The Central Echo - Tabloid 2012

INSIDE  The candidates have spoken. The votes were counted in. See the next batch of CPUR officials who shall serve the CPU studentry. See story on page 6

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THE OFFICIAL STUDENT PUBLICATION OF CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY

FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012

By Alvin K. Tung She was all smiles as she was surrounded by goddesses of beauty who had descended to crown her as their heir. Nineteen year old Charmaine Grace Deatras, a BSBA Marketing Management student and the reigning Ms. CPU, dazzled the multitudes who crowded the CPU gym when she was crowned Miss Dinagyang 2012, January 18.

Deatras seized the special awards Best in Swimwear, Best in Talent, and Best in Interview with her alluring beauty, remarkable skills, and outstanding wit.

Her consistent splendour won her majority of the corporate awards: Miss Air Philippines, Miss Rebisco, Miss Juicy Cologne, Miss Efficacent Oil Extreme and the Darling of the Press.

The pageant was attended and judged by four beauty queens – 1969 Miss Universe Gloria Diaz, 1973 Miss World first runner-up Evangeline Pascual, 1982 Binibining Pilipinas Universe, Ma. Isabel Lopez, and 2011 Miss Universe 3rd runnerup Shamcey Supsup that made her victory more convincing and creditable.

“I’m overwhelmed with the fact that I was chosen to be the Miss Dinagyang by the persons who are the best in pageants.

Whenever I reminisce those memories, I smile because I could make myself believe that somehow I deserve the crown,” Deatras said in an interview.

The newly named Miss Dinagyang will represent Iloilo City in the Miss Aliwan Festival this April.

Photo by Mark Segador

Iloilo crowns Ms. CPU 2011 as Ms. Dinagyang

Night of glamour. Ms. Charmaine Grace Deatras (center) projects a scenic smile as she was hailed as Miss Dinagyang 2012, with 1st runner up Ms. Angelie Orada (left) and 2nd runner up Ms. Karla Dawn (right) Yaneza during the pageant night at CPU gym.

Negros Quake: The after effect

Juris Doctor or Bachelor of Laws: What’s the difference? p2 The dean of College of Law clarifies the two programs.

Photo from Central Echo

Centralians say, ‘No to mining in the Visayas!’ p3

With closed fists and raised voices, defying these unfair practices.

Re-politicizing Rizal p5

Rediscover our national hero Dr. Jose Rizal.

Java, Pasuelo qualify for 14th AYLC p6

Outstanding Centralian Student leaders bring another triumph to our school.

Organization Exhibit/ Evaluation Results p7 On recognizing the best performing campus organizations.

United. The Central Echo together with the other college and high school publications pose with all smiles after the successful journalism summit.

CE Launches Journalism Summit

By Airon B. Buenvenida To empower campus journalists in the University, the Central Echo launched its first Journalism Summit on February 22-24 at the 4th floor of Alfonso Uy Student Union Building.

The three-day seminarworkshop focused on developing the journalism skills of the college and high school publication editors as well as

students who have interest in campus journalism.

The invited lecturers included Pastor Efren Burgos, who gave an overview of campus journalism; Philippine Daily Inquirer regional correspondent Hazel Villa, who shared her expertise on feature writing; CE past editor, Prof. Allen Del Carmen of the University continued on page 2…

By Reyshimar C. Arguelles The magnitude 6.9 earthquake that shook parts of Eastern Visayas on February 6 was also felt by Iloilo City at magnitude 5.8, leaving slight structural damages to buildings and infrastructure.

Even Central Philippine University was not spared from the effects of the tremor and the strong aftershocks that followed.

According to Mr. Prim Vergara III, head of the University Building Maintenance and Upkeep Department, the university engineers are keeping an eye on a number of buildings that had cracks caused by the quake.

The Alfonso Uy Student Union Building had sustained minor non-structural damages

suggestive of deflections seen at the Student Affairs Office and the Guidance Office.

“Deflections may cause gaps between columns and walls. They are more visible on the top levels of the buildings. We are still monitoring these damages, but the Uy Building is still okay,” Vergara said.

Moreover, the drop beams near the water dispensers at the building’s extension were damaged, though not very significant.

“Drop beams are nonstructural beams and are used merely as a façade,” Vergara said.

At the administration building, cracks were detected on the glass panel of the Registrar’s Office.

The Henry Luce III Library, on the other hand, sustained continued on page 2…

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cracks caused by the earthquake were seen.

Additionally, damages to the plumbing system were also reported but these were minor considerations and were repaired immediately.

Old edifices such as the Old Valentine and the Mary Thomas Buildings, Vergara said, do not have any structural problems because they were built with pure concrete instead of hollow blocks.

He jokingly said that if World War III comes along, he would surely hide within the old buildings.

Overall, the University’s buildings remain structurally sound even after the numerous aftershocks that followed the main shock which took the lives of over 100 Visayans.

“It is my first time to experience those many aftershocks,” Vergara added.

DOST Secretary visits CPU’s Packaging Lab

By Airon B. Buenvenida The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Dr. Mario G. Montejo visited the Packaging Testing Laboratory of the College of Engineering, March 1.

Secretary Montejo and his colleagues were welcomed

by University President Dr. Teodoro Robles; Dr. Agustin Pulido, Chair (BOT); Lejo Braña, BOT Member; Rev. Joniel Howard H. Gico, Vice President for Administration; Dr. Fely Chin, Vice President for Academics; and Engr.

Dany Molina, Dean, College of Engineering, together with a group of DOST-SEI scholars from the college.

Dr. Robles together with Dr. Braña, who also happened to be the donor of Packaging Testing laboratory, led Secretary Montejo in presenting the laboratory’s different equipment and facilities.

The CPU Packaging Engineering Laboratory now stands as the Packaging Testing Center in Western Visayas as granted by the DOST.

Ready to serve. The four-storey Dr. Alfonso Uy Student Union Building stand still after sustaining minor non-structural damages from 6.9 quake.

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(CE Launches…) from page 1… of St. La Salle-Bacolod, who gave a fresh view on news writing and publication layouts; Francis Allan Angelo of the Daily Guardian, who guided the participants through opinion writing; CE past editor and professional photographer Nygel John Melitado, who introduced the basics of photography and photojournalism; and Michael Gravat, production manager of Makinaugalingon, who explained the whole process of running a paper job in the press.

In line with the program, the Central Echo sponsored Publication Awards to recognize the best CPU student publication outputs.

For the college level, the CPU Engineer won the Best Publication followed by the CHM Edge and The Educator as second and third place respectively. For the special category, the

Best Layout Design and Best Magazine Cover went to the CPU Engineer, Best Opinion page to The Educator, Best Feature Page to CHM Edge, and Best News Page to The Executive. Meanwhile, the Pavia Gazette of Pavia National High School was awarded as the Best High School Publication.

For the 1st CE Video Making-Contest which focused on the theme ‘the role of Central Echo in the CPU community’, the entry of RJ Valencia and Redelle Anne Bernaldez won the 1st prize of Php 5,000 while Katherine Draheim’s entry garnered the 2nd prize of Php 3,000.

At the end of the summit, promising writers and publications during the workshops were recognized and they are as follow: editors of CPU Engineer and Arts and Science Voice Prints (ASVP) as promising news writers; Kristylle Felice Tumapang (The Executive) as

Free Football Clinic kicks off at CPU

By Airon B. Buenvenida In line with the activities of the America in 3D Roadshow, Ilonggo coaches and young athletes enjoyed a free football clinic on March 3 and 4 at the CPU Football Field.

A ceremonial kick off graced by CPU president Dr. Teodoro Robles and Deputy Chief of Missions of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Ms. Leslie A. Bassett, opened the football festival. Also present in the event were Mr. Mariano Araneta, representative of Philippine Football Federation, Bonnie Ladrido, Special Assistant to Philippine Football Federation, and Engr. Bob Clarence

Javellana, General Secretary, Iloilo Football Federation.

The refresher training for coaches and skills clinic for young athletes was also attended

by Azkals’ Ali Borromeo and Anton del Rosario, courtesy of the Philippine Football Federation.

The football clinic was one of the simultaneous activities of the America in 3D Roadshow in celebration of FilipinoAmerican friendship.

The America in 3D Roadshow, an initiative of Harry K. Thomas, Jr. and the U.S. Embassy, showcased the best of American culture and the services of the U.S. embassy in the Philippines.

Photo from www.c7f.navy.mil

(Negros Quake…) from page 1… “superficial cracks” since it is a very solid structure built with offsite columns. Only minor cracks on the walls’ coating were reported.

“The skin or plastering of the walls have cracks, but they are only aesthetically significant and offer no reason for alarm,” Vergara said.

