NOVEMBER 2015 - JANUARY 2016 ISSUE• VOLUME 11, NUMBER 10 INTRAMURAL 2016 ISSUE• VOLUME 12, NUMBER 3
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RADIANT OF SPORTMANSHIP. Physical Education Department officially opens the CTU Intramural meet 2016 as the campus pride-Dexter Balambao,Gold medalist and Champion of World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation Tournament spearhead the lighting of torch held at Kasadya Gym. Photo by Christian Neil Pacaña
CTU-MC UNBOLTS INTRAMS’ TO A NEW LEVEL LLAJONA A. FAJARDO
With the anticipation of Intramural Meet as an all-sports event, the students of Cebu Technological University -Main Campus (CTUMC) were taken aback when Dr. Januario L. Flores Jr., together with the Kinetics Department, officially opens the Intramural Meet to a new level as “Intramural and Culture and the Arts Festival 2016”. In collaboration with the Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC), arts and culture competition namely: cultural and visual arts contest, essay writing contest, storytelling contest, extemporaneous speech contest, pagkukwento, dagliang talumpati, and pagsusulat ng sanaysay were added to this year’s Intramural meet to promote wellness and to foster self-discipline, teamwork and excellence not just in sports but also in the field of arts and culture. Furthermore, these competitions occupied the first day of the week-long festival. The event kicked off with the banging of festive sounds from the Drums and
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Bugle Company of CTU-MC as they led the parade followed by the different school organizations and units holding their banner of acknowledgement. Themed with “Sports and Culture: Legacy for Fitness and Well-being,” the affair was welcomed with the engrossed spirits of camaraderie, fellowship and sportsmanship of students as they cheer with pride and loyalty for their respective units that filled the entire Kasadya Gym. The lighting of the athletic urn commenced as Dexler Bulambao, a gold medalist of the World Champions in World Eskrima Kali Arnis Federation (WEKAF) Tournament 2016 lighted the urn with the torch as a sign of sportsmanship.
winning or losing but how you played the game. Furthermore, the first day of the festival was highlighted with the search for the Mr. and Ms. CTU 2016, along with the Pop Solo and the Vocal Duet competitions which showcased the beauty, talents and the masterpieces of a CTUnian in the field of music and pageantry. With an encouraging voice, the Kinetics Department ended the first day saying that this is the time for the students to loosen up and enjoy the weeklong of this festive occasion with the fervor in their eyes and felicity in their hearts.
The lighting of the athletic urn was then followed by the recitation of the Oath of Amateurism by the athletes in pledge of good and clean sportsmanship. Borrowing the Olympics’ motto, Dr. Flores reminded the athletes, as well as the coaches, that the true meaning of sportsmanship is not about
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NEWS
Intrams’ Welcomes New Breed of Student Artists RHEYGENN MARIE BERDIN
CTU-MC shows off the new field of speakers, writers, and artists as the university starts to showcase Cultural events at this year’s intramural meet. Physical sports used to be the highlight of the annual clash of different units in sports events as it dominated the interests of each competitive players belonging to particular divisions. Though as a start of change, cultural events now seek attention and make way to pursue new potential literary artists to be recognized in today’s literary events. Dr. Nemia Zamora, the former Cultural dept. head and the present Sports dept. head held a meeting last year together with the respective heads and staffs involving the approval of cultural events to be included in this year’s highlights which also involved the search for potential artists to compete in the national level. The meeting included its guidelines, rules, and concerns on why must the university bring cultural events to be conducted annually, and importantly prioritize it’s worth to happen as early as today’s event “When I became the cultural department’s head, I made it every year,” said Dr. Nemia Zamora. One of the reasons that this decision was concluded is for them to avoid table meetings concerning other CTU campuses, saying that CTU has the capabilities
ASTOUNDING MASTERPIECE.Daniel Villadolid from Unit I as he paint his winning piece during the on-the-spot painting contest followed by Unit II and Unit V held at GD makeshift. Photo by Wellah Marie Sandoval
to do better if the overall CTU representatives were chosen fairly by means of testing and competing each campus representatives once again. Cultural events were composed of different literary and visual arts competition. These include Extemporaneous speech, Dagliang Talumpati, Storytelling, Pagkukwento, and Essay Writing (Filipino and English). The said events according to Dr. Nemia Zamora, should and must be prioritized first
due and in preparation to national sports in December for the PASUC (Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges). Yet the days of the Intramural were assured to be the perfect days for the different units to also give way for their chosen mind players to be shown off in their fields. Different speakers, writers and artists are expected to reveal their hidden talents as this year’s Intramural started to build the journey for the fields that hasn’t been given attention to.
