial dinner on the UST Campus very soon.
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Apr 28, 2011 2:26:21 GMT 9
University of Santo Tomas celebrates its 400th Anniversary
April 28, 2011, 8:00am
MANILA, Philippines -- As the oldest existing university in the country and the largest Catholic higher education institution in population, the University of Santo Tomas has progressed significantly from its founding as a seminary college to the comprehensive institution that it is today. Established on April 28, 1611, the University was originally located in Intramuros, the Walled City of Manila, and was called Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario. It was later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, in memory and honor of the foremost Dominican theologian St. Thomas Aquinas.
In 1619, the Colegio was authorized to confer academic degrees in theology and philosophy. In 1645, Pope Innocent X elevated the college to a university. In 1680, it was placed under the royal patronage of the Spanish monarchy. In 1681, Pope Innocent XI declared it a Public University of General Studies allowing it to confer other degrees. In 1734, Pope Clement XII authorized the university to confer degrees in all existing faculties as well as all others that might be introduced in the future. The Pope also approved the curriculum in the entire field of jurisprudence. Almost two centuries later, on September 17, 1902, Pope Leo XIII made the University of Santo Tomas (UST) a “Pontifical University.’’ And in 1947, Pope Pius XII bestowed upon it the title of “Catholic University of the Philippines.’’ The University of Santo Tomas is the second university in the world after the Gregorian University in Vatican to be granted the formal title of Pontifical University. The Gregorian University was given this title in 1873.
The university moved to its present site in Sampaloc district, a total of 21.5 hectares, in 1929. Since its establishment in 1611, the university academic life was disrupted only twice: once, from 1898 to 1899, during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino-American War, and the second time, from 1942 to 1945, when the Japanese Occupation Forces in Second World War converted the UST campus into a camp where around 2,500 Allied civilians were detained.
The university is the Alma Mater of four Filipino heroes who shaped the nation’s destiny – Dr. Jose P. Rizal, Emilio D. Jacinto, Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Apolinario M. Mabini; Philippine Presidents Manuel Luis Quezon, Sergio S. Osmeña, Jose P. Laurel, and Diosdado P. Macapagal; various Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Senators, Congressmen, Scientists, Architects, Engineers, Writers, and many others, all outstanding in their chosen professions.
We congratulate the University of Santo Tomas led by its Rector Rev. Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa OP, its Administrators, Faculty, Personnel, Students, and Alumni on the occasion of its 400th Anniversary. We wish them all the best and success in all their endeavors.Manila BulletinBank funds UST’s library program
Published Date: May 2, 2011
THE Union Bank of the Philippines has announced that it will fund a multi-million peso program by the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (UST) to conserve and digitize the university’s historic archives and develop an open library of Philippine heritage.
In a ceremony on the 400th anniversary of UST’s foundation last week, Dominican Father Rolando de la Rosa signed a memorandum of agreement as UST Rector with Union Bank Chairman Justo A. Ortiz. In the memorandum, the bank has committed to donate 50 million pesos (US$1.165 million) for the program.
“Union Bank will finance the preservation of books and archives, produce exhibits and new publications, digitize the books and archives and put them on the web to open access to more people,” Ortiz said.
In his speech, Ortiz said the UST library resources represent over 400 years of Philippines national memory, including the first book printed in the country in 1593 titled Doctrina Cristiana, (Christian Doctrine), and a 1650 collection of musical knowledge, reportedly read by Bach and Beethoven.
“These show that Spaniards did not come to the Philippines only to evangelize but also to educate,” he said. “We at UnionBank are grateful to UST for its willingness to share this national heritage,” he added.
Report from ucanews.comBank donates P50M to UST Central Library
UNION BANK has donated P50 million for the digitization and publication of the Lumina Pandit exhibit last April 28, UST’s quadricentennary.
Lumina Pandit II: Unending Light is a project that aims to “preserve and continuously upgrade” Miguel de Benavides Library’s collection of rare books and valuable historical documents which were shown in the exhibit that ended last April 13.
Fr. Rolando De la Rosa, O.P., Rector of UST, said the five-year project aims to “continually spread the light, in order to dispel the darkness of ignorance.”
“Through digitization, the University will be able to reach out, not only to Filipinos, but to all people by making available to them all our archives, manuscripts and other historical documents,” he said.
UST hopes to uplift the historical consciousness of Thomasians through the Internet, he added.
“If people outside the University are interested in our library treasures, perhaps Thomasians themselves can be the first to appreciate what we have now instead of spending their time on games and social networking sites,” added De la Rosa. Daphne J. MagturoVarsitarian
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on May 17, 2011 5:49:58 GMT 9
University of Santo Tomas celebrates its 400th Anniversary
April 28, 2011, 8:00am
MANILA, Philippines -- As the oldest existing university in the country and the largest Catholic higher education institution in population, the University of Santo Tomas has progressed significantly from its founding as a seminary college to the comprehensive institution that it is today. Established on April 28, 1611, the University was originally located in Intramuros, the Walled City of Manila, and was called Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario. It was later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, in memory and honor of the foremost Dominican theologian St. Thomas Aquinas.
In 1619, the Colegio was authorized to confer academic degrees in theology and philosophy. In 1645, Pope Innocent X elevated the college to a university. In 1680, it was placed under the royal patronage of the Spanish monarchy. In 1681, Pope Innocent XI declared it a Public University of General Studies allowing it to confer other degrees. In 1734, Pope Clement XII authorized the university to confer degrees in all existing faculties as well as all others that might be introduced in the future. The Pope also approved the curriculum in the entire field of jurisprudence. Almost two centuries later, on September 17, 1902, Pope Leo XIII made the University of Santo Tomas (UST) a “Pontifical University.’’ And in 1947, Pope Pius XII bestowed upon it the title of “Catholic University of the Philippines.’’ The University of Santo Tomas is the second university in the world after the Gregorian University in Vatican to be granted the formal title of Pontifical University. The Gregorian University was given this title in 1873.
The university moved to its present site in Sampaloc district, a total of 21.5 hectares, in 1929. Since its establishment in 1611, the university academic life was disrupted only twice: once, from 1898 to 1899, during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino-American War, and the second time, from 1942 to 1945, when the Japanese Occupation Forces in Second World War converted the UST campus into a camp where around 2,500 Allied civilians were detained.
The university is the Alma Mater of four Filipino heroes who shaped the nation’s destiny – Dr. Jose P. Rizal, Emilio D. Jacinto, Marcelo H. Del Pilar, Apolinario M. Mabini; Philippine Presidents Manuel Luis Quezon, Sergio S. Osmeña, Jose P. Laurel, and Diosdado P. Macapagal; various Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, Senators, Congressmen, Scientists, Architects, Engineers, Writers, and many others, all outstanding in their chosen professions.
