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Title: The Carolinian
Description: Official publication of the students of the University of San Carlos
Issue Date: Volume XXIX (Issue No. 3) January-February 1966
Publisher: University of San Carlos
Year: 1966
Language: English
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extracted text: UNIVERSITY OF THE PH LIBRARY I ★ I found the hills lonely, perhaps as lonely as I was. During the day, Lake Taal looked like painting alive before us and we could hear the winds whisper. In the night they were mighty cold and we could hear them yawn and roar like the laborious breath of a giant monster half-asleep in the night. I always wondered what became of the lake then. It was always a black void before me. All I could see was the flicker of distant lights across as they seep their way through the darkness. Funny how a little flame of light could conquer such a monster. It seemed to be as strong and as tender as the vigil light when it is all alone in a lightless room. Sometimes it made me feel quiet strong myself, the vigil light, I mean. ★ You know, there is this interesting thought about the religious: priests and nuns to be specific. I don't mean any harm. But, you see, it is often such a pity to see priests locked up in their schools all these years, living in a mild co-existence with the people. They preach, all right. But tell me what preaching can do. We preach about love but we do not love enough. Preaching in our times is a distant and im mobile thing — just like the pulpit. You see, there are things which we have to exper ience and to share like the air we breathe before we can even talk about it. But let us not start to criticize. Let us start to love. Then it wouldn't be too dark for the vigil light to penetrate. Sometimes people talk about queer things and some old things that we have often heard about. Perhaps you might find these funny. Perhaps they are. Perhaps they are not. I was thinking just how old man is. Was he ever young at all? Perhaps man has al ways been old because there has always been the old man in him. ★ But let's get back to the first topic — or maybe we can choose another one — let’s say — seminarians. As most of us have noticed, they are usually zealous, idealistic, sometimes radical. They are in one word "young". But as I said, man is old. And when seminarians go out into the world after their long isolation pro cess, they find the world so helplessly old and so destructively alien, even the old man in them is confused. How can they reach the people, how can they conquer others when these things are so alien to them? Reality and the world can be a clever enemy. You just have to know its tricks to overcome them. ★ Well, there's the ecumenical council and things are starting to change, just like the prevalence of radicalism in the minds of the young. Did you ever ask yourself why you count your fingers the way you do? The Ger mans count differently. The Americans count differently. Why do you count the way you do? Because that's how you've been taught to do it, so Bulatao says. Things like customs, traditions and con formity have been pressing upon the youth —maybe too much —and the youth have started to rebel. ★ Do you speak up when you feel that your Theology classes or any other class do not satisfy you? Do priests ever question the bishop? Do undergraduates ever ques tion why they cannot use the graduate section of the library as graduates do? Did you ever think of having your teacher changed because he doesn't teach well enough? Do you ever speak up when you don't like this article or any article for that matter? How many of them do because the rest are wearing them? Why do boys drink and stay away from the Holy Eu charist? Because that's what the rest of them believe to be manly. Well, conformity is a sad state just like when non-conformists do not conform for the sake of non-conformity. Let's not speak about sad things. What about the beetle hairdo? For most it is a sad state. For some it isn't. The moustache and the beard can be interest ing, as interesting as when you write like T. S. Eliot. Who said that Nick Joaquin's "Candido's Apocalypse", was an exag geration (or was it Nick Joaquin's at all?... I don't remember...) Most say yes. Some say no. Maybe it's all a matter of taste. Nick Joaquin can be quite in comprehensible, sometimes... maybe be cause I get tired when I read his stories, in spite of the truth in it. ★ There are just some times that you just can't move an inch. Just like writing. For months, the impulse just wouldn't come. You might still feel that it still hasn't come. Probably because one just wouldn't let it come. (My deep regrets to the Carolinian staff for being so delinquent.) ★ I wonder how the world would be if everybody knew how it is to feel the wind against your cheeks, your weight beneath the pavement as you walk, or the amuse ment you find in people's mannerisms, or maybe in the significance of the vigil light when all the lights are out in the small chapel. Sometimes things can be pretty stupid, or insensible, maybe even brutal or me lancholic. . .but not when you give them a second look. efliloria GREAT INTEREST to lay Catholics all over the world is the quite long overdue universal ecclesiastical recognition given to the laity as pos sessors of an active role in the Church and in its world-wide mission by the recently concluded Second Vatican Council. The Church, recognizing the dignity and the freedom of its members, acknowledges certain responsibilities in us laymen. By virtue of our baptism, we become not only Christians, but also a part of a living Church destined to play a definite role in the global mission. Whether in family, in society, in politics, in universal affairs, the Catholic layman carried with him the seeds of Christian charity, which is the touchstone of his Catholic faith. By his examples, by his utterances, by his deeds, the Catholic layman shares in the apostolic mission, and from him the teachings, the influences, the morals and the ethics of Christianity must creep into the crevices of family and social life, of national and international politics, through a moving stream that is the collective strength of half a billion Catholics. The Catholic layman must be a living force behind the making of subsequent Church history. The voice of the Catholic layman, now to be listened to, now no longer a solitary voice calling out in the wilderness of ecclesiastical predominance must be heard within the halls of Church assemblies, within the confines of his parish and diocese, now with more confidence in the fixed conviction of his definite and inalienable role. Where before the Catholic layman cringed with fear of being sacrilegious in his investigations and in his utterances on matters that seriously disturb his conscience as regards his faith in the light of modem thinking and practices, now he is welcomed, his ideas treated with respect and given due consideration. For after all, Christ founded the Church not for the priests alone, not for the bishops alone, not for the cardinals alone, not even for the the Pope alone; but for each and every member of the Mystical Body of Christ, for each and every pagan, non-Christian, or non-believer who seeks to find the Light and the Truth. The Church was founded with a mission, the fulfill ment of which hinges on the total involvement of us all, lay or religious. The document issued and approved by the Second Vatican Council on "The Apostolate of the Laity" indeed marks a progressive change in the heretofore un official attitude of the universal Church towards the role and the capacity of Catholic laymen to contribute in no small measure to the fulfillment of Christ's injunction.. ."Go ye and teach all nations..." All Catholics must realize the impact of this change and, realizing it, act now and play his role in the drama of the living Church which from the moment of his conversion has already been rightfully his. MARCIANO LL. APARTE JR. T^Oute to THE CAROLINIAN: is ^out JKagazine CAROLINIAN CoJUfh. SbMy. ™E SECOND VAT A TWENTIETH CENTURY event that will surely go down in history was the Second Vatican Council that ended last year. Viewed and reviewed fairly, critically, sarcastically by believers and non-believers alike, it captured the attention of international publications and was considered by billions who followed its sessions with extreme eagerness as an event of vital and supreme im portance. The news of its opening on October 1 1, 1962 was on the same footing with the news of the massive advancement of Science, e.g., the sending of men up in space and the successful production of megaton bombs that will surely cause mega-death if used (God forbid) by war-loving devils. A rare event in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, it was the 21st Ecumenical Council since the Council of Nicaea held during the 4th century A.D. — on the 20th of May, 325, to be exact. When the news of the Second Vatican Council spread all over the world, laymen and prelates and pro testants alike were shocked, stunned, overjoyed. It was not, however, a reckless, overhasty decision. The idea was in the making for three years, when the late Pope XXIII rifled it out on January 25, 1959 on the Church Princes after he heard Mass in the patriarchal basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls. The day was the feast of the conversion of St. Paul. It was a deliberate decision. Or to quote from Pope John XXIII himself, it was "the best prepared council in history." But although there was an over whelming approval of the idea by various religious sects, dissenters could not be silenced with their protest. Their unified voices echoed like thunder and the Vatican found out that it could not be ignored. TIME Magazine in its issue of October 5, 1962, reported: "Some Ger man bishops, who felt that many of the questions likely to come up before the council had not yet been suffi ciently clarified by the theologians, asked the Pope to postpone Vatican II for at least 15 years. Many Curia Professionals made no secret of their dismay, seemed POPE JOHN XXIII to have no clear idea of what the Pope wanted the council to do." But the Pope had made up his mind: The Second Vatican Council must be carried out; time was ripe for it. And the dissenters gave way to the idea of the Pape Two THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 by COEUR DE LION .Sta^ JKembet ICAN COUNCIL POPE PAUL VI majority. The preparations started. TIME reported: "Requests for agenda items were sent to every Catholic bishop, to religious orders and theological faculties at Catholic universities. About 75% of the clerics sent in replies. Compiled into twelve volumes of 7,981 pages, the replies proved to be an encyclopedia of churchly self-criticism, which ten pre paratory commissions and two secretariat, set up by the Pope in June 1960, boiled down to a working agenda of 129 proposed subjects." It was, indeed, a massive undertaking. It cost not only time and energy but also money and mental power. OUR CENTURY NEEDS VATICAN II THE WORLD is changing; it is no longer the same world the past generations have known: the world of established values, moderation and comfort. The twen tieth century is a world of tremendous progress espe cially in the field of physical sciences where man seems to exert all his resources, talent and time. Ours, too, is a world of fear; man trembles before his own inventions. Living in a changing and confusing society, man finds himself clutching the old faith, only to be tempted to re ject it and to join the army of unbelievers suffering from Sartre's nausea and Camus' absurdity. Our generation has experienced the monstrousity of the two World Wars, the worst catastrophe the world has ever known. It is at present divided into power blocs, into different ideologies, into bitter prejudices. Twentieth century man lives in a time of crisis; and if we were to believe the pronouncements of the pessimists, we are all marching toward doom. To main tain man's sanity and dignity, individual problems should and must be taken into serious consideration. There is need for re-evaluation and re-affirmation of faith and values. And the Church is aware of this all. Hence, the decision to have another Ecumenical Council. Within the span of 92 years since the last General Council (Vatican I, 1896-1870), serious problems which were unheard of in the 19th century have cropped up. The Church finds herself in an uneasy position if she were to condone the decisive issues of the day and the January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Three "spiritual diseases" undermining the souls of her child ren. Something must be done. Drastic measures are necessary. The Church, once again, must define her position, evaluate theological questions raised by theologians, Catholics and non-Catholics alike, to summon lost child ren back to the right path, to work for better under standing of the various religious sects (instead of ex changing insults, why not exchange ideas?). Besides, there is a need to clarify the decisive issues of the day: religious freedom, liturgy, the role of the Church in the modern world, etc. This must be remembered, how ever: the Church cannot repeal dogmas formulated by past councils or by past popes. The Church, to repeat, is a living organism, and the living are looking at her as their guide especially in our time when many have abandoned their faith and become like idiots in the crossroads without any sense of direction. There never was a time that the Church rejected any challenge forged from the chaotic womb of our chaotic world, no matter how critical or constroversial it was. She has never taken the side of mere passivity when crucial questions and debates were in vogue. She is and she has always been an active participant in world affairs. The Second Vatican Council is a gesture of ac ceptance of the challenge posed by the twentieth cen tury which is, no doubt, one of the most crucial chal lenges since the birth of Christianity. It must be re membered that in our time, one false move of the wary World Powers would mean a nuclear war — the kind of war nobody can win and survive. AND THE AGGIORNAMENTO STARTED On October 11, 1962, the historic Ecumenical Council began. Attended by 2,300 council Fathers, it cost the church a total of $20,000,000—half a million cups of coffee and 1.2 million ballots included. Within the sacrosanct walls of the sacrosanct Basilica of St. Peter, the aggiornamento of the Roman Catholic church was in the making. More than 550 million Catholics all over the world waited for its development, not to mention the watchful eyes of world correspondents flocking the Vatican like hungry doves. On that memorable day, TIME magazine report ed: "In the Vatican Council, the Catholic Church will also be measuring itself against what is new in the world sciences burst of knowledge, morality's blurred standards, secularism's indifference to religion, indus trialism's urban crowding and automation, politics' wars and swift reapportionments of power. In trying to grapple with such problems, the Council may disap pointingly settle for a series of revised clubhouse rules, more cautious than venturesome. But millions of the church's faithful — and others, too — are praying that good men will be guided to a larger effort, a re newal of spirit rather than law." While Catholics said special prayers, millions of Protestants also were praying for the success of the Ecumenical Council, hoping that it would be on the same footing with the World Council of Churches As sembly in New Delhi way back in 1961. However, on June 3, 1963 Pope John XXIII, the architect of the massive undertaking, died. There was a pause. On June 21, 1963 a new Pope was elected — Pope Paul VI. On the day of his election, he was at once aware of the heavy burden he had to carry: the unfinished