Units V and IV Reign Extemporaneous Speaking
Potential speakers prove to possess great capabilities as Unit IV and Unit V indeed showed expedient actions at Extemporaneous speech and Dagliang Talumpati competitions last August 22, 2016 at Information Communication Technology Department’s Office. With his assertive and organized powerful thoughts, Dharyll Prince M. Abellana of BSIE gives pride to Unit IV’s division as he opposed the thought of a logical question concerning about the Duterte’s administration of using vigilante style to solve the drug rates in the country. The second placer, Richard Mark Anay (AB Eng of Unit V), also caught the juries with
his presence of mind and on-point reasoning that made only a one-point difference against the first placer so as Edelim B. Estillore (BSED of Unit I) made a good job for being a third placer. Some speakers dared to grab a different perception when they approved to go along with the idea of having Vigilante style as an effective way of solving the problems, and each speakers regardless of factors that stopped them from thoroughly stating their ideas, were guaranteed to make a good and objective point on the matter. “With this being tolerated and implemented, I don’t think human rights is being practiced and
is given to those people who were innocently killed,” said Dharyll Prince Abellana which struck the audience the most. In Filipino category, in the Dagliang Talumpati there were only two participants namely, Nove Joy Indig of Unit V who took the first place followed by Chrisciamel Montegrande of Unit IV as the second place. Each participant gave pride to their respective units as they were expected to represent the CTU-MC against the other campuses before the expected PASUC takes place this December.RMB
CULTURAL STACTIVITIES RESULTS 1 PLACERS
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EXTEMPORANEOUS
STORY TELLING
ENGLISH
ENGLISH
ENGLISH
LOPE MABUTI AB ENGLISH I UNIT V
FILIPINO
ROSMARIE PINO AB ENGLISH I UNIT V
DHARYLL PRINCE ABELLANA BSIE UNIT IV FILIPINO
NOVE JOY INDIG DEVCOM UNIT V
CHRISTIAN JAMES CABANAS BSED - SCI UNIT I FILIPINO
LAVERN ROBINSON
AB ENGLISH UNIT V
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EDITORIAL
Unsettled Headaches
INVOKER
Upon the official opening of Intramural Meet 2016 by the Kinetics Department, it was highly perceptible that a scraggy attendance from each respective unit was present. However, Unit I and Unit V only made up most of the attendees with only few from the other units. It is already more than enough to ensure clamorous whoops and hollers to spur a feisty charisma of this event’s entire duration. Nevertheless, there wasn’t a blowout at all. The festivity of the affair was not that profound.
If you are a student, so am I. Mind you, intramural is an event, not a vacation. Stop making excuses!
Intramural meet is inevitably one of the most prestigious events a school can uphold. This is done to cultivate ones talent and to troll and uncloak those cached potentials with regards to sports. But wait, we missed one significant thing – intramural is all made for us, STUDENTS.
IT HAS been many years of counting and still counting of the intramural meet being held in the university, however, I can’t help myself to contemplate why we are still bumped into the same old toils pertinent to the number of students present in this affair. Every repetition of this crummy custom only makes me sigh.
