goodbye mapua, welcome malayan university?

[flakez]

some pictures during the rally

http://bubuekak.multiply.com/photos/album/26

[niwde11]

As I say in earlier post, dati ay nag-oofer na ng non-engg deg ang mapua(father ng friend ko ay judge at alumina ng mapua for his pre-law yata), so why change. tama si yebo about the rankings ng university dito sa pinas, but changing the name will not improve. about dun sa example like wharton which is part of U penn, it is a good idea kaso American culture is very(large) different from ours.
jesi: from your desc ay 2 years ka lang sa mapua(correct me if i am wrong). your experience was never new to me. my good friend in mapua is one of the finalist in Math Wizard nationwide(HSM na, niruruler pa grade, j/k lang) search so i guess mas madami sya naexperience in his 4 1/2 year stay sa mapua. ngumingiti lang sya pag ganun reaction ng instructor and at the same time nakukuha nya ang respeto ng instructor.
IceColdBeer: almost same batch pala tayo. pareho pa tayo school(CoE ako). Masil boys ka din pala.
Mike/flakes: behind you all the way.
Gusto ko pa sana magcomment kaso lunchtime na. Viva Mapua.

[IceColdBeer]

Niwde11, you must be referring to Antonio Lo hehe. Yes, masil boys din ako and member ako ng Lights. I presume Micro ka or ESM? Last time I heard merong cancer sa throat si Dean Masil.

[niwde11]

Post muna ko, di pa luto ulam. hehehe.
ICB, no not Antonio Lo (but my friend knew him and i was introduce to him once). My friend is more outgoing than Lo (coz nabarkada sa amin, hehehe) but Lo is definintely better academically than my friend. Ang pagkakatanda ko lang, mas maganda placing ng friend ko sa Math Wizard Nationwide than Lo. Lo and my friend were both member ng HSM kaya magkabarlada sila 1st year but nun 3rd year na ay mas madalas na kami kasama. Mas active member ako ng AIDS(part ako ng basketball team).

[1D4LV]

as previously posted here. naiipit yang presidente ng mapua sa pressure ng mga yuchengcos. i know how they operate. talagang komunista management style nila. the president of mapua must just be protecting his job. dahil ang dogma ng management ng mga yuchengcos is kung di mo magagawa gusto ko, umalis ka o tatanggalin ka namin.

its the truth guys. politics are behind that.

[mikaztro]

What a sad day! I hope it turns out well and give the Yuchengcos a wake up call.

[IceColdBeer]

niwde11, hehehe baka magkakilala tayo. Member din ako ng Lights Basketball Team for 3 years.
Anyway, kakalungkot nangyayari sa Alma Mater natin.

[flakez]

Black not red, reigned at Mapua campus

Posted 02:47am (Mla time) Feb 15, 2005
By Leila Salaverria
Inquirer News Service



Editor's Note: Published on page A21 of the Feb. 15, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
THE DAY of love was not a happy one for thousands of students of the Mapua Institute of Technology who protested the school's impending name change to Malayan Colleges.
Instead of red, black was the predominant color on Monday at Mapua's campus in Intramuros, Manila, as the students-calling themselves the United Mapuans-came to school wearing black shirts. They boycotted their classes to hold a day-long prayer vigil.
Armando Cristobal, official spokesperson of the group, said the students held the vigil to prevent school officials from changing the school's name. He said a name change would be tantamount to disregarding the legacy of the school's founder, Tomas Mapua.
Cristobal said Mapua's vision was to make the school's engineering courses help poor students to build companies for fellow Filipinos.
Board topnotchers
The 80-year-old school is well-known for its engineering and architecture programs, whose graduates have topped licensure examinations.
"Our request is simple. The legacy of Don Tomas is important to us. The term Mapuans is important to us. Our parents enrolled us here to graduate as Mapuans, not as Malayans," Cristobal said. Students learned, he added, that diplomas of this year's graduates would already carry the name Malayan Colleges.
Cristobal criticized school officials for not consulting students before effecting the change.
Last week's announcement took students by surprise. Cristobal said it would be hard for them to trust the school again.
Mapua president Dr. Reynaldo Vea said the name change was a step in the school's expansion to a university. He said the school started offering courses other than engineering and architecture since 2000 after the takeover by the Yuchengco Group of Companies. The offering of additional courses is one of the requirements for attaining university status.
Mapua's new courses are nursing, psychology, biotechnology and business administration.
"If the school continued to be called Mapua, there might be a certain dilution because the Mapua name is closely associated with technology, engineering," Vea told the Inquirer.
No formal change yet
This concern prompted school officials to choose Malayan Colleges, although Vea said the board has yet to set the date for the official change of the school's name.
He told students that the name Mapua Institute of Technology need not be lost. It could still be used for the College of Engineering and Architecture of the Malayan University since a university could name its colleges.
"The name Mapua will not be lost. It will stay there. Is there any reason why it should be eclipsed by the name Malayan Colleges?" he said in an interview.
He cited the well-known Wharton Business School. Few people know it is actually part of the University of Pennsylvania, he said.
Vea added the name change was never meant to relegate Mapua to the background.
"Our intention is in fact to make it better known and that is why we are going for university status. Academically speaking, a technology school can become even better if the professional training is based on an inter-disciplinary approach to problems," he said.
Cristobal said Monday's mass action united different fraternities, student organizations, faculty and alumni. He said the United Mapuans would wait for the school officials' announcement on whether to push through with the name change or not.
Vea said nobody would be penalized for the mass action because the school respected freedom of expression and also wanted to know the students' sentiments.

lagi niyang sinasabi ung university status, pero bakit nga kelangan pa palitan ung name. hindi naman tataas ang status kung magbabago ng name. tama ung mga sinabi niyo, bakit pa kelangan e dati naman may offer na na ibang course, may management pa ata dati. saka kung mag chachange ng name siguradong mas kokonti ang mag-eenrol dahil karamihan sa mapuans pangalan ang ineenroll.

ilang beses din daw tinanong si vea kung bakit kelangan palitan, lagi niyang iniiba ung topic, hindi niya talaga masagot ung tanong.

*happy, yup politics un sigurado. pero kung mapuan sana ung president malamang sa students siya mag siside. e ang problema hindi sya mapuan e. kaya wala siyang paki. ung ibang profs sa mapua na talagang kilala nag sacrifice sila para lang ipag laban ung name. president ng FACULTY ASSOCIATION OF MIT ang naglelead nung monday. dean School of IT declared na walang pasok nung monday para makiramay.

[hagiber]

<asbestos suit>
Question lang... If you own something, diba you have the right to name it whatever na name na gusto mo ?
</asbestos suit>

[explorer]

psssssssst....akala nyo kayo lang may happy/sad days sa mapua ha! inabot ko rin yang si antonio lo, the math wizard. 1 year ahead ayata sya sa akin. ME April '91 ako gradweyt...seguro wala ng tatalo sa experience ko sa mga professors sa mapua...yung mechanics at strenght of materials (10 units total) ko under sison, yung frustrated scientist na meron sariling formula (ayaw ng formula sa books ) at lahat ng exam take home pero iba-iba ang sagot bawat estudyante...sison was the 'real' definition of frustrated scientist.....na under din ako sa 2 'binggo' professors - binagsak :down: ako ni guiang (older brother of physics professor guiang) sa integral calculus....take 2 ko kay bernardino...