Ecumenical Council. In the TIME issue of September 24, 1965, Pope John XXIII and Pope Paul VI were compared. TIME calls Pope John as "an intuitive, charismatic prophet who threw open the windows and doors of the church to let in fresh air without worrying about — or even fully understanding — the consequences." The incum bent Pope appears to TIME as "a detached and pain stakingly analytical technician who has left the windows open — but who keeps checking the thermometer lest any cold drafts sep in." But according to TIME his style is "A search for balance and order — a goal that runs the risk of ambiguity, of settling for surface rather than substance." And it goes on to say what some clergy and laymen say about Pope Paul VI: that he is "a puzzle, an enigma, a Hamlet." With Paul's visit to the Holy Land and New York, he breaks the contention that popes are "prisoners of the Vatican." THE MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS OF VATICAN II The major documents approved by the Council put to shame the pessimistic anticipation of skeptics; they shatter the contentions of godless critics and re ligious haters. The documents all point out to the objective of the Second Vatican Council: aggiornamento. They are the solutions of the problems faced by the Church and her children living in the twentieth century. They make the Church modern, and up-todate institution, not a relic of the past like broken irons. The fresh air of the twentieth century has swept out the ancient dust of the sacrosanct halls of the ageold church. Now that the windows and doors of the Cathedral are opened the world can view it better, un derstand it better, evaluate it better. Benedictine Godfrey Diekman, editor of WORSHIP magazine, and himself an expert in liturgy, wrote: "The bishops at the beginning were not especially en thusiastic. Many of them, of course, had been occu pied with pastoral works and were not especially knowl edgeable about recent developments in theology and liturgy. Perhaps the greatest achievement in the Coun cil has been that in these areas where one would not normally expect a real deepening of understanding, just that has happened in only four years." The four-year session has done so many things: it shapes new visions for the world to heed and cogitate; it outlines the future move of mankind for the better and not for the worst; it gives new perspective, new Page Four THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 dimensions, as wonderful as man's initial triumph of space exploration, to mention a few. NEWSWEEK reported: "At the start, those blue prints had seemed fanciful to many, catastrophic to some. But as session followed session, what an Ameri can peritus called 'the new theology, a pastoral and ecumenical theology,' won the minds and the votes of the bishops. The victory also marked the return to grace of theologians who had been in disfavor, if not actually in disgrace, before Vatican II convened. Once under pressure from the Holy Office for their doctrines, French theologians Yves Congar and Henri de Lubac are now mentioned as possible cardinals at Paul's next consistory." The labor that lasted for four long years was not at all disgusting. Vatican II, in more ways than one, was a success. It shatters the crazy anticipations of skeptics; it wins the attention of the world; it captures the front pages of newspapers the world over; the praises of the world leaders. Here are the major re sults of the massive undertaking: On Divine Revelation. The question on Divine Re velation was one of the most decisive questions raised during the Council. Just as the world today is divided into power blocs, the theologians are also divided into two main groups: those that adhere to the "Two-source" theory and those that insist that the only source for revelation is the Scripture, and that tradition is "no thing more than the church's living, unfolding inter pretation of the Holy Bible." The approved document contains a lengthy treatise which emphasizes the role of Scripture rather than tradition, although it is added, through the request of the Pope that the Church does not get her "certitude concerning revelation only from Scripture." The docu ment aims to "merge into unity" Scripture and tradi tion. However, it acknowledges the Bible to have a "more central role in the life of the Church." Scholars on the Scripture, Catholics and Protestants alike, are encouraged to go on with their research. To prevent a too literal interpretation of the Holy Bible, The treatise also makes it clear that the Bible teaches "firmly, with fidelity, and without any error, the truth which God, for our salvation, wanted put down in writing in Holy Writ, whose historicity the church constantly affirms." Bishop James Patrick Shannon, Auxiliary of St. Paul, Minnesota, has this to say: "This (the document on Divine Revelation) contains the basis for the church attitude toward the world for centuries to come." On Liturgy. This liturgical reform allows the use of modern languages and vernacular languages to re place Latin in most parts of the Mass and sacraments. The document On Liturgy has brought about external changes only, for essential meanings and purpose re main the same. Three documents were responsible for the change: The Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, Dec ember 4, 1963; Motu Propio, January 24, 1964; and the Instruction for the Proper Implementation of the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, September 26, 1964. Rev. Frederick R. McManus, president of the National Liturgical conference and official consultor for the Ecumenical Council, says that one contradiction in the rite of the Mass has been partially corrected: "Three of the most solemn and public prayers recited quietly by the priest will be sung or said aloud for all to hear and respond to. They are: the prayer over the offerings, called the secret prayer; the concluding Eucharistic prayer, and the prayer for deliverance from evil and for peace, which is added to the Lord's Prayer. "On principle, the celebrating priest will no longer recite publicly or quietly any text of a prayer or read ing that is said or sung by others, whether by the people or by the choir in case of chants and hymns. . .This change is intended to make clear the distinction of roles or parts in the liturgy, with each one — priest or layman — taking his own part." Of the change, Pope Paul VI has this to say: "Are these changes for the better or not? Surely it is for the better." The Pope is right. Because of the change, the Mass gains new life, warmth, and better participation from the laymen. On Religious Liberty. The text on religious liberty, one of the most controversial schemata discussed dur ing the council, was approved, nonetheless by an over whelming majority: 1,997 to 224. The time the voting was over, Dr. Dana McLean Greeley, Boston's Unitarian observer at Vatican II quips: "This is perhaps the great est day of the council." On October 1, 1965, TIME reported: "What made the vote on liberty statement especially significant was that the progressive majority thwarted a last-minute conservative maneuver to shelve the document entirely — and it won with the help of Pope Paul." Based on divine revelation and the "very dignity of human nature," the treatise on religious liberty stressed that "no one can be forced to act against his conscience." The state has no right to impose to in dividuals any form of religion; also it cannot prevent its citizens from leaving or joining religious sects. The declaration bolsters the broad-mindedness of the Catho lic Church: that it respects man's conscience, dignity and freedom. TIME issue of December 17, 1965, points out the important provision of the declaration: that "all men have a duty to embrace Catholicism once they recognize its truthful claims. . ." The document was received enthusiastically. The general comment was in conformity to what the Spanish prelates have ut tered: Muy bien. On the Church in the Modern World. NEWS WEEK issue of December 20, 1965, summarizes it thus: The document "guides, rather than determines, the Church's attitude toward such complex problems as atheism, poverty, nuclear war and parenthood. Here the Church's Fathers were realistic in their treatment of atheists, firm in their opposition to the nuclear bal ance of terror." The complexity of this document was bolstered by (Continued, on page 13) January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Five CEBU PRCOO' g4Sick^binoiaur FOR A CITY with only about 300,000 inhabitants, Cebu City is supporting and feeding a press of dinosaur proportions. At the mo ment, the city is flooded by small newspapers and magazines “The Republic News”, “The Morning Times”, “The Cebu Star”, “The Advocate” and “The Youth”, all of which are engaged in a nip-andtuck affair for the head and heart of the Cebuanos. Although through tacit agreement, not all papers are published on the same day, the field is still too crowded for com fort. Obviously, the laws of the jungle will determine which of the many will survive. The grim strength of reality will force some one out of the overcrowded boat. II A most common complaint of the spectators of this competitive battle to the death is the limited scope of the newspaper coverage. By leaving the international and national news to the Manila dailies, the Cebu papers may be digging their own graves. Realizing one’s own limitations is laudable, but fear to venture is despicable. This self limitation is as short-sighted as locking oneself into a cornerThere’s no hope of a way out! The Cebu papers do not even cover foreign affairs, yet they publish out-of-the-country stories. The knowledgeable readers can easily see that what foreign news the papers have are free press re leases from the consulates, etc., printed usually verbatim; but the unwary reader is deceived into be lieving that these USIS originated materials as genuine news. To be honest, the papers should label these propaganda materials as propaganda or else stop playing wastebasket for the foreign PROs. Nobody can accuse the local pub lishers for not trying to keep up with the national news, but every body can see that they do not try hard enough. Some papers have Manila correspondents, but most local newsmen just prefer to re write those national news items that are of local interest from Manila papers. But more likely than not, the journalist presumes that these readers have Manila papers and let national news alone. Thus, na tional affairs are printed between long stretches of time and like a neglected mistress seldom sees her keeper. Local news, being the primary beat of most local reporters, is presumed to be well covered but pathetically this is seldom the case. The reporters often can not see what is five feet beyond their noses. They see only the floating part of the iceberg; the submerged part, the greater part of the news seldom sees print. This lack of depth reporting can be the fatal blow that may knock out the surviving members of the press. The back ground, the significance of the news need assessment, yet they are rarely assessed. The fundamental question “why” is left hanging in the air, waiting to be answered. In the analysis of local affairs, Cebuanos often have to rely on Ma nila pen-pushers who come across the scene on in passing, yet the scribblings of the outsiders are far superior to the silent answers of the local press. While hard-core news is lack ing, sensationalism is much in abundance. This can only mean two things: crime and politics. The distant town is seldom covered, but if a crime is committed there, it never fails to make the front pages. Constructive programs and effective legislation get only a brief review while mud-throwing politi cians always hit the headlines. Certainly, Cebu has other gratify ing elements aside from politics and crime. Ill As if running out of news, many reporters assume the role of a rumor-monger. They hide behind the smoke screen of anonymity and issue reports full of press jar gons such as “reliable sources said” and “high city hall officials an nounced”. While many of these re ports may be genuine leaks and trial balloons of government offi cials, many more are straight head speculations. Day-dreaming news men let their imaginations run wild and put words into the mouth of nonexistent sources and pass off the rumor as gospel. Unless this br Henry L. Ormoc A.B.-III abusive use of press jargon is curb ed, the press as the torch bearer of truth will receive a black eye. Some local papers seem to be particularly fond of distorting the news. It is an open secret that these distortions are but the ser vices expected of them from their boss — the Politician. While par tisan press has its own use, editors should not allow their papers to degenerate into mere party organs. The fate of the now defunct “Daily News”, is a lesson for all prac ticing journalists. Partisanship in editorial policy may be justified, but news should never be colored by blind loyalty. Unfortunately, some biased editors can not keep news and editorial functions apart. If one is to be lieve these papers, some of our local politicians must be incarnated satans, all black, no white. Slanted writing, unfavorable placement, de liberate omission and misleading headlines are constantly employed against them to serve the whims of the powers that be. Knowing that newspapers should be the last to spurt ink of hate and dissension, these editors are the first to sow seeds of confusion, viciousness and bitterness among the people. But the public knows who are thriving on this charivari of mud-slinging, sloganeering and brouhalas; this knowledge will sound the death knell of personal journalism. IV The tabloid format seems to be the mark of the local news. While this size is versatile, and easy,.to handle, the Cebu newsman has yet to realize and utilize its full po tentials. Tabloids can carry photos with great impact, yet photography is rarely used to its full advantage. The colorless and lifeless portrait prevails, thus one finds eternally smiling politicians on the front page. Sadly, modern photo-journ alism still has to see light in the local press. (Continued on page 47) Page Six THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 LITERARY FEATURE YOUNG POET: Rage, Rage, Rage Against the Dying of Light! by MANUEL SATORRE, JR., College of Law IV . .no one comes so near the invisible world as the sage and the poet, unless it be the saint — who is but one spirit with God, and so infinitely closer to Him than anyone. I also point out the benefits men receive from poetry. Though in themselves no help to the at tainment of eternal life, art and poetry are more necessary than bread to the human race. They fit it for the life of the spirit." THE ANGUISH OF THE YOUNG POET is his rage, seem ingly like a tiger leaping from his heart, struggles inadvertently for immediate recognition; and within a short span of his growing mind, he buries himself in an asylum of love-starved metaphors and similes and creates, passing himself for a king and god. But in his burst of passion, what is actually achieved is never poetry but only a rage dying out quietly in a sad whim per. For in his rage, there arises a clear disparity bet ween his poetic intention and the finished product, which is, of course, his verse. And slowly, he peters out and loses himself in a world of obscurity and dark poetry. In this period of obscurity, the young poet lives in isolation and thinks. He begins to discover himself, the limits of his knowledge and the dullness of his sensations. Then he rises from his grave and seeks out the world: the pulsating world of songs, of life, of churches and tabernacles and of domes and labyrinths. And one day, he finds himself inside a writing workshop discussing, probing the mystery of his art, polishing the vulgarity of his craft. Yet, in the midst of this con