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For UP students, summer of 2014 is unlike the previous years. Students miss their alma mater more because they’ll be spending extra two months in their homes. As most students leave the university early April, they’ll be back sometime August since academic shift for the entire UP System from June to August was already approved and implemented this academic year 2014-2015. Despite the opposition of some students, the new academic calendar will be taking effect in all campuses of UP including the University of the Philippines Cebu .  For UP Cebu , since I graduated last year, a lot of changes has been taking effect. The administration of Dean Corro has continuously done great things to improve the facilities of this university. When the visited the campus last week, I roamed around and noticed these notable changes: MORE. There will be additional tambayans in front of CSO. The renovation of the UP Cebu Library building is now ongoing. To add the good news, there ...

LITERARY. Celebrate #CebuLitFest on your social media by using the hashtag. JUNE 27, FRIDAY. It's a day about everything literary at Ayala Center Cebu! Discover the beauty of words in literary talks, moderated conversations, exhibits, demos, presentations, a book launch and a music and poetry jam at end of day during the event. The bonus: enjoy all of these treats for FREE! Cebu Literary Festival 2014 is presented by Little Boy Productions and the Cebuano Studies Center  in cooperation with the Arts Council of Cebu, Ayala Center Cebu, 22 Tango Records, Happy Garaje, Kenneth Cobonpue, Style Assembly, Steven Atenta, East West Café at the IT Park, Pepper Lunch, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, and Shakey’s. For details, call (032) 233-0452 or join this public event in Facebook . PROGRAM 1030am - Opening Remarks – Mayor Mike Rama 1045am – Talk: Ten Things You Need to Know about Being a Cebuano Playwright in NYC by Linda Faigao Hall 1145am – Pres...

TRAVEL. A free lecture about travel writing in UP Cebu. Are you a Cebu-based travel writer? Are you a travel writer whose currently in Cebu? Do you want to learn more about travel writing? Are you planning to document one of our future travels? Do you want to learn techniques  on how to be a better travel writer? If you have a YES answer to any of these questions,  we are pleased to invite you to the " UP Cebu Creative Writing Program Lecture Series.” This is a three-hour lecture from a renowned Asian travel writer Shivaji Das . He has given several talks on travel writing in Singapore, China, Indonesia and Brazil. This Singapore-based author of " Journey With the Caterpillar " (a humorous travelogue in Indonesia) will be having a lecture on Travel Writing on June 28, 2014, Saturday from 1:00-4:00 PM in UP Cebu AVR-2 . Admission is free. The novelist and PEN Awardee Gina Apostol and New-York based playwright Linda Faigao have previously conducted lec...

Wondering how to transfer the official academic costume of University of the Philippines ? Check out the animation below on how to transfer the UP Sablay : SABLAY. Photo above is taken from UPD OUR website. Here is also a video brought to you by the Engineering Student Council of UP Diliman:

The Candidates for Graduation of the University of the Philippines Cebu (UP Cebu) as of the end of the Second Semester/Trimester & Third Trimester, AY 2013-2014 as endorsed by the College Council on April 21,2014 are the following: Congratulations, mga Iskolar ng Bayan! You are encouraged to bring your UP Sablay during rehearsals on these dates  and here is also an animation on how to transfer your UP Sablay from left to right. Graduation will be on April 30, 2014. At this year's commencement rites, the valedictory speech will be delivered by Annie Fe G. Perez , BA Mass Communication, Class of 2014, magna cum laude, valedictorian. On the other hand,  Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago is also this year's commencement speaker. As of the latest update, the UP Cebu Graduation will be held at the UP High Grounds. 

ADVENTURE. Off to an adventure by visiting Medellin's Funtastic Island! I’ve heard of Gibitngil from my UP Cebu freshmen friends since they had an NSTP community outreach on that island. It’s in Medellin where the people in the community don’t have their own tap water (only one, at the Mayor’s) and their electricity is solar panel-generated (which was Earth-friendly!). It was my first time to hear of the name of Funtastic Island; I didn’t even know that it was located in Gibitngil. First off, the spelling of ‘Funtastic’ is incorrect. Well, I had that confusion at first when I tried to Google and spelled it as ‘fantastic,’ only then I realized it’s Funtastic (please don’t let me explain that they’re trying to link fun and fantastic, but there I said it already). Starting my indefinite summer by travelling to Funtastic Island isn’t a bad idea. It’s actually a stroke of a genius on-the-spot traveler! My friends-of-a-friend are on a weekend vacation and I decided to join the...

Below is the image of the copy of Instruction for the graduating students of the University of the Philippines Cebu  this SY 2013-2014. It contains the date of the rehearsals for the commencement rites and dress code for the Baccalaureate Service and Commercement Exercises.  (Trivia: Sablay is the official attire of the University of the Philippines .) Other universities or colleges that try to imitate UP's tradition call it on the different name.  GRADUATING? Here are the instructions for you on your graduation.