Many cracks were also recorded at the Engineering building especially at the top level annex where extended hairline

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For the goal. A young football enthusiast attempts to kick the ball for a goal during the football clinic at CPU Football Field.

Juris Doctor or Bachelor of Laws: What’s the difference?

By Reyshimar C. Arguelles

As graduation sets in, landing a job and recuperating from academia’s blows are two of post-school preferences listed by the graduates. Still, some may want to strive further and attain a professional degree.

To those who want to take up a career in the legal world, look no further. Central Philippine University College of Law now offers a Juris Doctor ( J.D.) program that can give necessary

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courtroom knowledge.

Before anything else, though, one must have knowledge on what this program has in store apart from a change in name from Bachelor of Laws (Ll. B.).

The Ll. B. degree, firstly, is described as a basic legal degree. It is a four-year course taken either in semesters or in trimesters and requires a four-year pre-law degree.

The J.D. degree, on the other hand, is also considered as a basic legal degree though it may run

from four to five years, depending on the college or university. It is classified as a professional doctorate equivalent to a doctorate in medicine, but according to Atty. Zacarias Bedona, the dean of the College of Law, one cannot be addressed as “Dr.” since the program is in the undergraduate category within legal education, the same as Ll. B. “If you pass the bar exams, you can only be addressed as ‘Atty.’

But if you have a Juris Doctor or a Bachelor of Laws degree and

you want to go further with your education, we are also offering a Master of Laws program,” Bedona said.

He added that the University and the San Beda College have a consortium which allows them to offer a Master of Laws.

“But if you want to become Doctor of Laws, you have to take a doctorate so you can be called as such. So this goes to show that both Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Laws are actually in the same level,” he said.

However, the J.D. program curriculum, apart from requiring subjects from the Ll. B. curriculum, necessitates the taking of additional subjects and electives. Students must also undergo an apprenticeship and the writing and defense of a thesis.

The University’s College of Law, since 2010, is considered to be the first law school in the country that offers a J.D. degree approved by the Legal Education Board.

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Centralians say, ‘No to mining in the Visayas!’

By Reyshimar C. Arguelles With closed fists and raised voices, the National Service Training Program (NSTP) students of the University defied unfair mining practices during the Visayan Conference on Mining and the Ecology.

Held at the Rose Memorial Auditorium, February 25, the conference was aimed at encouraging more Filipinos to join the fight for national patrimony and against environmental desolation caused in the outset by small-scale and large-scale mining enterprises.

The NSTP students supplemented the 5.5 million Filipinos, along with 640 organizations, who want to stop the abuses of the mining industry in favor of sustainable alternatives such as ecotourism, agriculture, and fisheries according to the Save Palawan Movement, a participant in the conference.

Notable environmentalists and anti-mining activists were also present during the conference to touch on the social, political, economic, and ecological implications of the

Turning treeless. Mario Ian Mosquisa, Social Action Director of the Diocese of Borongan, presents an illustration of the rate of deforestation in the country as a result of illicit mining practices.

industry as well as situationers on each province in the Visayas.

Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño, in his presentation on alternative mining, stated that the liberalization of the mining industry under Republic Act 7942 allowed excessive royalties and incentives to foreign corporations.

Casiño proposes an alternative mining bill that

mandates the ownership of mines to the Filipino people and multisectoral consultation. It will also penalize corporations that defy environmental laws and human rights.

Clive Wicks, a consultant on conservation and development, gave a lecture about the Tampakan Mining Project in South Cotabato while Atty. Grizelda Mayo-Anda

Big Pitch for the Advert Students

By Gloria Concepcion H. Moralidad The Central Philippine University BS Advertising film entry, “Kasugtanan” , The Covenant, earned the limelight in the 1st Iloilo Short Film Competition during the 2nd Iloilo International Film Festival last January 21 at the Hotel del Rio. Prevailing over the other 26 short films, Kasugtanan is a story of a groom’s love for his bride.

Much preparation was set out for the wedding and on the day of the

supposedly “said celebration”, the groom awaits on the altar, as his beloved bride was brought to him in a casket. The groom, in a eulogy, recited his promise of eternal love to her.

“Seeing Kasugtanan in the big screen without even knowing we would win, was our biggest reward, biggest prize... there were tears in our eyes, we were all crying... after the film was shown, everybody applauded – it was overwhelming,” said Sharlyn Joy S. Velasquez, writer and director of the film and faculty member of the BS Advertising

Program of the College of Business and Accountancy (CBA).

The short film competition is part of the Sineng Pambansa program with the objective to “bring Filipino films to Filipinos” in its effort to revive and raise the standards of the motion picture industry in the country.

Also following their recent pitch in the 1st Iloilo Short Film Competition, CPU BS Advertising scored another round, landing 5th in the TV Commercial Teaser at the COMGUILD 3rd Annual Conference of Advertising, Business

Administration and Marketing Students of the Philippines last February 5 at the AFP Theater, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City.

The contest was participated by 29 different colleges and universities all over the country.

COMGUILD is the only learning institution in the Philippines that allows its students to interact and learn from the widest possible and most interesting mix of award winning journalists, communication specialists and public relation officers.

of the Environmental Legal Action Center touched on the legal side of the cause, stating that current mining laws offer “overgenerous fiscal incentives or benefits to mining corporations in the use of our natural resources.”

A special guest in the conference, Mayor Edward Hagedorn told how his administration made Puerto Princesa a premier city through ecotourism initiatives and without the help of mining. In support of Mayor Hagedorn, Bantay Kalikasan managing director Regina Lopez proposed that we must not support politicians who endorse mining contracts in their respective provinces.

Also present in the conference were University President Teodoro Robles and Fr. Angel Lagdameo of the Archdiocese of Jaro. Both shook hands upon meeting each other.

Fr. Lagdameo then gave a statement of support to the antimining campaign, stating that “the people’s concern is also the Church’s concern.”

Poetry Hour enriches CPU Arts Month Celeb

By Alvin K. Tung

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All smile after work. The cast and the production team bundles up after a day of filming their entry for the competition.

Students from World Poetry, American Literature, Speech 211 and Com 401 classes savored the gift of world literature in the 6th Poetry Hour entitled The Poet’s Tree held at the Alfonso Uy Student Union Building, February 27.

The event featured poems adorned by the four seasons and music heartily composed by exceptional musicians. The

program featured poetry reading by individuals and groups, violin and guitar renditions and its first ever shadow play.

Poetry Hour began in 2007 as a special activity of the CPU American Corner and was later adopted by the above mentioned classes under the supervision of Prof. Esther Rose Romarate, faculty member of the DLMCH. Since its initiation, the event has had these following themes: 2012 - The Poet’s Tree; 2011

- Behold the Earth; 2010 To the Flowers; 2009 - The Poems of Maya Angelou; 2008 - American Love Poems; 2007 - The Poems of Emily Dickinson.

The said affair was attended and participated by DLMCH students and faculty and sponsored by the CPU American Corner and CPU Cultural Affairs Office.

It was held in celebration of Arts Month.

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Photo by Sharmin Gale Del Socorro

the most promising feature writer; Fritz John Mingao (Apprentice) and Kristylle Felice Tumapang as the most promising editorial writers while Dion Greg Reyes (CPU Engineer) as the promising editorial writer; The Educator as the most promising photojournalist, and CHM Edge and CPU Engineer as the promising photojournalists; and Ram Paulo Anayan (ASVP) and John Rick Patricio (The Edge) as the most promising and promising cartoonist respectively.

Meanwhile The CPU Engineer was recognized as the Best Performing Publication for the whole summit.

The summit also became an avenue for the revival of the CPU Press Club and the election of its officers who were officially inducted by Dr. Fely Chin, Vice President for Academic Affairs, during the closing program. The CPU Press Club shall start functioning on the next academic year.

The success of the summit led the Central Echo to decide to hold the event annually from now on.

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OBLA DI OBLA DA

RE-POLITICIZING RIZAL Raniel C. Ponteras

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EDITORIAL

The CPUR Election became a battleground in the eyes of the students. The two dynamic political parties maximized ways on incurring solid shots and minimized possibilities of taking deadly blows. Indeed, on this battle of wit, charisma, and strategy – with more hits and more points, come more chances of winning.

During the campaign period, candidates bombarded students with sloganeering and mudslinging against their “

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e do not use the telescope in our science laboratory.”

I was a grade six pupil back then when I was reprimanded because of these words I sounded out. We were on the discourse of our school’s facilities when I gave this honest answer. Thank God because it was just a sort of preparation for the real interview with the accreditors, and thanks again because it was never asked during the actual interview. Indeed the word accreditation was not new to me.