We congratulate the University of Santo Tomas led by its Rector Rev. Fr. Rolando V. dela Rosa OP, its Administrators, Faculty, Personnel, Students, and Alumni on the occasion of its 400th Anniversary. We wish them all the best and success in all their endeavors.Manila BulletinThe unveiling of the Quattromondial Bank funds UST’s library program
Published Date: May 2, 2011
THE Union Bank of the Philippines has announced that it will fund a multi-million peso program by the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (UST) to conserve and digitize the university’s historic archives and develop an open library of Philippine heritage.
In a ceremony on the 400th anniversary of UST’s foundation last week, Dominican Father Rolando de la Rosa signed a memorandum of agreement as UST Rector with Union Bank Chairman Justo A. Ortiz. In the memorandum, the bank has committed to donate 50 million pesos (US$1.165 million) for the program.
“Union Bank will finance the preservation of books and archives, produce exhibits and new publications, digitize the books and archives and put them on the web to open access to more people,” Ortiz said.
In his speech, Ortiz said the UST library resources represent over 400 years of Philippines national memory, including the first book printed in the country in 1593 titled Doctrina Cristiana, (Christian Doctrine), and a 1650 collection of musical knowledge, reportedly read by Bach and Beethoven.
“These show that Spaniards did not come to the Philippines only to evangelize but also to educate,” he said. “We at UnionBank are grateful to UST for its willingness to share this national heritage,” he added.
Report from ucanews.com
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Jun 20, 2011 4:04:33 GMT 9
Tribute to an alma mater
Designer alumni pay homage to UST
By JANE KINGSU-CHENG
May 21, 2011, 6:00am
A Danilo Franco creation
MANILA, Philippines -- The first group of designers to showcase their Holiday 2011 collections for Philippine Fashion Week are, notably, all from the University of Santo Tomas. This year marks the 400th anniversary of the said university, and these 10 designers paid tribute to their alma mater by presenting their works for PFW this season. Although most designers presented theatrical pieces that showed off their vision and creativity, established designers such as JC Buendia and Noel Crisostomo kept it simple, classic and elegant with feminine accents like ruffles and hand-cut and lace-like roses as the highlight of their collections, respectively. The show ended with Salvacion Lim-Higgins’s best and well-preserved creations that transported us to a world of grace and glamour.
Danilo Franco
Danilo Franco infuses an ethnic vibe to his party pieces by incorporating tribal embroidery into his collection. High-waisted, paneled circle skirts are a crowd favorite, as they’re classic yet distinctively Filipino in style.
Edgar Allan
Inspired by nature and its colorful wonders, Edgar Allan’s designs worked around animal prints and blossoming floral hues. “Color blocking and bold details dramatize the concept, with matte crepe and satin, organza and chiffon accents creating a lustrous and vibrant effect. The highlight of this showcase is my interpretation of Mother Nature as a nymph or fairy amid a flowing stream,” shares Allan.
Edgar San Diego
Reinvented classic is what came to mind upon seeing Edgar San Diego’s collection. Filipino fashion staples such as the panuelo (kerchief), baro (blouse with bell sleeves), tapiz/sobre falda (overskirt), and inaguwas (slip) are showcased all throughout. San Diego adds, ”Gold, black, beige and taupe are my key colors for this collection, and the use of silk cocoon, raw silk, and polyesters brings to life the beauty of the traditional Filipino ensemble.”
Eric Pineda
Black royalty came alive with opulent gold embroidery and embellishments. Metallic organza, satinized jersey, Spanish lace and velvet were Eric Pineda’s picks: “The combination of textures, fabrics, and celebratory hues project the élan furthered by the university’s rich culture.”
JC Buendia
Quite known for his tailoring skills, JC Buendia kept this collection extra feminine with his use of sheer fabrics, matched with floral embroidery. Classic colors such as black, white, and cream, gave an old-world feel to his long, circle skirts and buttondown blouses.
Johnny Abad
Ethnic shades in brown, burnt orange, and gold in what seems to be organza strips have been meticulously stitched together, giving a woven texture to each gown.
Noli Hans
Noli Hans celebrated with a mix of everything that represents his alma mater’s rich history. Inspiration was taken from cathedral windows, fiestas, pageants, and even the university’s animal mascot, the tiger.
Richard Papa
Light and airy are not the words you’d think of for a holiday collection, which is why Richard Papa’s set came as a welcome treat. “The collection features straight dresses in organza, tulle and knits, clad in white and nude shades. Clean, textured and soft, each piece evokes a sense of quiet confidence—fit for the woman who wants to stand out without attracting unnecessary attention.”
Noel Crisostomo
Noel Crisostomo sure knows how to get us ladies all dolled up with his brand of glamour chic. His combination of patent and matte leather, crepe, silk, wool, jersey and fur trim is constructed into figure-flattering dresses and lean skirts with cape-like jackets for a modern take on the cheongsam. We couldn’t get over his hand-cut rose fabric—his team obviously worked double time to produce this amazing design.
SLIM: Salvacion Lim Higgins
A retrospective collection of Salvacion Lim Higgins was the finale, as each piece represented a decade of style that distinctly represented each fashion era. This, truly, showcased the works of the very talented late designer.Manila Bulletin Santo Tomas in its Quadricentennial grandeur
By ERIKA DENISE L. DIZON and MARIA LUISA A. MAMARADLO
THE WHIRLWIND that was school year 2010-2011 was indeed imbued with unending grace.
The first half of the University’s Quadricentennial year, which saw a grand week-long celebration, has been filled with many ups—and downs—that prove to be part of the colorful 400-year history of the “oldest institution of higher learning in the Far East.”
Celebrations began as early as December 2009, with the annual Paskuhan that marked the 400-day countdown to UST’s 400th year, gathered a record crowd of 50, 000 people—Thomasians and non-Thomasians alike.
Showcases
On Jan. 25, 2010, four UST landmarks—the Main Building, Central Seminary, Arch of the Centuries, and the University’s open spaces—were declared National Cultural Treasures by the National Museum, a first for any educational institution in the country.
In February, Rector Fr. Rolando de la Rosa, O.P. announced the beginning of the Quadricentennial “centerpiece project,” “Simbahayan: Tomasino para sa Simbahan, para sa Tahanan, para sa Bayan,” which aims to build 400 villages for the poor nationwide.
The University revealed its “vast and priceless collection of rare books, historical documents and artifacts accumulated across four centuries” in the year-long “Lumina Pandit: An Exhibit of Historical Treasures” at the Miguel de Benavides Library.
