October – November 2007Volume III • Number 3

we build community we nurture hope

Notable Achievements p.3

ASMPH p.5Gawad Kalinga Builder’s Institute p.6

Sports p.11

In acknowledging with pro-found gratitude the generousdonation of Ricardo and RositaLeong during the inaugurationprogram, University PresidentFather Bienvenido F. Nebres,SJ, said that apart from makingthe building a reality, “We haveshared many other dreams withRicardo and Rosita—to improveeducationandhealthofourpeo-ple,toinspireandinviteotherstothisenterpriseofnation-buildingand encounter between the cul-tures in our region, in short, to

Leong Hall: Engaging the World and Making a Difference

The inauguration of Leong Hall—the new home of the School of Social Sciences

Outstanding Teachers p.2

makeadifferenceinourcountryandinourworld.” Fr. Jose M. Cruz, SJ, Dean ofthe School of Social Sciences,likewise, was enthusiastic aboutthe many energetic and creativepossibilities for scholarly workthat thenewenvironmentof theLeong Hall could bring forth.Showinghisdelightattheresultsofthebuildingwhichhecarefullywatchedoveras it rose fromtheground, Fr. Cruz described thebuilding as “stunningly beauti-ful”withthetreesandthegreen-

ery around seeming to be fullypart of the faculty workrooms.It is trulya“hushedandnurtur-ing place” for students, schol-ars and teachers alike towrestlewithgrippingsocialissuesoftheday, andalso toexertgreater ef-forts toward the understandingof China—the two related yetdistinctpurposesforthesupport

oftheLeongsforthisUniversityendeavor. Mr.RicardoLeong,whowasin-spiredbyreadingChrisLowney’stale of a 450-year old companythatchangedtheworld,respond-ed by sharing his own journeywith the Jesuits that eventuallymoved him and his wife to givesubstantive support to the “thepassion, dedication and eager-ness to learn”which they saw inthestudentsandthefacultyoftheUniversity.He sawheroic leader-ship in those “driven by love ofteaching,learning,andgiving.”

ATENEODEMANILAUniversitywasrankedasthe451stbestuniversityintheworldbythe2007THES-QSWorldUniversityRankings.AteneoistheonlyPhilippineuniversitythatincreaseditsrankingfromlastyear. TheUniversityofthePhilippines—Dilimancameinat398th,DeLaSalleUniversitywasranked519th,andtheUniversity of Santo Tomas was at the535thplace. “Wearehappytobeinsuchaposi-tion,butperhaps,thisisalsothebesttime to reiterate what we have beensayingaboutrankings,ingeneral,”saidVicePresident for theLoyolaSchoolsDr.Ma.AssuntaCuyegkeng. “We maintain that rankings likethese (their survey instrument, theweightstheyuse)don’treflectourvi-sion/mission.Thus,wewillnotallowthesetodistractusfrompursuingourgoals.Wewillcontinuetoworkharderat being better known in the regiontohighlight the leadershipandexcel-lenceofour facultyandstudentsandthe institution’s contribution to na-tionaldevelopment.WewillcontinuetodowhatAteneodoesbest:thetotal

THES-QS Ranks Ateneo as One of World’s Top 500 Universities

formation of students and the prepa-rationofstudentsforleadership.ThisformationforleadershipiswhatmakesAteneothehighlyregardeduniversitythatithasbeenforalmost150years.” As University President Fr. Bien-venidoF.Nebres,SJ,hassaid:“Rank-ingsintheTimessurveyareimportantbecause they measure how the worldperceivesus.Butjustasapersonhastotakewhatpeoplethinkoftheminthecontextoftheirownvaluesandpriori-ties, we, too, have to reflect on theseperceptions and measures within ourown view of our vision and mission.Thus,whilewewillworkonstrength-eningourresearchandpublicationsinISIjournals…weneedtodothisinawaythatdoesnotmoveusawayfromourvision/missionandourtraditionalstrengths: leadership formation andcontributiontonationaldevelopment.Thesehavetocontinuetobeourpri-oritiesasaJesuituniversitycommittedtotheserviceoffaithandthepromo-tionofjusticeandasauniversityinaPhilippines, whose greatest challengeis overcoming poverty and nationaldevelopment.”

THES-QS Ranks of Philippine Universities

School 2007 2006 2005UP 398 299 372ADMU 451 484 520DLSU 519 392 526UST 535 500 531

Ateneo revives leadership in atmospheric sciences

CLIMATECHANgEand theexpecteddestructioncausedbyextremeweatherconditionshavebecomemajorconcernsof countries all over the world. In re-sponsetotheseconcerns,theAteneodeManilaUniversityisopeninganewMas-terofScienceinAtmosphericSciencesprograminJune2008.Thisprogramisexpectedtocontributetothetrainingofmeteorologistsatthecountry’sweatherbureau, the Philippine Atmospheric,geophysicalandAstronomicalServicesAdministration(PAgASA). The initial batch of students willbemadeupof twogroupsof graduatestudents made up of staff members ofPAgASAandapplicants to theweatherbureau.Thestudiesof the initialbatchwillbefundedbytheDepartmentofSci-ence and Technology’s Science Educa-tionInstitute(DOST-SEI).Thestudentswillstartwithcoursespreparatorytotheprogramproperthissecondsemester. The MS Atmospheric Sciencesprogram will have three specializa-tion tracks: Meteorology, Air QualityandClimateChange.TheMeteorologytrackhasthemostrelevancetoPAgA-SA.ThetracksonAirQualityandCli-mateChangewilladdresstheconcernsrelatedtoenvironmentandsustainabledevelopment. TheMSAtmosphericSciencespro-gramisbeingofferedundertheDepart-mentofPhysicsoftheLoyolaSchools,in close collaborationwith theManilaObservatory(MO).TheAteneoandtheMOcombinedhavethelargestconcen-trationofPhDsinthisareaandthebestequippedlaboratories.

–www.ateneo.edu

Ateneo is CHED Center of Excellence in Business Administration and EntrepreneurshipTHEATENEODEMANILAUNIVERSITywas recently designated as a CenterofExcellence(COE)inbothBusinessAdministration and EntrepreneurshipbytheCommissiononHigherEduca-tion(CHED). ThedesignationoftheuniversityasCenterofExcellencecameabout aftera thoroughreviewof thebusinessandmanagement programs in the Ateneo’sJohn gokongwei School of Manage-ment by the Technical Panel for Busi-ness and Management Education. Thepanel’s recommendationwas approvedbytheCHEDduringitsspecialmeetinginOctober. InaletteraddressedtoAteneoPres-identBienvenidoF.Nebres,SJ,CHEDChairman Romulo L. Neri thankedNebresandtheAteneofortheirpartic-ipationintheCOEProgramandcon-gratulatedthemontheirachievement. The Ateneo is now a designatedCHED Center of Excellence in 11fields: Chemistry, Mathematics, Phys-ics, Literature, Philosophy, English,Psychology, Information Technology,Sociology, Business Administration,andEntrepreneurship.Inaddition,itsBiology and Environmental ScienceprogramshavebeendesignatedCHEDCentersofDevelopment.

–www.ateneo.edu

THENEWHOMEoftheSchoolofSocialSciences,theRicar-doandDr.RositaLeongHall,haditsblessingandinaugura-tionon17October2007.Builtinarecordtimeofjustover10months,itstandsasafirmtestamentofhowacouple’sinspi-rationcanbringforthamazingresultsforaUniversityseekingtoengagetheworldinbetterandmoretransformativeways.

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2007 ASPAC Awards:A Recognition of Teachers’ Vocation

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IFTHERE ISONEWORD that captureswhatDr.gregoryL.Tangonan,Dr.Regi-naldoM.Marcelo,andDr.StephenHenryS.Totaneshaveincommonasteachers,itwould be magis—that oft-spoken LatinwordamongAteneansfor“more.” Magis because they gave more thanwhatwasexpected,andmorethanwhatwasrequired.Students,fellowteachers,andad-ministratorsrecognizedthisandgavethemanother thing theynowhave incommon,the 2007 Ateneo Schools Parents Council(ASPAC)OutstandingTeacherAward. Parents have always known the in-valuableworthof education for futureoftheir children. If students have a teacherwhomakesadifferenceintheirlives,theirparentswouldbemorethangrateful.Theparents of the Ateneo community havefound,not justone,but three teachers—Dr. Totanes, Dr Marcelo, and Dr. Tango-nan—whohavemadeadifferenceintheirchildren’slives,andtheyhaveshowntheirappreciation by recognizing them duringceremoniesheldatthePLDTConvergenceTechnologyCenteron26November2007. Chairperson for ASPAC AcademicsCommitteeMrs.MariluCabayansaystheASPAC Outstanding Teacher Award “is awayofshowingourgratitudetothembe-causewerecognizetheirimportantroleasteachers…theirdistinctiveplaceco-forma-tors who form students to be competentpeople for others. It is a recognition notonlyoftheirservice,buttheirvocation.” Dr.Tangonan,afacultyoftheDepart-mentofElectronics,ComputerandCom-munications Engineering (ECCE) whograduatedwithadoctoraldegreeinappliedphysicsattheCaliforniaInstituteofTech-nology,washonoredwiththe2007ASPACOutstanding Part-Time Teacher Award.HewasnominatedbyECCEDepartmentChairDr.NathanielLabatiquewhosaidDr.