Before anything else, why do you think is there a need for a university to be accredited?

I first looked for its definition and found this: accreditation is the act of granting credit or recognition especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards. For a prestigious university like Central Philippine University, I believe that this accreditation is a necessity.

And so we must show off how prestigious we are.

It is given that any school should rigorously prepare for an accreditation. Like a house

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opponents instead of discussing their political platforms of governance. Most of us became spectators while some even joined this slinging of mud.

It is to be noted that they can either throw ‘clean things’ about themselves ‘to the students’ or throw ‘dirty stuffs’ ‘to their opponents’. Sad to say, they chose the latter.

Is this indicative of the future Centralians are to expect from their elected leaders? Only time can tell, but the recent sloganeering and mudslinging sends an alarming message to the Centralians. While caught in the middle of this bombardment

of propaganda, the only thing that the ordinary Centralian can do is avoid it, in fear of being hit, also.

While the CPUR Election is dominated by the prominent colors of green and red, the most striking color to come out from both polarities is the color black — black propaganda, that is, and this is destroying Centralian politics. What the green and red should do next time is to stop throwing mud at each other to bring out once again the glorious blue and gold of Central Philippine University, free from black and traditional-political stains.

VERITASERUM

HYPOCRITES’ BIG SHOT Airon B. Buenvenida expecting for some guest, we give life to every corner of the university; we fill up the dormant bulletin boards; we beautify the naked classrooms; we do everything just to make all things look pleasant, all just to impress the guests.

Also, just like the owners of a house, we’ll see to it that the guests will have a meaningful experience. We will make sure that all the actions of the university community will be in accordance to the expectations of the accreditors.

This is all but natural and is happening everywhere; but in an experiment with human subjects, this is a big ‘no’. Psychologically speaking, we call this as reactivity wherein the subjects alter their natural performance to meet the expectation of the experimenter.

With this, the whole process is confounded thus losing the objectivity of the experiment. The same goes for our University.

For me, it is quite okay for

teachers to prepare well for classes during an accreditation, that is, if and only if, they do these things with or without an accreditor. But if they will be doing things for the

It’s annoying and disappointing to suppose that they could have given more during ordinary classes, but have not. first time, just for the sake of the accreditation, then that would be a different story. I consider this act as hypocrisy, though a bit harsh, but I can’t help it. A good teacher is always a good teacher- anytime, everytime, and all time.

So what exactly am I

was made to sit through boring sessions of reading an annotated, simplified, and shortened copy of Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo during the final and penultimate years of high-school. Suffice to say, it was enough to turn you off from old Jose.

Sure, there were comic moments, here and there, but these shortened versions, aimed to satisfy the consumption interest of high-school students, coupled with boring Rizal pedagogy: triggers a two-hit combo of insipidness and impotency.

Insipid in the sense that the cadence and sheer vibrancy of Rizal’s prose is transformed into quotidian phrases and excerpts aimed not to make the student enjoy the brilliance of Rizal’s writing, but simply to make reading easier for them. A paradox.

Clear, yes. Interesting, no.

Impotent. Yes, since, I assume, that the aim of these simplified versions were not to introduce Rizalian thought to the students, but only to expose them to Rizal’s work, thus – again, falling into the pedagogical trap of filtering vital knowledge.

The result of this practice is at one and at the same time, degrading and depressing.

I have only come to appreciate

Rizal after I ventured to read his texts – translated, of course – but not the annotated and simplified ones. I bit by bit got to know the guy through his texts. From then on, I started picking up biographies of Rizal, each presenting different personal and political agenda: however, it made me realize that there was more to the boring shortened Jose of my high-school years.

I quickly gained a liking for Elias, for his organic intellectual attributes. I laughed at the vociferous polemics of Doña Consolacion. I admired the ardor of Basilio. I strongly identified myself with the more vitriolic version of Ibarra in the form of Simoun (I even agreed with his explosive stratagem).

Thus I formed inside myself a newfound appreciation for Rizal that texts and boring pedantic approach to the Rizal texts couldn’t.

From the two novels I shifted to reading his non-fiction works.

Having invested much of my wellearned money on Rizal books, dissertations, biographies, and essays, I came to the conclusion that Rizal was not only an imposing literary figure, but that he was a watershed of politically radical ideas.

His letters to Fr. Pastels while in Dapitan featured a more

quetching all the while? Simply, that the University, with special recognition for our dear industrious teachers, deprives us students of the quality education they ought to give. If they could make the discussion lively for every class; if they could bring their visual aids everytime these were needed; if they could make powerpoint presentation for introducing a lesson; and if they could give all their best for a class, which I believe they all did during the accreditation, then why not?

It’s annoying and disappointing to suppose that they could have given more during ordinary classes, but have not. In the first place, their responsibility is to the students because it is the students who pay them, not the accreditors.

Going back to the definition of accreditation, it is to be noted that an educational institution is recognized for ‘maintaining’ suitable standards. Allow me to remind us that to maintain is far different than to show. If we’ll always have this practice to give a one-shot performance rather than to maintain these suitable standards, then I guess we’ll need

to invite the accreditors for a discreditation.

I may not be an epitome of a good student inside the classroom (not because I’m always outside) to impulsively say these things; but I tell you, I’m one of the thousands of students who somehow thirst for knowledge- who expects to receive this so called ‘Exemplary Christian Education for Life’ and so I thank those ‘very few’ professors who make this phrase experienceable.

Central Philippine University is known for being a Christian University and being a an institution founded on the Christian principles, we know that it is guided and should always adhere to the teachings of Jesus Christ. And if Jesus were to teach in the University, we know that He will not tolerate such things.

We bear His name as a university and so our actions should always be accorded to His mission. Again and again, we are a Christian University and we should dare to be one.

Nevertheless, how I wish that every day, there would be an accreditor who would roam around the campus and enter and observe some classes.

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philosophically existential Rizal (even predating some of French existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre’s ideas). His exaltations to the young proto-activists of Malolos sparked the ontogenesis of the Filipina identity. In retrospect, Rizal was way ahead of his time; being such, he was placed in a dangerous position – that of public and widespread misinterpretation and reinterpretation.

Much like the case of the Nazis using Friedrich Nietzsche to legitimize their genocidal tendencies – nationalists made Rizal into their poster-boy, and all this diluted the political potency of Rizal and his legacy.

And furthermore, Rizal is even used as the messianic image of socio-civic consciousness: promoting charity and outreachorientation.

This in-turn has made the word hero something that can be attached to anyone involved in pseudo-acts of nation-building.

Take for example, the Ako ang Simula propaganda, which aims not to raise the level of discussion or to politicize the discourse of the youth, but only geared towards the bolstering of each participating agency’s ego. Their methodology?

Label anyone who joins the cause as a hero and as a heroine. Effective marketing. Stupid politics.

For this, Rizal has the perfect polemic – using Simoun, Rizal argued against this tactic: “you allow yourselves to be misled by big words and you never get to the bottom of things to examine the effects in their ultimate

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n our journey, we will influence many people.

By our courage, we will instill courage in others. By our wisdom, we will educate others how to look into themselves deeply and discover the truth within. By our determination and vision, we will motivate others to search for their own path and set out on their own journeys. This is the fundamental nature of leadership.

“Leadership is a blessing and we are bound to share this blessing to others.” This is what I believe in.

Along my journey, I met a big number of student leaders with burning passion towards nation-building. They served as supplementary sources of knowledge and inspiration for me. Part of our journey involved developing our higher self and learning to be truly in tune with the vibration of truth that speaks to us and guides us on our way. Our learning from others in our joys and conflicts, challenges and griefs, will be in the way we learn to resist the mesmeric temptation of the ego and see in others what we need to learn about ourselves.

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manifestation.”

Exactly. The culture of being a bayani nowadays is centered toward the building of the self: but not the analysis on why the self is such, i.e. a scientific (in the German Wissenschaft sense) analysis and critique of the governing systems of thought and rule (see Rizal’s letters to Fr. Pastels to know Rizal’s analysis of faith and religion).

The problem with today’s bayanis is their resolve that analysis has no merit, and that immediate, stopgap, and outreach efforts

…you allow yourselves to be misled by big words and you never get to the bottom of things to examine the effects in their ultimate manifestation.

— Rizal should be done at the soonest.

What’s wrong with this attitude is that, it replaces intelligent analysis with charity – something, using Nietzsche’s philosophy, that was directly entrenched into public mentality, by the ruling powers to help preserve their rule.

If outreach programs are the panacea to the ills of society then how come efforts to habilitate displaced people into homes and feeding programs fail to solve

the pervading problems? How come that even though they are a plentitude of young people acting out as bayanis, things have not changed a bit?