To prove the University’s stronghold in many sectors—business, included—UST ran the three-day Thomasian Global Trade Expo at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City from Oct. 15 to 17, 2010.
The Thomasian community united for two large human formations in thanksgiving to 400 years of guidance and grace and in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records—first on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Dec. 8, 2010, when an estimated 25,000 Thomasians “joined hands” to form the “largest human rosary”; and on March 9, Ash Wednesday, when about 24,000 people gathered to form the black-and-white Dominican cross.
Passing, battles
But amid all the festivities, the UST community mourned the loss—and celebrated the lives—of Thomasian professors who touched many lives.
The Thomasian literary community lost two of their matriarchs in 2010, with the consecutive deaths of the “teacher” Milagros Tanlayco and the “poetess” Ophelia Dimalanta.
On November 4, six months after Tanlayco’s death, Dimalanta passed away. She made her last “homecoming” last November 8 at the Santisimo Rosario Parish Church, where writers, former students, friends, and admirers flocked to pay tribute to the “love poet.”
The year also saw several controversies regarding the University and some Thomasians, which made the courts of law.
In a resolution dated March 21, the Quezon City Prosecutor’s Office dismissed the libel complaint filed by UST Faculty Union president Gil Gamilla against the nine former union officers collectively called the “Fidelity Group”.
The school was also caught in a win-lose situation over labor suits.
In a resolution last April 13, the National Labor Relations Commission favored three former instructors at the College of Fine Arts and Design (CFAD), who sued UST “for unfair labor practice and illegal dismissal” after they refused to sign waivers “renouncing their right to tenureship.” The University was told to reinstate the three and to give them around P1.2 million “in backwages and moral damages.”
But the University won against former instructors Buen Franklin Anthony Calubayan (CFAD) and Dianne Gene Aquino (College of Commerce and Business Administration) in two separate illegal dismissal suits.
UST filed a lawsuit against carpark operator Selegna Holdings, Inc. for “entering into fraudulent lease contracts and for failing to secure the approval of the University” last December 29. The news story on the case made the Varsitarian pages on the January 26 issue, which, in turn, led to a libel complaint filed by Selegna president and CEO Edgardo Angeles against editor in chief Cliff Harvey Venzon and news reporter Rommel Marvin Rio.
Maintaining that “UST is pro-life”, the University joined the anti-RH bill rally held at the Quirino Grandstand last March 25. It also released a statement against the controversial bill, saying “that the purchase of contraceptives shall be the burden of all tax-paying Filipinos, even those who, in conscience, are pro-life.”
Laurels, places
Thomasians continued to excel in a variety of fields.
President Aquino appointed Economics alumnus Paquito “Jojo” Ochoa Jr. and Education graduate Eduardo de Mesa as executive secretary and chief presidential legal counsel, respectively, while former Varsitarian Features editor and Journalism alumnus Ronald Llamas was appointed as presidential adviser on political affairs. Commerce alumnus Joel Villanueva, meanwhile, is the new director-general of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority. Thomasian Lt. Gen. Eduardo San Lorenzo Oban Jr., new Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, has vowed to redeem the military’s “stained” reputation.
The UST Singers was hailed as the Choir of the World again after surpassing 91 participants from across the globe at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in United Kingdom last July 10, making them the first choral group to receive the award twice.
Fine Arts graduate Joseph Mateo received the Outstanding Achievement in Animation award during the 62nd Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards last August 21 for his work as storyboard artist in Prep & Landing, a computer-animated television Christmas special produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
Topping the ranks
Medicine graduate Chitra Deepak Punjabi topped the Physician licensure exam, with four other Thomasians joining her in the Top 10. UST recorded a passing rate of 99 percent.
In the Occupational Therapy (OT) licensure exams, Kim Gerald Medallon also ranked first, with three other UST products making the list of topnotchers. While the national passing rate for OT declined to 37 percent, Thomasian occupational therapists could look forward to working abroad because the University has secured an accreditation from the World Federation of Occupational Therapists last June.
Fourteen Thomasians made it to the Top 10 of the July nursing board exam. They were led by Allyce Joana de Leon and Anna Vanessa Ang Gan, who both secured third place with 86 percent. The University was named third top-performing school with a 99.34-percent passing rate.
Last April, the University emerged as the only top-performing school in the “off-season” electronics engineering board exam, with 59 of 71 exam-takers (83.1 percent) passing the test. In electrical engineering, UST got an 82.35-percent passing rate.
In sports, UST won its 13th consecutive UAAP general championship, bringing to 38 its total number of overall titles. It also grabbed its 13th overall title in the juniors’ division.
‘Week of the Tigers’
But the grandest celebration would come at the first month of 2011, with the much-anticipated Quadricentennial week finally realized after two years of waiting.
The University’s real foundation day is April 28, but according to Public Affairs chief Giovanna Fontanilla, the administration held the week-long festivities in January for UST’s “most important stakeholders”—the students. January 28, meanwhile, is the feast of the University’s patron, St. Thomas Aquinas.
The beginning of the ‘Q’ week also saw the beginning of the Jubilee Year in line with UST’s festivities. The Roman Catholic Church’s Apostolic Penitentiary, the authority that governs indulgences, permitted Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales to bestow a Papal Blessing carrying a Plenary Indulgence after the opening Mass last January 24.
For the second time, UST served as the venue of the biennial conference of the International Council of the Universities of St. Thomas Aquinas, where officials member-universities—either named after St. Thomas Aquinas or adhering to Thomistic ideals—from 18 countries around the world met to review their respective visions and missions, policies and practices, and curricula and special advocacies.
President Aquino graced the occasion as the keynote speaker, where he praised the University for producing alumni “who have learned to balance their intellect on an unshakable foundation of morality.”
Thomasians partied hard the next night with a star-studded concert at the UST Grandstand on January 27, which featured popular acts like Thomasians Sarah Geronimo, John Lapuz, Jamie Rivera, and Jeffrey “Mr. Fu” Espiritu.
But before the fireworks and merriment of three separate gatherings around the campus on January 28, the Thomasian community and the local Church hierarchy gathered in thanksgiving, in a Mass officiated by Zenon Cardinal Grochlewski, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education and the Pope’s “extraordinary envoy” to the Quadricentennial celebrations.
Asserting UST’s place as the only Pontifical university in Asia, Pope Benedict XVI also took part in the celebration—which he said was “a significant even in the life of the Church—through a recorded video message.
