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The finished product of the lantern of the College of Education for the lantern making contest in Universidad De Manila

Merlions celebrates Paskuhan 2014 E very year, Universidad de Manila celebrates an event called ‘Paskuhan’. This year, it was held last December 15 to 17, from Monday to Wednesday at the University lobby. On that day, many booths were set up and a lot of activities were hosted by different individuals. The said festival gave fun and excitement to every student that joins. One of the competition is the ‘Lantern Making Contest’ where the College of the Education was won the 1st place. The UC got talent where the different potentials of the students are shown. The Videoke King and Queen , where the students revealed their golden and angelic voice. Turn to page 2.
Education students celebrates the Advent Season

some of our professor while the priest is preaching he told that catholic people are ways sitting and listening only when the priest is talking in front of us the priest asked some questions to the students to test that they are informed about the mass . Students are laughing because they are nervous when the priest talked to them. This activity will help the students to open their minds regarding to the true meaning of advent season.Turn page 2
Last Friday , December 5, 2014around 1 o’clock in the afternoon we had a mass at Palma Hall and it is all about the advent season. All education students from 2nd year to 4th year are required to attend the mass including Pope Francis' visit to the Philippines

Pope Francis' visit to the Philippines from January 15 to 19, 2015, is the first state and pastoral visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines. Francis is the third pontiff to visit the country after Popes Paul VI and John Paul II. His visit marked the first visit of a pope to the Philippines in the 21st century with the last visit by a pope in the Philippines by Pope John Paul II in 1995. The pope visited Manila, plus

Tacloban and Palo, Leyte, to pay a visit to the victims of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda). Pope Francis became the second pope to go beyond Manila during a papal visit to the Philippines, after Pope John Paul II who visited Cebu, Davao, Bacolod, Iloilo, Legazpi, Bataan, and Baguio, alongside Manila from February 17 to 22, 1981. Turn to page 2.

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Merlions celebrates Paskuhan 2014 By: Eunice F. Robles
E very year, Universidad de Manila celebrates an event called ‘Paskuhan’. This year, it was held last December 15 to 17, from Monday to Wednesday at the University lobby On that day, many booths were set up and a lot of activities were hosted by different individuals. The said festival gave fun and excitement to every student that joins. One of the competition is the ‘Lantern Making Contest’. In this activity each department should used recycled materials when they are done they hang it on the school lobby and it should be creative this is where the College of the Education won the 1st place. The UC got talent where the different potentials of the students are shown. The Videoke King and Queen , where the students revealed their golden and angelic voice. The Pageant was done also where the students showed their beautiful faces to many people . The Third day of the event , there was a Disco Party that was held at the last night of the event. They dance in the rhythm as they all celebrate the success of the Paskuhan this year. All of the students are still looking forward for this year Paskuhan and they want to see more fun and excitement and also more activities be happened. Most of all to celebrate the Christmas season together with our Merlions family with the true essence of Christmas to love, to forgive, have fun and unite with the people around us.

Education students celebrates the Advent Season By: Rica Lyn Futalan

Last Friday , December 5, 2014 around 1 o’clock in the afternoon we had a mass at Palma Hall and it is all about the advent season. All education students from 2nd year to 4th year are required to attend the mass including some of our professor while the priest is preaching he told that catholic people are ways sitting and listening only when the priest is talking in front of us the priest asked some questions to the students to test that they are informed about the mass. Students are laughing because they are nervous when the priest talked to them. This activity will help the students to open
Their minds regarding to the true meaning of advent season. This is one of their instruments to influence the students to be helpful by giving canned goods, noodles and other matter as an offering for thanksgiving mass. Advent season is about preparing ourselves for the birth of our Jesus Christ and we as a catholic we should knew about this very important celebration. As a student we should not forget the special occasion about God because God never forget us even though we call him when we need him. God never leave us whenever wherever he’s always in our back to support us, guide us and love

us. God never leave us in good and bad times of our life.

Pope Francis' visit to the Philippines By: Marissa B. Martir

The highest leader of the catholic religion , Jorge Mario Bergoglio also known as Pope Francis was visit our proud country , Philippines last January 15-19 , 2015 to see , to share the word of God and to bless the people of the Philippines.
Before he arrived at villamor air base a lot of people wa waiting for him and excited .In Villamor air base many children have prepared a dance for our beloved Pope Francis .When he arrived he give a smile to everyone is in there .He was arrived in the evening that’s why he need to rest because in his age . He was rest in apostolic nunciature because he didn’t was to rest in luxury hotel because he didn’t want to treat him as a normal person .He was amaze when he was mass in the Quirino Grandstand because he was surprised when he saw a lot of people that waiting for him even if it is raining was cry on what he saw .There are a lot of people who loves him because in his attitude that he didn’t want to consider himself that he was a God and loves to mingle to many people even this is bad for his health because of his age .