By CHriSTinE MaLLion

Making a Difference through Mathematics ON18OCTOBER2007,Dr.CatherineVistro-yuwascongratulatedbyPresidentgloriaMacapagal-ArroyoinMalacañangforbeingnamedasoneofthe2007TenOutstanding Women in the Nation’sService(TOWNS)byTOWNSFounda-tionInc.TheformalceremonywasheldinDusitHotelon26October2007to-getherwiththeotherawardeesfromthescience,education,journalismandbusi-nesssectors. Havingtaughtfor23years,Dr.Vis-tro-yu was recognized for her passionfor teaching mathematics. She helpedfound thePhilippineCouncilofMath-ematics Teacher Educators (MathTEd),anorganizationwithamissiontoelevatethe standardsofmathematics teaching,learning, and research in the Philip-pines. MathTEd,spearheadedbyDr.Vistro-yuwith19others,workedwiththeDe-partmentofTechnologyScienceEduca-tionInstitute(DOST-SEI)tocreateandimplementthenationalcurriculumandframework forBasicMathematicsEdu-cationandMathematicsTeacherEduca-tion. “TheTOWNSawardisarecognitionofalltheeffortsthatI,mycolleaguesinMathTEd, and all mathematics teach-ers and mathematics educators havemadetoraisethequalityofmathematicslearningandteachingandmathematics

By CHriSTinE MaLLion

educationresearchhereinourcountry,”Dr.Vistro-yusaid. Hercolleagueandfriend,Dr.Flordel-izaFrancisco,saystheTOWNSawardis“anaffirmationof thegood things[Dr.Vistro-yu]isdoing,aswellasaninspira-tionotherslikehertokeepworkingforeducation, to keep working for the fu-tureofournation.” Dr. Vistro-yu, who is currently aprofessor in the Mathematics Depart-mentattheAteneodeManilaUniversity,haspublishedover20 journals, articles,technical papers, reports, and bookscombined. The latest publication shehaseditedtogetherwith7othereditorsisInternationalizationandglobalizationofMathematicsandScienceEducation. Closertohome,herservicerevolvesaround her students. “She meets withherundergraduatestudentsindividuallyaftereveryunittesttodiscusswiththemtheir difficulties and ways to improvetheir performance in the next exam.Thisistrulyanexampleofcuraperso-nalis,”sharedDr.Francisco. Dr.Vistro-yu,alongwithEvaMariaCutiongcodelaPaz,AlyssaPeleo-Alam-pay, Ma. Corazon Ungria, Hilly AnnMariaRoaQuiaoit,glecyCruzAtienza,DinaOcampo,AlexandraPrietoRomual-dez,MariaRessa,andElizabethLee,arethewomenwhocansaytheyhavemadeadifferenceinourcountry.

Tangonan’simpactasateacherwas“unpar-alleled!” “Injustafewyears,hesucceededinim-buingthedepartmentwithastrategicvisionfor research and innovation by providingmorethanfourUSpatentapplicationswithcolleaguesandstudentsonwirelessdevices,smartenergy,andbiomedicalengineering,”saidDr.Labatique “Every single class every semester,infact,everysinglemeeting, isanoppor-tunitytoreachouttoourstudentsandtodoourpartintheAteneoidealofformingthem into academically-prepared, spiritu-ally-mature, and socially-responsible menandwomen-for-others,”saysthe2007AS-PACOutstandingJuniorTeacherAwardeeDr.Marcelo.Currentlyanassistantprofes-sorfortheDepartmentofMathematics,hewas actually nominated by the 2007 AS-PAC Outstanding Senior Teacher Award,Dr. Totanes, who said Dr. Marcelo “hasshowngreatconsistencyandperseveranceinteachingmathematicstoawholegenera-tionofstudents.” Fondlycalled“DocT”byhisstudents,Dr.TotanesisnotnewtotheASPACOut-standingTeacherAward,havingbeen therecipientofthe1993ASPACOutstandingJuniorTeacherAward.HispassionforPhil-ippine history and dedication to teachinghis studentshasmoved Jasonde lasAlas(IVABHistory) tonominatehim for the2007 Outstanding Senior Teacher Award.DelasAlassharedhowDr.Totanes’com-mitmenttoteachinghasinspiredhim.“HeteachesPhilippinehistorywithtouchesofwitty humor and insights. He commuteseveryweekendfromhishometowninSor-sogontohisworkintheAteneo.” If there isone thing thatDr.Totanes,Dr.MarceloandDr.Tangonanhavedoneincommon, it is that theyhaveengravedmagisintheirhearts.

Metrobank Outstanding Teachers RecognizedMETROBANk OUTSTANDINg TEACHERawardees were recognized once againduring turnover and appreciation cere-moniesheldon12November2007atthePLDT-CTCBuilding. Among those recognized were twoLoyolaSchools facultymembers:HistoryProfessorAmbethR.OcampoandSchoolofHumanitiesActingDeanDr.BenildaS.Santos, Metrobank Outstanding Teacherawardeesfor2006and2007,respectively. Aniceto M. Sobrepeña, President ofthe Metrobank Foundation, Inc., waspresenttohandoverMetrobank’scontri-butionstoAteneo’sfacultydevelopment,as part of Mr. Ocampo and Dr. Santos’awards. Also recognized were Mrs. glendaleBelarmino-Lamiseria,thesecondawardeefrom Leyte and first-ever awardee from

aSPaC outstanding Teachers: Dr. gregory Tangonan, Dr. Henry Totanes, and Dr. reginaldo Marcelo

outstanding Woman of the nation: Dr. Catherine Vistro-yu

Dulag Naitonal High School in Dulag,Leyte; and Dr. Ruben L. Abucayon, thesecond awardee from Surigao del Norteand first-ever awardee from Alegria Na-tional High School. Both are productsof the Master’s programs of the AteneoSchoolofScienceandEngineering. Metrobank Foundation initiated the10OutstandingTeachersProgramin1985tobestowhonoranddue recognition toexemplaryteacherswhohaveshownpro-foundcommitmenttohoningthemindsoftheyouth,dedicationtotheircraftandeffectiveeducationalleadership.Thepro-gramalsoaimedtoelevatethequalityofeducationinthePhilippinesbychoosingoutstandingeducatorstoserveasinspira-tiontothousandsofteacherstocontinuetheirselflessmissiontochangethefutureofthecountry.

CHRISTINE BELLEN OF THE FILIPINO DEPARTMENTwas awarded the Best Children’s TV Progam for “AngMgakuwentoniLolaBasyang”at therecentlyconcludedCatholic Mass Media Awards (CMMA) held at the MarieEugenieTheateroftheAssumptionCollegeinSanLorenzoVillage, Makati City on 25 October 2007. Together with

Ateneo Team Emerged Champion of National Finance Tilt

an ateneo team emerged as the champion of the 9th inter-Collegiate Finance Competition—the most prestigious annual competition in finance and accounting, sponsored by Financial Executives institute of the Philippines (FinEX). The ateneo team was composed of andrea isabel S. Co (iV BSME), Jaime antonio rico M. Cuenco (iV BS Mgt), Clark Jefferson n. Cue (iV BSME), Jeremy g. go (iV BS Mgt-H), and alfonso Luis D. Maputol (iV BS aMF). about 69 colleges and universities from

Christine Bellen Bags CMMA AwardsNotable Achievements

Bellen works as a story consultant for “Ang MgakuwentoniLolaBasyang,”approvingallthescriptsfor26episodes,makingsurethatanyrevisionisfaithfultotheintentionandoriginalversionof the stories.Bellenhasstudiedextensively the theLolaBasyangstories forhermasteralthesisand,sincethen,hasbeencommissionedby Anvil Press to launch a series of these stories inchildren’sbookformat,withaccompanyingillustrationsandtranslation.LastOctober,AnvilPublishinglaunchedthe 3rd among the series of Lola Basyang stories atTrinomaMall.Bellen’sretellingofLolaBasyanghasbeensuccessful and continues to attract more readers bothyoungandadult. TheCMMAgivesouttrophiestohonorthecountry’sbest values-oriented work in student communication,radio, television, cinema, music, the internet, andadvertising.TogetherwithBellen,Fr.JohnnyC.go,SJ,wasalsoawardedforhischildren’sbook,The Parable of the Elder Brother.

THESOUTHEASTASIANWRITERSAWARDS,or SEA Write, honors leading poetsand writers in the ASEAN region. Thisyear, SEA Write honored the FilipinoDepartment’s Michael Coroza, a multi-awarded poet, in Bangkok, Thailand, on12October2007.

Coroza has received major awardsfrom the Don Carlos Palanca MemorialAwards for Literature, Talaang ginto saTula-gantimpalaCollantes,andHomeLifeMagazine National Poetry Contest. Histwobooksofpoems,Dili’tDilimandMgaLagot na Liwanag, were both finalists inthe National Book Award for Poetry. Asanoralpoet,CorozahaswidelyperformedtheBalagtasanlocallyandincountriessuchas Singapore andHawaii. He also recentlyrepresentedthePhilippinesinthe10thkualaLumpurInternationalPoetryReading. AsastaunchadvocateforFilipinization,CorozaalsohostsHaranangPuso,aweeklyradio show over 104.3 FM that featurestraditional and classic Filipino songs andpoems. Two years ago, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino bestowed upon Coroza a nationalaward of recognition for his contributionto the development and promotion of theFilipinolanguageandliterature. SEAWrite,whichstartedin1979,continuesto supportwriters inASEANcountries.Thisyear’s awarding ceremony was held at theOrientalHotel inBangkok,withH.H.PrincePremPurachatragracingtheevent.

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Multi-awarded writer Michael Coroza.

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theproducer,RegineAlbaofgMA-7,BellenacceptedtherocktrophiesandthankedtheCMMAforacknowledgingherwork.

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SEA Write Honors Michael CorozaBy gary DEViLLES

ADS Wins its 7th National Debate TitleBEATINgMORETHAN130TEAMSfrommorethan30collegesanduniversitiesfromaroundthe country, the Ateneo Debate Society (ADS) won its seventh national title in the recentlyconcluded9thNationalDebateChampionships.The tournamentwasheld in thePhilippineMilitaryAcademyfromOctober22to28.

The final round was a battle betweenAteneo de Manila University and Universityof the Philippines Diliman. ADMU-C andADMU-Awereon theAffirmative sidewhileUPD-B and UPD-C were on the Negativesideof themotion“ThisHouse isWillingtoPay the Price for Relaxing Anti-Terror Lawsto Empower Social Activism Against theArroyo government.” Emerging victoriouswasADMU-A,composedofMichaelBiscocho(III BS ME) and freshman Angelica SimoneMangahas(IBSCh-MSE).Biscochowasalsoproclaimedthebestspeakerinthefinalroundandforthewholetournament,whileMangahasfollowedcloselyatsecond.InADMU-CwerePauline gairanod (II AB PoS) and StephanieCo (IV BS Psy), who was ranked sixth bestspeakerinthetournament. TwootherADS teamscompeted in thefinals series. Semi-finalist team ADMU-BwascomposedofJasmineCruz(IIBSMgt)and Eleanor Zosa. A student of culturalanthropology,Zosatiedassixthbestspeaker.In the Octo-finals, Vincenzo Tagle (II ABEco) and Danielle de Castro (III AB PoS)debatedforADMU-D. Therestofthedebateteamssuccessfullybroke through the elimination rounds.Awarded Best Rookie Team, ADMU-F withElizaDiaz(IVABEu)andShiveenaParmanand(I AB Psy) ranked 11th. Following closelyat 12th was ADMU-g, composed of JosephJames Alcantara (IV AB SoS) and StephaniePoon (III BS Psy). ADMU-H, composed of

MikhailErrolAlbano(IABHum)andCecileDanica gotamco (I AB PoS), ranked 23rd.At 29th was ADMU-I with Faith Raagas(IVBSMgt)andHernandoBetitaIII(IVBSME).ADMU-Eremainedpotentat30thwithAdrianClarcMundin(IIIBSME)andDarrenChesterCheng(IIBSME). OtherstrengthsofthecontingentwereitsjudgesledbytheChiefAdjudicator,SharmilaParmanand (AB PoS ‘07), who was thetournament’s top adjudicator. Beating somemembersofthetournament’sownAdjudicationCore, Lisandro Elias Claudio (AB Com ‘07)and kip Oebanda (MA Eco) were the first-and second-ranked non-Core adjudicators.CharisseBorromeo(IVBSME)rankedfourthandwentontojudgethequarter-finals.PatriciaHernandez(IVABMeco)placedninth,whileBernadetteMarieAngangco(IIIABPoS)andgayledeLeon(IIBSES)alsobroketojudgethe Octo-finals. As Ateneo debaters filled alltherooms,theAteneoadjudicatorscouldnotgoontojudgethefinalrounds. Once again, ADS demonstrated itsdominance in the Philippine debate circuit.With a stellar performance from theentire contingent, the ADS’s continues itscommitmenttobeingthebest,most-awardeddebateinstitutioninAsia. Toimpartexcellencetothenextgeneration,the ADS hosted the 6th Philippine SchoolsDebate Championship, the country’s largestand most prestigious national high schooldebatetournament,on7–11November.

