Aside from writing, they did...
Seniors rule JournSoc GA
Ma. Reina Leanne C. Tolentino
The Journalese
So, call me maybe?
Not even the UST Journalism Society escaped from this ever pervasive hit.
Last July 28, our future journalists celebrated a successful general assembly at the Benavides Auditorium, in a spirit not of mere camaraderie but more of friendship (PHOTOS).
With the theme, "Along with Writing, We Can?", each class showcased their talents and colorfully bright personalities. There were those who, aside from writing, proved that they could rock it out as a music band or even broadway musicals.
Seniors from 4JRN1 bagged home the coveted cash prize as they won this year's talent competition in their final GA. The judges, AJ Sanchez of the AB Dance Synergy and Diane Sy of the AB Chorale, along with the journ audience, enjoyed their showcase act which came with a touch of fairytale romance in an acting segment and with various genres of dance including hip-hop, folk and ballet. All this made even fun to the tune of Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen's hit single.
UST Journalism Society President Nenette Dizon said, “what we wanted for the GA is for it to become a venue for journ students to show their other talents. Of course we have this idea that the GA should be fun…the students should enjoy it.”
The assembly was a showcase of AB Journalism talent and pride in itself. JournBeatz, the Cypher’s defending champions, performed a classic dance number in the opening prayer, while the AB Chorale led the national anthem.
The trends or common themes among the presentations include current events, class stereotypes, and pop culture with mentions of the phrase "PBB Teens!" and dialogue patterned after no less than Boy Pick-Up.
Showing that along with writing they can break free, 3JRN2 won first runner-up with their acting and dancing skills while 1JRN3 snagged second place in another song-and-dance number showing the phyla of students in the classroom.
Music lovers 3JRN1 set the stage with a mash-up of today’s chart-topping songs followed by 1JRN2, who showed that they can have fun while being writers with a broadway and dance performance. The second year did a hodgepodge of talents and both the only two senior classes made production numbers, with 4JRN2 sharing their talents in playing the guitar and violin. Portions of their musical in Art Appreciation class last year were included, as was a clever pun mash-up of “Call Me Maybe” and “Payphone” before they put on their colored handcrafted graduation hats, tugging at everyone’s hearts.
Each class brought not only their presentations for the whole journalism society to enjoy, but their own props (some even tarpaulins) as well to cheer and express support for their class.
“Journalism students having participation in the society’s projects and events gives you a happy feeling,” Dizon admits, “because it is not only us officers who should give blood to the society.”
It has always been a tradition to build acquaintances among journalism students in their assembly but this time, deeper connections were encouraged.
In a gesture of amity, the students got introduced even just briefly with each other in the Call Me Maybe game, where each year level exchanged with one another strips of colored paper bearing pick-up lines and their number.
“We decided to include the game to serve as interaction. Even just a brief time for the freshmen, for example, to encounter their seniors. That’s why the mechanics was not to give the strips of paper to classmates,” Dizon said.
UST Journalism Society adviser Mr. Nestor Cuartero expressed surprise and wonder in his opening remarks regarding the bigger, and merrier, student gathering.
"It is the first time that the Journalism Society had a general assembly this fun," he said and quickly added, “and this large!”
"I'm surprised, why are you all in Journalism?" Cuartero teasingly quipped, eliciting claps and cheers from the students.
Amazed and happy at this population growth, Cuartero said he hopes that the students chose the Journalism field for a reason, not just for the sake of avoiding math which is jokingly tagged the purpose of taking up an AB course.
He affirmed that there are many in the journalism course who are adept at math, and he further said, “And our journalism graduates, they eventually work as business reporters.”
Cuartero said these are good signs, since more young people are encouraged to take up journalism, which for some is already dying with the advent of online and other non-print platforms for news.
The society adviser, who is also the feature writing professor in third year, encouraged the sophomores and freshmen to read the New York Times as this would help them in feature writing.
He also jokingly said that there was something wrong with the theme’s wording, but Dizon later clarified in an interview with The Journalese that there was no other way to convey writing as primary to the many other talents of a journalist.
“We used ‘along with’ instead of ‘aside from’ or ‘more than’ because writing is still the emphasis. Hindi siya pwedeng isantabi,” she said and added, “that is to say that we still take pride that writing is one thing that we can do and do well.”
What made the assembly markedly different was that even the Executive Board of the society, forgot that they were high-out officers for a while and performed a small number on stage.
"Para naman fair," Dizon said. The officers belted it out with the all-time barkada song "Alapaap" by the Eraserheads, while the rest of the students sang with them.
Also in contrast to the previous general assemblies, the writers, and outstanding achievers among the journalism students are acknowledged and given certificates of recognition this year.
The anticipated new lanyards were also given to each class during the assembly. This time, two emerged as the winners in the lanyard design-making contest, resulting in a back-to-back lanyard design. Chelin Hernandez of 3JRN2 won first place and 1JRN3’s Julianne Manreal grabbed second place.
“I don’t want to say we are successful, we are thankful that we are getting positive feedback but these (book fair and GA) are just the first two projects, so I would say that this is more of a challenge for us to do a better job in the next projects,” Dizon said. J
The Journalese
So, call me maybe?