This is symptomatic of the cultural shift that is persistent in today’s discourse. Instead of activism and airing their grievances on the streets, young people have become satisfied with sharing their emotions on social networking sites. The existence of anti-activism stigma acting against political participation has marked the motif of the youth – their reluctance to engage in real discussions make them complacent in their approaches to nation-building.

This, sadly, has diminished and destroyed the legacy of the bayani that finds itself rooted to the likes of Rizal.

I will argue that now is the perfect time to go back again and rediscover Rizal. When we get to know the forebears of our thought, only then can we direct our intellectual and social lineage towards a better direction, fitted with both historical and political relevance.

With nothing much to add and to avoid adding spoilers, it is thus an individual and social obligation of every one claiming to be a bayani to read and pattern their acts to that of Rizal, which was, in a word: political.

It is time to re-politicize Rizal once again. Remember, it was the Rizal who wrote the Noli and Fili that shaped the consciousness of the nation, not the Rizal that taught children for free.

POINT OF ORDER

BULL’S EYE LEADERSHIP Jo Jan Paul J. Peñol profession. It isn’t always about books covered in dust in archives or collecting facts and figures.

Learning is a lifelong process we are all teachers and we are all students, one to another.

Everyone we meet is a potential teacher who will help us amplify our competence for knowing our true selves and our innermost desires at

Learning isn’t a solitary profession. its most fundamental level.

Today’s “me” has come to appreciate life to be one repeated, meaningful learning routine. This learning includes not only worldly education, but personal learning through experiences, trials, and triumphs. I think the key to lifelong learning is having a student mindset. This mindset permits life to teach us at any given opportunity

at any given time while we are open to new ideas and possibilities.

In the same vein, much of what we’ve come to know and understand has been communicated to us by someone else. Granted, we learn much from our own experiences, but think about how much others have taught you — “others” being teachers, family, friends, books, and media.

To illustrate how many ideas I gathered from other people, here are a few examples: • I learned how to tie my shoes from my mother (age 3).

• I learned how to fry fish and eggs from my aunt (age 9).

• I learned how to drive a car and check its maintenance fluids from my dad (age 15).

• I learned the basics of Filipino courting from my girl classmate (age 18).

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ON PROCRASTINATION

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am pressuring myself into tapping the keys of my laptop. Still, I find the sound of my 25 word-per-minute typing pleasurable and in tune to the Arctic Monkeys. The protopunk rhythm intensifies the hype for the deadline.

We have concluded that all will be lost if we keep on lollygagging like koala bears on a leafless eucalyptus tree. We have consumed an exuberant amount of leaves that our desire to move has been impeded by the weight of our stomachs. This we blame on procrastination.

Procrastination is both a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing since it gives us time for recollection and recuperation.

It is a curse since it takes away time intended to finish a task efficiently. Both definitions, however, are but trivial. To give it a transcendental meaning, procrastination is actually rebellion against time.

Time dictates the flow of the cosmos, for it entails change and transience. From the multiplication of an amoeba to the formation of a star, time makes possible the development of a thing, abstract or material, from one condition to another.

We can never taste the sweetness of adulthood or the scent of a spring bloom if all things were to stay as they are.

But while it has its own merits, time acts like a tyrant. It expects that every tree wilts, every cloud shifts, and every rock crumbles.

Among students, it commands obedience, for defiance only promises dire corollaries.

An overdue reaction paper, a misconstrued exam schedule, and a delayed scrapbook sum up a disappointing grade.

Nothing is different outside the classroom. The adults strive to keep themselves on track, for “Time is Gold” is now a sacrosanct creed. But it seems that they are more docile to time’s demands than to mansions and limousines.

Humanity has thus chained itself to time’s boulder; every scream for help, every utterance of vengeance, every little twitch of the brow do nothing in effecting liberation.

Human endeavor has always been enslaved by time.

It is to the point that we must meet its demands that we have forgotten our impermanence.

Time will forever remain, but

its progression posits human evanescence. And it is as though we are more aware of time than of life.

Procrastination, although having negative connotations in the classroom, affirms life and temporarily rejects time’s dictatorship. It is rebellion, though an inconsistent one for it never induces a detachment from time’s cellars. We are forever locked within it, but here we find small freedom (but freedom nonetheless). But to say no implies that we want to get away from time; it is a revolutionary assertion that negates our eternal enslavement, that morose situation which makes possible human experience.

Thus, the real essence of procrastination is founded on “Not now.” It is not so much an aggressive assertion, but it does let the individual delve into transitory chaos. That brief moment of nonconformity does humanistic justice for the individual before he/she is yet again subjugated in time’s dictatorship.

To give it a transcendental meaning, procrastination is actually rebellion against time.

When we procrastinate, the importance of life, no matter how limited it may be, is affirmed, along with freedom; freedom from the pressure of the deadline, freedom from the nearing finals. Procrastination offers us just that. It is in this assumption that we regard it as a blessing.

Now, what does this have to do with students? Well, it has absolutely nothing to do with high grades. But procrastination does offer us a small amount of relief from academic stress, hell, from any kind of stress there is.

Come to think of it, procrastination is a very wonderful thing. I’m thinking of making this an anthology dedicated to procrastination.

But, man, am I exhausted.

Maybe a little game of CounterStrike will shoot me back to life.

Before that, I’m going to finish this column entry. Right after a short nap. Who cares?

There’s still some time left.

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Java wins CPUR Prexy, Verga, vice

By Jo Jan Paul J. Peñol

NATIONAL PRESIDENT 1. Java, Albert Jan Matthew "Matt" A. (Koalisyon) VICE PRESIDENT 1. Verga, Mary Grace G. (Reform) SENATORS 1. Oke, Emily-Victoria J. (Koalisyon) 2. Cerebo, Bryan Eric R. (Koalisyon) 3. Biñas, Edgar G. (Reform) 4. Palomo, Louie John P. (Koalisyon) 5. Suelo, John Michael “JM” A. (Reform) Reform) 6. Bedona, Marc Lovel C. (Reform) 7. Fuego, Allen Dave C. (Reform) 8. Belita, Lyra Ann S. (Koalisyon) Speaking with confidence. President elect – Jan Matthew Java and Vice president – elect Mary Grace Verga delivers their speeches during an open forum by the Central Echo.

Photos by Reyshimar C. Arguelles

During the March 2 CPUR National Elections, Centralians chose Albert Jan Matthew Java of the Koalisyon Party over Reform Party’s Mark Anthony Abapo by a vote of 3,025-1,278.

On the other hand, the battle for vice presidency was tough between Mary Grace Verga (Reform Party) who garnered 2,159 votes over Angeli Monique Siladan’s (Koalisyon Party) 1,981 votes.

Koalisyon ng Demokratikong Magaaral para sa Sambayanan, or simply Koalisyon Party dominated the Senate with 5 seats over Reform Party’s 3.

Emily-Victoria Oke (Koalisyon) emerged as the top senatoriable with 3,331 votes followed by Bryan Eric Cerebo (Koalisyon), 2,625 votes; Edgar

Biñas (Reform), 2,438; Louie John Palomo, 2,063; John Michael Suelo (Reform), 1,945; Marc Lovel Bedona (Koalisyon), 1,914; Allen Dave Fuego (Reform), 1,887; and Lyra Ann Belita (Koalisyon), 1,795.

The CPUR President will serve as head of state and will represent the students to the CPU Corporation Board of Trustees, while the CPUR Vice President will serve as the presiding officer during the parliament’s regular and special sessions.

Last March 19, the CPUR Parliament convened and elected Senator Bryan Eric Cerebo as the new Prime Minister with 11 votes against Allen Dave Fuego’s 9 votes.

The Prime Minister will serve as the head of the Parliament and will lead the legislature towards enacting bills and resolutions for the general welfare of the CPU community.

“We will make a non-partisan CPUR which will give each and every Centralian a louder voice in the CPU Board of trustees,” said Java.