The victorious ateneo Debate Society pose with their trophies.

throughout the Philippines participated in the competition’s elimination round on 21 September 2007, which was held simultaneously in Pasig City, Cebu City, Bacolod City, and Davao City. The top 20 teams advanced to the final round, held last 15 october 2007 at the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas auditorium in Pasay City, and were joined by Singapore Management University. The questions were patterned after the Level 1 exam for the Chartered Financial analyst (CFa) certification. The team was coached by Dr. Darwin yu, and assisted by Dennis Sandoval, who are both are full time faculty of the Finance and accounting Department of the John gokongwei School of Management.

Ateneo Teams Shine in Programming CompetitionFour ateneo teams ranked among the top 10 in the First Philippine national inter-Collegiate Programming Competition (iCPC 2007) hosted by the Computing Society of the Philippines and held in De La Salle Canlubang on 20 october 2007. The team composed of James Choa (1CS), Wilhansen Li (2CS), and John Patrick Manalo (3CS) landed 2nd place after UP Diliman, while the team composed of ivan John Clement (1ME), and Clarisse Ligunas (1CS), Jason Christian gaguan (1ChaCS) placed 4th. Coming in 7th place were Danna aduna (2CS), Thomas Dy (2CS), and Jejomar Dimayuga

Freshman Bags First Place in Regional Statistics QuizDaniel andrew o. Tan (1 BSM aMF) bagged the first place at the 16th Philippine Statistics Quiz—regional Finals held on 13 november 2007 at the Makati City Hall, beating representatives from 12 other competing schools from all over Metro Manila. Mapua institute of Technology and UP–Diliman landed the second and third place, respectively. Tan represented the national Capital region in the national finals on December 4, 2007 at the Bureau of Soils and Water Management, Diliman, Quezon City. ramil T. Bataller, of the Mathematics Department, coached the

(4MiS), while in 10th place were richard Locsin (4CS), Liza Vila (4CS), and Byron Wang (4CS). Dr. Pablo Manalastas, Dr. John Paul Vergara, ramon Francisco Mejia, Jal de Vera, and Eric Vidal coached the teams, who bested 48 other teams from other universities and colleges.

Psych Student One of Top 25 Marketing Management TraineesMa. Carissa a. alejandro, a senior psychology student, was chosen as one of the Top 25 Marketing Management Trainees of Markprof Foundation, inc. She is attending a free seven-weekend training program with industry movers and shakers as professors.

contestant. This activity was sponsored by the national Statistics office and Philippine Statistical association.

Ateneo Team Rules ECE Blitzan ateneo team beat 17 other schools to emerge as champions of the ECE Blitz 2007 held at De La Salle University–Taft on 17 november 2007. The winning team, aDMU Team 2, composed of Lester Lofranco (V BS ECE), Jimson ngeo (V BS ECE), and Jerome Limkin (iV BS ECE), also finished the second round of eliminations on top. aDMU Team 1, composed of adrin del rosario (V BS ECE), Emarc Magtanong (V BS ECE), and David Joseph Tan (iV BS CoE), finished fifth.

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Afterwards,studentsonlyhadtoprintout theassessment formandpay the tu-ition fee. Manual registration, however,still went on as a safety net for studentswho were unable to enlist online, suchas those who failed to activate their ac-countsorwhohadbacksubjects.Atime-frameofthreedaysweregiventofreshmanandsophomorestudents toenlistonline;whereasjuniorandseniorstudents,toac-commodatetheincreaseddiversityoftheirsubjects,weregivenfourdays. Each year level was further brokendown into random numbers, with eachbatch of random adhering to a specifiedfive-and-a-half(5½)hourtimeslot.Theremaining days of each particular yearlevel’s registration period were dedicatedtothosewhomissedtheirtimeslots.Itisasystemeasilyaccessibleanywhereintheworld with even some Ateneans abroadapplaudingthesmoothflowofthisyear’sonlineenlistment. “It was really fast. There weren’t anyproblems.Noslowingdownandnoserverproblems,whatsoever,”saysMariaPamelaPunzalan,V-ABLit,onrecountingheron-lineenlistmentexperience.

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For REgCOM (registration com-mittee), the army of student volunteerswhoselong-standingtraditionofservingthe Ateneo community before, during,and after the registration process, theirtask has been made more manageable.Normalpreparationprocedureshadstilltakenplacesuchashandlingregistrationforms, grades, allotting venues and thelike,butthenumberofstudentswhostillhad to go through manual registrationhadbeenlessened.“Moststudentscom-mented that the registration for this se-mesterwasfastandhassle-free,”saysCa-milleCua,aREgCOMmember.“Batch-ing actually worked for the studentsbecausetheyweregivenafairchancetochoosethesubjectstheylike.” Complaints were limited to classesthathadalreadybeenclosedandstudentswhoweren’tabletoenrollintheirenlist-ed classes because of certain restrictions.Somehaven’tbeenabletoactivatetheirac-counts,whilea fewvoicedout that theirservers were slow which hampered thespeedoftheironlineenlistment. Althoughthesystemisadmittedlynotyet perfect, the earmark success of on-

line enlistment was a far cry from lastsemester’swhenseniorssangadifferenttune. Then the last leg of the internetenlistment’s dry run spanning four se-mesters,thesystemwasboggeddownbythemassiveinfluxofseniorstudentsac-cessingtheirAISISaccountsatthesametime. Exceeding its maximum capacity,theserversloweddowntoapainstakingturtle’space.Itwasa lessonlearnedthehardway,butalessonlearnedwell. Says Mr. J.J. Agtarap, Registrar of theAteneo,“Whenyouhaveanewsystem…inevitably there will be problems. We’reimproving as each semester comes andhopefully,thingswillgetbetter.” Thisfurtherunderscoredtheneedforsegmentationsoasnottooverwhelmtheserverandupholditsstability.Theregis-trar’s office implemented the “batchingsystem”onthesubsequentonlineenlist-mentof the sophomores, adevelopmentthat proved to be most effective in ad-dressinglatencyissuesandensuringopti-malperformance.Priortotheseniorandsophomore’sonlineenlistmentinthefirstsemester,relativelyfavorableresultsfrompreviousdryrunsinthesecondsemester(forearlyregistrants)andsummerofthelastschoolyear(forsophomoresandearlyregistrants)werenoted.

Cyberspace revolutionizes registration Mr.J.J.Agtarapsetthewheelsinmo-tionwhenheassumedofficein2001.Im-mediately,hesawthroughthemajorstag-esintherevolutionofregistrationintheAteneo—fromacompletelymanualreg-istrationthat tookseveral linesandoneto two days to accomplish, to the “onestopshop”whereencodersenlistedeachstudentinalloftheirclasses.Inplottingthe course en route to the implementa-tionofonlineregistration,theregistrar’sofficeandtheMISofficedecidedagainstelicitingoutsidehelpinconstructingthesystems’ platform through an externalsolutions provider. Instead, the radicaldecisiontonurtureitfromconceptiontoinfancywasembraced. Itwasanuphillmigrationtocyberspaceandeachsteppingstonehad itsownfairshareofsetbacks.Thefirstmajorleapwastheimplementationoftheintranetandran-dom-numberbased“onestopshop”usingtheAISIS.Itsrevisedversion(AISIS2)wasreleasedin2005thateventuallyevolvedtotheonlineenlistmentsystem.ButthebestnewsisnotonlydoesAISIS2enablestu-dentstoenlistonline,itlikewiseservesas

aportaltotheIndividualProgramofStudy(IPS),whichcontainseachstudent’sbasicinformation and allows students to viewtheiracademicprofileandprogression inthecurriculum.

on to the next step: expanding the system and literally eliminating the paper trail Mr.Agtarapascribesthissemester’sac-complishmenttotheteamworkoftheentireschool;andacknowledgesitasthebrain-child andachievementof eachandeverysectoroftheAteneocommunitythatcon-tributedto itsdevelopment.AISISonline,he says,was the fruit of a (well-synchro-nized)collaborationbetweentheregistrar’soffice and the MIS department, with thelatterdesigning the groundworkof infor-mationsystem.Theacademicdepartmentsprovidedandorganizedtheheartandsouloftheenlistmentprocess,theclasses;whilethe student body’s feedback and inputswere the spicy ingredients that stirred toperfectionitsformulaforsuccess. Siddharta Perez, IV-AB Arts Manage-ment,provideshertwocents’worthmis-sive on the newly unveiled system. “Itdrastically improved from last semester.It’s more efficient for people who man-agedtogettotheironlineaccounts.Therewereminimalornotechnicaldifficultiesencounteredwhen theymadeuseof therandom numbers and batching system.However they should increase their in-formationdisseminationeffortstoremindstudentstoactivatetheiraccountsbecausethere stillwereahandfulofpeoplewhofailedtodoso.” Effortsarenowfocusedonsafeguardingitsstabilityandenhancingitsperformance.Inthislight,Mr.J.J.Agtarapfurtherenvi-sions expanding the internet enlistmentsystem to the graduate schools and dis-cardinggradesheetsandregistrationformsaltogether.

