Christine F. Godinez-OrtegaEditor-in-Chief

Rex G. OrtegaAssociate Editor

Maria Theresa B. PanzoManaging Editor

Michelle Jeanne C. CaracutStaff Writer

John Daniel O. EnriquezLay-Out Artist

Mark Jezreel T. OrbePhoto Artist

Leoneva G. CawalingFinance Analyst

Cherly S. AdlawanConsultant

Loi P. MagusaraSecretariat

Victor N. SugboBobby Timonera

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Vol. 10 No. 44May 2016

ISSN: 2467-639X

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Designated by the Commission of Higher Education (CHEd) as Centers of Excellence in its programs of

Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics and Centers of Development in Marine Science and Statistics, the College of Science and Mathematics (CSM) has definitely been making an excellent name for itself as one of the great pillars of the Institute.

With these designations, CSM has put into motion its pursuit for international accreditation of its programs, particularly ASEAN University Network-Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) for program assessment. With the leadership of its former dean, Dr. Ferdinand Jamil, the college has set its numerous preparations for program assessment.

Jamil said, “We believe it requires more years of preparation. Hopefully, with the usual support from the administration, we can accomplish a greater part of it this 2016.”

Performance

Every year, since the last five years, the college’s performance has been improving significantly. In 2014, the increase in research publications of a number of faculty have

been remarkable with 191 publications. Jamil said that this year they will reach over 250 publications.

Jamil said that “if we can support this trend, IIT is never far from attaining its vision of becoming a research university.”

CSM believes that for MSU-IIT to advance its vision towards a research university, all the colleges should have a collective effort in realizing this vision. CSM intends to help the Institute as well as other colleges to work on this common goal.

In his years as dean, together with his assistant dean, Prof. Sasha Anne L. Valdez, Jamil has led the college in accomplishing some of CSM’s academic and non-academic pursuits: CHED COEs and CODs of its programs, benchmarking these and the operations against the ASEAN University Network-Quality Assessment; faculty development programs, research, publications, linkages, and extension activities; the construction of the Premier Research Institute of Sciences and Mathematics (PRISM) building which was initiated by previous deans; on-going college renovations of lecture and laboratory rooms, installation of other physical facilities such as a student

lounge and a College Guidance Office, and many more.

2016 for CSM

The year 2016 has a lot of challenges in store for CSM, including the completion of PRISM, the expected low enrollment beginning AY 2016-2017, the ASEAN integration that took effect last December 2015, and the reality that by 2018 all programs to be offered should be aligned with the thrusts of the Institute.

Very soon, the construction of the PRISM building will finally be completed. It has now a logo designed by OPI’s Mark Jezreel T. Orbe. The proposed Structural Organization has already been approved by the MSU-System Board of Regents. The next step is its implementation and to put in place the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). This means that the PRISM Committee of the College has to resume its meetings for this purpose.

Being a service college, the zero-freshmen enrolment in AY 2016-2017 and in AY 2017-2018 means a significant reduction of teaching load in the college. According to Jamil, the departments have anticipated

The Pylon of MSU-IIT’s Scientific Disciplines

College of Science and Mathematics

by Michelle Jeanne C. Caracut, OPI

Dr. Ferdinand Jamil CSM Dean

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such event and have carefully strategized to minimize the impact of its effect, especially to the employment of some of its non-tenured faculty members. They have previously increased the number of sections for freshmen so as to have, still, a good number of students in their programs. The departments have sent some of their faculty members to pursue doctorate degrees. Schedules for curriculum developments are set in the K-12 transition period. Also, the College has applied as a CHED-DHEI for the K-12 program.

Looking at what many universities abroad are doing, CSM is positioning itself in the trend of offering multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary disciplines. In fact, as a member university of the National Science Consortium (NCS) program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the college will take part in the implementation this year, incorporating Natural Products and Drug Development, Materials Science, Climate Change, and Disaster Preparedness in the existing programs of the university’s graduate courses although these have started in Chemistry, Biology and other programs.

