THE COORDINATOR of the UST creative writing program emerged as the best creative nonfiction writer during the 2022 Gintong Aklat Awards. Assoc. Prof. Joselito delos Reyes’ collection of essays, #Pasahero: Mga Nakikisakay na Sanaysay, won in the creative nonfiction in Filipino category on Thursday, Sept. 14. “This is a validation…
THE LEGACY of the late UST Faculty of Arts and Letters (AB) dean Prof. Magdalena Alonso-Villaba would live on because of her contributions in pioneering philosophy among female students, a former rector of the University said. In his homily during the funeral mass for Villaba, Fr. Rolando de la Rosa,…
FORMER UST Faculty of Arts and Letters (AB) dean Prof. Magdalena Alonso-Villaba, who designed the uniform of female Artlets with the iconic lambda, died on Monday, Sept. 11. She was 95 years old. Villaba’s granddaughter Teta confirmed her death but declined to provide additional details. The University of Santo Tomas…
CATHOLICS SHOULD emulate the life and virtues of the Blessed Virgin Mary to have a meaningful celebration of her nativity and to fulfill their divine calling, a Dominican priest said. In his homily during the feast of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, UST parish priest Fr. Paul Reagan…
THE REGIONAL Trial Court (RTC) has ordered the amendment of the prosecution against a Dominican priest and UST Faculty of Sacred Theology instructor who allegedly mocked the supposed apparition of the Virgin Mary in Lipa City, saying the accusations lacked valid information for conviction. In May, Fr. Winston Cabading, O.P.…
AN ALUMNUS of the UST Faculty of Arts and Letters emerged as the best flash fiction writer in the 2023 Gawad Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF). Alpine Christopher Moldez of the old communication arts program received the Pinakamahusay na Akda sa Agos Journal award for dagli (best work in Agos…
DESPITE CLAIMS by some groups that the mandatory Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) is prone to abuse and corruption, the results of a recent nationwide poll suggested that half of Filipinos favor the revival of the program. In a survey by Oculum Research and Analytics Philippines conducted last July and…