“I am confident that keeping in mind the faith and the reason, which are always part of a truly integrated approach to education, the University will continue to contribute to the intellectual, spiritual, and cultural enrichment of the Philippines and beyond,” the Supreme Pontiff said.VarsitarianThe truth about Rizal’s ‘poor’ grades in UST
Most biographers of Rizal paint a bleak picture of his stay at UST. An examination of the records at the UST Archives, however, presents a more balanced view
Editor’s note: Below are excerpts from the 145th Discurso de Apertura (Opening Lecture) to welcome the new academic year of the 400-year-old University of Santo Tomas last June 6 at the UST Santisimo Rosario Church. The lecture, “Facebook Flashback: The Archives and the Story of the University (of Santo Tomas),” was delivered by Regalado Trota José, UST archivist and commissioner of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.
n his presentation, José paid tribute to his predecessor in the UST Archives, the Spanish Dominican historian Fr. Fidel Villarroel, who labored in the archives and systematized its collection for 50 years and wrote a massive multi-volume history of UST which will be published this year to mark the quadricentenary of Asia’s oldest university.
José also showed documents from the archives to clarify certain episodes in UST history and correct a number of misconceptions, such as the alleged mistreatment that national hero José Rizal received from the Dominicans as supposedly gleaned from the poor grades he got as a UST student.
THE UST Archives is one of the least known, least visited, and quietest places in the university. It is one of the least known, yet it contains the very soul of the university: the documents accumulated through 400 years that bear witness to UST’s history.
It is one of the least visited because, somehow, few people are interested in researching on the past. It is one of the quietest places in school because those who come here—a significant number of whom are foreigners—work as if in a trance as they track down leads on their various research projects.
Indeed, the archives, with its wealth of material documenting social networks and its accumulation of yearbooks and memorabilia, is yesterday’s equivalent to today’s Facebook.
The archives continues to accumulate files, yearbooks and documents, so like FB it is continually updated. At the same time, it allows the visitor to burrow into the past, whether it be the recent quadricentennial events or the purchase of land for the initial Colegio site 400 years ago.
My task this morning is to present to the UST community a history of its alma mater lovingly prepared by no less than its archivist of 50 years, Fr. Fidel Villarroel, OP. By some stroke of Providence, Fr. Fidel spoke at this same podium at the opening of school year 1971-1972, honoring one of UST’s finest alumni, Fr. José Burgos. Now, exactly 40 years later, he is the one being honored.
Tabulation of grades
From the crammed filing boxes and bookshelves of the archives, Fr. Fidel has produced a comprehensive history comprised of eight books divided into four volumes and two appendices. The history is now being edited and we hope it will be published within the year.
No, I will not reduce 400 years of history into 20 minutes. That is for all of us to read and savor later. Instead, I thought it best to present four sections from Fr. Fidel’s history . . .
The four sections I will present deal with: 1) the indio students in the 1770s; 2) the title “Royal”; 3) Rizal’s grades in UST; and 4) the university church where we are gathered.
Most biographers of Rizal paint a bleak picture of his stay at UST. An examination of the records at the archives, however, presents a more balanced view. All of this has been presented by Fr. Fidel Villarroel, OP, in his book “Jose Rizal and the University of Santo Tomas” (1984), with so much more enriching detail and context. Thus I will just present a tabulation of his grades.
Grades of Rizal in UST (1877-1882)
Preparatory Course of Theology and Law (1877-1878)
Cosmology—Sobresaliente [Excellent; equivalent grade: 1.0]
Metaphysics—Sobresaliente [Excellent: 1.0]
Theodicy—Sobresaliente [Excellent: 1.0]
History of Philosophy—Sobresaliente [Excellent: 1.0]
Preparatory Course of Medicine
(1878-1879)
Advanced Physics—Aprovechado [Very Good: 1.5]
Advanced Chemistry—Sobresaliente [Excellent: 1.0]
Advanced Natural History—Aprovechado [Very Good: 1.5]
1st Year of Medicine (1878-1879)
Note: Rizal was one of four allowed out of 28 to take these courses simultaneously with those above, which was highly irregular, but it reveals the Dominicans’ recognition of their students’ intellectual preparation.
General Anatomy and Histology—Bueno [Good: 2.0]
Descriptive Anatomy—Bueno [Good: 2.0]
Exercises of Osteology and Dissection—Bueno [Good: 2.0]
2nd Year of Medicine (1879-1880)
General Anatomy and Histology II—Bueno [Good: 2.0]
Descriptive Anatomy II—Bueno [Good: 2.0]
Exercises of Dissection—Bueno [Good: 2.0]
Physiology, Private and Public Hygiene—Bueno [Good: 2.0]
3rd Year of Medicine (1880-1881)
General Pathology, Its Clinic, and Pathologic Histology—Aprobado [Passed: 3.0]
Therapeutics, Medical Matter and Art of Prescribing—Sobresaliente [Excellent: 1.0]
Surgical Anatomy, Operations, External Medical Applications and Bandages—Bueno [Good: 2.0]
4th Year of Medicine (1881-1882)
Medical Pathology—Notable [Very Good: 1.5]
Surgical Pathology—Notable [Very Good: 1.5]
Obstetrics, Sicknesses of Women and Children—Notable [Very Good: 1.5]
Siphilography—Notable [Very Good: 1.5]
Rizal not discriminated against
Summing up, in the 21 subjects taken in the university, Rizal obtained six Sobresaliente or Excellent, six Notable or Aprovechado or Very Good, eight Bueno or Good, and one Aprobado or Passing Grade. On the basis of these records, Fr. Fidel poses the following seven considerations:
1) Rizal was a good student, above average, though not excellent; but none of his classmates were excellent either. Rizal was not as gifted for Medicine as he was for the Letters and Arts.
2) In Madrid, his medical grades were the same or a little lower.
3) He is not on record as having ever complained about his grades in Santo Tomas, while he did complain about those he received in Madrid.
4) He was never discriminated against in Santo Tomas; on the contrary, he was favored with a dispensation which few students received.
5) Racial discrimination did not exist in his class, as shown by the fact that all his Spanish classmates fell by the roadside one by one in the course of four years.
6) In the fourth and last year in Santo Tomas, only seven students remained [out of the original batch of 24], and Rizal was one of them.
7) And he ended that year in second place.
We then must examine the motives and methodology of those other Rizal scholars to understand why they wrote as they did.
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Post by voltairemad on Jun 25, 2011 13:36:53 GMT 9
Lumabas na ba yung UST Coffee Table book due to be released this 2011? Kung hindi pa, kelan kaya?
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Aug 1, 2011 1:44:05 GMT 9
Lumabas na ba yung UST Coffee Table book due to be released this 2011? Kung hindi pa, kelan kaya?