Moreover, the trend of multidisciplinary is reflected in the nine research agenda of PRISM: biodiversity, nanotechnology, biotechnology, complex systems, natural products and drug development, climate change, theoretical science, applied mathematics and statistics, and renewable energy.

Strengthening its ties for globalization

CSM has been making noise in the field of natural and applied sciences through attendance in conferences and trainings, paper presentations, faculty exchange programs, visiting professorships, winning in competitions, and other academic engagements. More importantly, it has been forging partnerships with institutions and universities in the Asia and Europe.

With globalization and ASEAN integration, challenges are inevitable but CSM is looking for ways and means to overcome these. For one, the college is looking into how the college can improve their student support system in order to attract and host foreign students and how to provide the required facilities to support the programs.

In an interview last April, Dean Jamil and Assistant Dean Valdez emphasize that CSM is raising the bar of standard for excellence, not only by CHED but with the ASEAN standards. Dean Jamil said that the ASEAN integration is a call that they need to further improve their programs, make them relevant, more attractive and saleable to local and foreign students, and attractive to other universities and institutions for faculty and student exchanges.

He further said that the integration facilitates mobility of faculty and students, thereby, facilitates access for CSM faculty and students to the necessary resources available only in the other ASEAN universities (facilities, equipment, trainings, and others) to optimize the development of their potential.

CSM in the future

Dean Jamil believes that, considering the college’s performance over the last five years, and with continued strong administrative support, CSM will definitely be a top school for science and mathematics in the country. He concluded that its programs and outputs will be the Institute’s ticket to internationalization.

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Expert journalists from the country lectured in MSU-IIT’s third series of Training in Journalism on May 3-4, 2016 at the COE

Amphitheatre and at the Institute Boardroom.

The one and a half-day training featured Victor Agustin, a business columnist for the Philippine Star and TV5 website InterAksyon and who also has a segment, Cocktales, with Bloomberg TV’s First Up program on Mondays and Fridays. Invited also to give a lecture was Ted Regencia, a multimedia journalist working for Al Jazeera English online in Doha, Qatar. Regencia is the journalist who covered the 2015 election in Myanmar, Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines, US President Barack Obama’s Manila visit in 2014 and the 2013 Typhoon Haiyan disaster.

“Ask, ask, ask,” stressed Agustin, as he lectured on how to get details for news. He said that details are important because “you will be writing for your audience. You need these stories to be read by the public.” He also lectured how to write feature stories and gave an example. He said that feature writing is like writing a novel or a short story, that it has contrived or conflicting element. “It’s not linear, you put a face into it,” he added.

Moreover, he emphasized that in writing, one should consider the form, language, medium to be used, and the marketability and availability of publication. He encouraged the participants to feature local success stories and write these in the native language to have an impact to readers.

At the end of his lecture, he persuaded the participants who plan to pursue careers in journalism to learn how to write good headlines, get compelling photos, and position their writings to marketable stories.

Ted Regencia lectured on Covering and Writing for Online News Stories. In his lecture, he mentioned that writers are not 100% unbiased but reporters should consciously check their personal biases as they write their stories. He showed Al Jazeera videos as samples of his work.

After his lecture, he conducted a workshop with the participants. The activity gave the participants the opportunity to interview people in the Institute and write news about their take on Duterte in the coming election. After the activity, the participants showed their outputs for feedback.

Expert journalists in 3rd Series of Journalism TrainingBy Michelle Jeanne C. Caracut, OPI

Ted Regencia

Victor Agustin

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The training also included lectures on Photojournalism by the Institute’s official photographer, Mark Jezreel T. Orbe, and Layouting by the Gazette’s lay-out artist John Daniel Enriquez.

Orbe admitted that he is not really a photojournalist by profession but he accepts the challenges. Photojournalism, he said, is capturing an event without altering anything. “It is a particular form of journalism that employs images in order to tell a news story,” he explained.