LOCAL PROVINCE OF NURSING

PROVINCE OF HIGH SCHOOL

PROVINCE OF ENGINEERING

PROVINCE OF EDUCATION

REPRESENTATIVE

REPRESENTATIVE

REPRESENTATIVE

REPRESENTATIVE

1. Joligon, Elisa Rose P. (Reform)

1. Española, Jan Christian I. (Koalisyon)

1. Mejorada, Brian Michael Moses A. (Koalisyon)

1. Solis, Nneka Marie C. (Koalisyon)

GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR

1. Estacio, RM J-vee Carl B. (Reform)

1. Sumergido, Niña D. (Koalisyon)

1. Hechanova, Kim Richard T. (Reform)

1. Dalida, Che An F. (Koalisyon)

VICE-GOVERNOR

VICE-GOVERNOR

VICE-GOVERNOR

VICE-GOVERNOR

1. Baldove, Jezelmar A. (Reform)

1. Nabor, Paolo Gabriel J. (Koalisyon)

1. Yanson, Jeremiah Davidson D. (Reform)

1. Denila, Adelle Denise E. (Koalisyon)

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

1. Taala, Imre Leigh M. (Reform)

1. Lao, David Bryan C. (Koalisyon)

1. Donahue, Francis Marcelo S. (Independent)

1. Vido, Lailah E. (Koalisyon)

2. Dionela, Cherish Anne L. (Reform)

2. Cabrera, Zendy S. (Reform)

2. Gasataya, J Vincent P. (Koalisyon)

2. Canilla, Stephen M. (Koalisyon)

3. Fantinalgo, Keith Jan G. (Reform)

3. Naorbe, Ma. Roselle (Koalisyon)

3. Alave, Anthony T. (Koalisyon)

3. Villaruel, Janelyn A. (Koalisyon)

4. Garcia, Krianne B. (Reform)

4. Gotico, Sidrik L. (Reform)

4. Dolendo, Mark Bryan P. (Koalisyon)

4. Plana, April Rose P. (Koalisyon)

5. Julleza, Jackelyn S. (Reform)

5. Siladan, Alissa Faith G. (Koalisyon)

5. Jover, Joi Lynn Marie J. (Koalisyon)

5. Mahometano, Arnel Vincent F. (Koalisyon)

6. Garcia, Juan Miguel G. (Reform)

6. Gerochi, Giann Paolo L. (Koalisyon)

6. Bacrang, Jethero Jay A. (Koalisyon)

6. Baldizer, Jodhel P. (Koalisyon)

7. Espinosa, MelaselGerdane B. (Reform)

7. Bearneza, Julienne Rose J. (Koalisyon)

7. Batilo, Joshua A. (Reform)

7. Alido, Edralyn D. (Reform)

8. Nacisvalencia, Glori Dee D. (Reform)

8. Esclamado, Steven L. (Reform)

8. Hilado, Arthur B. (Reform)

8. Lego, Yeno Van T. (Koalisyon)

PROVINCE OF AGRICULTURE

PROVINCE OF COMPUTER STUDIES

PROVINCE OF HOSPITALITY

PROVINCE OF BUSINESS

MANAGEMENT

AND ACCOUNTANCY

REPRESENTATIVE

REPRESENTATIVE

1. Deloso, Homer E. (Reform)

1. Uy, Jason H. (Koalisyon)

REPRESENTATIVE

REPRESENTATIVE

GOVERNOR

1. Defensor, Lou F. (Reform)

1. Bueron, Jhon Henry M. (Reform)

1. Golingay, Greg A. (Koalisyon)

GOVERNOR

GOVERNOR

1. Argel, Angel Bernadeth A. (Independent)

VICE-GOVERNOR

1. Somcio, Leones B. (Reform)

1. Sorongon, Charlene S. “Cha” (Reform)

GOVERNOR

1. Abogadil, April S. (Koalisyon)

VICE-GOVERNOR

VICE-GOVERNOR

1. Pasuelo, Nonito Jr. Q (Independent)

BOARD MEMBER

1. Albason, Jay R. (Reform)

1. Sioson, Dionne T. (Koalisyon)

VICE-GOVERNOR

1. Ganancial, Jay G. (Koalisyon)

BOARD MEMBER

BOARD MEMBER

1. Mingao, Fritz John T. (Reform)

2. Sapalo, Chensa Grace (Koalisyon)

1. Vitug, Genesis “Tugz” M. (Reform)

1. Legayada, Christian S. “Inchan” (Reform)

BOARD MEMBER

3. Drilon, Christine R. (Koalisyon)

2. Sustento, Stephen Q. (Reform)

2. Flores, Joseph Dennis L. (Koalisyon)

1. Otayde, Riza V. (Reform)

4. Prodigo, Cheryle Anne Marie (Koalisyon)

3. Seno, Kim P. (Reform)

3. Emboltorio, Marvin John B. (Koalisyon)

2. Bigornia, Kristia Nica O. (Reform)

5. Tapgus, John M. (Koalisyon)

4. Vilchez, Marie May C. (Koalisyon)

4. Montaño, Noli P. (Koalisyon)

3. La Vega, Jairus Cris A. (Reform)

6. Rosario, Melbourne S. (Koalisyon)

5. Delfin, JJ “Kano” A. (Reform)

5. Canicula, Ronel D. (Koalisyon)

6. Memorial Ryan D. (Reform)

6. Tolosa, Alvin James A. (Koalisyon) 7. Plana, Icon A. “Con-con” (Reform) 8. Laredo, Alvin L. (Koalisyon)

PROVINCE of ARTS & SCIENCES REPRESENTATIVE

4. Kee, April Joy A. (Reform)

PROVINCE OF GRADUATE STUDIES

5. Gamala, Ben Samuel G. (Reform)

REPRESENTATIVE

7. Somcio, Emmylou B. (Reform)

6. Ermitaño, Jonas S. (Reform)

1. Ha, Huong T. (Reform)

8. Herezo, Marian S. (Reform)

PROVINCE OF THEOLOGY

PROVINCE OF MEDICINE

VICE-GOVERNOR

REPRESENTATIVE

1. Sutacio, Nenio G. (Koalisyon)

1. Mesa, Emie Arielle C. (Reform)

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The votes are in. The official result of the March 2 CPUR national and local elections with the names of victorious students leaders. Source: CPU Commission on Elections (COMELEC)

NEWS

Java, Pasuelo qualify for 14th AYLC

By Jo Jan Paul J. Peñol

and Nonito Pasuelo, Jr. will now be added to the list of Centralian AYLC Alumni, Roger Flores (2004), Marvin Segura (2006), Myrthylle Karen Rey (2007), Joshua Misajon (2009), Tristan Val Leonida (2009), Reymar Gallego (2010), Jo Jan Paul J. Peñol (2011).

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Organization Exhibit/ Evaluation Results AY 2011-12 Most Outstanding Student Organization in Exhibit CPU Psychological Society and Gamma Rho Upsilon Most Outstanding Student Organization in Community Service Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers Most Outstanding Adviser Mr. Prim Vergara III ( Janitorial Services Assistant Organization) Most Outstanding Student Organization Gawad Kalinga Most Outstanding Student Organization by Category Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants - Academic Category Youth Alive - Religious Category Gawad Kalinga - Special Category Gamma Rho Upsilon Fraternity-Fraternity Category CPU Mountaineering Society-Sports Category Most Outstanding Adviser by Category Dr. Diadem Pearl Equiña (Health Fitness and Lifestyle Management Club)-Academic Category Prof. Raquel Polec-eo (Campus Bible Fellowship)-Religious Category Mr. Frank Robite (Reform Party)-Special Category Engr. John Dandee Hechanova and Ptr. Roger Quimpo (Phi Beta Epsilon and Gamma Rho)-Fraternity Category Mr. James Peter Trasporto (CPU Mountaineering Society)-Sports Category Essay Writing Contest 1st Place - Junior Marketers Association ( JMA) 2nd Place - Junior Philippine Institute of Accountants ( JPIA) 3rd Place - Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE)

Great honor. Centralians Java and Pasuelo post with great smiles as they receive their plaques of recognition from Mr. John Philip Orbeta (extreme left), AYLC Program Director and Mr. Simon Mossesgeld (extreme right), AYLC Congress Director during the alumni welcome party.

On the Spot Poster-making Contest 1st Place - Library Student Assistants (LSA) 2nd Place - Integrated Electronics and Communication Engineers of the Philippines (IECEP) 3rd Place - Koalisyon

Peñol, Robles win BPI Anak Expat Awards

By Ia Anne Noelle P. Burla

Aiming to instill the importance of education among the youth and show appreciation for the sacrifices made by our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), the Bank of the Philippine Islands recognized Jo Jan Paul Peñol and Threscia Grace Robles as two of the Ten Outstanding OFW children, November 18.

Peñol, a 3rd year Political Science and Public Administration student from the College of Arts and Sciences, associate editor of The Central Echo and municipal councilor of Pavia, Iloilo bested the other nominees from the Ibang Klaseng Community Leader category.

Meanwhile, Threscia Grace Robles, a first year Bachelor of Science in Packaging Engineering student and the governor of the CPU – NSTP

Civic Welfare Training Service was proclaimed one of the eight Ibang Klaseng Talino awardees.

On its 5th year, the Search launched new categories, joining the annual Ibang Klaseng Talino award, namely, Ibang Klaseng Entrepreneur, Ibang Klaseng Athlete, and Ibang Klaseng Community Leader awards.

