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!
Astig! na Student Dyaryo August 8, 2007
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Between Numbers and Letters:
A Feature Article on the SPECTRUM
The Official Publication of the PUP College of Engineering
“Engineering the Human Soul…”
Truly, the Spectrum’s popular catchphrase carries a colorful meaning. The PUP College of Engineering does not only teach their students how to construct structures of sophisticated magnificence but also build the edifice of pride and excellence into their hearts and minds.
The Spectrum offers these future engineers an instrument to share their thoughts and ideals and at the same time, to inform their fellow CEAns and PUPians of the hottest updates in and out of the campus. The college publication welcomes every CEAn to a world of letters in a dimension where numbers rule their lives.
Content
The Spectrum articles encompass and reflect the different realities of human life. These can be divided into the social, cultural, political, technological and scientific aspects. Articles about the bitter consequences of poverty in the lives of a PUP student and common people are the best examples of social realities exposed in their articles. Cultural calls for the preservation of Filipino traditions and customs as well as the historic places in the Philippines. Then, the political area comes up largely on the Opinion section of the newspaper where CEAns are free to speak and comment about our national leaders and the role of the youth state affairs. Finally, the technological and scientific aspect, which carries essential and the interesting part for the CEAns for this part, reveals their specialization and expertise.
The Spectrum topics concern the individual CEAn, to the college, the university up to the national issues. The newspaper tells the typical even the most unusual stories of the engineering students of their 5-year stint in the campus. In that case, serves as a venue for CEAns to share their experiences and ideologies. More than that, it serves as an instrument of communication to air the grievances of the CEAns for the College and University administration to be heard and at the same time to inform other PUPians of their accomplishments. At the national level, CEAns stay foot of the latest updates while having the opportunity to speak out of their views an suggestions regarding the most recent issues.
The Spectrum maintains its uniqueness and sets the trend when it comes to campus publication. One of these unique variation is coming up with a “Circle” page. This section make up the “barkada and gimmick” section of the paper. Here we can read and see band gigs inside the campus, students’ “trips”, and some other cool and fun stuffs.
Astig na Honor’s Society February 13, 2007
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The Prestige
They say that
the authentic “iskolar ng bayan” can be found in PUP. Blessed are those who are given a chance to pursue their college studies in our dear University. Doubly blessed are those who are studying under a scholarship program. Then came the Kapatiran ng Talino at Galing or simply KATAGA, PUP’s very own Honor’s Society.
Initially named as KATAGI (Kapatiran ng Talino at Giting) way back in 1968, this organization has proven itself to be the bastion of academic excellence and innovative leadership through the years. KATAGA’s vow to inculcate the spirit of unity among scholars is carried out through its numerous projects. The annually held Scholar’s Leadership Enhancement Training (SLET) is KATAGA’s keynote program to enhance potentials of scholars who have what it takes to effect change in various levels of the society. Another brainchild of KATAGA is the Scholar’s League of the Philippines (SLP), which is said to be the first of its kind in our country. Aside from PUP, other member schools of the SLP are RTU, PHILSCA, PNU and EARIST. KATAGA celebrates its foundation week every November. Members of KATAGA offers free tutorial lessons both for their fellow scholars and non-scholars on different subjects ranging from calculus to basic accounting. In 2005, KATAGA almost made it to the TAYO (Ten Most Outstanding Organizations) Award as they reached the NCR level for the second round of judging.
KATAGA is comprised of 2,223 academic and non-academic scholars from all colleges in our University. Orlan Tubola from the College of Engineering (CE) is the current president of
KATAGA. Mary Grace Ronquillo, a senior in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration (DPSPA), is KATAGA’s top scholar for almost two years in a row. This March, KATAGA is set to recognize its cream of the crop as well as its graduating members. KATAGA officers gleefully asserted that more activities are in line for the approaching academic year.
With such an impressive record and an upbeat outlook, the whole PUP community expects nothing but the best from its scholars.
Sa Panulat ni Dennard Dacumos
Astig na Reyna ng Kalsada! February 8, 2007
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“Smile naman dyan and everything!” That is the trademark statement from the Philippines’ one and only “Reyna ng Kalsada”, Love Añover.
This outgoing yet intelligent morning show diva is known for her ultimate ‘masa’ appeal and captivating funny-loud voice that could surely wake anybody’s mind every morning.
This famous TV host is an alumna of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. She graduated with the degree in AB Filipino minor in Mass Communications.
Originally from Leyte, she started her road to success when she worked as a production assistant at the Probe Productions which is owned by the veteran broadcast journalist Che-Che Lazaro. Eventually this became the start of her career as a well-known reporter and later being the host of her own TV shows.
Aside from hosting, Love can also sing. In fact, she had an album entitled “Bumper 2 Bumper” which features her versions of popular novelty music.
She is a regular traffic reporter, which earned her the title Reyna ng kalsada, in the GMA-7 morning show Unang Hirit. Her other shows are ‘Lovely Day’(GMA-7) which caters to young audience and ‘Love Life’ (QTV-11) which is more of like a magazine/ reality show featuring different types of professions.
Love is an image of a ‘probinsyana’ who was able to conquer her ambitions by showing what she got and expressing her way of life by being real and humble at all times.
Sa panulat ni Mel Salise
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