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Educational tour goes to laguna

By :Diana Mae G. Dela Cruz

The city mayor of Manila Mayor Joseph Ejercito Estra-da was gave a project to the dean of College of Education. The project said was the Edu-cational Tour for the edu-cation students. The educa-tional tour was held Last De-cember 19, 2014 in Calamba , Laguna.The first destination was in the Rizal Shrine, where Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda lived until he started his formal studies in Binan. The second destination of the tour was in University of the Philippines in Los Banos where we can find the Natural History Museum. The Museum consists of preserved biological and zoological specimens, wood samples, by-products of micro-organism and also thousands of living plants/trees maintained in a separate location. We also go to the Dairy Farm and Makiling Botanical Garden that also located inside the campus. Our last destination is somewhere in pansol la-guna where all of the students enjoy the pool and bond with other majors and years. The goal of the educational tour aside to know some infor-mation about the place that we been through also to have a bond with other professor and with other majors especially with our classmates for us to know them more . before we gone home the faculty

have a raffle and one of our classmate won a cellphone.
Stage Plays at Universidad de Manila
By: Rica lyn Futalan

Mass Communication stu-dents are very creative and they are very good actors and actresses. The play is good but sometimes it’s boring. They are responsible enough to give this kind of activity Last February, the mass communication students had their activity given by their professor. They made a beautiful stage plays entitled “Kafatiran” and “Hapag”. Kafatiran has two time slots the first show started at 4 pm up to 6 pm and the second show is 6:30-8 pm . The play have 3 days for them to perform. Their play perform in these dates February 2, 3 and 5 it was Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. They also invite some person in different school and they also invite their friends. The play Kafatiran is about the gays who wants to reveal their true personalities in front of all people. The play is very entertaining and the audience are laughing at the whole play because the actors delivers their characters very well. The second play is entitled Hapag, the play has two time slots the first show started at 4 pm up to 6 pm and the second show

is 6:30-8 pm . the play have 3 days for them to perform. Their play perform in these dates February 10, 11 and 13 Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The play is about politics wherein his father wants him to be a politician but he wants to be an artist or a singer. The message of the play is to do what you want to do. to achieve your dreams don’t listen to those people who wants to pull you down.
The two plays has a lesson to every people specially teen-agers that do the things that makes you happy and show your true feelings. As a stu-dent of UDM you should be proud and thankful because God gave us a talent to share to other people. Be creative, imaginative and open minded person
BSED majors performs at their best
By: Eunice F. Robles

Last February 24, 2015 the 4 majors of our department performed their final exami-nation at UDM lobby and Media Room with different presentations of our chosen country. The math majors presented the country of Korea, while the Social Studies majors for the nation of Egypt. The Biology majors chose to represent the

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country of 3 stars and a sun which is Philippines. Lastly, the English majors represent the land of smiles, Thailand. The major who will win in the competition will be excempted in finals in Social Dimension. Our professor Dra.Patarata together with 2 other professors will be the judges of each performance of the different majors.
The first major that per-formed is Math major they performed at Media Room they danced the different Korean songs and showed the culture of Korea. The second performer Biology major who also performed at Media Room, they performed the tinikling, that was very known as one of our folk dances. The social studies major represents the culture of Egypt from how the Egyptian were born until they died. And Lastly we English Majors per-formed how a thai person courts a girl up to the wedding ceremony we also performed how they respect their majesties. We also performed different cultural dance of Thailand at the end we perform the dance craze of Thailand which is called “zeebow”. This symbolizes celebrations for all of the per-formers.The Judges tally their scores and finally announced the winner and we English majors won in the performance. All of the majors enjoyed the show and made us intelligent on how to manage our schedules in spite of

having many commitments in school activities. This cultural performance helps all the students to be cooperative , creative and productive. This activity is one of the proofs that we future educators are good organizers and leaders
University Week Mass
By : Rica Lyn Futalan

Last February 26, 2015 it was Thursday morning held at Universidad de Manila. A mass is for the opening of the University week at lobby around 9:00-10:00 in the morning. The education students are assigned to prepare on the mass. Education, Nursing and engineering attend the mass. While priest was talking in front for his homily all of the students were laughing because the priest said that students called it University week even though we celebrate it for three days and he also said that he was very closed to the education students before he became a priest he became a teacher also and he truly respect the teachers and future educators. Students are very glad especially education students because of what the priest have said to us. He ended his homily when he said to us “enjoy your university week even if it is three days only”.