MabuhayTitulo sa pagbuo ng 'largest human cross,' iginawad ng Guinness
Agosto 10, 6:08 p.m. - OPISYAL nang nakuha ng UST ang Guinness World Record para sa “largest human cross” na isinagawa sa open field noong Marso 9, ayon sa Office of the Secretary General.
Batay sa talaan ng Guinness, ang pangyayaring isinabay sa pagdiriwang ng Ash Wednesday ay nilahukan ng 13,266 Tomasino—lubhang mababa sa naunang tantsa na mahigit sa 20,000 na kalahok.
Tinalo ng UST ang naunang record ng Oslo Red Cross sa Norway na mayroon lamang 935 na kalahok noong Mayo 7 ng nakaraang taon.
Ang “largest human cross” ng UST ay ang ikalawang tangka ng Unibersidad na makakuha ng world record, matapos ‘di tanggapin ng Guinness ang naunang “largest human rosary” noong Dis. 8, sabay sa kapistahan ng Immaculate Conception. Rommel Marvin C. Rio
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Nov 7, 2011 0:20:27 GMT 9
Campus tightens security for bar examsNov. 6, 4:27 p.m. - AUTHORITIES tightened security in and around the University as 6,000 examinees trooped to the campus to take the bar examinations today. The Manila Police District deployed policemen at different areas outside the University, while personnel from the Supreme Court Security Division, Court of Appeals, National Bureau of Investigation, and the UST Security Office took charge inside the campus. As previously reported, the Supreme Court banned "bar operations"--activities like putting up streamers, holding sendoffs, and forming cheering squads--on campus. Traffic personnel from the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority and the Manila Traffic and Parking Bureau, assisted by officials of Barangays 401 and 402, directed traffic flow on Lacson Avenue and España Boulevard, whose southbound portion was reduced two lanes to accommodate the crowd. The Supreme Court had said on its website that all roads surrounding UST would remain open to traffic during the bar exams on four Sundays of November, as ordered by Associate Justice Roberto Abad, chairman of the 2011 committee on bar examinations. Security Office chief Joseph Badinas said he had added 20 personnel to beef up campus security. "We [at the UST Security Office] would just follow and support whatever security operations the Supreme Court plans to implement," Badinas said. Only bar examinees with notices of admission were allowed to enter the campus. Firearms, cameras, tape recorders, cellphones, and other electrical gadgets were prohibited. The Main Building, San Martin de Porres Building, Benavides Building, and St. Raymund Peñafort Building were used as exam venues. All University gates will be closed during the exams except for the P. Noval and Lacson gates to provide access to the Santisimo Rosario Parish Church and the UST Hospital, respectively. Barricades were placed around the open field, as well the sides of the parish church and the hospital facing the Main Building to prevent people from roaming around the campus. Also, the Tan Yan Kee Student Center will be closed to students on all Saturdays and Sundays of November for the operations of exam facilitators, according to a memorandum issued by Assistant to the Rector for Student Affairs Evelyn Songco. More than 6,000 bar applicants are taking the exams this year, 23.26 percent higher than last year's 5,308. Rafael L. AntonioVarsitarian
Maryland offers UST commemorative plates
by Rodney Jaleco, ABS-CBN North America News Bureau
Posted at 11/05/2011 9:26 AM | Updated as of 11/05/2011 4:10 PM
WASHINGTON DC - In a rare honor, Maryland is issuing starting next month commemorative vehicle tags celebrating the 400th anniversary of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila.
This is the first of its kind in the United States, according Greg Abella (Class 69, AB Journalism), president of the Potomac, Maryland-based UST Alumni Association in America (USTAAA).
They are now working for similar commemorative plates to be issued by the respective transportation departments of Washington DC and the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The Maryland commemorative tag was designed by Amy Quinto (Class 74, Fine Arts). It features the Quadricentennial celebration logo with the theme “Unending Grace” as well as the name and initials of Asia’s oldest existing university.
The founding of UST predates America’s oldest university, Harvard, which was established 25 years later in 1636.
Pope Benedict XVI declared January 2011 to January 2012 as UST’s jubilee year.
Throughout its history, UST has always held a special place among Popes and Spanish monarchs. Pope Innocent X elevated it into a university in 1645; Queen Isabella II decreed in 1865 that it should manage all schools in the Philippines and hence all diplomas had to be approved by UST professors; Pope Leo XIII made it only the 2nd “Pontifical University” in the world in 1902; and it’s the only place in predominantly Catholic Philippines where Masses were held by both Pope Paul VI in 1970 and John Paul II in 1981 and 1995.
The USTAAA was established only last year, partly out of the desire of school alumnae to join the Quadricentennial celebration even if they are in the US.
Couple Dr. Rey Llacer (Class 58, Medicine) and fellow doctor and wife Zorayda (Class 61, Medicine) formed the interim committee in July that eventually led to the election of its maiden set of officers in November.
There are hundreds of UST alumnae spread out in the DC-Virginia-Maryland and reaching them is a challenge. They have not even started counting old schoolmates in adjacent regions like New Jersey, Connecticut or the Carolinas.
The group’s vice president, Grace Valera (Class 83, AB Asian Studies) said they hope the commemorative tags will drum up the interest of US-based UST alumnae as they’re seen on the roads.ABS-CBN NewsBar exams start at UST amid tight security
11/06/2011 | 08:05 AM
Amid tight security, this year's Bar exams went off to an orderly start at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila Sunday.
Manila police and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) personnel were at the UST early to ensure peace and order, radio dzBB's Manny Vargas reported.
While Manila Police District (MPD) cops patrolled the area since late Saturday, the Manila District Traffic Enforcement and MMDA deployed aides to guide motorists and keep traffic around UST smooth.
By 7:30 a.m., the report said traffic along España Avenue and Dapitan and Lacson Streets was smooth as most of the Bar examinees had entered the UST by then.
Earlier, the MMDA advised motorists to expect traffic to be affected at the UST Sunday due to the Bar exams there.
In a message on its Twitter account, the MMDA said it is sending mobile and motorcycle units to help manage traffic in the area.
"Bar Exams (Sunday) at UST along España [Boulevard]. Expect traffic to be affected. MMDA mobiles and motorcycles will be deployed at the area to assist," it said.
As of 2 a.m. Sunday, however, it said there was no advice of road closures in the area.
There was also no flood in the UST area despite continuous rain since Saturday night.
Some 6,200 law graduates were expected take the 2011 Bar examinations starting Sunday. The exams will take place during the four Sundays of November.
Manila police had put in place tight security measures for the exams.
The tightened security measures stemmed from an incident last year where more than 40 people were wounded in a grenade attack at the De La Salle University along Taft Avenue. — LBG, GMA News100 cops guard Bar examinations
By REY G. PANALIGAN
November 5, 2011, 6:09pm
MANILA, Philippines — More than 100 police officers will be assigned to the area around the University of Santo Tomas (UST) in España, Manila, where 6,200 law graduates will be taking the Bar examinations for the next four Sundays starting Sunday.