fusion, his rage rises again. But this time it is more subdued, no longer hungry for recognition but still fraught with ambition. What am I looking for? cries his voice and he descends into the world of T. S. Eliot. And after a taste of Eliot, he begins to measure his life with coffee-hospitals and telephone poles and declares: "Where am I?" Then he writes: “Dylan Thomas rages within me, And the flowers in the garden Wonder in their loud silence: Do I dare disturb literature?” Do I dare disturb the universe? Anguish seems to be the beginning of almost all young poets. It is an indecision akin to the symbols of heaven or hell and the predicament of Hamlet. And yet, strangely though, in their first outburst, the young poets seem to be held by some mystical hand that in their anguish, they would not care to stop but instead continue burying them selves in dilapidated typewriters in some solitary rooms, — JACQUES MAR1TAIN — seeking, groping and searching for the lost syllables of their spirits. To a young poet, there are no arrivals nor de partures; what matters is only time and the endless rage against the dying of light! But what good would his rage be without the light? Perhaps what we would mean by light is simply this: it is not enough that the young poet has the rage, he must also have the proper perspective and direction; for in considering every thing, he must know when to stop and know that he has finally discovered what he has been probing for years. In his rage, Dylan Thomas explains the light: "Whatever is hidden should be made naked. To be stripped of darkness is to be clean, to strip darkness is to make clean. Poetry, recording the stripping of the individual darkness, must inevitably cast light upon what has been hidden for too long, and by doing so, make clean the naked exposure." This is the rage of Thomas. But could this also be the rage of the young poet? It is sad to say that while the young poet rages for the cry of Thomas and Eliot, he has failed to discover that his rage for light can never be resolved without returning to the triviality of the roots of his anguish. The rage of the young poet can first be resolved thus: in this sound and fury, he has neglected the basic elements of poetry; it has not occurred to him that without knowing and learning the fundamentals of his art and craft he can never possibly hope to arrive. The young poet would have us believe that the moon and stars and the universe are within the hollow of his palms; and that, the world in his anguish dimi nishes its light and awaits his arrival. But actually the truth is: it has not occurred to him that without raging, he can make a good start and possibly hope to arrive; and that his poetry can achieve divinity only when he goes back to the basic things and these things, we might say, are the proper use of the poetic materials. The study of the poetic craft is like learning the funda mentals of boogie-woogie. The comparison might look quite ridiculous, but it is appropriate. We start with (Continued on page 36) January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Seven Skwit £twuf. And we Owner CPME by 'Raoul TSrioues College of Engineering (Chemical) “I’ETEK,” Eric said, "what is the eighth planet from the sun?” “Why, Neptune, of course,” Peter readily retorted. “How about this: Who was the first man?” “Moses—I mean, Adam.” “Bright boy! Now here’s another: What is eter"ity?" “I think it’s something that makes a man stern.” “No... But if you give me the right answer I’ll buy you a coke at Lynn’s. Again, what is eternity?” “Hmm... Now I know! It’s the sacrament that makes a boy and a girl become husband and wife.” “Ohh.. .” “You mean it’s wrong? And I couldn’t have that coke?” “W-Well, come on. What are you waiting for? Lynn’s going to miss us.” “You mean you’ll buy me a coke anyway?" “Yes.” “You heard what he said, Rover? Let’s go, boy. He’s taking us to Lynn’s!” “Don’t hug that dog too much. Do you want to itch to death with fleas?” “Who’s got fleas? Rover? Why, he’s the cleanest dog you’ve ever seen. We bathe together — that’s at least twice a day.” Peter placed the bottle of coke on the table and resumed cuddling the curly, milk-white fur of the dog. “You don’t have fleas, Rover. You are clean. And don’t believe Eric when he says you got fleas because it’s not true. But don’t get mad at him either because he’s my good brother. Here — have some. Go on, sip it... Oh, not that way! Here, I’ll show you how —” “Peter! don’t do that!” Eric flung the bottle away from the boy. There was a sharp, shrill clatter of glass against concrete. “Don’t you ever do that again, Peter! It’s dangerous. Why are you that stup — I mean, don’t do that again, huh, Pete? Lynn, give him another bottle, please.” “I don’t want a coke — not from you anymore!” “Oh, Peter, I was just trying to help you. You don’t want to die of rabies, do you?” “Yes!” “And leave Rover all alone — not fed, bathed and "I-I mean — No, I don’t want to die.” THE CAROLINIAN “That's better. Now, we’ll forget it— okay?” “O-Okay.” “Peter, I wonder who is the real owner of that dog.” “Why, me, of course!” “Oh, you’re not telling me that nobody owned Rover before you found him wan dering around the neighborhood two weeks ago, are you? Then, what if the owner comes here to claim the dog? It’s possible, you know. That’s why I’m tell ing you not to be too close to him so that you’ll not be so worried when—” "Yes, I see what you mean. You don’t have to tell me! Why, if the owner comes here to get Rover, I’ll just return him and bid him goodbye — that’s all!” Eric said nothing. He was certain that it would not be as simple as that. Then, he remembered the day Green Peck died, Peter’s pet parrot. “Where’s Heaven, Erice?” “It’s somewhere very far above us... up beyond the clouds... beyond the skies .. .beyond everything.” "Is it very far from here?” “Yes, very. Why do you ask?” “Mama told me Green Peck’s gone to Heaven.” "Oh, that...” “I just wonder how one gets to Hea ven... Do you know how, Eric?” “Yes — I-I mean it’s quite complicated. You see, one has to be old, so very old that he can’t walk or eat or breathe any more — when he becomes useless to the world — then, God takes him to Hea ven.” “But Green Peck’s not old and useless yet — I still need him — why did God take him to Heaven?” "You know, Peter, birds are not like human beings — they get older very much more quickly than us.” “I don’t believe that!” “It’s true.” “No! God shouldn’t have taken Green Peck away yet because I still need him — I still love him...” Peter did really mourn for his dead parrot for some time. But days later, a horror movie the two brothers saw in which a bird vampire was the villain had made the child forget Green Peck. Now Eric wondered what movie could possibly do the job if the owner of Ro ver would come to take the dog back. “Eric, I think I want that coke after all.” “That’s good Peter! Lynn, another bottle of coke, please. And I’m very sorry about that other bottle being broken.... I’ll just pay for it.” "Eric,” “Yes?” “Eternity is forever.” “Why, you bright boy! You finally got it!” “Eric,” “Yes?” “Rover...” “Yes, what about Rover?” “You really think the owner will come and take him away?” “I said it’s possible.” “I won’t let anybody take Rover away from me!” “Oh, Peter, don’t say that...What if he is a little boy just like you and just as fond of Rover as you are...do you think he is happy with his dog being away from him all this time?" “N-Now I see what you mean... He caw take Rover with him after all. And I wouldn’t be in the least worried about it. Can you believe that? Can Mama pos sibly believe that I wouldn’t be worried when the owner takes Rover away? Just don’t tell her about it now, though. I want her to get shocked or something.” “I’m sure she’ll be shocked." “Do you think he’s brighter than me?” “Who?” “That boy who owns Rover.” “Ohh... No, I don’t think so.” “So you just don’t think so — but he may really be brighter than me.” "No, Peter. I’m sure you’re brighter than him.” “Honest?” “Honest. You are the brightest boy in the whole wide world.” “Eric,” “Yes?” “I think you’re the greatest brother of the brightest boy in the whole wide world.” “Eric, has Peter gone?” “Yes, Ma. And he was a little upset because the school-bus got here late.” “Well then, how about you — do you have a class today?” "Yes, Ma. Nine-thirty.” “Dino is sick and can’t get up. Would you please drive me to the office?” “Sure. I’ll get the keys first.” “No need... I have them already. Here...” "Thanks. Well, let’s go.” “So, this old car won’t start again?” “It would...it’s just the weak bat tery, — well, now, here you are. Hear that? I guess an engine purr is one of the most beautiful sounds I ever heard...” “Oh, Eric, I don’t have any time for that... I’m late already.” "All right, Ma.” “Now what has that?" “Maybe a piece of wood or a rock Peter placed against the tires. Just wait here .. .1’11 go and see.” “Yes —and hurry up!” ‘C-Come out here. Ma!” “Now — what is it?” “I-It’s Rover, Ma.” “Why, what about the dog?” “C-Come and... see.” “Yes, I’m coming...Oh God! It’s Ro ver!” The stout neck of the dog was now under the left-rear tire of the car. Thick, red blood oozed from its awesomely de formed mouth; its tongue stuck out to the concrete flooring of the driveway. The forepaws were stiff and rigid and the milk-white fur was stained with blood. Eric saw the pair of green eyes that bulged out from their sockets staring at him, as if they were desperately plead ing him to erase the terror they were suffering. “Poor dog.” “Yes. He was probably sleeping under the car when... Ma, what are we going to do now? We can’t tell Peter that—” “No, we won’t. You just take the dog ... and bury him at the back of the garage.” “All right. Now, step aside a little, Ma... You’ll get your shoes bloody.” “Ma, I think that’s the school-bus now.” “Yes, I know... and don’t torture yourself being so sorry... it was not your fault that—” “Rover! Rover! Where are you, boy? Rover! Rover! Come out now, boy, it’s time for our bath... do you want Eric to tell again that you have fleas?” “T-That’s Peter now, Ma.” “Ma! Eric, have you seen Rover around? Eric, have you seen my dog?" “I’m v-very sorry, Peter, but Rover is d—” “Eric, don’t!” “Why? What is it, Ma? — What hap pened to Rover?” “Y-You know Pete, the owner of the dog... a sweet little boy of your age... came here this morning while you were in school, and took Rover with him.” “You m-mean h-he...” “Yes, Pete, but don’t worry, dear... I’ll—” “Who’s worried — ? Ma... if you were that little boy who owns Rover, do you think you’d be happy to be so far from the dog you’re very fond of?” With a wink at his brother: “Right Eric?” “Y-Yes, that’s right, Peter.” “Oh, Eric,” “Yes?” "Here’s the payment for that broken bottle.” The MOTHER gave him a quizzical look. January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Nine Juvenile Delinquency by FULVIO RIVERA AGUILAR. Commerce-I ... “Young Medical Intern Killed by Teenagers” ... “Victim of Mass Rape Died” ... “Son of a Millionaire Figured in Holdup Case” .... etc. etc.... THESE ARE SOME of the many tragic and sickening daily occur rences carried by newspapers with even young people belonging to good prominent families involved. Yes, juvenile delinquency has nowbecome such a great national pro blem in this land, so-called the bul wark of Catholicism in the Far East. With newspapers playing up teenage vandalism, crimes of teen age gangs, sex perversions of the young, the teenagers in the provin cial cities and towns are now aping the notorious criminal exploits of young hoodlums in Manila, Pasay, and Quezon cities. But let us ask ourselves: Why do they do these things? To be publicized, to be notorious. They are aping the juvenile delinquency exploits of young American screen actors, thinking that what the American movies show, must be the things being done in the United States. Juvenile delinquency is the result of trying to be great imita tors, making-believe it is nice to be dubbed as “tigas” and playing up the movies in the most westernized way they can fashion. It is the product of trying to follow up blindly everything that is “mo dern”. Ask them why and they will just say, they did it just for the fun of it or they feel like doing it. Blame whom . . . teenagers or parents? Educators, government officials, juvenile court judges, will tell you that parents are partly to blame for the waywardness of the teenagers today. And why are parents to blame ? Because they no longer stay home to rear their young properly. They believe it is fashionable for both husband and wife to work, leaving their child ren and house at the mercy of servants. Hence children learn to stay out on the streets, play hooky and become despicable streets ur chins. Or if parents stay home, they play cards and mahjongg, they gossip, they quarrel among them selves thus making home an obnox ious place to live in. At every or end of the day, they just greet their children with a pat on the shoulders and say, “hello kid,” “goodnight kid” etc. They forget that children need something more than a pat on the shoulders. Child ren need the warmth of a parent’s love more than the money they give. Parents must wake up to the fact that kids growing up don’t need luxurious provided by a work ing mother”s pay check, so much as they need a mother at home to keep an eye on them. Parents should stop attending night socials. They should stay at home and make church a family “must”. “The family that prays together, stays together.” Yes, if we are going to curb juvenile delinquency, we’ve got to curb it where it starts ... in the home. Discipline and guidance should start right at home when children are still below ten years old. This is the period when children obey their parents for fear of being whipped. But unfortunately, parents sometimes try to be modern by not spanking their children nor cor recting them when they do wrong. Or worse still, they think that they are being modern by spoiling and pampering their children with new clothes, money for movies, parties and cigarettes; they even go to the extreme of giving them liberty to stay out late in the night. A National Problem Parents should teach their children to enjoy staying at home. And of course, the home should have books and magazines to read. Parents should guide their children in developing good hobbies; mo thers should be big sisters to daughters, listening to their girlish problems; father should be big brothers to sons beginning to go around. Parents should attend school plays, organize picnics with their sons and daughters for the purpose of having fun together. Let us make these young people responsible by listening to their ideas, making them feel wanted, loved and cared for. Let us teach them to enjoy being alone with good music and good books; to think independently and to develop their own individuality. And most of all let us give them a share of the household chores. Having become a national pro blem, juvenile delinquency is also the government’s concern. There must be some means to overcome this social cancer if we are to ex pect good, law-abiding citizens after the childhood dreams of our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, in his “fair hopes of the fatherland.” The government must impose a strict curfew for teenagers. It must de vise means and plans to prohibit young people from going to movies that are “For adults only”, depict ing teenage hooliganism; prohibit them from going to bars and night clubs, from smoking at an early age, and give stiff warning to parents for granting their children excessive liberties. Thus we need enough policemen, moral enforcers to keep watch over wayward teen agers. Children are by nature percep tive. They easily sense what is ex pected of them and they are human enough to try to get by with doing less than what is expected. If we do these things to our youngsters, our efforts will not