With his background in photography, he gave tips on how to get good photographs. He discussed the importance and good qualities of photography, its terminologies, the parts and functions of the camera, composition rules and tips, ethics, and dos and don’ts in taking pictures, and showed examples of his work.

Enriquez discussed grids, typography, and colors, types of layout, and layout anatomy. He also gave tips on how to lay-out these elements for print media. He showed to the audience examples of good layouts.

The series of journalism training is designed to train the Institute’s faculty, staff, and students as reporters and editors in the sub-webpages of the official MSU-IIT webpage. The series of trainings are initiatives of Chancellor Sukarno D. Tanggol and is spearheaded by the Office of Publication and Information Acting Director, Dr. Christine F. Godinez-Ortega. The last leg of training which is on film and video production is tentatively scheduled to happen this year.

Jez Orbe

JD Enriquez

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CULTURE-SENSITIVE REPORTING The Muslim, the Lumad, and the Media

by Victorio N. SugboUniversity of the Philippines Visayas

The Conference “Current Issues and Trends in Language and Literature: Globalizing the Local” held at the CASSALIDA Theatre on April 8, 2016

Last of two parts

Dr. Victorio N. Sugbo

Similarly, another report by another journalist narrates:

According to reports, the 200 muslim militants who allegedly slipped out from Mindanao may be members of the Khalifa Islamiya Mindanao (KIM), a terrorist group that uses a black flag similar to the ISIS emblem.

KIM members are said to be idealist young Moro fighters who were hosted by the Bangsamoro Islami Freedom Fighters (BIFF), the group that broke away from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Armed groups like the Abu Sayaff Group, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), and the Khilafah Islamiya Movement have been associated with the notion, muslim. Their reputation, plus the recent bombings of Brussels, Turkey and Paris, has influenced public perception so much that people have tended to overgeneralize and think negatively of the entire community of muslims.

There are a few news stories where the muslims are represented in a better light. These involve their observation of the Ramadan ( PDI, 17 July 2015) , their condemnation of the muslim terrorists attack on Paris and Beirut (PDI,16 Nov. 2015), their public rejection of the extremist ideology of ISIS (MB, 3 Sept 2014), and their condemnation of other countries’ maltreatment of the Rohingyas from Myanmar, (MT, 31 May 2015). In these news stories, the muslim is viewed as a good person, when he denounces muslim terrorism, when he shows piety in the practice of his religion, when he is anti-extremism, when he is sympathetic of the plight of refugees.

The Lumad

The case of the Lumad of Mindanao is a case where a people are represented in the periodicals as victims of paramilitary groups and government soldiers, indigenous tribes, dispossessed of their ancestral lands, a horde of evacuees who are driven away from their homes whenever there are military and militia operations. It is in these contingent contexts that the lumad are reported in the three sampled periodicals. Since the different tribes are generally labeled lumad, what has resulted is the erasure of their ethnic, cultural and linguistic diverseness, an example of real culture-insensitive reporting.

News about the lumad in Mindanao hardly hug newspaper headlines primarily because their problems keep recurring, and for this reason, the stories tend to be treated as routine occurrences. Unless the lumad problems are brought up by an important human rights organization or national figure, that is the only time when their problems are seriously considered by government .

In the context of this investigation, majority of the culled news stories about the lumad dealt on the killing of their tribal leaders, their communities’ harassment by the intensified military operations, the attacks of the paramilitary groups, their being caught in the middle of counterinsurgency operations, the lumad have been associated with these meanings – “victims of militarization,” “evacuees,” “evacuation centers,” “displacement from their ancestral lands,” “extrajudicial killings,” “lumad slays,” “suspected communist rebels,” and “turf war.” Whose voices were heard in the news stories during the period? They were the Karapatan Secretary General, the town mayors and sector leaders, Senator Guingona, the Catholic diocese, the Redemptorists, the UCCP, and the Human Rights Watch of New York. These voices apparently became the sources of the reporters for their news. The lumad themselves are hardly heard to speak in the new stories. In a sense, they are voiceless.