Senior Superintendent Alex Gutierrez, Manila Police District (MPD) officer-in-charge, said Saturday the officers under the ground commander, Superintendent Rolando Balasabas, will be deployed along the four major roads surrounding the 400-year university.
The Supreme Court chose UST as the new venue for the Bar exams following the grenade explosion that marred the final day of the exams held at the De La Salle University (DLSU) September 26 last year.
Close to 50 people, mostly law students from San Beda College and San Sebastian College-Recoletos, were injured in the blast.
Among them were Raissa Laurel and Joanna Ledda who both underwent leg amputations.
Police pinned the bombing on alleged members of Alpha Phi Omega (APO) fraternity following the arrest of Anthony Leal Nepomuceno who is said to be a member of the fraternity.
The traditional post-Bar celebration has been banned by the Supreme Court to prevent a repeat of last year’s incident.
“Based on the advised given to us by the Supreme Court, Bar operations, such as setting up of streamers, sendoffs, and cheering squads, are banned within the vicinity of the University of Santo Tomas, the venue of the 2011 Bar examinations during November 6, 13, 20, and 27,” Gutierrez said.
He said he has set up a command post in the main gate of UST campus along España Boulevard.
“For stricter security, personnel from our Explosive and Ordinance Division (EOD) and K-9 Units will be also placed inside and outside UST. Everyone will be thoroughly searched,” he said.
Only the España gate of the university will be open during the duration of the examination. The gates along Dapitan, A. Lacson and P. Noval Streets will be closed.
There is no need to reroute traffic since the UST campus is big to accommodate all the examinees and their vehicles. (With an additional report from John Carlo M. Cahinhinan)Manila Bulletin
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Jan 19, 2012 10:41:08 GMT 9
 JAN. 20, 2012. Friday
4:30 pm “400 Shots to Immortality” Exhibit Opening (UST Museum, Runs until Feb. 10)
JAN 23, 2012. Monday
8:30 am Thanksgiving Mass and Blessing of the grounds of the New Hospital Building (UST Hospital Grounds)
JAN 24, 2012. Tuesday
8:00 am Opening of University Fair (UST Campus)
9:00 am Opening of Feria de la Tapa (Quadricentennial Square)
6:00 pm Launching of 400 Books (Benavides Library)
JAN 25, 2012. Wednesday
8:00 am Velada Tomasina (UST Campus)
9:00 am Unveiling of the Historical Marker (Arch of the Centuries)
9:30 am Wreath-laying Ceremonies(Benavides Monument)
10:30 am Velada Tomasina Lectures (UST Civil Law Auditorium)
4:00 pm La Naval de Manila Procession (Benavides Garden)
4:30 pm “Ad Januam Coeli” Exhibit Opening (UST Museum, Runs until Feb. 10)
5:30 pm Thanksgiving for the Life and Service of Departed Thomasians (Plaza Mayor)
7:00 pm Feria de la Tapa: Flamenco Night (Quadricentennial Square)
JAN 26, 2012. Thursday
1:00 pm Alumni Priests’ Association (ALPA) Homecoming (UST Central Seminary)
3:00 pm Dry-run for 40,000 voices (UST Grandstand and Open Field)
4:00 pm Walk-through of Thomasian Alumni Center (Thomasian Alumni Center)
JAN 27, 2012. Friday
8:00 am Q Cheer-making Contest; Cheermania (Plaza Mayor)
3:00 pm Kumpisalang Bayan sa Pamantasan (UST Chapel and Seminary Grounds)
4:30 pm Neo-Centennial Eucharistic celebration (UST Grandstand and Open Field)
6:00 pm 40,000 voices; Fireworks Display (UST Grandstand and Open Field)
7:00 pm Neo-Centennial Thomasian Grand Fiesta (UST Campus)UST kicks off Neo-Centennial celebration
January 17, 2012 4:16pm
The University of Santo Tomas (UST), at the tail end of its 4th centennial celebration, is gearing up for the next one hundred years. As poets and philosophers like to say, endings are beginnings, and in the Philippines’ academic circles, the four-century-old UST is the shining proof of that popular adage.
The University’s quadricentennial year may be ending, but Thomasians would rather look at what lies ahead, and not take the concluding Q festivities as a closing door but as a portal to an even more vibrant future. This is the idea behind the “Neo-Centennial” theme: as the University marks the apex of its 400 years of life, the mood is buoyant in anticipation of the next 100 years.
Thus, crossing the threshold is set to begin by January 20, with a photo-exhibit, “400 Shots to Immortality” that will run until Feb. 10 at the UST Museum.
January 24 promises to deliver an increasingly festive spirit with two important events from 8:00 a.m. until evening: the opening of the campus-wide University Fair with the Feria de la Tapa at the Quadricentennial Square, and the launching of the 400 Books at the Benavides Library.
There will be no breathing room left on January 25 when the whole campus will hum with an event taking place almost every 30 minutes, beginning with the rare and exciting Velada Tomasina at 8:00 a.m., the unveiling of the Historical Marker, wreath-laying ceremonies, Velada Tomasina Lectures, a La Naval de Manila procession, and the Ad Januam Coeli (to the gates of heaven) exhibition.
The commemorative exhibit on Blessed Pope John Paul II will be opened on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 at 4:30 in the afternoon, at the UST Museum, Main Building of the University of Santo Tomas. The exhibit on the saintly pontiff who visited UST in 1981 and 1995, is a fitting tribute by the Pontifical University to the Pope, which incidentally, coincides with its preparations for the concluding program to end its yearlong celebration of its Quadricentennial anniversary and the activities that will usher in its 401st year.
The exhibit, which runs until February 10, 2012, consists of precious photos, documents and memorabilia on the life of the Blessed Pope; his journey as a priest from Poland to becoming the Bishop of Rome and the World; his new way of governance through travels in faith to 129 countries in five continents, and from the Chair of St. Peter; his thoughts as a Shepherd; his elevation from an altar to the altars, and the memorable
visits to UST.
The exhibit is made possible through the collaboration of the Archivo de la Universidad de Santo Tomas; UST Offices of the Secretary General, Public Affairs, Educational Technology Center; Facilities Management Office, UST Theological Society, UST Faculty of Philosophy Students’ Forum, and the UST Museum.
The exhibit echoes the journeying Pope in his address:”I am here to know you. I must say that my affection for one and all is great. I am sure that I can help you, at least in some way…”and the world’s faithful can say…”to the gate of heaven.”