go to naught, and, with the battle half won, vic tory is in the bag. # Page Ten THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 WELCOME HOME Father ' Lehmeier Father Schoenig Returns REV’. ENRIQUE SCHOENIG, SVD, 53, returned to the Uni versity of San Carlos last November 4 after five long years of absence. During these years he was pursuing his doctoral studies in biology. He came just in time to take part in the San Carlos celebration on the roof garden of the Fathers’ Residence. Father Schoenig is the head of the Biology Depart ment of this University, a position he held before he left for the United States. "UNIQUE HOBBY" Biology has been his hobby since childhood. Among his childhood toys he treasured a pocket microscope and scribbled the scientific names of plants and animals in a notebook in elementary school. Though this hobby was “outlawed” during his seminary years, this deep-rooted interest in biology could never be suppressed. He collected and identified plants and animals, especially insects, whenever he could spare a moment and he was blamed “for sparing” too much time for it. A great man was in the making. FURTHER STUDIES After he arrived in the Philippines in 1940, he studied Zoology at the University of Santo Tomas in preparation for his assignment to the University of San Carlos. He received his B.S. degree in 1942. After the war he taught in Vigan, and in Mindoro. He came to U.S.C. in November 1949. In 1950 he left Cebu for the U.S.A, where he studied at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. For nine weeks (Summer 1951), he took courses in marine biology at the Puget Sound laboratory of the State University of Washing ton. At the end of January 1952 he received his M.S. in Biology degree and returned to U.S.C., to head the Depart ment of Biology. Field work, especially collection trips to beaches, and butterfly hunting, became almost an obsession to Fr. Schoenig. Specimens were accumulated from the heights of Mt. Santo Tomas, Baguio, to the tip of the Mindanao. A lively ex change of biological material was carried on with local and foreign institutions, both universities and museums. The credit for this modern line in biology, which was pursued by the USC through all these years, goes as much to the teaching staff as to Father Schoenig himself. Professor Paulina D. Pages and Professor Julian N. Jumalon in par ticular were the inspiring and driving forces. PH.D. FROM NOTRE DAME The University of San Carlos became known as the lead ing university in natural sciences in the Philippines. To as sure a continuous growth and an ever more scientific trend, Father Schoenig once again returned to the life of a student. (Continued on pui/c 39) REV. FATHER LUDWIG LEHMEIER, S.V.D., recently returned from advanced theological studies abroad. I Father Lehmeier is a tall, handsome, young priest with the j unmistakable features and accent of a German. He was born in ; Munich on February 27, 1929. He obtained his elementary edu! cation, however, war broke out, and he was called to his country's colors, as were all able-bodied males who were at least sixteen i years of age. He was captured and imprisoned at the close of | the war. I When asked how he came to decide on the priesthood, Father Lehmeier said that many things influenced his decision, but the most notable factor was the war. As a soldier, he saw the bes tiality, the horror, and the utter futility of war. He realized that to avoid a third debacle, a vigorous moral and religious uplift among people of all nations was necessary. And what belter way was there of accomplishing this aim than through the priesthood. His philosophical and theological studies were obtained in an ecclesiastical academy in the neighboring town of Freising, followed by further studies at the University of Munich, where he obtained his Licentiate in Theology in 1952. Towards the end of the same year he was ordained a priest of God. An interesting phase about his sacerdotal career is the fact that he was first a secular priest before he became a missionary. His first assignment was as assistant parish priest in Munich, a position which he held for five years. Then followed a two-year stint as prefect in a minor seminary. Then came the turning point. After four years of catechetical work as assistant parish priest, he felt a desire to join the missions, and asked his superiors' per! mission to this effect. Cardinal Wendel of Munich refused his ! request for the reason that there was a great need for parish | priests in their country. He persisted in his pleas, however, until I after several audiences with the Cardinal, his persistence was rewarded and his plea was granted. He then went to Vienna, Austria to enter the SVD novitiate. In December, 1960 the Order sent him to the Philippines. Finishing his novitiate at Christ the King Mission Seminary, he taught religion for same time. Finally, in 1962 he was assigned to USC. In March 1963 he left again, this time for the U.S., where, from September 1963 to June 1965 he worked for a doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. At the successful completion of his studies he attended workshops in catechetics, modern moral theology, and a biblical institute for priests, all held in Washington. As to his policies as dean of religion, he has this to say: ' Since there seems to be a general dissatisfaction with our course I of theology as taught at present, a gradual revamping of the course is deemed necessary. A greater selection of courses will be offered in the future. Eventually we will work towards the establishment of a catechetical institute which would lead to a bachelor's degree in religious education." As university chaplain he will endeavor to implement the new liturgical changes but, < he said it is a gigantic job which one priest alone cannot ac| complish. He therefore expects the whole-hearted cooperation i of students and staff members alike, but most particularly the religious organizations of this University. January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Eleven V. Abregana B.S. Geology IV TWICE the Science Department Head saw me get in and out of the research room in so a stealthy manner that she thought I was a thief or something. Perhaps hoping to find me guilty of any criminal act, she called me, and investigated me. I was “clean”. Nevertheless, she scolded me, because — as she said — my behavior irritated her. “You have no business there and for goodness sake, don’t get there again,” she said. "Understand?” I said to myself, what a terrible woman! “Yes ma’am, yes All of a sudden she changed and calmed down, and — to my surprise — even apologized for the words she said. I saw that she was a little bulky at the middle; and I understood the cause of her temper. We parted in good terms. But I was a bit sad, for I was prohibited to enter the re search room anymore. The fact was I always felt myself summoned into it. There was something in it that attracted me. It was a sculptored white Christ. Nailed on a polished oak wood cross, reverently covered THE WIHJDTE CO [RD ST with an exquisitely transparent pale blue veil, the Christ would seem to look at me. The little crack on its shoulder was not easily noticed. His face had an expression of divine piety. Although the eyelids drooped softly, the agony seemed to have passed since the countenance looked serene and divinely tran quil. I had gazed and gazed upon his two stretched arms which showed the sacred manly muscles. The nails cruelly pierced on his wrists were there and the open wound at his side. The delicate bones on his ribs were done in a most realistic resemblance to the actual crucified Christ. It was truly a work of an inspired sculptor, an accomplished artist. Who could have thought of the crucifix were it not for the Centennial project undergone by the fathers, when for more than two years it was lying down under a pile of rubbish and the dust and dirt were heavy and thick around it. It was in a most pitiful condition up there at the topmost pai-t of a huge cabinet in the research room of the department of science. As technician and preparator of fossil materials, I used to work in that room before I was transferred to another department. I happened to see that crucifix when the janitor dumped discarded things on it. I inquired from him who owned it and why it was placed in such condition. “Don’t know. Can’t understand it myself why it’s there.” he said. Everytime someone took something from the cabinet and the dirty crucifix was dragged and pushed I felt pain in my hear. It was only escayola and wood yet the figure of Christ was important to me for I was taught to revere things like that ever since I was a small girl. Six months passed still I couldn’t forget the poor white Christ at the top of the cabinet. Incidentally, it just occurred that one of the Fathers, a history professor talked to me about old wooden saints and antiques for a religious museum a Centennial project now on its way (Continued on page 36) Page Twelve THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL (Continued from page 5) the fact that it was rewritten 20 times. But the approved schema is not satisfactory either, as a matter of fact it is still open to possible change in the future. The Church makes it clear that it is against the use of contraception but gives the families the right to decide the number of children they want, and that always they should remain "submissive toward the church's teaching offices." Commenting on the document, Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh says: "Where De Ecdesia gave us the technical tools, this provides the pastoral ones. It is the crowning glory to a pastoral council. It opens up our dialogue with the world." On The Apostolate of the Laity. Because the Church respects the dignity of human nature, it also gives her children greater responsibility and freedom. The document also encourages half-billion Catholics to participate actively in Church's activities. It stresses further the role of Catholic organizations and that of the layman in the Church's global mission, his role in the family, society, politics, and universal affairs. The Church is not the Pope, the bishops or the prelates. Laymen are not mere spectators or objective observers of the Church activities. Every layman is a part of this living organism, therefore he carries with him a re sponsibility. This document strengthens the laymen's faith in his Church. On the Church's Relation to Non-Christian Re ligions. "The secretariat for promoting the new version of an Ecumenical Council declaration on anti-Semitism says the Jews should never be presented as 'rejected, cursed or guilty of deicide' — of being 'God-killing' people," so goes the text of this document. The document corrected the error that has been in existence for nearly two thousand years. "The Church believes that by His Cross Christ reconciled Jews and Gentiles, making both one," the declaration goes on. On the matter, the FREE PRESS editorializes: "You see, all this business of blaming people for the death of Christ leads only to total mystery. His death should not produce injustice and persecution, more suffering for people; it should not lead us to discrimi nate but to unite, not to hate but to love, for if the Son of God died for mankind, then no man should be hurt, no one should be shamed or despised, we ore all objects of God's tremendous solicitude." The declaration does not stop there; it expresses further the Church's reverence for all forms of religions that acknowledge God. The declaration also recognizes non-Christian faiths. On the Pastoral Office of Bishops. This document is akin to the constitution On the Church. This pro vides a synod of bishops to help the Pope on complex matter of Church government; that they too, share ruling power. This document will lead to the inevitable democratization of the Church. Also, according to NEWSWEEK, "it urges mod ernization of Church administration in the Vatican Curia." The document also outlines the "scope and responsibility of national conference of the hierarchy." The document cannot but lead to efficient Church administration; its significance is beyond doubt. It is laudable indeed. On Ecumenism. This schema carries this theme: unity. It not only recognizes Protestant Churches but it also encourages the various religious sects to work for Christian unity. The document bridges the gap that has been present between the Catholic Church and other forms of religions. Certainly, if the aim is unity, the gap can be bridged only by better understanding. Christianity must unite all for the greater glory of God and humanity. On Christian Education. The schema stresses the growing importance and need of Catholic school sys tem. Aside from the defense on parochial schools, the document points out the role of Catholic universities in our complex world where we are constantly facing the challenge of time and opposing ideologies. On the Church. TIME summarizes the assertion of the Constitution thus: ". . .bishops collectively share ruling power over the church with the Pope." Many theologians commented that this will slowly lead to the democratization of the church. POST-COUNCIL CONSENSUS After the formal closing of the Second Vatican Council early in December 1965, Pope Paul VI boldly announced that it was "one of the greatest events of the Church." Indeed, it was. The consensus was that Vatican II lives up to what Pope John XXIII said on the day it began that "It is the best prepared council in history." The church's aggiornamenlo is Aggiornamento per se. It's no misnomer. Commented Dom Christopher Butler, an English Benedictine abbot: "Before, the Church looked like an immense and immovable colossus, the city set on hill, the stable bulwark against the revolutionary change. Now it has become a people on the march — or at least a people which is packing its bags for a pilgrim age." The unforgettable Council shows a positive atti tude toward the complexity of our twentieth century world. Because of the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church appears as something new in the eyes of the watchful billions of men diverse cultures and religions. It assumes a new posture, a wisdom not known before, a spirit of friendliness and never of hostility to non-Christian faiths. January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Thirteen [EDITOR’S NOTE Dr. Helmut Reuther, 29, a German internationalist, be came the 14th outstanding personality to receive the highest honor that U.S.C. can give, when on October 29, 1965, the latter conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Humanities, honoris causa. For more about Dr. Reuther, see news section. Below is his accept ance speech, which we are printing for the benefit of the “C” readers. on INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTAnDinG Acceptance Speech by Dr. Helmut Reuther MAY I BE PERMITTED first of all to thank you, Very Reverend Father President, and you, Reverend Fathers of the Board of Trustees and of the S.V.D. Community, for your kind invitation to come here as your guest and to address these few words to you. I must thank you especially for the warm reception accorded me in this venerable university. It is for me a very high honor, Very Reverend Father President, to be chosen to re ceive from your hand this honorary doctorate degree and I wish to express my heartfelt thanks for this spe cial honor. Outstanding personalities both of this land and of other lands have already received this honor from you. I not only believe that all of them hold in highest esteem the excellent work of this university, its professors, and its students. I believe further that these men will re main forever attached as true friends to you and to your institution and to its long tradition in research and teaching. Today you have granted me this honorary doctor's degree. I think