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Street dancing contest in Malaybalay City. Photo by: Bobby Timonera

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The locales of the stories on lumad harassment and killings included Bukidnon, Davao del Norte, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur. In most news reports, the lumad tribes were not named. An interesting component of certain lumad stories involved their turf wars, their membership in the NPA, and their participation as NPA rebels. The turf war among the lumad had to do with military-backed lumad paramilitary troops who are used in either in counterinsurgency operations against other lumad communities suspected to be the communist supporters (NPA) or driving lumad communities away from their ancestral domains that will be taken over by mining companies, logging interests, and business plantations.

While assistance has been extended to the lumad communities by their respective mayors and sector leaders, the attacks on them and their turf war have not stopped.

Culture sensitivity in the media

Culture sensitivity in Philippine news seems to be an incidental element to news reporting. Among our reporters, it is accorded a form of indirect deference since it goes with time-tested basic journalistic values of accuracy, sourcing, and independence. However, even with the utilization of these values, the stories are far from culture sensitive. Rather they are inclined to support a position because of their news sources. In most instances, the news reports whether about muslims or about the lumad deal with critical situations. The crises arise from sporadic armed clashes and militarization in Mindanao. The reporters tend to collect and report the events based on military and police sources in the case of the muslims, and in the case of the lumad, the sources are

heads of human rights organizations, political leaders, the Catholic church, and the UCCP. It is these voices or sources that dominate in the stories. Stories on the muslims rarely give voice to the more moderate among them. Rather what are made prominent are the threatening voices of the muslim rebels or radicals. Lumad stories likewise rarely give space to the opinion of the ordinary affected lumad. Like the muslim stories, it is the lumad leaders supported by either the military or the NPAs and those involved in the turf wars and counterinsurgency operations, who are given the right to voice their opinions.

Analysis of the new stories show that reporters have inadequate knowledge of the muslim as a community, their practices and interaction, and of the lumad as a tribal group, their practices and interaction. This is probably the reason why the news reports are wanting in depth interpretation, critical cultural awareness, curiousity and openness, and finally fairness.

Culture-sensitive reporting clearly is not just an issue in language use. Language use is its more palpable surface manifestation. But its core is really open mindedness to and curiosity over another culture other than one’s own, possessing knowledge of a cultural community’s culture, its practices and interaction, interpretating and connecting a document or event to those of one’s own, and assessing critically the practices of the cultural community with a clear perspective ( M. Biram 2000).

This report is an abridged version of a paper with the same title, read at the Conference on Current Issues and Trends in Language and Literature: Globalizing the Local held in CASSalida Theater, College of Arts and Social Sciences, MSU-IIT, on 8-9 April 2016.

The author has a PhD in Communication from UP Diliman, an MA in Teaching English as a Second Language, an MA in Industrial Relations also from UP Diliman, and a Diploma in Advanced Research & Studies in Applied Linguistics at the Regional English Language Centre in Singapore. He has published his papers and poetry in various anthologies and in national and international journals. He was a member of the NCCA National Committee on Literary Arts and is currently a member of the National Committee on Communication. Recently, he received the UMPIL Gawad Alagad ni Balagtas for Waray poetry.

Kaamulan Festival in Malaybalay City. Photo by: Bobby Timonera

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THE INSTITUTE VARSITY TEAMS

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MSU-IIT is not really known as a sports powerhouse compared to other big universities in Manila.

However, when it comes to one man on campus, we are Titans.

As the sports development officer of the Institute, Dr. Cesar Tigas Miguel is at the forefront of efforts to develop our sports program, and carve a name out for MSU-IIT in Philippine sports.

And despite the lack of fancy sports equipment and adequate funding, the 57-year-old Miguel manages to make do with what is available and does a fine job of inspiring our athletes, the MSU Titans, to do their best to secure a respectable place at the top in various sports meets and competitions.

He also takes care that faculty and staff members are involved in sports by seeing to it that the four-month long SIGLAKAS games is held every year on campus and that the Institute has a strong presence in local tournaments sponsored by the Iligan Bay Chamber of Industries (IBCI).

