AUGUST 2015 | NEWSLETTER ISSUE
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE>> devcom WHY YOUR VOICE MATTERS Students speak up about "student apathy." >> Page 16
P25-M building project prompts increase in fees SPECIAL PROJECT FEE, UPS IN MISCELLANEOUS FEES INTRODUCED
feature AQUINIAN ARTISTS Dancing to the rhythm of life. >> Page 8 culture GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S A
SONG OF ICE AND FIRE >> Page 11
EIGHTH RECTOR'S SECOND TERM. Fr. Ernesto Arceo, in his reinstallation address during the Mass of the Holy Spirit, stressed on the importance of ensuring quality education and improving the University's research output and academic accreditations.
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BY A LDRIN C. BROSAS
The cost of education in Aquinas University went up this academic year.
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The administration has recently proposed a 25-million peso infrastructure project, a covered court and multi-purpose building, along with an increase in the miscellaneous and other fees. In a series of public consultations held on February 26, 2015, the Office of Administration and Finance (OAF) headed by Vice-President for Finance, Fr. Edwin A. Lao, O.P., discussed the increase in fees they’re proposing namely a 40% increase in the intramurals fee from Php 100 to Php 140, and the introduction of a “special project development fee” of Php 500. The university student publication, Aquinian Herald, also appealed for fee increase from its current Php 30 THE INCREASE publication fee to Php 125 per semester, which is collected as part of the “other fees” of the TOTAL INCREASE IN THE MISCELLANEOUS students’ total fees. AND OTHER FEES PER SEMESTER Special project fee A big part of the proposed increase will INTRAMURALS FEE be due to the special project development fee intended to fund the construction of a multi-purpose building INTRAMURALS FEE that is estimated to cost at around Php 25
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P100+40ˇ=140.00 P30+95 = 125.00
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Arceo enters second term as Rector and President BY J A N I N B . VO L A N T E
The University’s eighth Rector and President, Fr. Ernesto M. Arceo, O.P., was reelected by the Aquinas University Board of Trustees and was formally installed into the office in a ceremony during the university-wide Mass of the Holy Spirit on June 8, 2015 at the AUL Dome. Arceo first held the office in 2011, succeeding Rev. Fr. Ramonclaro G. Mendez, O.P. who served three terms for twelve years (19992011). Very Rev. Fr. Gerard Francisco P. Timoner III, O.P., Prior Provincial of the Dominican Province of the Philippines ARCEO ENTERS
AUL SIGNS MEMO OF INTENT TO ‘INTEGRATE’ WITH UST THE PLANNED integration of Aquinas University with top Philippine university, UST, was officially signed. In a report at the official website of the Dominican Province of the Philippines, AUL, along with two other Dominican schools, the Angelicum College Quezon City and Angelicum School Iloilo, signed a Memorandum of Intent (MOI) with University of Santo Tomas (UST) to work into integrating
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the three Dominican educational institutions with the revered and longstanding tradition and standards of UST education. This integration is in accordance with one of the objectives of the Order’s Acts of the 10th Provincial Chapter, particularly Act No. 123 which states: the “Dominican Province of the Philippines moves towards integrating all the Dominican institutions within two venerable and historical educational traditions, that of Letran (1620) and UST (1611).” The MOI signing was part of the AUL SIGNS
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