Not even the UST Journalism Society escaped from this ever pervasive hit.
Last July 28, our future journalists celebrated a successful general assembly at the Benavides Auditorium, in a spirit not of mere camaraderie but more of friendship (PHOTOS).
With the theme, "Along with Writing, We Can?", each class showcased their talents and colorfully bright personalities. There were those who, aside from writing, proved that they could rock it out as a music band or even broadway musicals.
Seniors from 4JRN1 bagged home the coveted cash prize as they won this year's talent competition in their final GA. The judges, AJ Sanchez of the AB Dance Synergy and Diane Sy of the AB Chorale, along with the journ audience, enjoyed their showcase act which came with a touch of fairytale romance in an acting segment and with various genres of dance including hip-hop, folk and ballet. All this made even fun to the tune of Canadian singer-songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen's hit single.
UST Journalism Society President Nenette Dizon said, “what we wanted for the GA is for it to become a venue for journ students to show their other talents. Of course we have this idea that the GA should be fun…the students should enjoy it.”
The assembly was a showcase of AB Journalism talent and pride in itself. JournBeatz, the Cypher’s defending champions, performed a classic dance number in the opening prayer, while the AB Chorale led the national anthem.
The trends or common themes among the presentations include current events, class stereotypes, and pop culture with mentions of the phrase "PBB Teens!" and dialogue patterned after no less than Boy Pick-Up.
Showing that along with writing they can break free, 3JRN2 won first runner-up with their acting and dancing skills while 1JRN3 snagged second place in another song-and-dance number showing the phyla of students in the classroom.
Music lovers 3JRN1 set the stage with a mash-up of today’s chart-topping songs followed by 1JRN2, who showed that they can have fun while being writers with a broadway and dance performance. The second year did a hodgepodge of talents and both the only two senior classes made production numbers, with 4JRN2 sharing their talents in playing the guitar and violin. Portions of their musical in Art Appreciation class last year were included, as was a clever pun mash-up of “Call Me Maybe” and “Payphone” before they put on their colored handcrafted graduation hats, tugging at everyone’s hearts.
Each class brought not only their presentations for the whole journalism society to enjoy, but their own props (some even tarpaulins) as well to cheer and express support for their class.
“Journalism students having participation in the society’s projects and events gives you a happy feeling,” Dizon admits, “because it is not only us officers who should give blood to the society.”
It has always been a tradition to build acquaintances among journalism students in their assembly but this time, deeper connections were encouraged.
In a gesture of amity, the students got introduced even just briefly with each other in the Call Me Maybe game, where each year level exchanged with one another strips of colored paper bearing pick-up lines and their number.
“We decided to include the game to serve as interaction. Even just a brief time for the freshmen, for example, to encounter their seniors. That’s why the mechanics was not to give the strips of paper to classmates,” Dizon said.
UST Journalism Society adviser Mr. Nestor Cuartero expressed surprise and wonder in his opening remarks regarding the bigger, and merrier, student gathering.
"It is the first time that the Journalism Society had a general assembly this fun," he said and quickly added, “and this large!”
"I'm surprised, why are you all in Journalism?" Cuartero teasingly quipped, eliciting claps and cheers from the students.
Amazed and happy at this population growth, Cuartero said he hopes that the students chose the Journalism field for a reason, not just for the sake of avoiding math which is jokingly tagged the purpose of taking up an AB course.
He affirmed that there are many in the journalism course who are adept at math, and he further said, “And our journalism graduates, they eventually work as business reporters.”
Cuartero said these are good signs, since more young people are encouraged to take up journalism, which for some is already dying with the advent of online and other non-print platforms for news.
The society adviser, who is also the feature writing professor in third year, encouraged the sophomores and freshmen to read the New York Times as this would help them in feature writing.
He also jokingly said that there was something wrong with the theme’s wording, but Dizon later clarified in an interview with The Journalese that there was no other way to convey writing as primary to the many other talents of a journalist.
“We used ‘along with’ instead of ‘aside from’ or ‘more than’ because writing is still the emphasis. Hindi siya pwedeng isantabi,” she said and added, “that is to say that we still take pride that writing is one thing that we can do and do well.”
What made the assembly markedly different was that even the Executive Board of the society, forgot that they were high-out officers for a while and performed a small number on stage.
"Para naman fair," Dizon said. The officers belted it out with the all-time barkada song "Alapaap" by the Eraserheads, while the rest of the students sang with them.
Also in contrast to the previous general assemblies, the writers, and outstanding achievers among the journalism students are acknowledged and given certificates of recognition this year.
The anticipated new lanyards were also given to each class during the assembly. This time, two emerged as the winners in the lanyard design-making contest, resulting in a back-to-back lanyard design. Chelin Hernandez of 3JRN2 won first place and 1JRN3’s Julianne Manreal grabbed second place.
“I don’t want to say we are successful, we are thankful that we are getting positive feedback but these (book fair and GA) are just the first two projects, so I would say that this is more of a challenge for us to do a better job in the next projects,” Dizon said. J