As head of the Sports Development Office of the Institute, this native of San Agustin, Isabela goes the extra mile by initiating multiple extension activities annually, like developing awareness among the youth, and training them - including the trainers themselves - on water safety, flood survival, emergency response and rescue, and safety at sea.

Miguel and the Titansby Rex Godinez Ortega

The Institute Varsity teams

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These extension activities involve mostly water as Miguel also happens to be the founder, president, and head trainer of the National Alliance for Aquatic Safety and Disaster Preparedness, Inc.

In the recent MSU Athletic Association Meet held in Marawi, Miguel and the MSU Titans grabbed 2nd Runner-up honors for overall performance.

Last year, the leadership of Miguel and his staff of coaches galvanized the MSU Titans to deliver a dominating performance at the Iligan City Tertiary Schools Athletic Association (ICTSAA) Games and at the Pagadian City-held Mindanao Association of State Tertiary Schools, Inc. (MASTS) Games.

One victory of the Titans that always brings a smile to Miguel’s face whenever he recalls it is the championship at the Ultimate Frisbee Collegiate League (UFCL) 2015 that was held at Silliman University in Dumaguete City.

Silliman University is where Miguel earned his BS Education degree in 1987. During his student days there, he chaired several student organizations and was a varsity player for volleyball.

Dumaguete is also the place where Miguel nearly lost his life after figuring in a horrific motorcycle accident.

“The people who brought me to the [Siliman University Medical Center] hospital thought I was already dead or were sure I was going to die,” Miguel said.

But the young doctor on duty that night disagreed. The doctor apparently recognized Miguel, and in a calm voice told his distraught friends: “Gahi ni [This one’s tough].”

And the doctor was correct. After all, tough or tigas is literally Miguel’s middle name.

(That doctor who saved Miguel’s life that fateful night turned out to be this writer’s uncle - Dr. Roberto ‘Boying’ Godinez.)

Dr. Cesar Tigas Miguel is the former Chair of the Department of Physical Education who heads the Institute’s Sports Development Office since 2011. He holds a doctorate degree in educational planning and management from the Mindanao University of Science and Technology in Cagayan de Oro City and a Master’s degree in Physical Education from MSU-Marawi. Miguel is also very much involved in research, and won 2nd Best Paper Award in 2011’s Annual In-House Review of R&D Projects. He is married to Girlie B. Miguel, former Dean of the MSU-Marawi’s College of Public Affairs. They have two children who are alumni of MSU-IIT: Cesar Guidrone and Marielle.

About Dr. Miguel

Girls are just as competitive in a frisbee game

“Writing is driven by conflict, conflict over meanings that sometimes graduates into actual physical combat.

In general, fiction writing proceeds through conflict between characters, which, in the end, is a conflict between

values and ideas; likewise, poetry is anchored on tension. Clearly, without conflict, there will be no creative

writing. Without social conflict, Rizal would not have written Noli me tangere. If Adam and Eve did not run

into conflict with God, God would not have written the bible. Peace will make us writers obsolete. Hence, we

must write to make ourselves obsolete. But that will not happen, for there are forces much larger than ourselves

that will always allow for contestations over meaning”.

“On this note, I would like to thank the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, particularly

Dr. Christine Godinez Ortega, and the panelists from IIT during our time, the 1995 Iligan National Writers

Workshop, Dr. Anthony Tan, Dr. Jaime An Lim, and Dr. Steven Patrick Fernandez, and all other panelists –

I can recall Dr. Leoncio Deriada, National Artists Dr. Cirilo F. Bautista and Dr. Bienvenido Lumbera, and

Dr. Marjorie Evasco—and a host of other helpful people who have supported the growth and development

of Filipino writers through the Iligan National Writers Workshop. Perhaps these writers that nurture other

writers are secular saints. I hope we will not quarrel over the meaning of saints. Let us leave it at that, a

sustainer of human life, to the point of sacrifice, even if not everything about this sacrifice, or this life and

our future can be fully grasped, fully known, in our lifetime. Mabuhay and MSU-IIT! Mabuhay ang Iligan

National Writers Workshop!”