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“CLICk, CLICk, DONE!” wrote one student at the REgCOM’sfeedbackboardasregistrationinallundergraduateyearlevelsofficiallycatapultedfromthehallwaytotheinformationsuperhighway.ThankstopersonalizedAteneoIntegratedStudentInformationSystem(AISIS)accountsactivatedthroughaquickprocessthatrequiredthestudent’sawarenessandinitiative,advisement,enlistment,andassessmentwereonlyavirtualhop,skip,andjumpaway.Itwasvirtualrealitywiththefingers—notthelegs—doingthe“walking.”

THEFIRSTSEMESTERsawLoyolaSchools faculty members and ad-ministrators engaged in discussionsaboutthevisionandmissionof theAteneo de Manila University as aCatholic,JesuitandFilipinouniver-sityintheageofglobalization. In the light of the new five-yearAteneo Loyola Schools StrategicPlan, which has a new vision thatadoptsanAsianperspectiveandpur-sues internationalization, it seemedtimely for facultymembers and ad-ministratorstotackletheseissuesastheyaffectUniversitydirectionsandtheirworkasformators. Dr.BenjaminT.TolosaJr.,Chairof

Listening to Loyola Schools Faculty Members

theSchoolForum,presidedoverthegatherings andexplained that thesewere opportunities for the facultymembers to continue conversationsabout what it means to promote acultureofformationintheAteneo. Dr. Tolosa summed up the dis-cussions during the forum on theAteneoasaCatholicandJesuituni-versitybysayingthatAteneohasbe-comeincreasinglylesshomogeneousandwithdifferentdimensionsofCa-tholicism. While,perhaps,Ateneo’s identityasaJesuituniversityisalreadyclear-cutandwell-established,withregardto its Catholic identity, however,

muchremainstobedone.Therearestillmore areas forgrowth, suchasregarding the values conveyed tostudents,social justicethrusts,howtheAteneoisprojectedtotheworldoutside,andwhetherAteneoreachesouttothestudents’parentsandthealumni. DuringtheforumonAteneoasaFilipinouniversity inanageofglo-balization, Dr. Filomeno Aguilar Jr.of the History Department talkedabout the issues of inequalities inPhilippine society and the dangersofunderstandingFilipinoinanelitesense.Heencouragedpeople tobe-comeinclusiveandtodevelopinour

students “an appreciation of theirFilipino-nessinallitsdiversity.” Dr. Fernando Zialcita of the So-ciology-Anthropology Department,on theotherhand, sharedhis ideason the paradoxes of globalization,on what a Filipino university is allabout,andontheAteneointheglob-alforumandwhatitcancontributein terms of research, entrepreneur-ship,andadvocacy. Finally, Dr. Antonio La Viña,DeanoftheAteneoSchoolofgov-ernment, elaborated on the Schoolof government’s thrusts to addresstheneedsoflocalgovernmentsandlocalcommunities.

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On 23 November 2007, the ASMPHat the Don Eugenio Lopez Sr. MedicalComplexinOrtigasCity,wasinauguratedand blessed. The event was graced bydirectorsandexecutivesoftheAteneoanditspartnersanddonors,namely,theLopezfamily, Meralco, The Medical City, theChingfamily,andtheSalimgroup.

ASMPHTraining ground for doctors of the future

DedicationmarkerswereunveiledatthefoyerofTheMedicalCityandtheentrancetotheASMPH,aswellasseveralroomswithinthenewbuilding:TheChingTanHallandChungTeAuditoriumonthegroundfloorandtheFirstPacificCenterforHealthandDiseaseControlon the thirdfloor.AteneoPresident Fr. Bienvenido Nebres presidedover the blessing rites, assisted by Frs.CatalinoArevalo,RomeoIntengan,FiloteoMangulabnan, Manuel Perez, and ErrolMananquil.

Thesemarkersnowstandtoimmortalizethe successful collaboration of kindredinstitutions and individuals to realize theirshared dream which is the ASMPH. TheedificewasbuiltinarecordninemonthsbyateamcomposedofarchitectsDanLichauco

and Peter Ong of Archion, constructionmanagerSPCastro,quantitysurveyorsDavisLangdon and Joy Arreola, and contractorgerryEsquivelofASEC.

DuringtheprogramheldattheChungTeAuditorium,Dr.AlfredoRABengzon,VicePresidentforProfessionalSchoolsofAteneo and Dean of the ASMPH, posedthe question to the audience: What isthe meaning and significance of today’scelebration for you and me and thecommunitiesofourbelovedcountryandindeedtheworldbeyond?

“Each one of us is being asked toinstall a counter-culture that recognizesand believes that we are co-responsibleforourownhealthandwecanactonthatby coming together through institutionssuch as TMC and ASMPH, and in ourcommunities,”Bengzonsaid.

He concluded by saying that thatthe three words by which we shouldunderstand, feel and act on health areExcellence,EquityandLeadership.

Meanwhile, Fr. Nebres took theaudience back in time to almost 500years ago, when “a band of nine youngmendecidedtofollowavisionaryleadernamedIgnatiusLoyolaandundertookaninnovativeanddaringjourney.”

Theywouldeventuallyformareligiousorder different from all that had gonebefore, the Society of Jesus. They daredallthis,becausetheysawitasthewaytorespondtothenewandgreatchallengesoftheirtime,hesaid.

“We dare all this too, not just to beinnovativeanddaring.Wedothisbecauseweseeitasthewaytorespondtothenewandgreatchallengesofourtime,”Nebres

stressedashethankedallthosewhosharedandbelievedintheASMPHjourney.

Messages were likewise given byDr. Augusto P. Sarmiento, chairmanof the board of The Medical City; Mr.BennyS.Santoso, executivedirectorofSalim group; Mr. Benjamin g. Ching,executive vice president of La SuerteCigarandCigaretteFactory;Mr.FelipeB. Alfonso, vice chairman of Meralco;Mr. Oscar M. Lopez, chairman of theLopez group of Companies; and Mr.Manuel V. Pangilinan, chairman of theboardofAteneo.

The ASMPH Class of 2012, the firstbatch of ASMPH students, showed aheartwarmingaudio-visualpresentationontheirexperienceasdoctorsinthebarriosandotherdepressedareasandwhatmadethemanswerthecalltobecomingdoctorsof the future. Dr. Ma. Luz Casimiro-Querubin,ASMPHdirectorforAcademicAffairs, was master of ceremonies. TheAteneo College glee Club delighted theaudiencewiththeirmusic.

ASMPHoffersadualdegreeMD/Masterin Business Administration program. Ittrains students who dream of becomingdoctors who are also leaders, who bringhealing and transformation throughhealth. ASMPH is a product of over tenyearsofintensepreparationbyleadersinthe fields of medicine, management andpublichealth.Theschooldrawsfromthecollective strengths and expertise of theLoyolaSchoolsof theAteneodeManila,the Health Unit of the Ateneo graduateSchoolofBusiness,anditspartnertraininghospital,TheMedicalCity.

—www.ateneo.edu

on 2 JULy 2007, the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public health (ASMPh) formally opened for classes beginning with a Mass of the holy Spirit at the Augusto M. Barcelon Auditorium on the sixth floor of The Medical City Podium, ortigas Avenue, Pasig City.

The Mass was celebrated by Ateneo President Bienvenido f. nebres, SJ, and was attended by Dr. Alfredo rA Bengzon, dean of the ASMPh; Dr. Maria eufemia C. yap, associate dean; Dr. Ma. Luz S. Casimiro-Querubin; director for Academic Affairs and faculty Development; members of the Ateneo Board of Trustees; donors; the faculty of the ASMPh; relatives and friends. each student was given a special ASMPh jacket to commemorate his or her belonging to the pioneer batch of Ateneo medical students.

DOCTORSOFTHEFUTURE,physician-leaderswhodaretoredefinehealthandhowhealthisaccessedanddeliveredin thecountry,nowhavetheAteneoSchoolofMedicineandPublicHealth(ASMPH)astheirtrainingground.

First batch of ASMPH students makes medical history

Photos by Teya Sabado

A total of 75 students out of the 150 applicants enrolled in the school. According to Dean Bengzon, the total number of enrollees was higher than their prognostications. forty-five percent of the enrollees graduated from the ADMU while 25 percent came from UP, 10 percent from DLSU, 10 percent from UST, and the remaining 10 percent from other schools like the southern Ateneo schools, feU, and St. Louis University in Baguio.

harvy Joy Liwanag, who graduated with a BS Biology degree from Ateneo in 2006 and is with the ASMPh pioneer batch, described the atmosphere of opening day “as one of excitement and pride.”

“Some quarters are speculating that the school will fail to produce the doctors our country needs,” said

Liwanag during a break from one of his classes. “we don’t understand the negativity when many of the products (of other schools) have left the country. But we’re all determined to make a difference.”

After opening day, and while the actual ASMPh building was in its final stages of construction, the non-laboratory classes were held at rockwell. A month and a half later, the students finally transferred to the finished facilities for

their Anatomy classes at the new Medical City. “it’s a nice school,” gushed Liwanag. “i can’t wait to

see the finished campus. it will be more conducive to learning.”

During the opening, Dean Bengzon took the time to explain the importance of putting up the ASMPh and the types of doctors they hope to produce: “This school’s going to turn out doctors who are going to be clinicians who are going to look after the care and health of individuals. They will be concerned with and especially skilled in looking after the health of populations -- not just of individuals. And more important than that, they are going to be shaped as social catalysts. if health is a fundamental human right, then everybody is entitled to it.”

father nebres annotated Dr. Bengzon’s vision for the ideal filipino doctor with one of the dean’s favorite anecdotes, “Dr. Bengzon met this midwife in Abra. he says when he first met her, the (people there) told him, ‘Doc, you know this midwife here, she’s just recovering from gunshot wounds because she was caught in an nPA-military crossfire.’ She was not fully recovered but she wanted to go back to her mission station. And when Dr. Bengzon asked her why she was going back when she was not totally well, the midwife replied, ‘Because, nobody will be there to take care of the people.’

“Dr. Bengzon found out six months later that she had died. And he was very very sad when he found out the manner of her death. She was bringing medicines. in Abra, there is a river that winds and she had to cross the river several times. All the while carrying this backpack of medicines. And she was just carried away by the river.

“That’s heroic public health. And i think this is a symbol of what you want to attend to. That’s what convinced us to put up this school. we know it will not be easy. it will not be easy to bring these cultures together. But we have to try. Because it’s only when we can bring the cultures of the clinicians together with the culture of these midwives down at the grassroots that we’ll really solve the health problems of the country. So it’s a very ambitious goal but if we succeed even half way, it will be a great contribution to the country.”