The Search for Ten Outstanding Expat Pinoy Children honors children of Overseas Filipino Workers who are excelling in both the academic and non-academic fields. The ‘Search’, launched in 2007 is an annual campaign set to promote the value of education, culture of excellence and nationalistic pride among the children of Overseas Filipinos or Expat Pinoys, as BPI calls them.

The ‘Search’ hopes to bring the Bank and the Overseas Filipino family together as BPI honors both the Expat Pinoy

parent and their children. It recognizes the achievements of the children of Overseas Filipinos and the OF’s themselves whose remittances play a major role in keeping the local economy afloat. By

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giving such recognition to Expat Pinoy children – their source of inspiration and motivation – BPI feels that it is giving greater honor and importance to the sacrifices that any Expat Pinoy makes abroad.

Photo form Jo Jan Paul J. Peñol

Photo form Jo Jan Paul J. Peñol

Albert Jan Matthew Java (BS Accountancy-3) and Nonito Pasuelo Jr. (AB Political Science and Public Administration-3) from the College of Business and Accountancy and College of Arts and Sciences respectively qualified for the 14th National Ayala Young Leaders Congress at San Miguel Corporation Training Center, Alfonso, Cavite, February 7-10.

Java is the former governor of the CPU High School Department and was chosen as Aboitiz Scholar. He is also one of the Ten Outstanding Boy Scouts of the Philippines and one of the Ten Outstanding Students of Iloilo in 2009. Furthermore, Java is the newly-elected President of the CPU Republic.

On the other hand, Pasuelo is the newly-elected Governor of the Province of Arts and Sciences. He is the former Sangguniang Kabataan Federation President of the Municipality of Pototan.

Albert Jan Matthew Java

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From sacrifices to achievement. CPU President Dr. Teodoro Robles (center) stands bold and proud with Centralian achievers, Jo Jan Paul Peñol (third from left) and Threscia Grace Robles (fourth from right) and their respective families during the awarding ceremonies at Shangri La Hotel, Makati City.

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of politics and turn it into a world of public service and nation building from my grandmother (age 19).

Now that I witnessed life as a great teacher, I’ve come to view the entire world in 360 degrees and its populace as an enormous supply for learning and great teamwork of knowledge and experience that I can partake of. I am excited that anywhere I go, and every person that I come across, has the potential to expand my perspective and add to my knowledge bank in some way.

The most durable steel is always tempered best in the hottest blue flame. You will get stronger as a being by testing yourself in uncomfortable situations. That is the nature of life.

By learning from others, we could truly hit the bull’s eye and continue to touch the lives of many other people to finally lead this country in the coming years.

Viewing life that way really changes your outlook on things, doesn’t it?

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22 dead at Morgue

On grip with excitement. An astronaut from Kulangot-7 is glad (although not seen on his face) for discovering the life from the red planet.

Photo from: www.marsonearth.org

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NASA finds life on Mars, kills it buy Jobert Tiu The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) based in Lapaz, Iloilo City has confirmed that there really is life in Mars.

NASA’s probe, Kulangot-7 launched earlier this year, was able to record movement near Olympus Mons, the red planet’s highest mountain. The probe took pictures and sent them back to Earth for further analysis by experts over roasted peanuts and Tanduay rum.

“When we saw the pictures, we were surprised when we saw a humanoid figure. It looked a lot like a monkey, with blonde hair, and two bumps in her abdomen,” Val Sabad, director of NASA and

part-time actor, said in a press conference.

Sabad added that the discovery would most likely be a “stepping stone” towards attaining world peace.

“We already gave it a name: Lady Gaga. Because judging from her physique, she looks more like a woman, and in the picture sent

by Kulangot, she was crawling like a drunk… well… you know,” Sabad said.

However, after taking the pictures, Kulangot-7 was told to have killed the live evidence of extraterrestrial life. The probe was not heard ever since.

“We tried to contact Kulangot, but it was no use. The last sounds it recorded were very

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odd to the point of confusing me. It went something like popo-po-po-poker-her-face.

We confirmed that it came from the figure in the picture. I think it was some sort of language far advance than ours. We have spent Php 100 billion worth of taxpayers’ money in trying to decode those sounds, but so far, we made only little progress,” Sabad said while being interviewed in his five-storey mansion.

Meanwhile, the United States and her allies, led by George “Dubya” Bush, are ready to invade Mars.

“We must unite, because I gotta feeling there are weapons of mass destruction buried there,” Bush said.

A fire at a local morgue in the Visayan Philippines injured 12 people, and 22 bodies still remain unclaimed, officials say.

The blaze began on the ground floor of the five-star morgue in the district of Jaro, Iloilo City.

It burned for several hours, swallowing the building. Most of the human corpses were already cremated when the fire began but dozens were rescued and managed to escape.

Some remains of 13-yearlong-unidentifiable-corpses were burned beyond recognition and were later brought to another local morgue.

The cause of the fire was

immediately known.

However, the police believe that it was a candle wax, combustible materials or other unknown flammable materials stored in a room on the ground floor that caused the fire. They also accused the owner of the morgue that the building is built with inflammable materials.

Jojo Pozozo, philosopher, philanthropist, and owner of the morgue, with a heavy sigh, sadly recounted that the number of bodies stored in the morgue were up to 22 corpses and still remained so.

Correspondents say hundreds of people die each year in fires in the Philippines, but fortunately for this morgue, the dead 22 remained 22 dead.

Experts: Coffee can wake you up buy Jobert Tiu After three hundred years of extensive research, scientists from the University of Quintin Salas has discovered that coffee beans can enhance the senses and give restlessness to people who take them into their bodies.

“This is a medical breakthrough,” Val Sabad, parttime actor and head of the Beverage Institute of Research (BIR), said.

Sabad added that coffee beans contain enzymes that act like drugs, stimulating all five senses including the sixth sense.

“You can actually see dead

people,” he said.

Moreover, with the sixth sense stimulated, people under the effect of coffee would spend sleepless nights, haunted by visions of a lady in white drenched in blood and holding a machete.

“It’s scary ****,” Sabad said.

He also made guidelines on how to use coffee beans.

First, the coffee beans must be grounded into fine dust. Then, they are liquefied on a frying pan. A syringe then picks up the liquefied form of the beans and injected into the eyeballs.

“For maximum effect, try a pound of coffee,” he suggested.

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Pagkatapos ng ilang segundong pagsusuri, ibinasura ng COMELEC ang pinasang kandidatura ni Baby Boy para sa pagka alkalde.

Ito ay ibinasura sa kadahilanang walang alkalde daw na hinahalal sa SM City.

Tinanggap ni Baby Boy ang pagbasura sa pagkilos protesta.

Nang siya’y kapanayamin ng Central Echo, puno ng galit at pagkabigo si Baby Boy. “Ang pagbasura ng aking kandidatura ay pambabastos sa batas! Ito ay labag sa Sec. 454 ng Local Government Code of the Philippines, na nagsasaad na, ‘There shall be in each city a mayor.’ Dahil dito, ako at ang

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aking mga kasama ay hindi titigil sa pagpoprotesta hanggang mabigyan ako ng hustisya!” Galit na sabi ni Baby Boy. Ngunit tatlo lang sila ang nagprotesta: siya, si Baby Girl, at si Big Baby.

“Ito ay nagpapakita lamang na ang mga nasa puwesto ay walang paki-alam sa ating mga karapatan,” dagdag ni Baby Boy. “Kailangang baguhin ang sistemang nagpapalakas sa Burgesyang namumuno at lansagin ang kamalayang naaalipin. Tama na ang pandarambong ng mga mayayaman!”

Matapos ang limang minutong pakikibaka, nagsiuwian ang mga taga-protesta sa kadahilanang sobrang mainit

na ng araw.

Ngunit, nalaman din na si Baby Boy ay nagpasa ng kanyang kandidatura para sa Gaisano City, at sa ngayo’y pinagbabawalan ng lumapit sa COMELEC. Si Baby Boy, ay mas kilala sa tawag na Ang Pambansang Bandido ng Pag-ibig. Sumikat siya noong ipinasa niya ang HB 052090, na nagnanais isabatas ang pang-araw-araw na pagkain ng sisig at matatabang kainin.

Siya din ang kinuhang pangunahing artista sa pelikulang, Ang Pagtatagpo ng Dalawang Kahapon sa Gitna ng Agam-agam ng Kasalukuyan at Hinaharap kung saan makakasama niya at magiging kalove-team si Shamcey Supsup na ipapalabas kung kailan niya gusto.

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Kandidatura ni Baby Boy sa pagka-mayor, ibinasura!