- Dr. Isidoro M. Cruz

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23rd

ILIGAN NATIONAL WRITERS WORKSHOP

On this note, Dr. Isidoro M. Cruz, Iligan National Witers Workshop (1995 INWW) alumnus and

keynote speaker during the 23rd INWW concluded his 20-minute keynote speech entitled “Conflict, Peace, and the Writer” that provided the tone during the opening program of the workshop on May 29, 2016 at the Cassalida Theatre.

Cruz made history as the youngest to become the 4th member of the University of San Agustin to be conferred the rank and academic title of ‘Professor’ for his outstanding contribution to liberal education as Dean and mentor and his contribution to literary research and scholarship. During the university’s centennial celebration, he was cited as Outstanding Augustinian of the Century for Culture and Arts.

He took his Ph.D. in Literature with high distinction from De La Salle University in 2007 where his dissertation was adjudged outstanding. He has won over five national awards for creative writing and a Palanca

INWWFellows

Krishna Mie Ceniza Zabate finished her Bachelor of Secondary Education major in Social Sciences and her MA in Applied Social Research at the Ateneo de Davao University. She writes poetry because she sees that the compact atomic words are very powerful in conveying reality.

Elsed Silfaan Togonon finished his AB Literature from the University of San Agustin. He has published his poetry and short stories.

Amado Arjay Babida Babon took his Bachelor o Secondary Education major in Social Studies at the Leyte Normal University. He sees that writing and hopes that the INWW will provoke his imagination to open another door for his writing explorations.

Eric John Biteta Villena is Cagayan de Oro City. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology at Xavier University where he received the Palihang Rogelio Sicat Award in 2015.

Saquina Karla Cagoco Guiam is from the Mindanao State Univerity, General Santos City where she finished her AB English degree. A poet, Karla wants to write fiction and non-fiction as well.

Charles Dominic Pelaez Sanchez is an AB Linguistics and Literature graduate of the University of San Carlos (USC). He is an editing reviewer at Tate Publishing Enterprises and is a part-time faculty at the USC Department of Languages and Literature.

Erwin Escarola Cabucos finished his Bachelor of Communications at the University of Newcastle, Australia and his Diploma in Education and his MA in Education major in English at the University of New England in South Wales, Australia.

Among the highlights of this year’s workshop included the launching of the 2015 Proceedings of the 22nd INWW entitled The Mythopoetic and Creative Writing edited by Godinez Ortega with cover design by Jez Orbe; and, the 8 Jimmy Y. Balacuit Literary Awards. Each winner received a cash prize and a certificate.

BalacuitAwardees

Rogene Apellido Gonzales is taking his MA in Filipino major in Malikhaing Pagsulat (Creative Writing) at UP Diliman.

Jack Aguid Alvarez is from Cagayan de Oro City but works in Saudi Arabia. He returned to the country to accept the writing fellowship in this year’s INWW. He has published novels and was recently shortlisted for his book “Ang Autobiografia ng Ibang Lady Gaga” in the recent search for the National Book Awards.

Al Bangcolongan Gra-as finished his undergraduate degree at the Lyceum of Iligan Foundation. He feels his most intimate or personal self when writing.

Josephine Villena Roque finished her Bachelor’s degree at the Ateneo de Manila University and is presently taking up her MA in Fine Arts at De La Salle University.

Dominic Paul Chow Sy just completed his Comparative Literature degree at the UP Diliman and is now enrolled in the MA in Araling Pilipino also at the same university;

Thomas David Fallarca Chavez is a faculty member of the UP Diliman’s College of Arts & Letters.

Arbeen Regalado Acuna is enrolled in the MA in Araling Pilipino at the UP Diliman.

Nal Andrea Cabao-an Jalando-on, from Koronadal City writes in Hiligaynon and hopes her fellow youth will support her advocacy in promoting Hiligaynon literature.