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Unveiling the marker

First batch of aSMPH students pose with faculty and administrators

gawadkalinga ismore than justaboutbuilding houses and sustainable communi-ties; it isawell-oiledmechanismofchangeinvolvingvarioussectorsofsocietydedicatedto eliminating poverty. And behind the as-sembly of helping hands is the need for asystematic approach to widen the channelofchangeandguideitsflowtowardstappingintothebestresourcesavailable.

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Gawad Kalinga Builders’ Institute

Bridging Schools and Communities

By EEya LiTiaTCo-MarTin

Thus, the gawad kalinga Builders’Institute (gkBI) was established as gk’sactive partnership with a national armyof organizations, each spearheaded by aneducational institution—trulymaking itaconcreteembodimentoftheuniquelyFili-pinocustomofbayanihan,anage-oldval-uedpractice that thegkhas successfullyandfaithfullylivedout.

Response of the Academic Community

gkBIistheresponseoftheacademiccom-munity to the challenge to reach out to thepoorestofthepoor,alongsidetheswiftnation-wideexpansionofgawadkalinga.AndgkBIof the Ateneo School of governance (ASog)is thefirst to respond to this call. SaysMarkLawrenceCruz,headofoperations,thegkBI

harmoniouslyservesathree-prongedpurposeinitssupportofgk’sgrowth:asathinktank,asamovement,andasalearninginstitution.

Asathinktank,itisequippedwith“engi-neers”thatstrategizeandscrutinizeoperations,aswellimprovethelayoutofthegk’sprogramsand documentation. Each gkBI has its ownspecialization—food production, child andyouthdevelopment,etc.TheBuilders’InstituteofASog,withitsrichfieldofexpertise(ithasawidepoolofcommittedprofessionalsreadytorespondtothe“commissioning”call),forgespartnershipswithlocalgovernmentunitstoaidintheimplementationofgk’sprogramsanditssystemofvolunteerismintheirrespectivecom-munities.

gkBI is likewise a movement amongschools—aresponsetotheclamorforconcreteresultsthatbelietheperceived,oftenlip-serviceof some socio-civic bodies to mere ideals. Itcompelstheeducatedtotakeaction,armedastheyarewiththepropertoolstodeliver.Afterall,asMr.Cruzaptlypointsout,educationismore than just fostering the brightest mindstodiscusstheoryandputitontopaper.gkBIaimstosowawarenessandinspireapatrioticdesireamongstudents to tangibleconclusionby encouraging—in fact, impelling—them toparticipateinthegkbuilders’instituteprojects–educatingtheeducated,ifyoumay,onwhattheycantrulydofortheirfellowcountrymen.Itmakesasimplebutpowerfulstatement:Thisiswhat’shappeningandthis iswhat’sneededtobedone.

Thismovement leads to learningandre-learning. According toBabyTongcoCabiao,formermayorofNuevaEcijaandnowgkBI’sexecutivedirector,itcreatesavenueforafruit-fulexchangebetweentheinstituteandpublicservantsofparticular regions. It iswhere thesharingof ideastakesplace,wherecollabora-tive efforts begin to improve and implementprograms geared towards addressing povertyandnationbuilding.Butbeforeembarkingon

ITISACOMINgTOgETHERofcompassionatehearts,spurredonbythespiritofvolunteerism;asynergyofmindsstirredintotransformingvisionintoreality.Itisthefulfillmentofapromisethatwasborneoutoftheactofwitnessingandbringingforthgenuineresults.

Ateneo de Manila UniversityLoyola Schools

JoSE EDUARDo E. CALASANZASSOCIATE DEAN

FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Ateneo de Manila UniversityLoyola Schools

PiA NAZARENo-ACEVEDoDIRECTOR,

OFFICE OF STUDENT ACTIVITIES

toCalasanz,orEddieboy,tofriends.Ateneowillneverbeastrangelandtohim,havingservedtheUniversityinvariedcapacities since 1974. Looking back, he says he was abletoeasilyadjust to thenew job, thanks toconstante-mailcommunicationwithFr.Magadiaandtothesupportofhiscompetentandexperiencedstaff.

Duringthefirstsemester,hefocusedonstudentswithacademicproblems.TogetherwiththeStandardsCommit-tee, theguidanceOffice,andotherpertinentunitsof theLoyolaSchools,hisofficeestablishedasystemtomonitorstudentsonprobation.

Inthesecondsemester,helooksforwardtoworkingoncurriculum and benchmarking concerns. In coordinationwith theCurriculumCommittee,hewants to reviewandstreamlinecertainprocedures,suchasthoserelatedtothereview of the bulletin of information and course descrip-tions, rationalizing of catalogue numbers, and guidelinesfor program reviews. With regard to benchmarking andqualityassessment—anentirelynewfieldfortheADAAof-fice—theywillworkwiththePhilippineAccreditingAsso-ciationofSchools,CollegesandUniversities(PAASCU).

OntopofhisADAAresponsibilities,theassociatedeanstillfindstimetoteachMetaphysicsandMedievalPhiloso-phyattograduatestudents,andPhilosophyofReligiontoundergraduatestudents.

BEINgTHEDIRECTOROFTHEOFFICEOFSTUDENTActivities(OSA), isahomecomingofsorts forPiaSandraNazareno-Acevedo.Forfouryears,shewasaparttimefac-ultymemberoftheUniversity’sDepartmentofTheology—ajob she had to give up when she and husband, Jim (also

Shaping Things to Comenew Loyola Schools Administrators:

WHENJOSEEDUARDOE.CALASANZwasofferedthepo-sitionofAssociateDeanforAcademicAffairs(ADAA),heaccepteditblindly,despitetheabsenceofdetails,knowingthat he would not benefit from the usual turnover phasefroman incumbent.At the time,hispredecessor,Fr. JoseCecilioMagadia,SJ,wasalreadyinNewyorkonanewas-signmentfromtheJesuitPhilippineProvincial.

Heacceptedtheofferwithjusttwothingsinmind:thatitwouldbeinteresting,andthatthisnewopportunityforservicewillmakehimhappy.

Whilethejobisnew,theenvironmentisveryfamiliar

of theDepartmentofTheology),begana family.Shethenventuredintofreelanceconsultancy,specializinginhumanresourcetraining.

With their sons Marco and Paolo now aged 7 and 4,respectively, shebelieves it’s time tore-join theworkforce

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any program, the institute ensures that therewouldbeenoughcaretakers toadminister itsexecution.Asalearninginstitution,thesemi-narsandworkshopsconductedbytheinstitutenotonlyenlightenitsparticipantsontheplightofthepoorestsectoroftheir jurisdiction,butalsoheavily invest in researching,promoting,andtrainingvolunteers.

Working with LgUsAlthoughstillatitsinfancy,gkBI,asanet-

workoforganizations,alreadyhasanumberofwell-receivedprojects.OneoftheseisAteneo’spartnershipwithUP’sgkBI forSocial Justice–theTownshipDevelopmentSummit.Anan-nualgathering,thisyearsaw120mayorscon-gregatingandlisteningtowhattheinstitutehastosay.Withmoreandmorelocalgovernmentunits(LgUs)eagerlyengagingintheprogram,thetaskofthegBkItoorchestrateaschematicandmethodicalapproachtogk’sprojectsbe-came even more essential. Perhaps the mostimportantquestionthatthesummitaddresses

is:howdoyougatheryourpeopletoworkto-gether in building sustainable communities?TheteamalsoworkedwiththeLgU’sexistingprograms, evangelizing them into employinggk’s tried and tested model in carrying outprogramsforthepoor.

SaysMr.Cruz,“youjustdon’tbuildgoodprograms, you build relationship with yourpeople,”(aninteraction)whichinvolves“trans-formingourlargestliabilityintoourbiggestas-set.”Mr.Cabioagrees:“Asamayor,youreallyhavetoinvestinyourpeople—channelthebestschoolstoadoptcommunities,forthesecom-munitiestobecomesociallaboratories.”

Through these partnerships with LgUs,theAteneo’sgkBIisaidingintheexpansionofgk’sreach.Mr.Cruzbelievesthattheforma-tionofthegkBIasanationalmovementofaca-demicinstitutionswas“anideawhosetimehascome.”UniversityPresidentFr.BienvenidoF.Nebres,SJ,wasoneofthefirsttotakenoticeofgk’spotentialfortremendousgrowth,encour-aginggktostartbuildingtheinfrastructureforitsnationwideexpansion.

TheteamthatnowcomposestheAteneo’sgkBI has been creating the template of thenationalinstitutesinceearlythisyear,withitsfirstbranchsimultaneouslyformedinAteneo.Even before the Ateneo branch was formallylaunched on September 17 of this year, theteamhadalreadybeenactivelyinvolvedinitsfirst major activities all over the country, in-cluding trainingof its trainersandanationalcoreworkshopwherethecampaigntopromotegkBIbegan.

Bridging Schools and CommunitiesTodate,gkBIhas10branchesin10aca-

demicinstitutionsnationwide,andhassparkedinterest that is spreading like wildfire. gkBIserves as a bridge between schools and thecommunities,and functionsasanavenue forpeopletomakeuseoftheirlearningandpar-ticipate in nation-building. It also works, in

a sense, as a training ground fortheparticipatingschoolsintheirpursuit to empower the un-educated, thusextendingthewallsoftheclassroomtothecommunity.

gk’s target to eradi-catepoverty in thecoun-try is neither a lofty am-bition nor a pipe dream.The evident, dramaticchange in thepeople andthe communities that gkhasworkedinhasinspiredmany to invest their time,intellect,andenergytoworkhandinhandwithgktowardsreachingthisgoal.Mr.Cruzlaysastakeonthisclaim,brazenlyde-claring,“Ifyouchannelthebestofyourenergiestothepoorestofthepoor,yougetsomethingbeyondyourwildestdreams.”

What is in store for gkBI? Integratedwithin gk’s four-point objective dubbed thegk300, it isdividedintothegkBINationalNetwork, gk Builders Corps global Cam-paign, gkBI Capital Fund, and gk BuildersCorpsFund.

The National Network envisions estab-lishing gkBI in 300 schools by 2008, whileelevatingvolunteerismfromitscurrentstatusasasidelineventure,toanintrinsicpartofcur-riculumsandactivities.