I may be allowed to see in this not so much an honor to my own person as to the office which I hold as Secretary General of the International Aca demy for Intercontinental Contacts. I consider it my greatest task in this Office — a task to which I feel committed with my full strength — to strive insofar as it lies within man's power that human understanding should leap over the borders of individual states and break through the barriers of religious and racial dif ferences to produce a global solidarity of nations with one another and for one another. The decisive factor of the fulfillment of every task, including this one, is an idea — an idea carried in the minds of men and spread abroad thru the force of personal conviction. So it is that I receive the honor offered me today with a deep sense of my responsibility to follow through this task to its ultimate fulfillment. Certainly this path will lead first of all to those nations bound to us by the ideal of personal freedom. For this common ideal gives us ready access to each other's minds and hearts. But at the same time it is almost painful to realize that more than half of the human beings on this earth must live in a state of un freedom under the pressure of ideological forces. The path of duty we have entered on leads us also in this direction. For regardless of what particular regime we are dealing with, we have the obligation insofar as it is possible, to hold open or perhaps to open for the first time the portals of human intercourse. The German people lived for twelve long years under the enforced regime of national socialism. And still today seventeen millions of my people live under the dictatorship of communism. Furthermore the Ger mans have twice in this century suffered the bitter ex perience of defeat in two world wars. Today, the na tions of Europe are economically bound together fa a common market. There is a possibility that tomorrow they will sit down at a common table to discuss poli tical union. These things are possible only because Europeans have experienced in their recent history the fact that over bearing self-esteem, whether it takes place in an individual or in the whole people, can only lead to self-annihilation. The understanding of this truth, and even more its actualization in the common en deavors of the European nations in the field of econo mics, and as yet in an embryonic stage, in the field of politics do not signify the rise of a new and exclusive (Continued on page 38) Page Fourteen THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 AUDIO-VISUAL COMMUNICATION by FR. MARGARITO ALINGASA, S.V.D. IN THE NORMAL classroom situation the teacher’s biggest problem will not be discipline. Rather, for the sincere teacher who takes pain that he be not only a dictating machine before his class, the effort to be understood by his stu dents is an arduous challenge. How often such a teacher would sigh in anguish: My students cannot understand English. Another would say: Even if I explain in the dialect, still I am not sure whe ther my student get what I mean. At this juncture, many are tempted to throw up their hands in frustration and to settle with the usual compromise. The teacher dictates his notes and the stu dents memorize them. There is a danger that we are coming to a stage when the student’s inability to understand the teacher does not any more surprise us. It has become too common a classroom experience. Or, rather, is it that we are not duly con cerned why teachers fail? Good stu dents will pass anyway in spite of the teachers! But what about those who do not make the grade at the first attempt, are they only to be drilled some more? Surely, something is wrong with this attitude. Are the students to be blamed for their inadequacy to the task expected of them? Are the teachers at fault? There is no excuse for laziness. This might be the principal fault of the stu dents, but this should not be said of the teacher. In most cases, it is quite cer tain that when the students are apathe tic, irresponsive, and uncomprehending, it is because the teacher fails to com municate effectively with them. The teacher’s ability to talk at length about his subject should not be mistaken for his ability to communicate. Good and effective communication is not simply lec turing, divulging facts and figures for the students to master. Good communi cation thrives on the sensitive recogni tion of the needs of the students, the imaginative use of student experiences, the promotion of “incorporation" of learning by the students, and the pro vision of incentives for the use of learn ing. Only in this context can the essen tial mechanics of communication, namely, message, channel, and receiver be effi ciently activated to produce effective communication for better learning. Considering all that, it is mighty clear that the teacher has much to do in preparing for his class beyond the reading of the textbook and compiling notes. He might be clear about his ob jectives, more or less sure of his meREV. MARGARITO ALINGASA, S.V.D. Instructional Media Service Supervisor thod of approaches to the problems. Yet, he must settle the question: What is the best way by which I can convey an idea or lead my class to fruitful self-activity? What are the possible clarifications gathered from the spec trum of experiences, attitudes, and ap preciations, of the students that might enhance the process of my communica tion? The great wall barring the teacher’s way of communicating with his students is “Verbalism.” The formidable stones that make up this wall are quarried from the complexities of modern life, over burdened curriculum, reliance on text books and workbooks, specialization of knowledge, and the proliferation of things-to-be-known. There is nothing we can do about diminishing the size of this wall. Every minute, it is even piling up higher in step with whatever scientific breakthrough is achieved, or whenever influential world bodies man age to forge new relationships. The menace of “Verbalism” as an obstacle to communication and learning cannot be ignored. Misunderstanding of one concept inevitably leads to parrot learning. To illustrate, a class was asked what is the meaning of this symbol //. There was an instanteneous chorus of eager voices: That means pi. Its value is 3.1416. This immediate response was impressive, yet when the class was asked further to give the wider implica tion of the meaning and value of pi, there was only silence. What ultimately are the implications of the concept pi were either unknown or not clear to the class. Whose fault was this? Surely, the students learned to recognize the verbal equivalent of the symbol and its numerical value, but they had no idea what are the mathematical relationships implied by the symbol, not even that of the simple ratio relation between the circumference and the diameter of the circle. Perhaps, their traditional mathe matics teacher was satisfied with the factual response. But this is hardly the learning that we wish our students to acquire. The teacher must overcome the ob stacle of “Verbalism” some other way than merely wishing for the students to catch up with the times. Actually, this problem is not at all a desperate one. The teacher does not have to look far for means to bridge over the ob stacle to effective communication in the classroom. Methods, materials, and equipment of audiovisual instruction can carry him over the barrier to achieve better results in his teaching. Audio visual methods are grounded on solid re search in psychology, theory of learning, curriculum design, and theory of com munication. Thus, they are eminently suitable to meet different demands of the teaching-learning activity. Audio visual materials range from the simple to the sophisticated. Audiovisual equip ment, likewise, is so diverse that the teacher has a wide selection of means to achieve a desired reinforcement for practically any lesson objectives. Of course, there is a question of what ma terials or equipment are available to the teacher. However, it must be said that the creative use of them is of greater concern. Like any other means, audio visual methods, materials, and equipment demand judicious utilization to be effect ive. This factor might prove to be one deterrent that make teachers hesitate to explore the potentialities of audiovisual instruction for the improvement of their teaching effectiveness. Prejudice could also be a reason why teachers miss to appreciate the role of audiovisual communication in the teach ing-learning situation. It is unfortunate that what goes for the name audiovisual communication (instruction) to not a few, mean only hardware and gadgetry, projectors and films. Furthermore, the association of audiovisual communication with the so-called modern classroom, tends to obscure its function in the learn ing environment. The basic principles involved in audiovisual communication are as ancient as man’s attempt to com municate. They are concomittant to the very nature of man’s mood of learning. (Continued on page 37) January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Fifteen “God made man from the beginning and left him in the hand of his own counsel. Before man is life and death, whatever he shall please shall be given him.” — ECCLESIASTES 1. LATELY IT HAS BEEN LIKE THIS: the great wall clock is like a heart beating furiously and with anguish. We look at the sky and bloody peace is written there. And as we pause for a while to plumb the onus of humanity, we suddenly hear from afar the drumbeat of another global catastrophe, perhaps the worst the world will ever know. Even in our sleep we are constantly haunted with the children of blood waiting for the forth coming harvest of corpses. The next day, as we rise from our warm beds to begin the meaningless routine of the day, we muse as we say: Somewhere, something is wrong. Breakfast headlines, though gory and hair-raising, no longer shock us, for they are mere reprints, it would seem, of the old stories we used to know when we were still kids. They are an old venom that have lost their power; bagatelle items, matutinal, idiotically mundane. Vive la paix! The cry of humanity or the cry of insanity? Vive la paix! And yet we know that some where, in some secret laboratories, a new bomb is being perfected. It's the neutron bomb, and it would pert to shame, so the report goes, the hydrogen bomb. After the perfection what then? Let's not anticipate, buddy. Vive la paix! But we know that the reconciliation of different ideologies in this mysterious world of ours is still a far-fetched idea. We are living in a chaotic world where there is balance of terror — a Churchillian phrase so famous that it lives even after the man with an immortal courage dies. Modern man, to be exact, is a torrero dancing be fore the fatal horns of a deadly bull. Page Sixteen THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 JLn that to (TWe^t by RICARDO I. PATALINJUG Hey! See the waltz of the toreadors and be wise. Life is getting more and more unbearable every day. In order to survive, one must have sisyphean pa tience. If he doesn't have any, he will end up, most probably, in an asylum. Suddenly we are filled up with sombre thoughts as we flip the pages of books and newspapers or as we sit down in air-conditioned theatres to relax on week ends. Portrayed and reportrayed by men who make a living by their pens is the overworked theme: murder. Scenarios are strewn with bloody corpses, pages of books are smeared with blood and for a moment we thought we are thrown into a world of nightmares and not of entertainment. The twentieth century, alas, is pro ducing the most pessimistic philosophers, the most pes simistic writers, the biggest number of prophets of doom. What kind of a world is this? What kind of a man is the twentieth century man? But no one cares for an answer; no one hears an answer for the individual voices are drowned by the deadly dialogues of the powerful nations and by the booming of cannons and the barking of guns in South Vietnam where thousands and thousands of U. S. Marines are stationed to fight and die and kill for the good of the human race. Argument over dead bodies is a cliche in our time. Who likes despair? But ours is a time of despair and of despairing writers. There seems to be no other alternative but to accept this, i.e., if we want to live in a world of reality and not of dreams or make-believe. Aside from despair, who can deny anguish, forlornness and tension? Even the Christian existentialist, Kier kegaard, contends that "the anguish which man bears January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Seventeen “When tvill I be blown up?” FAULKNER “Man will prevail’' CHURCHILL “Balance of Terror" is caused by his inability to resolve tensions.” And for him, "the escape lies in the transcendental plane of faith." And if one listens and believes in the impious message of Zarathustra — God is dead! — which is most appalling as Christ's is most remarkable, then suddenly Sartre's nausea becomes his nausea! La dolce vita? That's the glare of another moon in the eyes of corpses! The twentieth century rebel, Albert Camus, calls our universe tuneless and life absurd. Despair is a com mon phenomenon, he says. Since the first world war, he goes on, our history has been the history of murder, injustice and violence. What are we going to do? He offers a solution: man must hail life even in suffering. His picture of man is appalling, though not as gory as Christ's: cloyed upon a leafless tree with a crown of thorns. Being a man without faith, and mind you, he says once: "I want to know if I can live with what I know and only with that," he looks for a justi fication, and the result is his portrayal of man as Si syphus: "The gods had condemned Sisyphus to cease lessly rolling a rock to the top of the mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dread ful punishment than futile and hopeless labor." He left Sisyphus at the mountain where the mythi cal figure finds again his burden. "The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." But are we? If you are really living — and not merely existing or dream ing — you should know the answer. But the utterances of modern existentialists are nothing new in the history of literature. Four centuries ago, the Bard of Avon had expressed so well the un derlying principle of this influential philosophy. There is in his song some contemporary reverberations that keep on echoing and reechoing as the twentieth cen tury man roams in the veins of the city dogged by his amorphous shadow and his tortured conscience. “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Life: meaningless of meaningful we have to go through it. There's one good thing with us now, though, and it is this: We are no Methuselas! You see, there are people who believe that death is not a punishment but a blessing. Ernest Dowson, a poet without Faith, but had been faithful to his Cynara in his fashion all his life, clung to a hope many of us cannot accept. Wrote he: “They are not long, the weeping and the laughter Love, jealousy and hate: I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. "They are not long, the days of wine and roses Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream.” That is Ernest Dowson. He died sometime in 1900 at the age of 33. Poor man. He didn't live long. But he knew it and didn't worry about it. Page Eighteen THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 SHAKESPEARE “Life is but a walking shadow” T. S. ELIOT “We are the hollow men” 2. THE MASSIVE HORROR of history is brought about by the massive advancement of science. The modern sword of Damocles is a modern man's inven tion. How will the world end? By design or by accident? Most probably by design although accident is not im possible. Our age is an age of anxiety and the peace we know is an uneasy one. We are no longer living in a world of established values, moderation and comfort. Haunted with the dreadful premonitions, modern man clings to the crumbling old faiths, only to be frustrated. He is lost; he is just like an idiot in the crossroads. New faiths cannot alleviate him either. Hence, the need of psychiatrists. What kind of men are we? Here's T. S. Eliot's concept of the modern man in a poem called "The Hollow Men" published sometime in 1925, before the Second World War. But this poem seems to have a lasting effect; its truth is not yet disproved: “We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rat’s feet over broken glass In our dry cellar .. That's the twentieth century man. And this is the twentieth century world in the eyes of a sophisticated poet: “This is the dead land This is cactus land Here the stone images Are raised, here they receive The supplication of a dead man’s hand Under the twinkle of a fading star.’