Universidad de Manila celebrates University Week
By : Rica Lyn Futalan and Eunice F. Robles

The Universidad de Manila celebrates university week last February 26-28, 2015. There are different booths like marriage booth, movie booth, food booth, jail booth and many more. There are also visitors from different school who came and joined the celebration. At the first day of the celebration the university held a mass ushered by the college of education.
Everyone listened at the message “be prayerful at all times” the mass was ended 10 am. After the mass all of the booths are officially opened and the activities had started. At the university lobby they held the cake raffle for all of the students. The competitions started at 1 pm for all games like basketball, volleyball, dodgeball, tug of war and patintero. Sadly the battle of the bands that supposed to be started at 4 pm at the lobby was cancelled. Lastly for the first day, the second game February 27, 2015 the amazing race opened the day it started at exactly 8am that was held at UDM campus

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going to Manila city Hall. At 10 am the Chinese garter, tumbang preso, poster making and essay writing contest were all started. The game for minds or known as Quiz Bee was started at 1:00 pm and we proudly announced that BSED won for 4 consecutive years. The pinoy henyo started at 3:30 pm and exactly 6pm Mr and Ms UDM’15 entitled 50’es shades of grey, Many merlions roar as the young handsome and young beauties ramped. On the third day of the U-week the finals of the games held at the court started at 8 am in the morning. The mega dance crew performed their piece at 3 pm. The segment fashionista took place at the lobby at 5 pm. Lastly for the last day of U-week was the awarding of games started at 7 pm. Everyone enjoyed the celebration, university week was another year of success and blessing.

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Salute to the oldest student here at the University By : Eunice F. Robles

Taken from Mr. Edmundo Del Pilar Fuente, the oldest student in Universidad de Manila at the age of 67, lives in Tondo, Manila. Despite of his age, he still wants to continue his studies and graduate as a Criminology Student. Mr. Edmundo first graduated at TUP as an engineering student then entered Don Bosco center and become a seaman . when he was a teenager, he studied at Mapua Institute for almost 4 years but failed 3 times so he decided to enter high school again to gain more knowledge. He has 3 children’s that graduated at Pamantasan Lungsod ng Maynila, one of them is now a certified accountant. And she is the one who supports lolo edmundo in his studies Lolo Edmundo wants to be a Vice Mayor of Manila soon. That’s why he’s studying very hard to pursue his dreams we asked him why at his very old age, he still wants to study? Unlike other parents, once they have seen their son or daughters that reached their dreams its like they already reached their dream. But Lolo Edmundo answered “Gusto kong magaral hanggang sa mamatay ako kasi gusto kong maintindihan ang ibang tao , gusto ko sa karunungan ng iba” for him once his son or daughter achieve their dream it was a great achievement in his life and achieving his was the second. Before the interview was ended, Lolo Edmundo leave a simple but an inspiring message for all the youths out there “Matanda na ako na-encounter ko na ang iba’t ibang paghihirap pero hindi ako tumigil, pinagbutihan ko para mapunan ang mga ito ng pagginhawa sa buhay”.

Change
By: Diana Mae G. Dela Cruz

Nowadays, many people saying “there is no forever”, “you are bitter” etc and when someone tells you that you won’t be able to notice that you are carried away by those words. You would also believes that there is no forever You would also think that you’re really bitter. Those things are so negative and you should not apply it to yourself. Instead of being bitter, why don’t you try to be better and if you really want to be better, you should change those negative thoughts. You should change yourself. Change is a simple word but difficult meaning. For me change has a big connection to forever. They say that forever is infinite and change is finite. That two words describe a lot about everything that people do everyday. Change is the answer to all negative thoughts of us. I asked some people if they are agree that change is the answer to their problem. A few people said that it is not the best answer to their problem because if you really want to be happy just stay what you are and who you are. They also said that don’t change for anybody. Others said that they are agree because it is better to change especially when you know that you don’t do anything good to others and it is not good for everyone . you should change yourself if someone got negative affection on what you have done. Change is never easy. You have to understand everything . you have to sacrifice. You have to let go. You have to change the things you used to do. But it is really better to change and we should change for the better. Life is about change. If you want to have forever, it starts from within. It is your choice. You are the only one that could answer your problem. If you don’t want to be bitter than do things that will make you better

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Why do manilenos loves mayor Erap ?

I don't know why do people love him. he's just an ordinary person nor he's just a former president of the Philippines and now he's the mayor of manila. I don't think he's gonna be a good example and a good leader to the manilenos and for me I don't see anything that he can be a good model to us and when the issue about his son come out I already said to myself that he is not a trustworthy person. as a student I got pissed off at him to t he time that he came to school for the merging of Korea and philippines because the city hall is near at the school but still he gone late and every student keep shouting his name and its not pleasant to the ears I hate people whose pretending that they love or like that person. I don't like mayor erap for being the mayor of manila because when he was in the position of being a president he was convicted and accused something so that I don't trust him that he can manage the city of manila. he doesn't came to the manilenos who has been wash out by the firw . he don't give ang relief goods and help to those person

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Editorial in Chief
Dyann Joyce B. Gonzales

News Editor
Rica Lyn Futalan

Feature Eunice F. Robles

Sports Diane Mae Dela Cruz

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