TheCapitalFund,ontheotherhand,aimsto raise P300 million for 300 institutions, inlinewithgkBI’sexpansionefforts.Itprovidescorporate endowments, university budgets,alumnisupport,andforeignfunding.

gkBI’s partnership with gk likewiseendeavorstobearfruitingk’smissionasin-scribedinitsBuildersCorpsglobalCampaignandBuildersCorpsFund.Theformeraimstodrawupa300-stronglegionoffulltimepro-fessionalvolunteerstoengageinthegk’sproj-

ects from schools in the nation and beyond.Infact,amongthefirstbatchofbuilders’coreareforeignerswhohavepledgedtospendsixmonthstoayearactivelypursuinggk’sproj-ects.ThelatteraimstoraiseP75millionforthe300buildersworkingfulltimewithgkfor1–2years, which covers self-funding, corporate/universityhiring,andforeignfunding.

gk,which isoneof thefirst to layandnurture the culture of volunteerism in thecountry,isnowacelebratednationwidephe-nomenon.Theworldhasstoodupandtakennotice of this extraordinary movement ofheartsandmindsthatarecommittedtouplift-inglivesofourfellowcountrymenandmak-ingpovertyathingofthepast.gkBIpresentsyetanotheropportunityforAteneanstotrulypursuethecauseofbeingmenandwomenforothers—notasamereinstitutionalbrandingbutasaprinciplefeltandspoken,anddrivenbysheerloveofgodandcountry.

Ateneo de Manila UniversityLoyola Schools

DR. KARiNA gALANg-FERNANDEZCOORDINATOR,

TEACHER FORMATION INSTITUTE

Shaping Things to Comenew Loyola Schools Administrators:

full time, and the position of OSA Director has the rightcombinationofthingssheconsidersherelements:studentsandhumanresourcetraining.

Her experience in human resources training servedherwellasshebegantotacklethetaskofmanagingstu-dentformationandactivitiesattheLoyolaSchools.View-ing this new job as one big and continuing consultancycase, Nazareno-Acevedo says that, like in the corporateworld,hernumberoneconcernistogiveherclientsthebestserviceshecan.WithOSA,herclientsarethestudentleadersandtheadministratorsofthevariousunitswork-ingcloselywiththeoffice.Andtothesenewclients,shewilldefinitelygiveherbest.

Believingintheimportanceofdialogues,sheinitiateda needs analysis survey, interviewing students and otherstakeholdersdirectlyinvolvedwithOSA.ShealsodirectedareviewofexistingOSApoliciesandproceduresthatcouldbehamperingstudentcreativity.Fromtheinformationshegathered,sherealizedthedifferingneedsofeachorganiza-tion.Thus,OSAwasdirectedtowardscustomizingservicesandalwaysdeliveringefficientservice.

Sheishappywiththegeneralassembliesorganizedbyherofficewherevariousneedsof thestudentgroupsaretaken up, such as fundraising methods, accounting sys-tems andfinancial report preparation, and theneeds forpoliciesandgroupdiscipline.ShealsosharedthatOSAhasbeendesignatedtospearheadthelaunchingoftheLeader-shipInstitute.

This second semester, she looks forward to mentor-ing faculty and administrators who serve as moderatorsof students organizations; doing more collaborative work

withotherofficesofLoyolaSchools,includingtappingtheSchool of government as a partner for projects; and in-stitutionalizing aperformancemanagement system for allstudentsorganizations.

DR. kARINA “CARA” gALANg-FERNANDEZ joinedthe Loyola School Faculty Formation Team last April2007,upontheinvitationofDr.Ma.AssuntaC.Cuyeg-keng,whentheformercoordinatoroftheTeacherFor-mation Institute (TFI), Dr. Elizabeth Macapagal, wasmadechairofthePsychologyDepartment.

Having been a TFI facilitator, she knew that thework was very much related to her interests: helpingpeopledevelopandrealizedtheirfullpotential,bothinpersonalandprofessionalrealms.

Soonafterheracceptingtheassignment,shefeltthatshewasliterallythrownintotheoceantoswim,becauseimmediatepreparationsfortheTFIforfulltimefacultymembersthatsummerhadtobedone.Inbigboldlet-ter,shesaidsheencountered,“NOPROBLEM”.

key to this, she says, is how everybody has beenvery supportive. In fact, the whole Faculty FormationTeamisso“disgustingly”passionateabout theirwork,that theirattitude justcarriesheralong likea rushingtide. The positive response from their “clients”—thefacultymembersthemselves—boostshermoraletoo.

Cara holds an M.A. in Human Development fromBostonCollege, andcompletedherdoctoral studies inClinicalPsychologyat theAteneodeManilaUniversi-ty.Evenwithher teachingandresearchwork,shestillfinds time topracticeclinicalpsychology forchildren,adolescents,andyoungadults.Whensheleavesschooltocomehome,adifferentpartofherisenrichedassheassumes her role as mother to Nina (7 years old) andInggo(4yearsold),andwifetosoymilkentrepreneurBabaFernandez.

By EiLEEn LoLarga

OctOber - NOvember 2007�

ITWASARACEtoanail-bitingfinish. September 10–17 was SOMWeek andthat’s when the John gokongwei School ofManagement(JgSOM)studentsandteacherslettheirhairdownforaweekofright-brainedfun and games. Seven business-orientedstudent groups organized and competed ineight themed challenges in a bid to be thisyear’schampion.Co-chairedbyJgSOMfacultyRickyPilarandArchieguerra,andsupportedbythebusinessorganizationsclusterandtheSanggunianngmgaMag-Aaral,the8-day,17-event celebration was billed “MicroSOM—great Things Come in SOM Packages,”after this year’s major sponsor, MicrosoftPhilippines.Withtheopeningparadeandtheunveilingofthescorecard,theracewason. The Ateneo Management Association(AMA)cookedupSOMasarap,acreativefoodcompetitionattheJSECMall.ManagementEconomics (MECO) majors upped thestakes with a contest where teams bid forobjectstocompletetheirsets.AssociationofCommunications Technology Management(ACTM)majorslaunchedSOMercialization:

ENABLADo to Stage Tanikalang gintoAfTer BUwAn AT BAriL, enTABLADo (enterteynment para sa Tao BAyan LAnsangsan at Diyos) will go back to the classics by staging Juan Abad’s Tanikalang guinto. written in 1902, Tanikalang guinto is one of the most famous dramas by national artist Juan Abad and considered as one of the many seditious plays written during the American colonization. Considered as part of the canon of Philippine literature, Tanikalang guinto showcases themes of nationalism, and love for independence and culture. The production is a celebration of the filipino identity as it epitomizes the filipino drama simboliko, artistically intertwined with modern elements. Tanikalang guinto brings together talented individuals committed to the development of arts and culture. The list is spearheaded by the production director, Mr. Jethro Tenorio, apprentice director, Mr. Ariel Diccion and production designer, Mr. richard de guzman, who are all long term theater advocates and members of Kagawaran ng filipino in the university. entablado invites you to pay tribute to filipino excellence in expressing the love for nation and freedom through arts and literature. The production will be in february 2008. it will be held at the rizal Mini Theater. for inquiries feel free to contact 09279706492 or email us at ateneoentablado@yahoo.com.

HPAiR National Conference 2008The hPAir nATionAL ConferenCe 2008 is a two-day forum where we have the best speakers, the most innovative and developmental workshops, a cultural presentation and—something that only our organization offers—undergraduate paper presentations. it is an avenue that brings together the brightest undergraduate students to meet people of high caliber and success in their own careers, both in business and in politics. with the theme “Towards global youth Leadership”, participants not only get the chance to hear the experiences of these experts first hand, they also get to establish networks with their fellow youth leaders. The paper presentations also ushers undergraduate students into the professional arena by letting them experience what real academes do with the products of their studies and research. Ateneo hPAir Union brings all these to the participants by introducing them to the global arena and the ways and means of youth proactive leadership. registration is from october 16-December 31. The conference will be on January 26-27 at the Ateneo de Manila University. for more information on topics and conference details you may go to hPAir’s website at http://hpair.ph or go to MVP 203 for registration forms. you may also reach us through email at ateneohpairunion0708@yahoo.com or through text at 09176007105.

By arT VaLEnCia

SOMWeek: The Tradition Continues

Scorecard unveilingPretty SoM ladies SoM night at Corinthian Mr. and Ms. SoM contestant

a tri-media ad-making challenge: “Revivea dead product.” LEX reprised their ever-popularannualquizClashoftheIntelLEX.TheManagementEngineeringAssociation’s(MEA)ProjectRunwayrequiredcontestantstoredesignthebasicT-shirtanddisplaytheircreationsonthemodelingramp.TheAteneoJunior Marketing Association (AJMA) putupamarketingcontesttopackageproductsof Microsoft. The Management of AppliedChemistry Association (MACA) organizedthemuch-awaitedAmazingRace,patternedafter the popular reality television show,where pairs were to accomplish a seriesof business-related tasks while racingthroughlandmarksintheUPcampus.Andthroughout theweek, theorgscampaigned

for their respective candidates for thetraditionalMr.&Ms.SOMContest. Complementing the contests were filmshowings, business talks, an Arts Attackchallenge,andalife-sizeMonopolygameforenthusiasts.

Atweek’s end, only theMr.&Ms. SOMContestremainedundecided.Alwaystheevent’shighlight,theSOMNightfinalsatCorinthiangardens proved how tight the competitionwas. In the end, ACTM earned just enoughpointsfromthefinalcontesttonaildownthechampionshipwiththeslimmestofleads—andwithit,ayear’sworthofbraggingrights. But all were in awe of the new Mr. &Ms. SOM, for with that distinction camethe most-coveted prize of all: one month’sexclusive parking privileges at the Dean’sreservedparkingslot.

T-shirt redesign challenge

SoMasarap food fest

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art attack

Saturday, 15 December6:30 PM Ateneo Chamber Singers Mini

Christmas Concert8:00 PM recitation of the holy rosary to be led

by Pres. Corazon C. Aquino8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. Catalino g. Arevalo, S.J. Choir: Ateneo Chamber Singers Sponsor: Ateneo Alumni Scholars

Association

Sunday, 16 December8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. Louie S. David, S.J. Choir: Dulaang Sibol Sponsor: high School 1982

Monday, 17 December8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. Manoling francisco, S.J. Choir: Ateneo high School glee Club Sponsor: iSo CrC Project

Tuesday, 18 December8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. Adolfo Dacanay, S.J. Choir: Ateneo College Ministry

group Sponsor: Ateneo Schools Parents’

Council

Wednesday, 19 December8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. raymund Benedict

hizon, S.J. Choir: Alumni glee Club Sponsor: Alumni glee Club

Thursday, 20 December8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. Mario francisco, S.J. Choir: Kinema Sponsor: Ateneans in globe

Telecom

December 15 to 23, Church of the gesù

Friday, 21 Decemberhangad Mini Christmas Concert8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. Daniel Patrick huang, S.J. Choir: hangad Sponsor: College 2001 Saturday, 22 DecemberAteneo College glee Club Mini Christmas Concert8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. Johnny go, S.J. Choir: Ateneo College glee Club Sponsor: high School 1983

Sunday, 23 DecemberBukas Palad Mini Christmas Concert 8:30 PM Mass Presider: fr. Bienvenido f. nebres, S.J. Choir: Bukas Palad Sponsor: gawad Kalinga Ateneo

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Faculty Day Remembers Fr. Arrupe THELOyOLASCHOOLScommemoratedthecen-tennialbirthcelebrationofFr.PedroArrupe,SJ,onNovember14,2007bycelebratingallmassesattheCollegeChapelinhishonor.