On January 26, there will be a walk-through the Thomasian Alumni Center at 4:00 p.m.
The final day, January 27, will again mean an adrenalin rush coming up as early as 8:00 a.m. when the Q Cheer-making Contest: Cheermania spins off at Plaza Mayor.
A Eucharistic celebration with a Neo-Centennial twist follows at 4:30, to be held in the Open Field, it will then be followed by “40,000 Voices” and fireworks.
Playing on the famous “4” that has been associated with the year-long celebration of the quadricentennial anniversary of the University of Santo Tomas, 40,000 students, faculty, employees, administrators and alumni will sing together six songs that characterize the Thomasian: religious, Filipino, contemporary and Thomasian. Dubbed as “40, 000 voices for UST’s 400”, the musical event will take place at six o’clock in the evening, on January 27 at the UST Grandstand and open field where the singers will take their respective places, clad in color-coded t-shirts that classify them according to their voices: blue for bass, white for tenor, orange for alto and fuchsia for soprano.
The UST Singers, the Conservatory of Music choir and the various college choirs will be on stage to lead the 40,000 participants who are in the open field. This rare musical experience will come immediately after the Neo-Centennial Eucharistic celebration which will also be held in the same venue as the “40,000 voices”.
Dr. Herminigildo Ranera, who arranged the six songs, will conduct the UST Symphony Orchestra. The songs included are: Joyful, joyful we adore thee, a medley of Philippine folk songs (Leron leron sinta, Magtanim ay di Biro, Pen Pen de Sarapen) and the Abba medley (Thank you for the music, I have a dream, Chiquitita). The 40,000 voices will end with the singing of “Ako’y isang Tomasino, the Quadricentennial hymn, and the UST hymn.
The Thomasian community will once again be treated to awesome fireworks display at the end of the evening’s affair. It will be followed by the Neo-Centennial Thomasian Grand Fiesta and Grand Variety Show at seven in the evening. The UST Quadricentennial activities started in December 2009 and will end on the 27th, one day before the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, UST’s patron.  Velada Tomasina La Programa
25 January 2012 – Dia Uno
9:00 AM – Unveiling of the Historical Marker: University of Santo Tomas as a National Historical Landmark at Millenium Gate (Proclamation of UST as a National Historical Landmark - Dir. Ludovico Badoy)
Cocktails at Civil Law Lobby
10:00 AM – 12:00 NN – Lecture: The University of Santo Tomas at the Turn of the Century at Civil Law Lobby
Commemorative Lecturers
Fr. Noel Abalajon – UST and the Church
Vic Torres – UST at 300
Regalado Jose – UST and Culture as Seen Through the Archives
26 January 2012 – Dia Dos
8:00 AM – 2:00 PM – Everyone should be in their period costume at Ciudad Santo Tomas
Band goes around the campus playing the Tricentenary March
Spanish Songs and Poems are aired
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM – At the Benavides Garden
Students from the College of Education tells the story of UST and her alumni
Students, Faculty Members, support staff and alumni in period costume will visit Ciudad Santo Tomas
10:00 AM – 12:00 NN – Introducing the Prominent alumni of UST at the Car Park, Quadricentennial Square, Main Building Lobby
3:00 PM – La Naval Procession (Everyone should bring a candle and long, black veil)
Assembly at Plaza Mayor
Introduction of the Story of La Naval
Presentation of the Dominican Saints (Araullo, Quezon, Albert, Osmeña Drive)
Procession
Fireworks
5:30 PM – Noche de Velada (Velada Night)
VIP Registration at Plaza Mayor
6:00 PM – At Plaza Benavides
Start of the Play
Presentation of the Tricentenary Celebration
Presentation of the Quadricentennial Celebration
Wreath Laying
Poem: Benavides
Dance: La Jota Moncadena
Spanish Songs
Candle Lighting
UST Hymn
Lighting of the Quadricentennial Logo
Immortal’ photo exhibit documents UST’s universe
By: Jeremy Perey
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Monday, January 16th, 2012
Different facets of life obtaining in a 400-year-old academic institution—from the intensely spiritual such as Dominican monks in prayer, to the celebratory such as campus fireworks display—are memorialized in a massive photographic exhibit that will be mounted in connection with the 400th anniversary of the University of Santo Tomas as Asia’s oldest institution of higher learning.
The exhibit, “400 Shots to Immortality: Timeless Photographs of the University of Santo Tomas Towards its Neo-Centennial,” will open on Jan. 20 at the UST Museum of Arts and Sciences and will run until Feb. 10.
The exhibit is one of the key activities of the UST Quadricentennial. It is set to welcome UST’s fifth century this month after a yearlong papal-approved celebration of its 400th anniversary. (UST was founded by the Dominicans in 1611.)
To open the exhibit is UST Rector Magnificus Fr. Rolando V. de la Rosa, OP. Invited guests during the opening ceremonies include notable alumni such as sculptor Ramon Orlina and physician Vicky Belo.
The UST Singers, two-time Choir of the World champion, will perform.
The exhibit documents UST from a student’s perspective. It could also be described as a tour of the 21.5-ha UST campus right in the heart of Manila—a campus that has been declared a National Treasure by the National Museum and National Historical Institute, and an institution that was the subject of an international exhibit in Unesco Paris, the only Asian university to be given the honor so far.
UST RECTOR Fr. Rolando de la Rosa, OP, celebrates the Holy Eucharist.
The photographs are all taken by fifth-year UST Architecture student Paul Allyson Quiambao, who has been appointed by Fr. Florentino Bolo, OP, UST secretary-general, as official photographer of the UST Quadricentennial.
Quiambao joined the Art Petron Hall of Fame in 2009. He was official Philippine delegate to the 2011 Asean Cultural Youth Camp. He is also immediate former chief photographer of the Varsitarian, UST’s official student paper.
The exhibit will feature 40 rare photos of UST and 360 documentations of UST life at large. It is divided into eight sections.
“Royal, Pontifical, Spectacular” maps out the UST campus, showing all its key historic landmarks at their most spectacular angles.
“Unguarded Moments” documents day-to-day vignettes of Thomasian campus life.
“Showcase of Thomasian Culture” displays photos of annual colorful affairs in UST, such as the Paskuhan and the Baccalaureate Mass.
“Record Breaker” documents the successful attempt last year of the world’s largest Catholic university to form the world’s largest human cross, which has been entered into the Guinness World Records.
THE EARTHQUAKE-PROOF UST Main Bldg., declared a National Landmark by the National Museum
“UST in Paris” documents last year’s event when Unesco paid tribute to the Quadricentennial by hosting an exhibit on UST in its Paris headquarters.