Bigo. Umeksena na puno ng galit, dismaya at panghihinayang si Baby Boy sa harap ng city hall ng lungsod ng SM pagkatapos ibasura ang kanyang kanditatura.

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buy Jobert Tiu A pig pen located at the back of the Roselund Hostel was destroyed leaving nine dead pigs buried under the rubble right after the University Day celebrations in August.

Authorities say they found not only the victims’ bodies, but also traces of egg yolk and feathers, along with diamonds, gold, and watermelons scattered about which they say belonged to the victims. They also found out that the victims were preparing for the attack because most the bodies have helmets and hard hats.

“It is a very confusing case for us to take,” said Val Sabad, parttime actor and chief inspector under the National Anti-terrorism Protection Kinetics (NAPKINS) that recently saved Iloilo from a zombie attack with the aid of the National Horticulture Association.

Sabad also said that the victims’ skins were green and he wondered whether or not they were mutated.

“I am so confused,” Sabad said.

However, authorities on the field suspected the Anti-Greed Youngsters for the Betterment of Irrigation and Redistribution of Socks (ANGRYBIRDS) of having a hand in the attack.

“I am still confused,” Sabad said.

ANGRYBIRDS is a criminal terrorist organization which has been active for the past sixty years, tracing its origins to Moria “Nunal ko, Diyos ko” Marroyo’s year of birth. The organization has resorted to bombing buildings built for mutated pigs, and has sought to reclaim stolen Electricity Generating Gyroscopes (EGGs).

Its leader, Muammar “I Look Like Robin Padilla on Drugs” Pastafari has waged war upon the

pigs by declaring, in a videotaped recording, that “we shall hit like stone, we shall surprise you with our multiplying numbers, we shall detonate ourselves upon you, we shall drop eggs on you… never mind the last part, because nothing, not even concrete can protect you.”

“There is no telling what ANGRYBIRDS will target next, because I’m so confused,” Sabad said.

Other experts say the next targets will either be the Administration building or the University Swimming Pool. The administration said it has made all necessary means to protect the buildings from attacks, such as spending more on hard hats and helmets and installing party balloons against a possible air attack.

“Whether they will continue their attacks or not, I am still flabbergasted,” Sabad said.

At one time, after ordering his usual favorite, tinolang manok on a sisig platter, he would be angry and desperate to find the utensil containers empty.

“Every time I go to get a spoon and fork, there is nothing in the containers except hot water. Water is liquid. You can’t pick something up with liquid,” he said, crying.

Melissa Cuervas Divinagracia y Tuazon con dela Leche Arriba Muy Bien, a tenth year high school student, has the same grievances. After doin’ like chika chika with her BFF’s, she ordered a plate of pancit canton with a side order of fried pinakas boiled into perfection and baked with sesame seeds and served with whipped cream and rice crispies. She felt like slapping a random person when she found the utensil containers empty, having no patience to enjoy her favorite meal.

“I’m like in love with my food.

I don’t want to spoil my time like

looking for utensils. Is jazz [sic] grows [sic],” she said.

According to Val Sabad, parttime actor and head of the Silverware Helicopter Investigation Task force (SHITAKE), the insufficiency of spoons and forks should not be attributed to the present economic downgrade.

“Intelligence reports tell us that a certain syndicate is in control of university silverware. This syndicate is said to have been stealing spoons and forks and selling them at outrageously low prices to Unitop Stores where we, ironically, purchase silverware to replace the stolen ones,” he said.

Nonetheless, the Student’s for Sufficient Silverware (SSS) ask the administration to allot a Php16 billion budget for silverware development.

“We need to do this because it is a human right,” said SSS spokesperson Midas Marquez.

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Makoy Makoykoy is a sixth year robotics engineering student from the College of Law and spends lunchtime at the Uy Building.

Disappointed. Makoy Makoykoy ABRE-6 takes the last spoon with grief.

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In order to hone and actualize their fullest potentials in swimming which would hopefully bring home the first Olympic gold medal for the country, SiPhUn opened its Olympic-size swimming pool to accommodate the Flipin’ team for the upcoming 2012 London Olympics.

“I am very satisfied with this

50 ft x 25 ft facility-filled with flavored water. This gives more encouragement to swimmers like me to swim further and strive for the first Olympic gold to bring pride and honor to our country,” Says the frog in an interview by The Central Echo.

Meanwhile, the university director for administration joined the frogs and enjoyed the pleasure of using the biggest school-based swimming pool in the region.

The Department of Education commends SiPhUn for voluntarily offering their one-of-a-kind facility. In lieu to this, a plaque of cavity was given to appreciate the efforts of the school.

Michael Phelps, 8-Olympic gold medalist volunteered to train the frogs for a better and more competitive swimming team which he organized three days ago.

It’s gone! The two basketball teams look above with bewilderment waiting for nothing.

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The College of Business and Accountancy (CBA) and College of Engineering (CoE) teams were confused during the last quarter of the championship game of the basketball tournament because the ball suddenly disappeared.

During, the last one minute of the quarter, number 12 of Engineering penetrated through the defense of the Tycoons and took a three-point shot. It was well-delivered that everyone was expecting it to be counted when suddenly nothing went out of the ring.

“I am sure that I directed it towards the ring,” claimed number 12 who was almost crying for being blamed for the disappearance of the ball. “I’m

certain that number 18 of the CBA hid the ball.”

Also baffled, the security guard rushed through the basketball court to take control of the tension. He shouted that whoever hid the ball should return it.

The referee immediately whistled to stop the clock.

“I decided to stop the game because I was very astonished how the ball disappeared like a bubble. I didn’t experience it in my whole career as a referee.

I’m so happy!” exclaimed the referee.

Both teams scored 69 before the game was stopped.

The sports committee for the University Day noted what had happened and ascertain to have at least three balls for the next year’s tournament.

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During the 106th tree planting activity sponsored by the Ilowelo Tricycle Owners and Drivers Association, the kindergarten pupils of SiPhUn managed to grab the championship title and bested the other 94 college teams for this year’s debate competition.

They battled forcefully against the Harvard University Pep Squad in the proposition: Resolved, that: United Nations must give every child a nuclear weapon against parental abuse.”

“Oh my! My child pointed a nuclear gun at me and I cried to my mother for help!” shouted a father from the audience in between the competition.

The said man was arrested and was given a lollipop to stop divulging any information which could influence and sway

the decision of the judges.

The Oxford Golf Club released their third batch of dictionaries to prove the kindergarten pupils wrong in their parameters and terms used during the competition.

Nabitasan Elementary Polytechnic Vocational School and Unhan Patyo (UP) Conservatory of Music placed 3rd and 4th respectively.

“The debate was so hapos!

I can manage to answer my opponent while sleeping! It was all worth it!” exclaimed Jenny Erika Mendoza, the best debater.

Seeing the importance of the competition, the President of the Ilowelo Tricycle Owners and Drivers Association sent invitations to Mars for next year’s inter-planetary debate contest which will hopefully give bigger prizes enough to start a balut business.

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To minimize the use of chalk and save energy in the university, the Department of Idiotation (DepId) transfers classes to weekends by virtue of Presidential Decree 14344 signed by no less than President Bengi Aquono XXIII, President of the Republic of the Flipins, August 21.

“The university saved a lot of money, time and resources making extreme profit,” says the university janitor.

This recent move is believed to support poverty alleviation programs of the government since the number of class days is reduced from five to two days only.

“I believe primary education begins in the family because it is

the basic unit of the society. This decree is also signed in order to strengthen family ties because students will now have a longer time to spend with their family.

Moreover, I believe parents would be happier because they would just give allowance for two days only,” quipped Aquono during her State of the Nation Address.

Our teachers are very tired because of five-days work.

This decree will help them rest for five days so that when they conduct classes on weekends, it would be very, very lively!

“I am happy to know that I have five days to work with my assignments!” expressed the pedicab driver.

PD 14344 is effective for all students from the kindergarten to the collegiate levels.

‘Cute daw kami’ sabi namin. Buong sayang nagpakuha ng litrato ang mga nabansagang ‘di umano’y ‘cute editors’ pagkatapos lumabas ang walang kwentang research.

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Lumundag ng sobrang mataas ang aso upang makalabas sa gate para lamang makatikim ng paboritong sopas sa harap ng pighati at kahirapan. Ngunit wala itong kinalaman sa balita.

Nalaman sa isang research na ginanap kaninang umaga, na ang mga editors daw ng Central Echo (CE) ay ‘cute’.

Ginanap ang research sa loob ng CE ofis at naging tagaresponde nito ang ibang CE editors.

