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Three students from the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) were crowned this year’s Asian debate champions after beating the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the final round of one of Asia’s biggest debate tournaments.

“THE WORLD of Philippine Theater has lost one of its greatest exponents: National Artist for Theater Daisy Hontiveros-Avellana died on the morning of May 12 at the age of 96. “

“The idea of beefing up the UAC was a brainchild of Professor Defeo who posted in April 2012 on Facebook a clarion call to his artist friends to endow the University Art Collection with landmark works the artists themselves would select. The response was overwhelming.”

“The Department of Science and Technology and the University of the Philippines announced yesterday that they will be leveraging the world-renowned IBM Blue Gene supercomputer to support key priority R&D projects focused on reducing poverty. “

“We’re referring to the industry-wide tendency to romanticize suicide. Experts have said it over and over again: there is no singular reason for a person to commit suicide. Our current crop of online journos’ knee-jerk decision to attribute the UP Manila student’s suicide to her inability to pay tuition betrays not only incompetence but also lack of sensitivity.”

“This occurred when the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI), in cooperation with the University of the Philippines’s Marine Science Institute (MSI) and National Institute of Geological Sciences (NIGS), conducted the 2013 Geo-Marine Science Camp from April 28 to May 4 in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro.”

“As a leader in the Filipino-American community, Lewis was chair of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations from 2002 to 2006, one of the organizations that she co-founded. It is the largest advocacy group for Filipino Americans.”

“It is important to save the middle class – make them aware of who they are – because they are arguably the most important class in society. The wealthy cannot be relied on to be always altruistic, while the poor are often powerless. It is the middle class that promotes forward-looking public investments in education, healthcare, and infrastructure. It is from their ranks that innovation, productivity, and entrepreneurship emerge. Above all, it is they that promote good governance.”

“A more fitting image of UP emerges from a story Wendell told me and Oca. It took place during yet another commencement this time in Tacloban.”

“UP should re-think on its ability to produce innovations that will disrupt its own comfort zones. It needs a new kind of activism among administrators that recognizes the pitfalls of the present order, but willing to work hard for colossal gains; one that consciously pushes internal revolution, but willing to go beyond slogans and rhetoric.”

“The class structure for a university the state subsidizes is scandalous. The UP’s full tuition for a year is P54,000, while its actual cost has been estimated to be nearly triple that, at P150,000. Why would the government—us taxpayers—subsidize a rich college kid’s tuition by nearly P100,000?”

””[We] stand by the use and unrestricted publication of public opinion polls as a means for information exchange between constituents and decision-makers and as a means for enriching collective choice and critical thinking in a maturing democracy,” the statement said.”

“I choose to graduate with the idealized version of what UP has always meant to me. Because with all my heart, I believe that UP remains the institution that inspires, nurtures, and hones. It is a privilege to be an iskolar ng bayan, now, more than ever, when lack of education besets 15 million Filipinos and counting.”

““The Philippines is your business, Filipinos are your business, humanity is your business. And to the extent that you can help that, you should. You are given great gifts and to whom much is given, much is expected,” said Prof. Solita “Winnie” Monsod to one of her economics classes in the University of the Philippines.”

“Two major art captains worked hard for the younging of the 37-year old Metropolitan Museum of Manila (Met) on Roxas Boulevard which opened last February 8 a very ambitious collection of Philippine contemporary art”