Truly, intramural is done to cater the students’ fun, thrill and excitement. Either athlete or not, this is the time of the year to mellow out and get rid from those mindbending paper works through joining sports and other recreational events for free. However, I just find it so ironic how other students tack themselves with pricey computer games and pay-per-view movies rather than having a taste of felicity at school. Instead of participating in every event in school, other students went home, treating intramural as a vacation. In this manner, how can
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we effusively indulge the core of this year’s intrams? Student participation plays a vital role in every event. Without us, a program would not be as animated as it is. In fact, an event wouldn’t be successful without us. We really matter a lot. Still and all, we only opt to throw these thoughts as garbage. We tend to get blurred with other inconsequential things and only showed slight interest in sport events. Instead of contributing considerably to the becoming of this so called “student participation”, we only pushed this concern far from us until this befitted as our major worry. It’s time to make insights. To craft firm solutions to this redundant trouble, we must know our responsibilities as students and correspondingly act to it. If you have mastered the art of making excuses, so have I. If you are a student, so am I. Mind you, intramural is an event, not a vacation. Stop making excuses! This woeful rhythm plays over and over again. Without exigent actions to cut this habit, the harmony of this wail still drastically continues. All we need is discipline. There are still few more days left to let variations occur. If you don’t want to end up being the fool of your own show, better hop off from your bed and get attached with the succeeding days of this affair.
SPARKS EDITORIAL TEAM Academic Year 2016 - 2017
NIKKI NACARIO Editor-in-Chief ELNAR PAGAO LOUIE LORCA CHARL MARIE INOT CHRISTIAN ORELLANO GLOMARK PAHIGNALO Associate Editors-in-Chief WELLAH MARIE SANDOVAL SHEENA MARIE CONSUEGRA CHRISTIAN NEIL PACAÑA Circulation Managers CHARYMAR ESTRADA Copy Editor LLAHONA FAJARDO News Editor PAUL VINCENT ABAS Feature Editor ROBINSON IGOT JR. Literary Editor JUDE BALBEROS Chief Cartoonist BERNARD JOSEPH SARSABA Chief Photojournalist RHEYGENN MARIE BERDIN News Writers DARYL JOY T. MERENCILLO Layout Artists MR. ROMEO LANZADERAS MR. ROMEO MONTECILLO Technical Advisers
JUNE - JULY 2015 INTRAMURAL 2016ISSUE• ISSUE• VOLUME VOLUME 11, 12, NUMBER NUMBER 13
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NEWS
UNIT IV Slays the Runway
Photos by Glomark Pahignalo
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quipped with grace, sophistication, charm and fashion, candidates from five different units of the intramural meet battled up to claim the title of Mr. And Ms. Cebu Technological University- Main Campus 2016. Ten stunning candidates of last night’s event garnered loud cheers as they glide their way to the corners of the Kasadya Gym. Supporters, families and friends of each candidates were never out of tune on shouting in unison every time their team’s bet glides the stage. Contestants were able to dominate the stage with confidence amid their little by little missteps that made the competition more exciting. Different pairs of representatives were Juriel Gulbe and Arsenia Marie Cortes (Unit I), Erwin Espiga and Claire Ann Oriquez (Unit II),
Joseph Ebonalo and Brodith Eden (Unit III), Dave Ponce and Jovie Jean Laurel (Unit IV), Joseph Ramiso and Rusela Nebrea (Unit V). Representatives brushed the gym’s strip in their production number, swim wears, casual attires and question and answer category. Best in production number was awarded to Unit V’s pair, best in swim wear were Unit IV’s representatives and awards on casual attires were given to Unit I’s female representative and Unit IV’s male representative. After years of domination of the crown, Unit IV ousted Unit I in reclaiming again the crown and ecstatic Hardhats were jumping around the corners in full support for their team’s triumph. Beauty, body, personality and brain
labeled Jovie Jean Laurel as she owned the title Ms. Cebu Technological University 2016. She grabbed Best in Swim Wear award that made her springboard the contest as from which she outshone four more lovely candidates in her stunning black swimsuit. On the other hand, Dave Ponce grabbed his title as the year’s Mr. Cebu Technological University - Main Campus with his personality, smile, neatness, brain and wit. Ponce exceeded four dashing gentlemen as he grabbed the title and received two other major awards, Best in Swim Wear and Best in Casual Attire. Mr. and Ms. CTU-MC 2016’s runners-up are: Joseph Ramiso and Rusela Nebrea (1st), Juriel Gulbe and Arsenia Marie Cortes (2nd), Joseph Ebonalo and Claire Ann Oriquez (3rd) and, Erwin Espiga and Brodith Eden (4th).