Sabi sa one (1) page research na’to na maraming benepisyo ang pagiging editor ng CE, tulad ng: high grades, highblood, maximum cholesterol tolerance, pagtaas ng sperm count (both

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male and female), at pagtaas ng absent mark.

Nasabi rin sa research na, para sa mga gustong maging editors ng CE, kailangan na sila ay magaling umawit, at mahilig sa mga awitin nina Rico J. Puno, Jerome Abalos, Tootsie Guevara, Roselle Nava, Plaridel Nava, at ng bandang Aegis.

Ang pagiging magaling at marunong magsulat ay hindi na kinakailangan.

“Sang-ayun ako sa resulta ng pag-aaral na’to,” giit ng isang editor ng CE, na itatago nalang natin sa pangalang, Baby Boy. Pumasok ulit ng gate ang aso ngunit hindi na nito kailangan lumundag pa kasi kasama na niya ang kaibigang pagong na kanyang naging asawa.

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Cranial protection. 3rd year genetics engineering Bernyle Dunlop stands with courage and secured with his hard cap in front of the LDT Building checking for the rumored attacks.

Revolutionary: First Capping Ceremony buy Andreau Bevionni Embracing the challenge of tomorrow, the third year students of the College of Engineering of Sintral Philippine University (SiPhUn) had their first Capping Ceremony at the Lindol Dito Tumba (LDT) Building.

With their hard caps, they took oath that they shall continue their education with utmost diligence despite any trouble that will come from the sky.

The engineering students seem to be vulnerable to accidents these past few months. “Every time they pass by the LDT Building, (Sintralian Students…)… from page 1

severe persecutions against liempo and chicken skin lovers that constitute a majority of the country’s population.

Moreover, the bill will make sure that no one will consume at least 10 grams of cholesterol.

The bill, if approved by the 69th Congress, will revive the death penalty to prove its effectiveness.

Individuals caught consuming cholesterol exceeding the allowed limit will be fined Php (cos)61,874.000354 and be put to death, either by guillotine or gas chamber.

“The Filipino nation is a too proud nation to become fat and lazy people,” Sen. Baldovino said in a press conference.

numerous individual and groups reported that they had been hit by an unidentified flying object (UFO) coming from an artillery of the building,” worriedly said by their dean, Engr. Moñika, “that is why we considered to hold this ceremony year after year from now.”

The college chose the third year students to take part in the ceremony for they have already failed the disqualifying exam.

After the ceremony, all the third year as well as the higher year students will now go to school with their hard caps as part of their uniform.

“It feels great wearing this hard cap on our heads,” Bernyle Dunlop, a third year genetics engineering student,

arrogantly stated. “Now, I can pass the LDT building and go to the library safely. My being an engineer will not be jeopardized anymore!”

This revolutionary program was recognized by President Bengi Aquono XXIII and the Commission on Healthy Evacuation Deployment (CHED) and had considered to hold this ceremony in other schools offering engineering programs.

The cat crossed the road and then the tree fell with an impact, that’s why they immediately fell asleep.

Because of the success of the ceremony, we will not be looking forward for this to happen again next year.

In response, Biyanong broke down in tears and retorted, “The People have needs! Cholesterol is a need!” He vowed that “Occupy Uy” will be successful and predicted that other schools will follow.

The movement, according to Biyanong, has so far gained support from the following groups: The People’s ProChicken Skin Militia, the Jaro Liberation Front, ANAKTUTA, MacDonald’s Corp. and the Taong Hipon Movement.

The issue has also cultivated reactions from national and international personalities.

Liempo lover and part-time actor Val Sabad said that he “is confused in a way.”

United States President Barack Obama has given “firm”

support to anti-AC advocates.

“It is the duty of the United States to safeguard the rights of every single human being on this planet. Thus, we are willing to give support, be it political or martial, to the brave men and women who will give their life to cholesterol,” Obama said in a White House press conference.

When asked about the possible socio-political and economic ramifications of assuring the legal ratification of the proposition in question that dissents physiological and psychological necessitation of solid compound, albeit a contradictory introduction to humanitarian justifications, President Benigno S. Aquino III has this to say: “Wait… I don’t even… What?”

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Empirical evidence. The cat takes the shape of the cup in an experiment just like a liquid.

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You can’t argue with physics…

The world will now look at cats in a different way.

Centralian Baby James was awarded a Novel Piece Price for his groundbreaking discovery of the real physical composition of cats in an experiment inspired by the famous Pavlov’s dog.

In a one-step experiment, Baby James proved that cats were indeed made of liquid matter since: 1.) they follow the shape of their container; and 2.) their molecules are tightly bonded as opposed to gaseous elements.

During the ceremony, Baby James was beaming with a wide

smile, thanking the body for the prestigious price.

“Na raise aketch coke open happiness sa atmospheric level!

What’s sulit, mommy? – 4I\Id I’m m4I<!N6 pA\/\/!$ n4,” said the excited Baby James, in all smiles.

Baby James is a 10 year old, 5th year AB Scientific student who has been studying physics for 30 years. He is renowned for his excellent work ethic. Baby James wakes up thirty minutes past midnight an hour before he goes to sleep, studies for thirty-seven hours a day and nine months in two weeks.

When asked what his next scientific project would be, Baby James is still undecided, saying that he has, “a lot in mind,

but nothing particular at the moment.”

“I am terribly satisfied with the result of my cat experiment.

I’d probably do a dog experiment next. One idea is, if they are the strongest animals alive since, as Mitch Hedberg points out, they are forever in the push-up position,” added Baby James.

However, in a recent turn of events, he was stripped of the award because of a plagiarism controversy.

“LOL.” He seemed to say.

As of press time, Baby James is incarcerated because of rebellion charges, in the fifth floor of the Uy building where he watches 3D porn and Monty Python during his free time.

Sixty-nine (69) dogs died yesterday upon hearing of an increase in tuition fee for the next school year.

Rallying justice to the unexplainable death of their beloved friends, a flock of birds, school of fish and a group of protozoan held banners, ignited bombs and flew paper airplanes and modern “barotos” (paper boats) outside Sintral Philippine University (SiPhUn) in opposition to the recently announced increase in tuition fees.

“Ouch!” said the security guard who was hit by the face towel.

These organisms joined the uprising believing that education is a right regardless of class, specie, family and kingdom.

According to the protest flyers, the dogs “died because of the lack of food and water supply in the past weeks due to poverty aggravated by the increase in tuition fees,” cried Teddy, the cute little puppy whose mother died of extreme hunger.

In an interview with Teddy, he stated that he survived hunger for three weeks by eating his own feces back and forth, back and forth.

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In a bid to impede the passing of Republic Act Colt 45, also known as the Anti-cholesterol (AC) Bill, a group of Sintralian students have drawn plans to unite the student body and occupy the Alfonso Uy Building to express opposition.

The leader of “Occupy Uy Building”, Gaudencio Biyanong (AB Robotics Engineering-5),

stated that the reason they want to stage protests is because of the AC Bill’s ability to violate the rights of students towards free cholesterol.

“The constitution clearly mandates that each citizen, especially students, must have free access to cholesterol in

any possible form. The state is also given the responsibility to distribute cholesterol freely and without constraint.

We want to protest against legislators who might vote for the passing of the bill, so we want all students of this university to give their

support to this cause because cholesterol is worth dying for,” Biyanong said in an interview at a secluded area in the Circulation Section of the Henry Luce III Library.

The author of the controversial bill, Sen. Jovit Baldovino, stated that cholesterol is a health hazard, citing the many cases of “butod tiyan” as evidence.

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applicable nowadays,” added the cute puppy.

As of the press time, Teddy is on search for a pair of ear plug so as not to hear any conversation about tuition fee increase putting him away from the danger of death.

Meanwhile, a recent survey states that 7 out of 10 dogs suffer from hunger, which gives a generalization that 3 out of 10 dogs enjoy hunger.

SiPhUn spared from wildfire buy Moy Moy Sintral Philippine University was miraculously spared from the flames that devoured more than 100 houses in Tanza Esperanza during the Dinagyang Festival.

The police are currently investigating how the fire started.

“We saw a sidewalk vendor throw his cigarette at the Freedom Grand Stand before the incident but we are not yet sure whether that’s already capable of burning the houses at Tanza Esperanza.” said the police.

The sidewalk vendor, Mang Mang, denies the accusations of both police and other vendors.

“According to the fire triangle theory, removing either heat, fuel, or oxygen will inhibit the ignition of fire. In my case, fuel was absent,” said Mang Mang in an interview.

He further added “I am confident with the indisputable justice system of this democratic country.”

The police and Mang Mang expressed relief after knowing that the fire was not able to reach SiPhUn.

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