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The MARIAN
December 2015 - March 2016
EDITORIAL
EDITORIAL
MariaN the
official student publication of saint mary’s university
editorial board SCHOOL YEAR 2015-2016
ONE PROBLEM AT A TIME Four or five years of sleepless night. Four or five years of waking up at the wee hours of the morning. Four or five years of exhausting all means possible. Four of five years for a diploma. Four or five years for a tassel turn. Four or five years for a degree. Four or five years in preparation for the real world.
emmanuel jose ab journalism 4
editor-in-chief
den mark lorenzo bs accountancy 4
associate editor
rhowen belisario bs accountancy 3
managing editor
neome czarina valite bs accountancy 3
news editor
rhenzyl de guzman bs criminology 3
development communications editor
In the world of academic studentry, as a student goes up another year, he/she is allowed to take up more advanced subjects, with each year serving as a preparation for the next one. Each year preparing us for challenges harder than the others. With each year serving as a reminder for the next, each year a symbolic representation. Our first year in college serves as the adjustment period. This is where students try to get a hold of our surroundings, that time where we try to get to adjust on so many new things. As the students adjust to new things, a university or institution must also do the different adjustments mandated by authorizing bodies. A mandate from an authorizing body should be taken seriously but there are other things that still need to be taken into account. A university is highly regarded if it can do so but without letting its educational system suffer. One must still remember that despite developments, nothing much must suffer. If a mandate is heavily enforced to be so, a university must take into account the welfare of the student body and itself – that a university is truly prepared for change. When second year comes, sophomores are usually not the new kids in the block but they’re not the schooling expert. They’re able to
memorize where is this and that, but they still do not know how the system works. Sophomores are filled with insurmountable uncertainty. A university also faces uncertainty. Year after year, a university is plagued with so much problems that they try so hard to create solutions in a single blow. From fluctuating tuition fees to overrated miscellaneous fees, there is a great uncertainty for both the students and the university. With not much in hand, an institution which tries so hard to look uncertain and denies the fact would eventually look more of it. It’d be rather more of a help if they’d admit they are in such a situation. And then the third year comes – the hardest year, so they say. This is the year when students are burdened with the sense of having so much academic work but they are also pressured by a university’s goal of preparing them socially by bombarding them with activities. In simple terms, an imbalance of academics and activities. With a university’s goals of intellectually honing them and at the same time preparing them to be social being, they eventually get lost in a storm of not being able to focus. The sad part of this is that sometimes universities pick on this adversity and even blame the students for not being able to deliver what are “idealistically”
expected to deliver. And now, the fourth and fifth years of our college year. The years where requirements rain like a torrential downpour. With so much requirements imposed by the university, students try to exhaust all means possible. Students have internships, last minute projects and the ever-famous, thesis/research paper, just to name a few. Universities tend to impose that something must only be done by someone within the gates or within the campus or vicinity. Students, with the drive to finish on time, flock, thus causing delay not only to themselves and each other but to the whole system itself. With a floating question in mind, is it they safe to say that a university is underequipped or so – that a university cannot keep up with the demand of such a supply. With so much in hands for the student body, students still try to finish what can be finished within a timespan. When problems pile up on top of each other, it causes a time lock – a hindrance that takes a specific time to be solved. With problems that tend to arise as years pass by, the student body is burdened by the idealistic reality that they are nearing the day where they call themselves a graduate in four or five years. Or not. M
yumiko bsangelius yoshiy tourism mgmt 3 features editor
brent jericko narciso bs pharmacy 4
literary editor
reynaldo coloma jr. bs civil engineering 4 sports editor
chantal therese tayaban bs psychology/ab-gc 3
online editor
naiomi justereen bangad ab journalism 3 operations manager
jireh reyes ab journalism 3
circulations & communications manager
kym rombert quezon bs tourism mgmt 3 chief photojournalist
milvin manitchala bs electronics engineering 4 chief artist
marc ryan brosas bs computer engineering 4
chief layout artist
senior staff writers
mary joy agbanlog. joresa dainty aseron. Kimberly Atitiw. Kruzyl Cayusa. Rojes Gaile Jamandre. Jamie Angel Pascual. Lexter Rodriguez. Diosavel Salvacion. Jimboy Manitchala
junior staff writers
Michael Guina-at. Gelene Kaye Valdez. Karl Cyril Pobre. Stacy Lee Nicole Ortiguero. Frances Mira Butay. Precious Joy Agnaen. Charlotte Jace Fabian. Francis Mar Vicmudo. Henrich Coniega. Ma. Veronica Ortiz. Gliaczy Grace Gapuz. Gwenn Edphine Naui. Ron Louis Cutillon
SENIOR ARTISTS
Mackenzie Earl Casem Kevin Paul Castañeto Charles Arthemi Guarin Jarra Moreno Louise Joyce Naguiat
JUNIOR ARTISTS
Evfrid Dolthon Cabral Maria Paula Laureta Sheila Marie Awitan
SENIOR PHOTOJOURNALISTS Izen Querido
JUNIOR PHOTOJOURNALISTS Hannah Mae Calagui Henry Catama Jr Kristine Anne Gumilet Ma. Johmelia Lantion Cherile Ross Santos Mario Laureta
SENIOR LAYOUT ARTIST Ridge Ross De Veyra
JUNIOR LAYOUT ARTISTS Bryan Christopher Wong Polaris Sagabaen James Cafirma
advisers
john g. tayaban, rpm, rp clara mangolinchao-gonzales, PhD. For comments and suggestions, visit The MARIAN office at a220, Lambrecht hall (A Building) or email us at
smu.themarian@gmail.com