Fr.Arrupewasborn14November1907inBil-bao,SpainandwasordainedundertheJesuitOrderonJuly30,1936.Hespent27yearsasamissionaryinJapan,andwasnovicemasteratsuburbanHiro-shimawhentheatomicbombfellinHiroshimainAugust1945.Heutilizedhismedicalskills intheserviceofthewoundedandthedying,transform-ingthenovitiateintoamake-shifthospitalforover200peoplewhoweregrievouslyinjuredanddying.Hebecamethe28thSuperiorgeneraloftheSoci-etyofJesusonMay22,1965.

On November 16, 2007 faculty members ofLoyolaSchoolsgatheredtogetheratthenewlyin-augurated Rosita Leong Hall to celebrate FacultyDay by reflecting on the schools’ mission and vi-sioninspiredbyFr.PedroArrupeandhisthoughtsonfaiththatdoesjustice,andsimpleliving.

Dr. Benjie Tolosa, chair of the Faculty ForumandPoliticalScienceDepartmentgavethewelcome

remarks and talked about reflecting on our corevaluesandhowsuchvaluesmanifestconcretelyinourlifestyles.

TolosainvitedDr.FabianDayrit,Mr.LelandJo-sephdelaCruz,andDr.AgustinMartinRodriguezas panelists to share their insights on the subjectmatter. Dayrit shared his insights on his work asascientistwhoseethicalprincipleisalwaysoneinharmony with the environment and community.He talked about his findings about the medicinalvalueofacertainherb for instanceandshared tohisfriendshowitcanbepreparedinordertoless-entheirdependenceonexpensiveimportedmedi-cines.DelaCruznarratedhispersonalexperiencesand how such philosophy of simple living mani-fests in the choiceshe andhiswifemake.Rodri-guezgaveaphilosophicalreflectiononjusticeandthechallengeforbothfacultyandthestudents inthesetryingtimes.

An open forum followed after the sharingof the panelists and then the faculty membersweredividedintosmallergroupsforfollow-updiscussion.Fr. Pedro arrupe, SJ

Tanghalang Ateneo Staged The Death of MemoryTANgHALANg ATENEO went contem-poraryFilipinoinTheDeathofMemory,the second production of the company’s29thseason.

Written by glenn Mas, The Death ofMemory is a Palanca prize-winning playand an awarded thesis production at theCatholic University of America. Tangha-lang Ateneo’s staging would be the play’sPhilippinepremiereproduction.

Intheplay,fourpeoplearetrappedinanowherelandwheretimehasstopped,andwithnomemoryofhowtheygotthere,andnoideasonhowtogetout.Eachonecar-riesapainfulandviolentmemory—sexualabuse, abandonment, murder—that as-saultsthematunpredictablemomentsandtiesthemtothispurgatorialprison.

Akeeperholdstheminthislimbo.Atone point, the newly arrived man, Juan,

incites his fellow prisoners to defy thekeeperandescapefrommemory.Willtheybeabletofreethemselves?How?Thisin-tense and imaginative play examines thestrength of the human will to live and

7-11 January 2008 TUGON WEEK Tugon will be giving out free food, having masses, and will be celebrating the free hugs Campaign the whole week. A concert will be held on January 11 to serve as the culminating activity.

14-18 January 2008Ateneo Management Association (AMA) eXPo

16 January 2008 6th Jaime V. ongpin Annual Memorial Lecture on Public Service in Business and governmentVeritas, 4/f Ateneo de Manila University Professional Schools Building

21-25 January 2008Ateneo Management Association (AMA) iD picture booth: Job fair edition

26 January 2008white hot: Ateneo Management Association (AMA) Party 2008

February 2008 Child Sexual Abuse Awareness week by Tugon

UPCoMiNg EVENTS

Psych Week Celebrates Fr. Bulatao’s 85th Year

THE DEPARTMENT OF PSyCHOLOgycelebratedthe85thbirthdayon22Septem-ber2007of its founderandresidentJesuitguru,Fr.JaimeC.Bulatao,SJ,fondlycalled“Fr.Bu,”withahostofevents.

The highlight of the week-long celebra-tion,entitled“Psychokinesis:MovingasOne,”thatbeganonSeptember17wastheFourthBuEagleLectureSeries.Unlikepreviousyearswhere research interests of faculty memberswere featured,Fr.Bulatao’sownresearch in-tereststhroughhisresearchpaperspresentedbyhismenteeswerefeaturedthisyear.

DubbedaNationalSocialScientistbythePhilippineSocialScienceCouncil,Fr.Bulataoisalsoconsideredasoneofthefoundingfa-thersofPsychologyinthePhilippines.

The Psychology Week activities wereorganizedbytheAteneoPsyche,thehomeorganization of Psychology majors, in co-operationwiththePsychologyDepartment.Aura Reading sessions, experiments, testsand surveys were also held to help bringPsychologyintotheconsciousnessofAteneostudents,facultymembers,andothermem-bersoftheUniversitycommunity.

Fr. Jaime C. Bulatao, SJ, celebrating his 85th year

choose, to fight against paralyzing pasts,andtomoveon.

RalphQuiblatandBrianSyalternatedasthenewcomer,Juan,whileRachelQuongandMargaritaPajeplayed thekeeper, theethe-realguardianofthenowhereland.TherestofthefacultycastwereRandySolis,DianneLaserna,MiguelLizada,andAngelaSerrano.Inturn,therestofthestudentcastwascom-posed of BJ Crisostomo, Regina Francisco,NicoloMagno,andgiannaVillavicencio.

Director Ricardo Abad and Produc-tion Designer Salvador Bernal departed

from their Asian motifs to create an ab-stract world that is replete with surrealandviolentimages.Withthemwerecho-reographerMatthewSantamaria, lightingdesignerJonjonVillareal,andSoundsandgraphicDesignerReamurDavid. katskiFlores,afinalist inCinemalaya2007, in-corporated film images of the character’smemories.

“TheDeathofMemory”ranfromNo-vember 29 to December 15 at the RizalMini-Theater of the Ateneo de ManilaUniversity.

By ErLinDa EiLEEn g. LoLarga

The cast of The Death of Memory

By gary DEViLLES anD CHriSTinE MaLLion

10 OctOber - NOvember 2007

ThisshowispartofZeroIn:Hybridity.Nowonitssixthyear,theZeroInmuseumconsortiumoftheAteneoArtgallery,AyalaMuseum,BahayTsinoy,LopezMemorialMuseum,andMuseoPambatatakesonthenotionofthecrossbreedinthisjointinstitutionalexplorationoflikenessandvariance.Theexhibitionrunsuntil15February2008.

art,“Passion&Compassion,”whichDr.garciacurates,focusesattentionontheartist’sstylisticdevelopment,andtracesthefruitfulencounterandinteractionbetweenpaintingandphilosophy,visionanddiscourse,imaginationandthought.

Itisaprofoundanddeeplypersonaltakeonartisticdevotionandthecreativefusionofdistinctiveworldsthatresultsfromameetingofminds.

THISgROUND-BREAkINgEXHIBIT—aonemanshowfromtheprivatecollectionofDr.LeovinoMa.garcia,formerDeanoftheAteneodeManilaUniversity’sSchoolofHumanities—exploresthefascinatingandlargelyunexaminedrelationshipbetweenthevisualartistandartenthusiastinthePhilippinesetting.

RevolvingaroundtheworksofLaoLianben,oneofthecountry’sleadingexponentsofabstract

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The ATeneo ArT gALLery, in cooperation with the fine Arts Department, mounts “new realities,” an exhibition of post-war paintings from the bequest of fernando Zobel. The exhibit features works of modernist artists like Ang Kuikok, Jose Joya, Cesar Legaspi, and Arturo Luz, who were among the first to depict urban landscapes, commonplace objects, and scenes of everyday life, articulating what modernism is in the process.

The show is a celebration of that period in our history when we experienced the burgeoning of aesthetics on one hand, and the follies of world wars on the other. Modernism, after all, is a heightened experience of contradiction, and modernists are known to tread the tortuous path between heaven and hell or the sacred and mundane, with the will to live at the face of dissoluteness.

A group of artists known as neo-realists rose to fame, challenging the classical tradition identified with the works of

fernando Amorsolo. Stylized and simplified representation is typically neo-realist. eventually, some of them, like Jose Joya and romeo Tabuena, explored abstraction.

According to critic rodolfo Paras-Perez, Tabuena depicts sights of remembered and dreamed things, where carabaos, for instance, appear weightless, lost in the mist of indeterminate atmosphere or driven by nameless men with undefined visages. Tabuena reconstitutes reality into a plastic structure with an idiom that is undoubtedly Cubistic. hence, in his “Laundry” with the geometric faces, chiseled bodies, and fragmented images, our history explodes its linearity to multifaceted views, becoming the poetic revolution that it is meant to be.

Artistic and poetic revolution would be taken by Jose Joya as a signal to reach out to provincial universities and schools, and introduce to depressed urban areas like Sapang Palay and Tondo art appreciation to the grassroots level, identifying in the fold sensitive and talented youngsters who, but

for Joya, may never have been discovered. Joya would not only influence young painters but radicalize his art by introducing gestural painting in a number of large canvases in the 1960s but later would shift to compositions of rounded overlapping shapes in harmonious hues. Critic guillermo notes how abstract landscapes allusive of forms of the natural environment would be a recurring theme in Joya, using textures such as sand-and-rice-paper collages with Asian influences, such as mandala concepts and Chinese calligraphy.