“We Are the Champions” documents UST’s athletic programs that have made the university a sports powerhouse with the most number of UAAP general championships.
“Our Fathers” gives glimpses of the Dominican fathers as they combine spirituality, scholarship and teaching, and pastoral ministries while managing the difficult operations of a very large international university.
“Quadricentennial Celebration” recaps the yearlong celebration of UST’s 400th anniversary.
Photos in the exhibit will be available for sale. Part of the proceeds will be donated to the victims of Typhoon “Sendong” and to the Simbahayan, the centerpiece project of the Quadricentennial celebration in which UST will rehabilitate 400 villages throughout the country via medical, literacy, community and peace “interventions.”lifestyle.inquirer.net/31183/‘immortal’-photo-exhibit-documents-ust’s-universe |
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Post by Tom A. Saiyan on Feb 6, 2012 2:29:06 GMT 9
'Velada Tomasina' transports UST back in time
THE UNIVERSITY stepped back in time today as Thomasians participated in a "living tableau" that recreated the atmosphere of 19th-century UST.
Students, administrators, faculty members, support staff, and alumni in period costumes flocked to the campus and attended the "Velada Tomasina" at Benavides Park, which became “Ciudad Santo Tomas” — a recreation of the old UST campus and Sto. Domingo Church in Intramuros.
At 9 a.m., a wreath was laid at the Benavides Monument as “a ceremonial gesture of reverential recognition” to Msgr. Miguel de Benavides, O.P., third archbishop of Manila and the University’s founder.
A historical marker at the base of the monument was unveiled by Vice Rector Fr. Pablo Tiong, O.P., Secretary General Fr. Florentino Bolo Jr., O.P., National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) chair Maria Serena Diokno, and National Commission for Culture and the Arts executive director Emelita Almosara.
“Ang Unibersidad ng Santo Tomas ay isang pambansang palatandaang pangkasaysayan sa bisa ng NHCP board resolution bilang lima na may petsang ika-14 ng Mayo, 2011,” Diokno said. “Saksi ang Unibersidad sa maraming makasaysayang pangyayari mula pa noong panahon ng España hanggang sa kasalukuyan.”
“Lubos na mayaman ang koleksyon at arkibo ng UST, isang dahilan kung bakit ito naiproklamang pambansang yaman,” Diokno added.
UST Deparment of History chair Augusto de Viana said the marker was supposed to be placed at the Main Gate on España Boulevard, but was installed instead at the side of the Benavides Monument facing the Main Buliding, due to “traffic issues.”
“Inilagay ‘yung marker upang hindi na maka-abala iyon sa traffic sa España dahil masyado nang crowded doon,” De Viana said. Placing the marker at the Benavides Monument was more significant as more Thomasians would be able to see it, he added.
The brains behind the Velada Tomasina, Assistant to the Rector for Student Affairs Evelyn Songco, said the event was a way for the University to remember its past and prepare for its future. “Ang Velada ay isang Kastilang salita na nangangahulugang malaking pagdiriwang. Kaya ang Velada Tomasina ay isang pagdiriwang na naglalayong magbalik-tanaw at gunitain ang makabuluhang kasaysayan ng ating Pamantasan upang paghandaan ang kaniyang kinabukasan,” Songco said.
Members of Artistang Artlets, the official theater guild of the Faculty of Arts and Letters, portrayed renowned Thomasians Emilio Jacinto and Apolinario Mabini,while the history of UST was told by students from the College of Education.
The Velada was also a tribute to the Lady of the Rosary -- after which the University was originally named. At 4 p.m., an image of Our Lady of the Rosary of La Naval processed in the campus, followed by the faithful still in their period costumes, complete with traditional veils for women. De Viana said the procession recreated the one held during the tricentenary celebration in 1911 in the old Intramuros campus of the University.
Music professor Tonton Africa, one of the organizers, said more than 1,500 students and faculty members joined the procession. The La Naval passed by the following campus streets: Quezon Drive, Albert Drive, and Osmeña Drive. The procession ended at Plaza Mayor.
Spirituality and heritage
Meanwhile, a Dominican theologian opened the Velada Tomasina Lectures at 11 a.m. by claiming that UST produced 19 martyrs, not 17, Fr. Noel Abalajon, O.P., who wore the traditional black priestly cassock and biretta in keeping with the day's festivities, added the names of St. Jacinto Castañeda Puchasons and St. Clemente Ignacio Delgado, O.P. to the roster of UST martyrs.
St. Jacinto Castañeda Puchasons, O.P., was a student of the Faculty of Sacred Theology from 1763 to 1765, while St. Clemente Ignacio Delgado, O.P., studied in the same faculty from 1786 to 1788.
The other UST martyrs are St. Antonio Gonzales, O.P., St Domingo Ibañez de Erquicia, O.P., St. Guillame Courtet, O.P., St. Lucas del Espiritu Santo, O.P., St. Thomas Hioji de San Jacinto, O.P., St. Vicente Liem de la Paz, O.P., St. Domingo Henares, O.P., St. Jose Ma. Diaz Sanjurjo, O.P., St. Pedro Jose Almato Ribera Auras, O.P., St. Jeronimo Hermosilla, O.P., St. Melchor Garcia Sampedro, O.P., Blessed Buenaventura Garcia Paredes, O.P., Blessed Jesus Villaverde Andres, O.P., Blessed Pedro Ibañez Alonso, O.P., Blessed Manuel Moreno Martinez, O.P., Blessed Maximino Fernandez Marinas, O.P., and Blessed Jose Ma. Lopez Carrillo, O.P.
Abalajon also said in his lecture that out of the 219 Filipino bishops produced by the Philippine Church, 111 or 51 percent came from UST, while 80 or 70 percent of the 111 Dominican priests were "Centralites" or from the UST Central Seminary.
UST archivist Regalado Trota Jose meanwhile presented some interesting documents, like the last page of the Foundation Act of the University in 1611, old volumes in Philosophy (1636), Theology (1564), and Canon Law (18th century), and the oldest known plan of the University in Intramuros, dating around the 1680’s.
Historian Jose Victor Torres showed in detail the plans and events of the 1911 UST Tricentennial, as well as trivia like the menu during the banquet and sports competitions held during the celebration.
“The Tricentenary was a grand celebration given by UST in a time of trials of change. It proved one thing, not only to the Dominicans but to the Filipinos it has long served to educate, that the University was there to stay ... in the years to come,” Torres said. James Bryan Agustin, Patricia Evangelista, Reden D. Madrid and Charmaine M. Paradowww.varsitarian.net/breaking_news/20120125/velada_tomasina_transports_ust_back_in_timeVELADA TOMASINA Photos
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