1st Apo sa ika-22

Siglo (Short Story

Filipino)

2ndAng Paborito Ni

Daddy (Short Story Hiligaynon)

3rdA Natural History of

Empire (Novel English)

Binilanggo sa Gugma (Poetry

Cebuano)

Guhit (Play Filipino)

Kagay-an (Novel Filipino)

Si Marcos Ang Pinakamagaling Na Presidente

(Poetry Filipino)

Can I Write Sex In A Poem, Sir?

(Poetry English)

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Prof. Allenn Lowaton , a faculty member of Electronics Engineering presented a research paper at the 2016 International Conference on Renewable Energy and Green Technology (REEGETECH) held at Harris Hotel and Conventions in Jakarta, Indonesia on April 12-14, 2016.

The title of the paper is “A Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Interface Circuit using Negative Voltage Converter” which is also co-authored with Engr. Qadier Jilluh, an MS Electrical Engineering graduate of MSU-IIT.

The said event was organized and hosted by the Universiti Malaysia Perlis, UNIMAP together with Malaysia Technical Scientist Association (MTSA). The aim of this international conference is in the development of the cutting edge technology related to renewable energy and green technology.

All accepted and registered papers of the conference will be published in Jurnal Teknologi, a Scopus-indexed journal. Researchers from Ukraine, India, Qatar, Indonesia, Malaysia and Japan attended the event. Prof. Lowaton was the lone representative from the Philippines.

The said conference was held along with the 2016 International Conference on Advanced Research in Material Sciences, Manufacturing, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Technology (AR4MET); and 2016 International Conference on Education (ICOED).

ECE faculty presents paper in Jakarta

Six faculty and 19 students of the College of Education presented papers in the 4th International Conference for Science Educators and Teachers (ISET 2016) at Khon Kaen University, Thailand on June 3-5, 2016.

The faculty members were Prof. Monera Salic-Hairulla, Prof. Joy R. Magsayo, Prof. May A. Cañedo, Dr. Josefina M. Tabudlong, Prof. Diamer B. Capilitan, and Prof. Amelia T. Buan. The students were Alexis Michael B. Oledan, April Rose P. Sarillana, Desiree Ann A. Yway, Dharel P. Acut, Everlita E. Canalita, Fredyrose Ivan L. Pinar, Hanifa T. Hadji Abas, Jessah Jean A. Cabalida, Jhunrhen Mae B. Banquiao, Joanna H. Homillano, Jonell B. Razo, Justine Martha O. Amodia, Katherine Grace Liwanag, Mark Joshua C. Carpo, Micha E. Gabule, Shalom Grace C. Sugano, Sittie Nor P. Cabaro, Sydney Gengos, and Victoria A. Tarranza.

30 papers were accepted for presentation, 16 of which were oral presentation and 14 were poster.

The three-day seminar-workshop was held to provide venue for closer collaboration between researchers and teachers to bridge the gap between research and classroom, exploring new pathways toward making research more immediately applicable in the classroom, and to make the classroom more responsive to new ideas and approaches emerging from research.

CEd faculty and students read papers in KKU by Michelle Jeanne C. Caracut , OPI

Prof. Allenn Lowaton

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The Ceramics Training Center (CTC) once more conducted its 2016 Summer training program with 18 kids.

CTC Coordinator Prof. Ephraim Ibarra told Gazette that this training program primarily has been offered to appreciate what ceramics is. The training program has been in existence for 10 years and has trained over 100 practitioners and enthusiasts from the general community, children and hobbyists.

Summer Ceramics Training Program

Yuko Olga Kirsten D. Ortega

Mitch Portialei Braza

Hayde T. Valero

GENESIS T. ALEGATA

A leader and volunteer, this 19-year old hails from Zamboanga del Norte and is taking BS Information Technology at the School of Computer Studies.

Gen, as he is called by many, is currently a senator of the Kataastaasang Sanggunian ng mga Mag-aaral (KASAMA) and the chairman for the Students Rights and Welfare. Being an ambassador is not new to him as he is a VR student ambassador of Virtual Reality, Philippines, a non-profit community dedicated in promoting the advancement of Virtual Reality technology in the country.

