“Religion is the sigh of the oppressed, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless societies.” -Karl Marx EVERY year after the end of the six- kilometer long trek that commemorates the transfer in 1787 of the Black Nazarene from the Recollect seminary in Intramuros (the old walled city ) to Quiapo [...]
Posts Tagged ‘UP’
Fanaticism…
Posted in Vantage Point, tagged Black Nazarene, CMFR, Lito Zulueta, religion, UP, UST on January 12, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Ups and downs
Posted in Vantage Point, tagged University of the Philippines, UP on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Only a few weeks are left of the University of the Philippines (UP) centennial year celebrations. UP was founded by the US colonial government in 1908, and after a century of wars, crises and political upheavals, one would have expected the 2008 celebrations to lead to an evaluation of where UP has been and has [...]
A Philippine university
Posted in Vantage Point, tagged University of the Philippines, UP on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Despite funding constraints, the University of the Philippines (UP), which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, has grown from a small institution on Manila’s Padre Faura street into a national university system of 12 campuses (including the cyber or virtual campus of its Open University) and seven constituent universities. UP has the most extensive undergraduate [...]