* The world is a cactus land peopled with hollow men. Come to think of it, man. There's no wonder why many considered hope a luxury in our time. Only few can afford it! Certainly this is no time to speculate on Thomas Moore's Utopia. Man today faces the most terrifying question formulated by William Faulkner, the explorer of the human dark: "When will I be blown up?" After the First World War there was a brief in terval of peace. Then the Second World War came, more destructive than the first. The First World War costs, $400,000,000,000 in property — of course, at pre-war prices. Casualties: there were 8,600,000 kill ed. Of 42,190,000 allied soldiers, 5,160,000 were kill ed. Of 23,000,000 Central Power troops, 3,380,000 were killed. The Second World War has a total loss of $1,385,000,000,000! And the Vatican estimates 22,000,000 soldiers and civilians killed. See? War is the most expensive of luxuries. Can we still afford it? Our time cannot give any definite answer yet. The division of mankind still goes on, sundering the world into power blocs. But division as always, leads to war. And the Third World War, if it breaks (God forbid) is a nuclear war. Nobody, it should be remembered, can survive in a nuclear war. There's no escape from nuclear blasts and fall-out. It is not the fault of poets to write pessimistic and angry pieces. They are merely expressing in poetic terms what others have observed and known. Anti cipation of the end of the world for instance which is very much in the consciousness of humanity is express ed by Eliot and Frost in splendid metaphors. Eliot says that the end of the world will be a whimper and not a bang. Frost is undecided but that it will end he is very January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Nineteen positive about. It might be in ice, it might be in fire. Both, however, would suffice. He expresses this in a little poem devoid of anguish and violence but has an effect like that of a blowtorch: “Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.” W. H. Auden, filled with wrath and anguish, and possessed with the frantic wish to get the hell out of this world, cries with anxiety. His tone is not that of a madman, though, but of one who is terribly sick and bored. He wants to put an end to everything; going on is useless; the vicious circle must be stopped. Now, let's pause for a while and listen to Auden's cry: “The stars are not wanted now; put out everyone Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods; For nothing now can ever come to any good.” It was this man, W. H. Auden, who said once that we must love one another or die. And this sounds better than his previous contention that civilization is neces sary for world peace and to solve the ideological con flicts of our time. Civilization is never enough and the two world wars are proofs of this. The astute T. S. Eliot was aware of this, too, so that in his later years he be came an Anglo-Catholic. Humanity might still be saved, through Christianity. Christian love is modera tion with purpose and that's what makes it important and priceless. For humanity to live in utter godlessness is a tragedy. That would certainly result to another night mare, similar to the one the world had experienced dur ing the Second World War when Hitler sent 6,000,000 Jews to the gas chamber. Racial differences and the clash of diverse ideologies cannot be solved by the blahblah-blah of diplomats. Balance of power cannot be curbed by disarmament proceedings alone. One can always say one thing and do another. Lying is the best weapon of a liar among liars. Moderation among powerful nations is formulated in such a way that it will redound to the benefit of the nation making the proposition and not to her rivals. You won't give your enemy a gun to shot you, do you? 3. SOME YEARS AGO we were reading George Ber nard Shaw, one of the best playwrights we have never met in the classrooms but we read just the same. (We cannot expect to learn everything in the classrooms, anyway.) In one of his plays, Man and Superman, a character, a devil, who is observant enough, all devils are, I guess, has made this very revealing observation which is nothing new, of course, to a man who is con scious of the world he lives in: "I'll tell you that in the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. The peasant I tempt today eats and drinks what was eaten and drunk by peasants of ten thousand years ago; and the house he lives in has not altered as much in a thousand centuries as the fashion of a lady's bonnet in a score of weeks. But when he goes out to slay, he carries a marvel of mech anism that lets loose at the touch of his finger all the hidden molecular energies, and leaves the javelin, the arrow, the blowpipe of his fathers far behind. . . There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons. . . The power that governs the earth is not the power of Life but of Death; and the inner need that has nerved Life to the effort of organizing itself into the human being is not the need for higher life but for a more efficient engine of des truction. The plague, the famine, the earthquake, the tempest were too spasmodic in their action; the tiger and crocodile were too easily satiated and not cruel enough; something more constantly, more ruthlessly, more ingeniously destructive was needed; and that some thing was Mon, the inventor of the rack, the stake, the gallows, the electric chair; of sword and gun and poison gas: above all, of justice, duty, patriotism, and all the other isms by which even those who are clever enough to be humanely disposed ore persuaded to become the most destructive of destroyers." Man has never learned a lesson of the past global catastrophes, it would seem. Or if he learns anything at all, it is to prevent from being caught with his pants down. Hence the constant vigil of the moves of the war-loving devils. To repeat, if the Third World War breaks, it will be a nuclear war and in a nuclear war nobody can win. The result will be total annihilation. Ex-Premier of Russia, Nikita Khrushchev, was right when he said that those colleagues of his who wanted war must have their heads examined. He was fully aware of the conse quences of a nuclear war. The uneasy peace we have today is brought about, is maintained, because of fear and not because of un derstanding or rapport of diverse ideologies. One is al ways watching one's enemies. And there is danger because always, error is not impossible. In a book called Strategy for Survival by the British political-military analyst, Wayland Young, we have this hair-raising account: "The danger of accidental war re mains as acute as ever. . . Across Central Europe and Northern Canada lie chains of radar stations to give 'distant warning' of the approach of Russian bombers or rockets. Planes in flight or rockets rising appear on the radar screens as little luminous flecks called 'blips'. Passenger flight appear there, and training flights by bomber formations, perhaps even rockets going up to put satellites in orbit or to attempt the moon. So do flocks of birds migrating. (Continued on page 27) Page Twenty THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 the hands of God hands so small they can't quite reach the huge head of the ox in the stable; hands so young and tender amidst the wrinkled, shrunken ones of the temple's sage; hands callous'd, strong, but kind, chiseling a rough beam of wood; hands raised to bless many a child, to heal many a sick, to forgive many a magdalen, to bring back to life many a lazarus; hands sweating blood-crimson; hands riveted to the cross; hands limp, alone with a broken heart in the stillness of a lonely tomb; hands shining glorious, more dazzling than the rising sun on eastern mom: they are the hands of God! by RICARDO DE LA RIVA ff y the leaf on a barren bough sits a mellowed leaf: it quivers, shivers, against the evening breeze; detaches itself to float and fall, to be borne away by a wailing stream: must it be so when i am gone? by RICARDO DE LA RIVA interlude with the noose the advent of the noose let there be music wrap the throbbing, mellifluous note around me i can choke in its drowning stupor let the toes stand the cormorant pirouette suffering the nails dug their graves, split their agonies the dark tresses are but seaweeds clawing the night the opium-drunk eyes behind foggy lashes denies the denouement which is the corrosion of the flesh to that of a wriggling worm but i am content. let there be mirth peal the bells that god stole from a spire to suspend pendulous in my throat the world blooms and bloats and cracks in the lungs over a blooming, bloating, cracking, joke open the mouth, contort the face, toss back the head, shed a tear, grow a canker, because life is jest sometimes, the diaphragm ripples a butterfly fatigued and painful to breath wrought but i am content. c □ finale Now, in seismic agitation, His emaciated flesh Meekly trembles. A mournful theologic voice. Gasping in anguish. Crushes in. Then, a White Hand clasps, A bugle sounds. The house weeps. by CLAUDE AL. EVANGELIO then the noose comes then the noose comes, beckoning furtive in its defamed, doom-starved ring in seemingly tremulous rapture it commences its swing, of ballet dancer and juggler wed are its grace and finesse; to the right, to the left a pendulum dereliction shammed to the left, to the right death deity! hallucinating fascinating coding its contiguity ominous i stagger backward raving with scorn bare a claw, freeze a fang, blossom an eye, the noose persists, mutely adamant so i flirt my toes and twirl myself near toy a finger, dart a shoulder while the noose is lost in a lullabye jerk a limb, jeer a smile while the noose is lost in a lullabye jilt a seaweed, bare a neck while the noose. . . i'm caught!!! by MELINDA M. BACOL January-February, 1966 Page Twenty-one looking at you through t. s. eliot 1. among the snow-white clouds and the barren and weather-beaten streets was the illusion and the dream and you were there melted in the glass breaking the dance of shadows to life; my bones ache for old dependencies as i grow accustomed to your footsteps, virginal, slow, a recital to an old folly; whence the cold of December rain descends and i am told you have the eyes of spring! 2. no more shall i look at you painlessly, once in the summer of our meeting dull roots of rain fall blissfully and the grapes bloom in our hands and the heavens stand quietly reflecting her light upon our faces and your arms full and your cheeks wet with tears when you read my letters, no more cold shoulders must assail the howling shout of indifference and i could not speak in thunder, i was neither happy nor sad looking into the heart of silence without delight, but i will make you understand: when you walk alone in the evening, your melted shadow rises to meet you! 3. here we are, old men broken to the bone of ages being ushered into a world of songs, in a sad month, waiting for the crabs from the rivers rising, here where no pain must survive the ancient run of white feathers dissolving in a wilderness of mirrors, i would meet you to excite the sad whispers of the heart and the laughter of the memory that has grown flowers of judas, think now, time has many children in the hours and minutes of my passion lost in fractured atoms, and it is not by any love of sorrow that my life is measured in chilled delirium. i would meet you half-way in a garden of roses and i shall become young again but old in my rage and wiser in this page i have written to meet the demands of grace. by MANUEL S. SATORRE JR. orchids and dimples (to A. H.) at the heart of your dimpled cheeks i catch the flight of december sun and i assumed that nothing passes time and not all men celebrate your charms, but here i am, rising from the ruins of a memory long forgotten by god's hands, resurrecting the silent shout of sea-gulls and the anger of the soft-spoken wind! listen! the sounds breaking from the blooming rose quietly hail this poetry of the moving earth seeking the magnolia of your voice, and i am glad the strong pulse throbbing the beat of life revolts, leaping from dark cages and beyond the rooms of the world stands the shadow of god's grandmother knitting a song of love out of life's unending crochet. . . . by MANUEL S. SATORRE JR. hearse The phonographed bell tolls sadly for a man remotely attached, for death of distance faced this day. For all the silent clashes, griped and grieved, and the single bouquet at his foot — I forget the gambler's name to which it belonged — like a problem being wrong, halting the rushes of equalling passion. The foreshadowed lonely hearse: and troubled sweat and sound of cutting saw near: 'tis a matter of seconds the musical occasion that moves a tear to fill all need for the man with a sigh endeared. by C. Y. ENGE Page Twenty-two THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 The contemplation of the horrid or sordid or disgusting, by an artist is a necessary and negative aspect of the impulse toward the pursuit of beauty. — T. S. ELIOT by RICARDO I. PATALINJU 1. The heart of man Is grieving still And madness reigns Supreme The wish to crush And the wish to kill Weaken life's Vigorous pulsation! The blinding Emptiness of souls The wound that Time Has made Turn men into lost Ghouls Disturbing the skies With frustrated cries! 2. In this our place Brutal passions rule As we drink blood In tattered mugs The tortured earth Produces crops no more Our violence attuned To the violence Of a boar! The spectred flight Of the centuries Claws our nights With cruel fingers Tears dreams With maniacal delight Leading us all To deepening gloom! 3. Lost we are in the sea Of bloody confusions And our solar system Is dying soon The gyrations Of revolutions Whirl, whirl forward Leaving behind The whipering nations. The miasma from Time's leprosy Wrecks The atmosphere Of doom The world unbalanced The mind dizzy Wounding wound In death's dominion. 4. Amidst the ruins Of inexplicable years The eyes of man Bloodshot and red Arms clutching Phantom crosses Hurling heaven With senseless Supplications. The vibrating atoms Will sound off soon And Time will stop Forever The speed of light We measured before Will nail our bodies On tattered walls. 5. For the fruit Of the seed Einstein had planted Is now in the hands Of Cain And we are forever Haunted As we shed Tears like rain. THE CAROLINIAN Listen! Our desolate fields Proclaim The coming harvest Of corpses Oh, the dreams We nursed are maimed And selfish wishes Are turning into ashes! 6. The light that guided Our footsteps once Is gone and lost In our world decaying Nothing is left There's no remembrance Of beautiful summers Of lovely springs. The skulls Of the accusing dead Curse us to everlasting Damnation And parading before us Is the face of greed Sneering us all To speculation! 