Moreover, he is an intern as a New Media Ambassador of Prisma (Projects: Resources, Insights and Management - a Social Media Approach)-European Network whose aim is to empower youth workers, youth leaders, and project managers in raising project management efficiency through social media tools and networking.

Previously the president of the DOST Scholars Association, and secretary of the Region X DOST SEI Scholars Guild, Gen is ready to face the challenges in MSU-IIT as campus ambassador.

APRIL KRISHNA O. CUENO

Of the seven ambassador applicants, this pretty BS Nursing student is the only female applicant. April previously joined and won in beauty pageants. Now, she wants to continue to be an inspiration and an example to others as campus ambassador. In addition to serving MSU-IIT, she would like to explore more being a leader and a volunteer and campaign for social awareness of medical and health problems that need attention.

April believes that she is ready to tackle the challenges of being a campus ambassador and that she will be able to make a difference.

JERMAE BENETTE V. DOLLETE

This campus ambassador comes from one of the landlocked provinces in Mindanao which is Cotabato City. Many know him as BJ, an AB English student who was the tournament director of last year’s 31st Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship and organizer and head of Promotions and Social Media in the US International Exchange Alumni Reunion, Development Workshop, Mangrove Planting and Outreach Activity.

Recipient of the 2011 Ambassador of Goodwill Award in the Philippine Youth Leadership Program in the United States, Jermae hopes to serve MSU-IIT the best way he can.

6 new campus ambassadors for 2016 by Michelle Jeanne C. Caracut, OPI

CHRISTI FIDELIS E. HINACAY

Dependable, fun-loving, diligent, hardworking. These are just few words to describe Christi. True to his desire to serve and to lead, Christi has been giving his time to do selfless actions. In fact, he serves as the cluster head and the Music Ministry head of the Youth for Christ (YFC) movement. He recently received a leadership award in a Red Cross Youth Facilitators’ Training and has joined several International Leaders’ Conference of the YFC.

An aspirant of the De La Salle brothers, Christi hopes that with his medical training in the College of Nursing and his leadership experiences, he can better serve MSU-IIT as campus ambassador.

JUNARD J. JUMALON

What better way to serve and to lead than being a campus ambassador and a KASAMA senator? Junard or Jun is an active student leader and communicator. He has been holding various positions such as treasurer, vice-president, president, news writer, photojournalist, nutrition ambassador, band major, lead dancer, lead cast, model, endorser, organizer, spoken word poet, and production manager for the last five years in several organizations. He has been participating in social events and in community service trainings. He has also been a presenter in academic conferences and in poetry jousts.

His communication skills have placed him in top ranks in radio broadcasting, field reporting, news writing, and debate competitions. In addition to these skills, his looks and his pleasing personality have earned him local beauty pageant titles such as Lakandula ng Kalikasan and Mister Nutrition in 2012.

VIKTOR ANDREW JASON C. REYES

It is rare to find someone who can be considered the total package. MSU-IIT found one and his name is Viktor. He is good-looking, athletic, and has a great personality.

The 5’8” BS Nursing student plays badminton and volunteers in medical missions. Previously the 3rd runner up in the Search for Mr. CON, Viktor believes that being a campus ambassador will boost his confidence and will help develop his communication and leadership skills, and to understand more the importance of working as part of a bigger team.

Aspiring to become a physician someday, Viktor is your guy when you think of honest service and care. Among this third batch of applicants, Viktor, the youngest applicant, simply stood out because of his ability to field questions and his quick, on the spot solutions to problems posed by the tough, panel of interviewers.

After the panel interview on April 26, 2016, six new campus ambassadors were chosen in the second Search for Campus Ambassadors this year.

At present, MSU-IIT has nine campus ambassadors. The Institute continues to search for more campus ambassadors who are dedicated, and who can uphold with passion the MSU-IIT’s vision, mission, and core values.