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Nov52020 by No Comments

EARTH-UST hosts online filmmaking contest

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by MARIE CLAIRE “BLANCHE” S. LAGRISOLA contest poster grabbed from the official Twitter account of EARTH-UST (@earthust) ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES Reaching Towards Humanity (EARTH)-UST, the prime university-wide environmental organization of UST, is currently anchoring an open-to-all online competition dubbed “Sinelaysay: Kabatiran sa Balangkas ng Kapaligiran,” where aspiring student-filmmakers can use their craft to educate viewers about environmentalism. In partnership with the Artlets Student Council (ABSC), together with other organizations from various universities, EARTH-UST hopes to bring out the best films that will leave an impact big enough to compel its viewers to act toward solving environmental issues. In an interview, Ernest Vincent Guillarte, the project ad...

Oct292020 by No Comments

ABSC appoints new interim officers

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by ARTHUR APOSTOL and MATTHEW DAVE JUCOM THE ARTLETS Student Council (ABSC) appointed on Wednesday a new interim secretary and interim public relations officer (PRO) for the academic year (AY) 2020-2021. The memorandum stated that Fifth Corporal, the interim secretary, was replaced by Khalilla Grace Yayen who was the council's executive coordinator to the secretary, while Pamela Dela Cruz, the director for public relations committee, was appointed as the interim PRO. Corporal has cut its communication and connection with the council, which had caused failure in performing his duties and responsibilities for the position. "[He] ceased all forms of communication with the officers and staff of ABSC which prevented him in performing his duties as the interim secretary," the me...

May62020 by 2 Comments

UST Journ faculty: Shutting down media is the work of dictators

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by JUSTIN LIM and JANIS MOISES the official statement of the journ faculty from the Facebook account of Mr. Felipe F. Salvosa II, the UST Journalism program coordinator. JOURNALISM EDUCATORS from the Faculty of Arts and Letters on Tuesday slammed the order of National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) for broadcast network ABS-CBN Corp. to cease operations after its legislative franchise expired on Monday. In a statement, the faculty called on lawmakers to renew ABS-CBN's franchise and urged the broadcast firm to exhaust all legal remedies. “Duterte has declared war on the free press and this is his Pearl Harbor attack,” they said. The journalism professors also branded the delay in renewing the network's franchise an "insidious" strategy to "run the clock out on ABS-CBN an...

May22020 by No Comments

Ex-comm dept chair Bong Osorio dies at 66

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By: KRISTINE AGUSTIN and BEA RONIO photo grabbed from the official Facebook account of Ramon “Bong” Osorio Former communications department chair Ramon ‘Bong’ Osorio passed away on Thursday due to brain tumor, according to ABS-CBN. He was 66. Osorio is an alumnus of the University's Communication Arts degree program and has been a part of student publications, The Flame and Varsitarian. He served as an academician in the University and the department chair of Communication and Media Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Letters for 17 years. As an educator, Osorio was a recipient of the Agora award for Outstanding Achievement in Marketing Education from the Philippine Marketing Association in 2002 and The Outstanding Thomasian ALumni or TOTAL Award in 2003. The public relatio...

Mar132020 by No Comments

Duterte extends Metro Manila class suspension

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By KRISTINE ERIKA AGUSTIN and JANIS MOISES President Rodrigo Duterte has extended the class suspension in all levels in Metro Manila until April 12 in an effort to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the country. During an address to the nation on Thursday night, Duterte announced the recommendations of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases to prolong the suspension of classes in Metro Manila as cases of COVID-19 rose to 52. A month-long suspension of classes was adopted as part of the stringent social distancing measures in the National Capital Region. The task force also said that learners should still comply with their educational requirements and ordered local government units to ensure that stu...

Feb132020 by No Comments

UST Journ Faculty denounce quo warranto vs ABS-CBN

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by KRISTINE ERIKA AGUSTIN JOURNALISM EDUCATORS from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) denounced on Wednesday the government's filing of a quo warranto petition against broadcast network ABS-CBN. "As journalism educators, we have always taught students that a free press is the cornerstone of democracy, and that part of the journalist’s job is to zealously guard this freedom and close ranks when it comes under attack," they said. Solicitor General Jose Calida on Monday filed with the Supreme Court a quo warranto petition seeking to revoke the legislative franchise of the country's largest television network by challenging the corporation's legal right or qualification to continue its operations. The UST Journalism Faculty criticized the move as a "direct assault" on press f...

Feb132020 by No Comments

D’CATCH ends with screening of delegates’ docus

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by JANIS JOPLIN MOISES DELEGATES FROM participating Southeast Asian countries showcased their documentary productions on the last day of the collaborative video project, De-Centralized Asian Transnational Challenges (D’CATCH) 2020, hosted by the Communication Arts Students’ Association (CASA). “So basically, what we wanted to do is invite all of these media students from the different countries, participating countries and find a way of mixing their cultures, their skills and the craft of media, and how they can collaborate well enough to produce seamless videos” CASA President and D’CATCH Officer in Charge Voltaire Avendaño said. D’CATCH was attended by media students from Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines. They were divided into five groups and were given th...

Feb52020 by 1 Comment

CASA leads int’l cross-cultural project anew

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by KRISTINE ERIKA AGUSTIN photo by MARLOU JOSEPH BON-AO/ THE FLAME THE COMMUNICATION Arts Students' Association launched the fourth iteration of its six-day cross-cultural project, De-Centralized Asian Transnational Challenges (d'CATCH) Project, on Monday. The event, which aims to promote intercultural communication and collaboration among Asian media students, is attended by delegates from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand. The delegates will mount a video production anchored on the prefix "trans-" which opened up themes such as Translanguage, Translate, Transfigure, Transient, and Transportation during the brainstorming session. "I almost thought this will not push through because of the [novel coronavirus] scare but I am glad we are all here," Assoc. Prof....

Jan242020 by No Comments

New assistant dean targets exchange program for Artlets

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by JANIS JOPLIN MOISES and JUSTIN BENEDICT LIM photo grabbed from the official Facebook account of Prof. Alejandro Bernardo NEWLY APPOINTED Faculty of Arts and Letters (AB) Assistant Dean Assoc. Prof. Alejandro Bernardo is aiming for the Faculty to become locally and internationally accredited, and for Artlets to have more academic partnerships with world-renowned institutions. Bernardo earned his doctorate degree in English Language, cum laude, from the University of Santo Tomas in 2013 and has been the faculty secretary of the UST Graduate School ever since. His term as faculty secretary ended last Dec. 31 and is set to replace Asst. Prof. Narcisa Tabirara who was the assistant dean for no more than 40 years. Bernardo said that Tabirara was appointed as assistant dean becau...

Jan182020 by No Comments

Lawyer acquitted in Atio hazing-slay case

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by: KRISTINE ERIKA AGUSTIN and BEATRIZ ARMINA RONIO MANILA REGIONAL Trial Court (RTC) has acquitted lawyer Lorna Kapunan, Horacio "Atio" Castillo III's family lawyer, for unjust vexation filed by the UST Civil Law dean as the prosecution failed to prove her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. UST Civil Law Dean Nilo Divina filed slander complaints against Kapunan in 2017 over her defamatory statements during a television interview amid the investigation of the hazing- slay case of Castillo. Kapunan stated during her interview with the ABS-CBN News Channel that Divina recruited Castillo in the Aegis Juris Fraternity and he coddled the members involved in the initiation rites. The Department of Justice (DOJ) deemed Kapunan's remarks on Divina to be abov...