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The little villager who could
Surrounded by the Annapurna range of the Himalayas, the village of Nangi in Nepal is 1,500 meters and a nine-hour hike away from the nearest town accessible by bus. So when Mahabir Pun, this year’s recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership calls it a “remote area in a remote area”, he says it without any sense of hyperbole.
CAMPUS BEAT
In learning, is your child responsible: A conformist or a non–conformist?
In many cultures, children who are traditionally given piggy banks are encouraged to save with minimal supervision from their parents.
Breakthrough Education
None of these preferences is better or worse than another. It’s simply part of being an individual.
CHED eyes realignment of college education
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) intends to realign college education with the needs of the economy to ensure the employability of graduates.
When the going gets tough, the tough gets…cooking
A toast is often made in the spirit of joyous celebration, but for Navy ensigns Elmer Cruz and Emerson Rosales (PMA Class of 2000), two of the hundreds of soldiers that participated in the 2003 siege now popularly known as the Oakwood Mutiny, many a toast has been made in the face of adversity: in the line of duty, far away from their families and the comforts of home, and worse, in detention, awaiting the sentence that would seal their fate.
A poet in San Francisco
BARBARA Jane Reyes started writing poetry as an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley, where she also served as editor of the Filipino-American literary publication Maganda. Since then, her poetic works have appeared in the following anthologies: Babaylan (Aunt Lute, 2000), Eros Pinoy (Anvil, 2001), InvAsian: Asian Sisters Represent (Study Center Press, 2003), Going Home To a Landscape (Calyx, 2003), Not Home But Here (Anvil, 2003), Pinoy Poetics (Meritage, 2004), Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts (Arsenal Pulp, 2005) and Graphic Poetry (Victionary, 2005).
Bookshelf
The UP College of Music and the Ateneo de Manila University Press will launch Raul Navarro’s pioneering work, "Kolonyal na Patakaran at ang Nagbabagong Kamalayang Filipino: Musika sa Publikong Paaralan sa Pilipinas, 1898 to 1935," on Monday, Sept. 10, 5 to 7 p.m., at the mini-hall, College of Music, UP Diliman, Quezon City.
Making his friends my friends
DEAR CHICO AND DELAMAR... My parents have always curtailed my social life, denying me from having a boyfriend until I reach the ripe old age of 18.
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