Jose Joya once said that in creating an art work, the artist is concretizing his need for communication, for “artist has an irresistible urge to reach that level of spiritual satisfaction and to project what he is and what he thinks through his work.”

new realities speak to us in its most eloquent and profound form from october 2007 to february 2008. The show is a project of 2008 graduates of the Arts Management Program, with edissa Dollosa and Carla del Puerto as curators.

Ateneo Art GalleryAteneo Art GalleryNew Realities at the

awit by arturo LuzStill Life with Bottle by ang kiukok

By gary DEViLLES

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OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, Ateneobasketball teams engaged different opponents indifferent levelsof thesport,paintingan“Ateneoversustherestoftheworld”or“Blueversustheothercolorsoftherainbow”scenario.

The 29th of September 2007 saw the AteneoLadyEagleswintheirsecondUAAPcrownagainsttheUPLadyMaroonswhiletheBlueEagletstriedgallantly(butultimatelyfailed)tosendtheirseriesagainsttheArchersofLaSalleZobeltoadecidinggame3…allofwhichwereseenliveonnationalTV.

The following day, Sept. 30, again saw twoAteneoteamsvyingforachampionship:theAteneoBlueEagletsgoingagainstLaSallegreenhillsintheMILO-BEST Small Basketeers of the Philippineschampionship and the Ateneo Passerelle teamgunning for thecrown in thePasserelledivisionofthesametournament.ThegradeSchoolBlueEagletsmanagedtowintheNCRcrownwhilethe

The future looks bright in blue and white

Passerelle team settled for second. Both gamesagainenjoyedTVcoverage.

ThedaywasnotoveryetforAteneobasketballastheseniors’teamplayedtheDeLaSallegreenArchers in their step-laddermeeting to earn therighttofaceUEintheUAAPFinals.

Textmessageswerebeingpassedandreceivedwiththemessage,“Wala na bang ibang mapanood sa TV kung hindi Ateneo?”ButthesecouldhavebeenmeantasacomplimenttotheAteneoBasketballProgram spearheaded by University AthleticsDirectorRickyPalou,UniversityAthleticsSportsMarketing Director Jun Jun Capistrano andBasketballProgramHeadRickyDandan.

WhilewinningtheUAAPcrowninthemen’s,women’sandjuniors’divisionsallinoneseasonstillremainsadream,itissurelysomethingthatwouldsoonbecomearealitywiththecontinuedsupportgivenbytheadministration,thecommunityandthesupportivepatronsofthebasketballprogram.Even with the loss of the juniors’ team and thefailureofthemen’steamtomakeittothefinalsofUAAPSeason70,thefuturelooksbrightfortheAteneobasketballasseeninthecompetitivenessofAteneoteamsinthedifferentlevelsofthesport.

SinceformerBlueEagleheadcoachJoeLipawastaskedtoresurrecttheAteneobasketballtraditionbyorganizingtheAteneoBasketballProgram,theprogram has seen a renaissance which reachedits fruitionwhenthemen’s teamwontheUAAPChampionship in 2002 under coach Joel Banal.The juniors’ team managed to get back-to-backchampionshipsin2003and2004andwonitagainlastyear.Thejuniors’teammayhavefailedtogetasecondback-to-backchampionshipbuttheyhaveclearlyestablishedAteneoasapowerhouseinhighschoolbasketballundercoachJamikeJarin.

Theemergenceofthewomen’sbasketballteam

By BEnJaMin JoSE a. SiPin iii, www.ateneo.edu

asadominantforceintheUAAPisatruetestamentto the effectiveness of the sports program andthe people behind it. Mentored by coach JohnFlores,theLadyEagles,whowontheirfirsteverchampionshipin2005,savedashutoutofUAAPchampionshipinbasketballforthisyear.

TheAteneocommunityhasalottobethankfulfor this year in terms of its basketball program.And as mentioned by Fr. Bienvenido F. Nebres,SJ, in the Thanksgiving Mass, more importantthan winning a championship is the experienceof playing,winning and even losing,whichwillshapeusandourcharacter.

AsanotherUAAPseasoninbasketballends,weshouldbeallthankfultothestudent-athletesandteams who continue to uphold the true Ateneospirit.Thefuturelooksbrightinblueandwhite.OneBigFight!

The Lady Eagles won their second UaaP crown against the UP Lady Maroons

The women’s basketball team has emerged as a dominant force in the UaaP

Despite a valiant effort, the men’s basketball team failed to make it to the UaaP finals

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OVER THE COURSE of two days,in the sweltering heat, the AteneoTrack and Field Team garnered atotalof14medalsat thePhilippineAmateurTrackandFieldAssociation(PATAFA) finals at Rizal MemorialStadium. The team brought homefour bronze medals, five silvermedals,andfivegoldmedals.

StartinginAugust,boththemen’sand women’s track and field teamsbegan competing in the Colgate-PATAFA weekly relays. The weeklymeets served as the qualificationroundsfortheathletestoparticipatein the finals, and most members ofthe teamproved themselvesworthyofcompetingonceagaininPATAFA.After nearly three months ofsprinting,jumping,andthrowingintheseweeklymeets,andanadditionaltwo-daycompetitionat theBacolodUnigames,thetrackstersonceagainsteppedontothestartingblocks,therunway, and the throwing areas toprove to the competition that theyareaforcetobereckonedwith.

Day 1OnthefirstdayofPATAFAfinals,

Maita Mendoza (II-CTM) bagged agold in the 100-meter dash with apersonalbesttimeof12.24seconds.BryanSutingco(III-Bio)rana10.7inthe men’s 100-meter dash, winninghimself a silver medal. Men’s teamcaptain, Alvin Reyes (IV-MEco),threwthediscus34.4meters,whichalso qualified him for the silvermedal, while geoff Reyes won thebronzemedal.Intheearlymorning,ZekValera(II-HS)pole-vaultedoveraheightof3.4meterstowinbronze.FrankiePatajo(IV-MEco),captainofthewomen’steam,threwthehammer27.6 meters, earning her a thirdplacefinish.Inthelatemorning,themen’s4x200-meter team,composedof Sutingco, Carlo Dizon, IanMarchadesch (V-BFA ID), and JPAzcueta(I-ECE),rantherelayinoneminuteand31seconds,resultinginawell-earnedsilvermedalfinish.MikeMendozawonthegoldmedalwithapersonalbestrecordof14.51secondsinthe110-meterhighhurdles.

Ateneo Tracksters Reap Medals in PATAFA Finals

12 OctOber - NOvember 2007

By nikka arCiLLa, www.ateneo.edu

Day 2OndaytwoofPATAFAFinals,Nic

Hey (II-EU) dominated the throwswith11.88minshotputand36.93min the hammer throw. He won thegoldandsilvermedals, respectively.In pole vault, Jam Valenton (I-Psy)andBettinaMaclang (I-CTM),bothrookies, won the gold and silvermedals, clearing heights of 2.25mand 2.05m, respectively. Both themenandwomen’s teamentered the4x100m relay race, and both teamsmanaged to win medals. The men’steam,composedofBanez,Sutingco,Marchadesch, and Mendoza, ranthe oval in 42.6 seconds, winningthemselvesgoldmedals.Withatimeof 52.4 seconds, the women’s relayteamofAnjAquino(I-Eco),Santos,NikkaArcilla(II-Mgt)andMendozafinishedwithbronzemedals.

Though not all members of themen and women’s teams made itto a podium finish, every singleperson shone. Personal recordswere consistently broken, and theteamsrealizedthebenefitsandsweetharvestoftraininghard,steppingup,andgivingit110%alltheway.

The men’s team, fresh from athird place finish at the recentlyheld Unigames, continued theirsuccessful streak, with a litany ofmedals and personal records toprove it.Everyathletewas focusedanddeterminedtowinamedal.Thecompetitive mindset, the muscle,and the heart that characterize themen’steamcontributedsignificantlytotheirsuccessesatPATAFAFinals.Indeed, the performance of thesemen was a manifestation of theteam’sdesiretodominate.

This year, the women’s teamis by far more competitive thanit has ever been. New talent, newevents, and a growing hunger towin a podium finish in the UAAPare what drive the women’s teamto train tirelessly and competevaliantly against in competitions.Coming out of a successful twodaysatPATAFAFinals,thewomen’steam has donned an insatiableattitude to do better every singletime,tobeatpersonalrecords,andto finish strong. The thirst for a

MikE MEnDoza anD JoBoy QUinToS outrunning their competitors in the 110-meter high hurdles

zEC VaLEra clears the 3.4m for the bronze medal

niC HEy going for the bronze in the hammer throw after winning the gold medal in the shot put

MaiTa MEnDoza winning the first place in the 100 meter dash

BETTina MaCLang going for the bronze in the pole vault

TEaM CaPTain aLVin rEyES heaving the shot

MikE MEnDoza, anchorman of the 4x100-meter relay team, relishing the team’s victory

team podium finish is escalatingstrongerthaneveramongtheLadyTracksters, and with the passion,brawn, and togetherness of thisyear’s team, a podium finish is alikelypossibility.

Thisweek,bothteamswillonceagain be competing—this time, atthe Philippine Olympic Festival -NationalOpenmeetonNovember15–17. This is the last big meetbefore the Track and Field 70thUAAPSeasoninFebruary,soexpectall members of the Track Teamto go all out. Both teams hungerfor a podium finish, and with thededication these athletes possess,they will stop at nothing to reachtheirgoal.

SeVen ATeneo TeAMS trooped to Bacolod for the 12th University games, held at the University of St. La Salle on 22–28 october 2007, and went up against over 40 universities and colleges from all over the country. over all, of the seven varsity teams that competed, five placed well in the standings.

in basketball, the Blue eagles ran roughshod over the competition in their first six games before falling to far eastern University, 59-67, in the championship. it was actually their worst game of the tournament as they came out flat while the Tamaraws, flexing their muscles for next year’s UAAP campaign, were firing on all cylinders. Prior to the championship, the Blue eagles beat their foes with an average of 44 points per game.

in football, the Blue Booters

Photos courtesy of the ateneo Track Team

lost in the semi-finals to De La Salle University, 0-4, while the Lady Booters finished in third place. it was the highest ever placement for Ateneo women’s football in team competition.

The men’s volleyball team failed to advance beyond the eliminations, while the men’s and women’s lawn tennis teams and the men’s and women’s athletics teams finished at third place as well.

University Athletics Director richard Palou said that he was very happy with the results, but he still felt that the Blue eagles should have played better, and maybe could have even won their championship match. “But that isn’t so bad when you consider that the team was without several players who were either abroad or had graduated already,” said Palou.

A Strong Uni-Games Showing by the Blue & WhiteBy riCk oLiVarES