PUPians Rock SOP Awards! November 27, 2007
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It’s time to rock the music world, mga Isko at Iska!
Two PUPians won the top plums on the recently concluded 1st SOP Music Video awards, and added yet another reason to be proud of our university. It’s a welcome addition.
Our fellow PUPian Richard Librada and Darlene Abigail Quito garnered the top honors, together with Roman Perez of University of the Philippines at the prestigious music video award ceremony broadcasted live last 25th of November, Sunday at the UP Theatre in Diliman, Quezon City.
Quito received the Best Video Editing and Texter’s Choice
Darlene Abigail Quito received the Best Video Editing and Texter’s Choice awards for her work on the Yasmien Kurdi music video of “Candlelight Romance”. While Roman Perez, also a student from the University of the Philippines bagged the Best Production Design award for the music video of Aicelle Santos’ “Ikaw Pa Rin”.
Wait, there’s more. Eighteen-years old Richard Librada and his team behind the “All Out of Love” music video, rendered by actor-singer Dennis Trillo got away with the most awards. Sophomore Librado, and his team from the College of Communication at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines went home with Best Videography, Best Concept/Story, Best Music Video, and Best Director. Dennis Trillo, the star of the video, earned the Special Citation for Best Performance by An Artist for his thespian prowess in “All Out of Love”.
Librada’ s Concept Won Him Top Plum
All in all, team PUP brought home a total of eight award. Other finalist were. Elaine Melody Samonte (St. Paul College, QC), Ademar Garchitorena (University of San Jose Recoletos, Cebu), Maan Leynes (Centro Escolar University), and Nestor Abrogena (UP Diliman).
In a press release from SOP Music Video Awards, the management stated that:
“For four years now, SOP Music Awards has become the venue in recognizing exceptional talents of Filipinos and acknowledge remarkable artists and significant performances that uplifts the quality and standards of Original Pilipino Music (OPM).This year, SOP Music Awards, through SOP Music Video Awards, has fulfilled its goal in discovering young aspiring music video directors from different university and colleges all over the country.”
Discovered indeed. Richard Librada and Darlene Abigail Quito showed the country that PUPians Rock!
PUP, Among the Best! November 26, 2007
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Now here’s the unequivocal proof that the Polytechnic University of the 
Philippines is one of the nation’s finest school. The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Commission on Higher Education had released the result of a study which statistically ranks schools nation-wide based on based on the average passing in the board examination of all courses. The study is conducted every ten years, and the Polytechnic University in the Philippines in the most recent one, ranked 15th nation-wide! It bested hundreds, if not thousands other colleges and universities to land among the Top 20, even besting De La Salle University, Mapua Institute of Technology, and Adamson University, all private institutions. Truly, our State University rocks! Astig!
Among the Top 20, eleven schools came from Luzon, two from the Visayas and seven from Mindanao. Six of these schools are state universities, and yes! You guessed it right, our school is one of them. Now that’s Astig!
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PUPians: Astig Maging Iba! 