7. This is the world We have made Dark as a bottomless pit This is the world We have made Black as our conscience Gloomy as our loss. This is the world We have made Where crime Begets crime Where Time is but A succession of crimes Where evil blooms Like a flower And death Comes creeping Like a lover! January-February, 1966 Page Twenty-three MGA NANUNUNGKULAN PIUPINO ORGANIZATION 1965-1966 President_________________________________Miss Venus P. Martelino Vice President_________________________________Miss Nani Zialcita Secretary___________________________________ Miss Dulcemina Ong Treasurer_________________________________Miss Virginia Romanillos Pros________________________________________ Miss Socorro Matoza Mr. Epifano Cadungog Advisers______________________________ Miss Amparo Buenaventura Mrs. Julieta Gonzales Ang Sto. Nino: /SANG H/MALA O H/WAGA ui RERNARDITA DUARTE SA I’ALIGID-LIGID ng Cebu ay nakatayo pa ang mga bantayog ng nakaraang (lantaong pagdiriwang ng Kristiyanismo ng Pilipinas. Kusa itong pinanatili sa kanilang kinatatayuan upang matanto ng mga tao na ang ating pananampalataya ay hindi pangkaraniwan lamang na dagling iwaksi sa isipan bagkus ito’y dapat na nakaukit sa bawa’t puso. Nang idaos ang dantaong pagdiriwang mga nilikha’y binigyan ng pagkakataong sambahin ang imahen ng Sto. Nino. Di malirip ang dami ng mga nilikhang sumagot sa pag-anyaya ng mga alagad ng Diyos. Sa libo-libong nanampalataya noon, lahat kaya’y may taos-pusong hangaring sambahin ang Banal na Ima hen? Walang makapagsasabi. Ang ba wa’t salitang dumalog sa labi ng mga alagad ng Diyos ay parang mga mumunting bato na paindayang natatangay sa agos ng tubig at saan ito hahantong, Diyos lang ang nakababatid. Sa pagka kataong yaon, ang mga pari’y nagbakasakaling maantig ang matigas na puso sa pamamagitan ng sermong nagsasaad ng pag-ibig sa Diyos at pag-ibig sa kapwa. Hindi maipagkaila na matagumpay ang dantaong pagdiriwang ng Kristiya nismo ng Pilipinas at sa karamiha’y naguumapaw pa ang labis na kaligayahan na nagkaroon tayo ng ganoong pagkaka taong maipamalas sa sanlibutan na munti man ang ating lugar ay malawak naman ang ating pagmamahal sa ating pananampalataya. Ano naman ang tanikalang nag-uugnay sa halos na nagkakahiwalay na mga pulo ng Pilipinas? Walang iba kundi ang ating pananampalataya at ang Imahen ng Sto. Nino ay siyang nagpapaalab sa marubdob na pag-ibig natin sa Poong Maykapal. Alam ng lahat na ang Sto. Nino ay siyang ibinigay ni Magalyanes kay Huwanang maybahay ni Raha Humabon noong 1521. Ang imahen sa loob ng apat na pu’t na taon ay nananatiling isang sagisag ng kanilang mga katutubong paniniwala. Nang dumating si Le gaspi noong taong 1565 ay nagkaroon ng sagupaan. Dumanak ang dugo at nagliliyab ang buong kapuluan. Nang humupa na’t tumila ang nag-aapoy na kabahayan ay nahalungkat nila ang imaPangulong Tudling ISANG taon na naman ang lumipas —taon na siyang sumusukat sa bawat buhay at kasaysayan ng tao. Dang taon na kaya ang mundo? Walang makapagsasabi. Ang hiwaga ng mundo ay siya ring hiwaga ng Lumikha. Ilan rin kayang taon tayo rito sa lupa? Wai a ring nakakaalam. Sa bawat paglipas ng taon ay tulad ng isang hakbang patungngong libingan. Ngunit di natin malalaman na ang hakbang natin ngayon ay siya nang pinakawakas. Balikan natin ang mga nakalipas na taon. Anu-ano ang mga nagawa natin noon? May nagawa ba kaya tayong mabuting pagbabago sa sarili? Kung itatala lamang natin ang lahat ng ating gawain ay wala na tayong mapagsusulatan ng mga pangyayari ng ating buhay. Ngunit ang mahalaga ay maiulat natin ang ating matamis na alaala hindi la mang sa aklat ng tao kundi sa Ba nal na Aklat. Maraming linikha na matagal nang yumao ngunit ang kanilang ala-ala ay pinasasariwa pa rin ng tubig ng kanilang mabuting gawa. Ang kanilang nagawa ay pawang kabutihan na di magawang limutin ng sangkatauhan. Sila'y nabibilang sa lumipas na salinlahi ngunit buhay pa rin sa ating isipan. At tayo'y nasa bagong salinlahi at bagong taon pa, at kasalukuyang gumaganap ng kasaysayan. Isa't isa sa atin ay may pagkakataon na maitutulad sa mga magigiting na yumao. Kung bibigyan lamang, natin ng halaga ang panahon; ay masasahen ng Sto. Nino na hindi man lamang nagasgas o napinsala. Dito nagsimula ang pag pag-usbong ng kanilang paniniwalang ang imahen ay hindi lamang isang handog nanggaling kay Magalyanes kundi isang mula kay Bathala upang maipakita at mapaniwala ang lahat na may nakahihigit pang paraiso kaysa daigdig. Ang imahen ng Sto. Nino ngaPage Twenty-four THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 "Pagdaan ng Mga Taon. . yang ito kung ito'y lilipas ng walang magandang bakas na maiwan. Tayo—. tayo lamang ang makagagawa nito, maaring masama o mabuti. Ngunit kung magagawa na rin lamang natin ang mabuti ay baldt pa natin bibigyan ng pagkakataon ang ating sarili na makagawa ng masama. Noong Paskong nakalipas ay ipinagdiwang natin ang pagdating ng Dalalang Mesiyas. Siya ang naging Daw natin upang mabigyan ng liwanag ang nilalakaran noting daan patungo sa Kanyang kaharian at upang di tayo mabulid sa kasamaan. Ngunit hindi lahat sa atin ang nagpapahalaga sa "Liwanag". Ma raming umiiwas at tuluyang napasadilim. Ang pagdiwang natin ng Pasko taon-taon ay siyang nagiging paalaala sa atin ng Kanyang pagbaba sa lupa upang tayo'y tubusin sa pagkakasala. Kaya karapat-dapat na Siya'y Bigyan natin ng walang kasukat na pagpapasalamat. Bilang pagtanaw ng utang na loob, sa taon na ito, at sa darating pa na taon, ay ialay noting sa Kanya, ang lahat noting gawain at pagibig. Magpakabuti na tayo upang ang ating mga nagawa ay maitala hindi lamang sa puso ng mga tao kundi sa puso ng Mananakop. At upang sa pag daan ng mga taon ay may maiwan tayong ginintuang dahon sa aklat ng ating Kasaysayan. VIRGINIA A. FLORDELIS yon ay nakadambana sa simbahan ng Sto. Nino at Siya’y matagal na’t mananatiling maghihintay sa mga taong naliligaw ng landas. Ang hindi Niya pagkakaagnas ay masasabing isang himala o hiwaga ngunit nagbabadya naman ng katotohahang maghihintay Siya upang akayin ang lahat sa landas na maghahatid natin sa sinapupunan ni Bathala. KAPISANANG FILIPINO MAIKLING KUWENTO SUMUKO RIN/ ni VIRGINIA ROMANILLOS — BSE III ALSA-BALUTAN na naman si Nena. Umiiyak at humihikbi itong tinitiklop ang kanyang mga damit upang lumayas na naman sa kanilang tahanan ni Fidel. Kaugalian na niyang lumayas sa kanila’t umuwi sa kanyang mga magulang tuwing sila’y magkagalit ni Fidel. Dahil dito ay bininyagan siya sa pangalan na "Ginang Alsa-Balutan.” Si Nena’t Fidel ay di pa nakarating sa sapat na gulang nang matangay ang ka nilang mga sarili sa agos at init ng batang pagibig. Kaya sila’y humantong sa dambana ng pag-iisang dibdib sa kabila nang pagtutol ng kanilang mga magu lang. Masasabi natin sila’y napakabata pa nang sila’y lumagay sa tahimik. Da hil dito’y malimit silang di-magkaunawaan. Si Fidel, bagama’t siya’y bata pa ring tulad ni Nena, ay isang ulirang asawa. Mabait at mapagmahal siya sa asawa. Ngunit dahil sa kalabisan ng pagmamahal sa kabiyak ay di-magawa ang putulin ang malimit na inuugali nito. Kitang-kita na naman ng mga taganayon si "Ginang Alsa-Balutan’’ na hawak ang madalas niyang dalhing balutan. Sinapit ni Nena ang tahanan ng kan yang mga magulang. "0 bakit nandito ka na naman, anak?” Ang salubong na tanong ni Aling Lilay, na siyang kanyang maunawaing ina. "Hindi na niya ako maha., hu-hu-hu, inaway na naman ako—!” Ang pahikbing sagot ni Nena. "Hindi na ako babalik sa kanya, inay!” ang dagdag ni Nena. “Talaga?”, ang pabirong tanong ng ina. “Pag di niya ako susunduin,” ang wika ni Nena. Napatawa si Aling Lilay sa anak. Pinayuhan niyang magpahinga ang anak at saka muna niya aayusin ang walang kakuwenta-kuwentang kaguluhan ng magasawa. Nagpatuloy siya sa kanyang gawain samantalang nagpapahinga ang anak. Binali-wala niya ang pangyayari pagkat bukod sa kadalasan na itong maganap ay alam din niyang kagagawan na naman ito ng kanyang sariling anak. Sumapit ang gabi, tahimik na tahimik, tanging si Nena na lamang gising nakaupo sa tabi ng bintana at naghihintay sa pagsundo ni Fidel. Ngunit walang Fidel na lumitaw. Nabalisa siya sa gabing yaon. Ayaw siyang dalawin ng antok. Lumipas ang maraming araw ay wala pa ring Fidel na sumipot. Nasiyahan si Aling Lilay sa mga pangyayari sapagkat naisip-isip niyang ito na ang kaunaunahang pagkakataong mabigyangaral ang anak. Dahil sa di paglitaw ng kanyang ka biyak ay maraming bagay ang naglalaro sa kanyang isip: na si Fidel ay natuto nang maakit sa mga magagandang babae at maunawain pa sa kanya. 0 kaya’y naubusan na ng pagtitiyaga si Fidel. Walang salitang dinampot uli ang kanyang balutan at bumaba. Napagtanto na niya na siya’y nagkamali; na siya’y nagkulang sa kanyang kabiyak. Nang sapitin niya ang kanilang lugar ay maraming mata ang napatama sa (Sundan sa kabilang pahina) January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Twenty-five Ang Regalo Madilim, magulo at malungkot ang mundo Noong kapanahunan ng ating mga ninuno Sa araw-araw na gawain ay walang tiyak na tuntunin Katiwasayan ng hinaharap ay tiyak na alanganin. Nilalaman ng Banal na Kasulatan Na ang mga tao’y tutubusin sa kasalanan Ng Anak ng Diyos na busilak sa kabutihan Sa puso ng mga nilikha’y umusbong ang kaligayahan. Hindi na mabilang ang taong lumipas Ang mga pinangakuan ay parang dahong nalalagas Ngunit sa puso ng mga isinilang na mga bata Ang pangako’y patuloy na umiinog at nagbigay-sigla. Minsan isang anghcl ang buong kabanalang sumayad sa lupa Ang kanyang balita’y nagsabog ng di-mawaring tuwa Si Hesus ay isinilang ng abang Maria Santisima Ang Manunubos ay sa sangkatauhan regalong napakahalaga. Sinulat ni ESPER EAMIGUEL, BSHE IV Ang Tatlong Hari Natatanging liwanag sa langit ay nagtanglaw Kumikinang sa ganda.y nasaklaw Sa kadiliman ng gabi’y ningning ay nakasisilaw Yaon ang kumita na sa tatlong hari’y nagbigay-ilaw. Sa Hcrusalem ang tatlong hari’y humantong Kinaluklukan ng Manunubos ay ipinagtanong Pagsilang Niya’y waring isang di-pangkaraniwang bugtong. Upang sa Kanya mga pagsasamba’y ipuputong. Tatlong nilikhang walang pangambang nag-unahan Tanglaw ay Kumitang nulas pasa Silangan Sa Kanyang ganda’y nasinag ang tiyak na Patutunguhan Sa paanan ni Hesus na Manunubos ng sangkatauhan. ni TERESITA REYES, BSHE-IV Pasko Sa Nayon Araw ng Pasko ay pawang kaligayahan Lahat ng taga-nayon ay nagkakaguluhan, Batang nagsisigawan sa gitna ng lansangan Sa bawat sandali ay walang katahimikan. Bago bumanaag ang sikat ng araw Maririnig mo ang tugtog ng batingaw Tugtog ng komparsang sa nayo’y naglibot Nagpapahiwatig ng walang pagkatakot. Bagama’t isang Pasko sa nayon lamang Lahat ng naroo’y naliligayahan Marami ang naghihintay upang ipagdiwang Ang Paskong siyang laging kinagigiliwan. Ang buong nayo’y parang dinadamitan Ng iba’t ibang kulay na kasuotan Mga mayayama’y nakipaghigitan Sa kani-kanilang bagong kagamitan. Tawana’t palakpakan naghari sa sayawan Sinasaliwan ng bandang kinagigiliwan Ang mga binata ay nag-uunahan Sa pakikipagsayaw sa kadalagahan. Pasko sa nayong ipinagdiriwang taon-taon Larua’t aliwan nagkalat sa lansangan Awita’t putukan kawayang-kanyon Na siyang bahagi ng Pasko sa nayon. ni SOCORRO MATOZA, BSE IV Ang Aking Handog Sa iyong kaarawan handog Ko’y tanggapin. Malinis kong puso’t wagas na damdamin Sa iyong kaarawan ang tangi kong handog Puso kong dakila’t tapat sa pagmamahal, O Panginoon, nais kong ligayahin ka sa Paskong ito! Upang makamtan ko ang tunay na diwa ng Pasko Sa pamamagitan ng paglilinis ... ng puso kong uhaw sa iyong pag-ibig! ni VENUS P. MARTELINO, BSE-IV Ang Mithi Ko'y Ikaw Irog, saan ka man ngayo’y ibig kong mabatid mo Na puso kong nagdurusa ay nangungulila sa iyo Sa akin mang pag-iisa ay kaulayaw ko ang malikot kong guni-guni Larawan mo hirang ay kusang nakaukit at sa isipan ko’y laging nagwawagi. Oo, nagkasala man ako’y may kahulugan, ngunit di mo naunawaan Magtapat man ako’y puso mo’y nalason na ng katagalan ng panahon Pagkat di araw lamang ang lumipas kundi mga taon At sa pagbalik ko’y ibig kong magpaliwanag, ngunit pinagkaitan mo ng pagkakataon. Mula noon ako’y sa iyo’y nagdamdam Ang kabuuan ng iyong larawan ay pilit kong iniwaglit sa aking isipan Ibig kong takpan ang aking pandinig upang di ko na marinig ang iyong tinig Ngunit sayang lamang ang lahat, pagkat ikaw lamang ang aking iniibig. Ang mga sandali na namagitan n gay on at kahapon ay na-pakatagal Patuloy ang pagpapalit ang araw, linggo, buwan, at taon Minsang sisikat ang araw’y minsan ring namang lulubog Na siyang naging palatandaan: isang araw na naman ang nakaraan. Ngunit ang sugat ng aking puso’y di maoaghilom Pagkat ako’y karaniwang nilikha lamang upang di ko maramdaman ang hapdi ng pangungulila Puso ko’y walang patlang sa pagnanasang ikaw’y uling makaulayaw Maging sa pangarap man o panaginip lamang Di ko malirip, kung ang katayuan ko’y pangarap lamang O kaya’y ako’y napasailalim ng iyong kapangyarihan Ang tanging nauunawaan ko’y mahal kita................ Malayo man ang kinaroroonan mo’y hahanapin kita sinta, pagkat mithi ng puso ko hirang ay ikaw.......... ikaw lamang ....................... ni V. A. FLORDELIS, BSEED-III SUMUKO RIN (Buhat sa pahina 25) kanya at narinig niya ang mga sabi-sabi ng ilan, "Sumuko rin sa wakas.” Gamundo ang pagkahiya ni Nena sa kanyang ginawa at lalong napatibay ang sariling magbago. Kumaba ang kanyang dibdib. Nangangamba siyang magkatotoo ang kanyang hinala. Nang imulat niya ang kanyang luhaang mga mata’y nandoon na pala siya sa harap ng kanilang tahanan. Talaga yatang minamalas si Nena, para bagang inaapi’t pinaglalaruan siya ng tadhana dahil sa kanyang ginawa, sapagkat nang pag-akyat niya ng'hagdanan ay nagmamadaling bumaba si Fi del kaya sila’y nagkabangga at sabay ang lagpak sa lupa. Namangha si Fidel nang makita ang asawa, mayamaya’y masuyong inakay ang asawa sa itaas. Nagkatama ang ka nilang paningin at nagngitian na may halong hiya. At muli na namang narinig ng inga kapitbahay ang kanilang halakhakan na siyang tanda ng kanilang uling pagkakaunawaan. Page Twenty-six THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 L * j L ALHAMBRA LLENOS SECOND to the weather, the school calendar is the most unstable thing. The first two weeks of the second semester was wedged between two two-week vacations. £ 0 c I E T Y by Vivien A Like all other heads ol organization, Elena Chiongbian sold tickets, called meetings, reorganized the sor ority, and scuttled from room to room soliciting "bundles of joy". Those were unhappy day for Nena. Luckily, Rosario Borromeo was at hand to give assistance. The Supreme Student Council was not the less busier. It already had its first session. (Reports say that Democrito Crisostomo was the most outspoken member of the congress.) Posters read, "Dilag Ng Ating Lahi." A 'dilag' is a belle — belles like: Sonia Albores, Abilene Alvez and Mary Jane Ong who donned patadyongs, kimonos, and Maria Clara dresses and lithely did some of our folk dances to the delight of the benefactors of the USC CENTER FOR THE POOR. That was the Polka Espanola, wasn't it, Mary Jane? Gene Salgado, Cris Barrera, Loloy Ancajas were among the noteworthy participants. Situated way out of the students' route (behind the Sto. Rosario Church) is an inconspicuous, large, empty room. In there, something great has been undergoing production for many weeks.... a drama. Antigone! Alhambra Llenos holds the title role, while Pilar Quin tana plays wife to Creon, Ramon Farrarons. Al Evangelio — one of the messengers; Frank Legaspi — Tereisias; Teodora Bala — Ismene. An interesting line up, indeed. Loaded with books, rolled cartolinas and sheaves of paper, it's evident that Eddie Yap is a busy man. But, no matter what, Eddie never runs out of smiles, nor hellos for everybody. Paging Diana Sy! Your Brods in the Delta Pi Upsilon Fraternity of the College of Engineering wish to see you their sweetheart, more often, although they adore your shyness. Meanwhile, Senior Muse, Emma Luz Kuizon, is a welcome sight. My, what fortunate girls to have such fine young men for brothers. Jenny Kimseng is mommy, Lydia Escober, the daughter. I suppose the auntie and the Iola are Aurora Ysmael and Nilda Castro. It's only a play family, but notice that each member wears a pair of eyeglasses. Ferdie Jakosalem, Eddie Japzon, Blueboy Quisumbing, Manjo Martinez and Cheling Sala are rare campus specimen. One hardly sees any of them around the school these days. The New Year's resolution? .. .o-oh, HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's that contented look in Vicky Hermosisima's face that worries me. And that smile on Eliza Verallo's lips. . . What can the year 1966 have in store for you. . for me! Here's to all of you! THE WORLD WE LIVE IN (Continued from 20) "Along the other side of the Central Front, and presumably along the Russsia Arctic too, lie correspond ing chains showing what Western planes and rockets are up to. In the case of the NATO European chain, nobody knows whose responsibility it is to make the final decision which might be the penultimate decision in the history of the world. It may be that on the Rus sian side the position is no clear. . ." There you are. There's balance of power, guy, isn't it? Now, who is at stake? Humanity, of course! And fear rushes like silent waters against the heart. There are, today, five nations possessing nuclear weapons: U.S.A., U.S.S.R., Great Britain, France, and China. Four more nations will join the group some of these days: India, Canada, Sweden and Israel. That mushroom cloud that bloomed forth over Hiroshima and Nagasaki twenty years ago has captured the ima ginations of sages in every nation. The Atomic Bomb has become a universal symbol that nurtures power, speaks a language that all can understand. 4. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MAN is suffering from ideological hemorrhage, the inevitable result of an age when Intelligence is apotheosized. Almost always, human reason in its highest development tends to wipe out the spiritual doctrines which used to guide man in his infancy. Faith suddenly has lost its coherence and man with his reason that rages (and reverse) asserts that he is a colossus, a god. An optimist, he sees the future as a world of order, for chaos is the result of mere primitivism and ignorance packed with superstitions and idiotic illusions. But what if nuclear war breaks? This is the question that blocks of the futurist's vision of a new society. Human reason alone is not enough. Something else is necessary for the maintenance of world peace and order. What is it? Faith! Yes, Faith. Faith trans cends reason and defies the bitter and nightmarish workings of intelligence. It is the hidden rhythm of the soul that aches for a destinations within the charted geography of code and constitution. Understood in its proper context, it is moderation with purpose; its seed is nourished in the womb of the mysterious Is. It is the best guide in our tour into the labyrinths of man's motives; it is our best companion in our future explora tions. In a world committed into darkness, Faith is light enough. A society without faith is an arena full of fierce beasts. One is always thirsty for the blood of others. "And to the end of history," to quote from Shaw again, "murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand." (Continued on page 39) January-February, 1966 Page Twenty-seven On the 22nd of September two companies, “Alpha" and “Delta”, and one squad of the WATC under Cadet Captains Mars Diez, Fidel Dacalos, Jr., and Cadette Sylvia Aquino, FOR VARIETY’S sake this section had a society column last issue. But to augment the image of a Diehard as a tough Battle-ready Corps, we shall digress from the chic, graceful and charming smiling men elegantly ambling on the parade grounds with their sponsors, to the erect, forceful cadets per forming the maneuvers of war. Like last December 1 and 2, the officers and rangers of the Corps spent these two days on the cold, lonely and dreary hills of Banawa with the in hospitable weather to keep them company. There they prac ticed enemy-ambush, attacking and repelling invaders, and general Combat Training for the Individual Soldier (CTIS). And these men began this maneuver with a six-kilometer hike from the university to Banawa hills. But we shall begin from the beginning. We shall begin Cadet Officers playing war games on a board. From left to right are; Cdf. 2nd Lt. Victor Quijano, Cdt. Capt. Max Encomienda (not facing the camera), Cdt. 1st Lt. Warlito Sua, Cdt. 1st Lt. Gil Blanco. Cdt Col. Reynaldo Joaquino, Cdt. 1st Lt Abraham Wenceslao, Cdt. 1st Lt Mauricio Santiago, Cdt. 2nd Lt Frederick Castro, and Cdt. sgt. Antonio Prejldo. Sit ting in foreground is 2nd Lt. Rolando Ramos. from the events since last deadline and the happenings in advertently unreported last issue. Last September 13, Capt. Oscar SV Aleonar, Commandant of the Corps, was designated Public Affairs Officer of the III MA by Col. Albert Friedlander, acting III MA Commander. About two months ago, because of his talents and ability, Capt. Aleonar was also appointed CIVIC ACTION OFFICER by General de Goma. Civic Action is a movement for rural progress sponsored by the AFP with the assistance of the JUSMAG. It trains men from the rural areas so they’ll have ways and means of improving the standard of living in their respective barrios. * * * participated in the Parade and Review in honor of Mayor Carlos Cuizon and Vice Mayor Luis Diores. The month of October began with a general Inspection of Records, Equipment, and Office of the Department of Army Science and Tactics (DAST) conducted by the Inspector General of the III MA, Col. Celso Ramento, and his party. Rating of course was excellent! How else could it be when we have men like Capt. Aleonar, Sgt. B. Ando, and Sgt. J. Largoza? * * * On the 3rd of October, thirteen cadet officers led by Cdt. Col. Reynaldo Joaquino participated in the Holy Rosary proOn October 11, “Foxtrot” Company under Cadet Capt. Efrcn Sanchez participated in a street parade in connection with Police Day. “Bravo” Company under Cadet Capt. Maximo Encomienda, with Cdt Lts. Roy Kyamko, Wilson Sopocado, Precilo Luma"Watch Out! you'll break your back man!" A gymnastic exhibition participant about to land on the mat after a somersault. Page Twenty-eight THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 pas, and Roy Abellana leading their respective platoons joined the UN Day parade on the 23rd of October. During Operation “Tabang” which was held at the Aznar Coliseum and sponsored by the Red Cross and the III MA, the Diehard Corps was represented during the opening day by one platoon of ROTC Ranger cadets and by Cadet Officers led by the Corps Commander, Cdt. Col. R. Joaquino. The whole Corps participated in the Christ the King Pro cession which was held at the end of October. This is all for the first semester. Now for the news this Semester. Enrollment for this semester reached a total of 1,171 cadets and cadettes. This is divided as follows: ROTC 1st year basic---------- 610 2nd year basic -------- 520 1st year adv -------- 12 2nd year adv -------- 9 WATC 1st year basic ---------- 6 2nd year basic -------- 6 1,171 We have this number to train to reach for the STAR which we nearly got last time. To get the STAR an ROTC Unit has to top the Tactical Inspection; however, our getting the Third place last schoolyear was not a bad show at all. As to the Corps Staff, it has been readjusted according to grades obtained in examinations. Cdt. Lt. Cols. Winston Monzdn and Antonio Espiritu have been demoted to cdt. captains. Likewise, the following cdt. capts. are now cdt 1st lieutenants: CDT. CAPT. FRANCIS ALVEZ, CDT. CAPT. FLORANTE EDER, CDT. CAPT. EDGAR SASO, CDT. CAPT. WARLITO SUA. The following named cadet officers are designated and assigned to units indicated, during second semester, school year 1965-1966. Designation Cdt Col Reynaldo C. Joaquino .......... Corps Commander Cdt Maj Hermenegildo Pimentel .. Corps SI & Adjutant Cdt Maj Victor Caro ............................................. Corps S2 Cdt Maj Marsenio Diaz ....................................... Corps S3 Cdt Capt Augusto Labitan............................. Asst Corps S3 Cdt Capt James Hofer ......................................... Corps S4 Cdt 2nd Lt Ramon Maneja ....................... Asst Corps S4 Cdt Capt Winston Monzon............................... CO, ‘A Co Cdt 1st Lt Francis Alvez ....................... 1st Pit A Co Cadets hearing Mass before the picnic. Cdt 1st Lt Florante Eder .............. 2nd Pit Ldr, “A” Co Cdt 1st Lt Bonifacio Ybanez.3rd Pit Ldr, “A” Co Cdt 1st Lt Francisco Padilla.4th Pit Ldr, “A” Co Cdt Capt Cesar Camilotes ............................... Co, “B” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Roy Abellana ............... 1st Pit Ldr, “B” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Precilo Lumapas.2nd Pit Ldr, “B” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Wilson Sopocado .... 3rd Pit Ldr, “B” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Frederick Castro ........ 4th Pit Ldr, “B” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Inocencio Tambiga .......... Assigned "B” Co Cdt Capt Maximo Encomienda ....................... Co, "C" Co Cdt 2nd Lt Rolando Pasignajen ... 1st Pit Ldr, "C” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Erlindo Gonzaga ........ 2nd Pit Ldr, "C” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Roy Kyamko ............... 3rd Pit Ldr, “C” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Victor Quijano .......... 4th Pit Ldr, *‘C” Co Cdt 1st Lt Gil Blanco ........................... Assigned “C” Co Cdt Capt Fidel Dacalos ................................... Co, “D” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Emmanuel Espiritu ... 1st Pit.Ldr, "D” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Cecilio Rabuza .......... 2nd Pit Ldr, “D” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Roy Ratcliffe ............. 3rd Pit Ldr, "D” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Ferdamal Quioco ..... 4th Pit Ldr, "D” Co Cdt Capt Efren Sanchez ................................... Co, “E” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Bonifacio Millanes .. 1st Pit Ldr, “E” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Renecio Fuentes ....... 2nd Pit Ldr, "E” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Eddie Ocampo ........... 3rd Pit Ldr, “E” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Allan Librando ......... 4th Pit Ldr, “E” Co Cdt 2nd Lt Benedino Sabandal .......... Assigned, “E” Co It has been the custom of the Corps of Cadets of the Diehards to hold Corps picnic once a year. The picnic this year was held last December 13 at the USC Rest House in Tali(Continued on page 32) The guests pose for a take. Standing from left to right are; Mrs. Aleonar, Miss Diana Torres, Capt. Quipot of the area motor pool, Col. and Mrs. Bermejo, Capt. Aleonar, Miss Grace Cabrera and Rev. Fr. Luis Schonfeld. The judoists in action. This Is one of the highlights of the Corps picnic. Participants of this exhibition are, from left; Cdt. Francisco Hopista. Cdt. 2nd Lt. Cecil Rabuza, and WATC Cadettes Lui Lucero and Lucy Runa (the one about to land on the mat). January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Twenty-nine ENERO-FEBRERO • 1966 • ANO 29 NO. 3 secciOn Castellano La Vocation Cristiana en el Mundo Actual EL PUEBLO DE DIOS — unico valor cstable — esta presentc en el mundo, llamado a dar testimonio en conjunto y armonicamente. Esta presencia debe santificar al mundo, a manera de fermento. El laico no es un pucnte entre la Iglesia y el mundo: cs el propio mundo. Los laicos no son la “clientela” de la jerarquia, sino animadores, y a traves de ellos de ejerce el reconocimiento practico de las estructuras temporales. Jerarquia y fieles, unidos indivisiblemente, constituyendo un todo, fueron enviados al mundo. El apostolado del Pueblo de Dios. La entrada en este Pueblo por el bautismo, confiere a todos la triple dignidad de realeza, sacerdocio y profetismo. Para cualquier cristiano, aunque sea Papa, no hay dia mas importante que el de su bautismo. A la pregunta “iDonde esta el laico?” habria que contestar: iDonde NO ESTA el laico? En efecto, se lo encuentra en su casa, en su familia, en su profesion, en una palabra haciendo la cultura y la civilizacion. Es verdad que el clerigo hace a estas aportes, pero lo hace como hombre o como laico. La historia empezd mal, porque se inicio con el diablo. Sin Adan, sin Eva y sin la tentacion del diablo, no habria habido historia. Los laicos tienen la mision de hacer la historia, y la historia, partiendo de estas premisas tiene la de de volver el mundo a Dios. Por eso hay que conocer el mundo, no rehuir su contacto, ni fingir que ignoramos sus problemas. La sociedad moderna, ante su propio poderio, siente seguridad y tambien angustia; esperanza o intranquilidad. Vivimos en el dolor de toda revolucion, de toda transition. La desorientacion es general y el cataclismo es posible. El existencialista de Heidegger Sartre y Camus, expresan la tremenda confusion de las conciencias. El cristiano laico debe asumir esta realidad y devolverla a Dios. En los ultimos anos la teologfa amplio la participaciOn en la vida divina a la nocion de participation en el Cristo total, en el Hombre Dios. Por eso la gracia es historia, y al ser universal, trabaja en toda la humanidad, aun la no cristiana. Filipinas tiene particularidades histdricas proprias, que el cris tiano en su tarea habra de respetar. Fi lipinas tiene su realidad propia que el laico debe tener presente, porque debe partir objetivamente de la realidad. Editorial El Concilio Y El Laicado EL OFICIAL reconocimiento eclesiastico por parte del Concilio Vaticano II — tras larga espera — de que los fieles desempeiian un rol activo en la Iglesia y en su divina mision mundial, reviste grandisimo interes para todos los catolicos del mundo. La Iglesia, admitiendo formalmente la dignidad y libertad de sus miembros, reconoce que a nosotros, los seglares, nos incumben graves responsabilidades. En virtud de nuestro bautismo, llegamos a ser no solo Cristianos, sino tambien parte integrante de una Iglesia viviente, destinados a jugar un rol definitivo en su mision global. Ya en la familia, ya en la socie dad, ya en la politica, ya en asuntos universales, el laicado cristiano lleva en si la semilla de la caridad cristiana, que constituye la piedra de toque de la Fe catolica. Con su ejemplo, con su habla, con sus obras, el seglar comparte la mision divina. De el han de emanar, pues, la enseiianza, la influencia, la moral y la etica del Cristianismo e inocularse en el quehacer de la familia y de la vida social, en la politica nacional e internacional a traves de una corriente en franco avance. Esta corriente la constituye la fuerza colectiva de medio billon de catolicos. El laicado catolico debe tornarse en fuerza viviente que respalde eficientemente la historia de la Iglesia que seguira hilvanandose continuamente. La voz del laicado catolico — que de ahora en adelante sera escuchada — y no seguira siendo una voz solitaria en el desierto de predominio eclesiastico. Ya se le prestara oido dentro de las augustas aulas de asamblea de la Iglesia, como tambien dentro de los confines de la parroquia y de la diocesis. Ya sera escuchado con mas conviction y confianza por lo que hace a su definitivo e ina lienable rol dentro de la Iglesia. Cuando antes el laicado catolico se daba, acaso, a la adulation por miedo de aparecer sacrilego en sus investigaciones y declaraciones en materia que le perturbaba seriamente la conciencia por lo que a su Fe hacia (a la luz del pensamiento y practicas modernas), ahora ya se le escuchara. En adelante sus ideas ya seran recibidas y tratadas con respeto; ya se les brindara la debida consideration y estudio. Despues de todo, Cristo establecid la Iglesia no solamente para sacerdotes, obispos y cardenales; ni siquiera solo para el Papa. Cristo fundo la Iglesia para todos los miembros del Cuerpo Mistico, para todo pagano, todo no cheyente, todo no cristiano que se entrega a la busqueda de la Luz y de la Verdad. La Iglesia fue fundada con una de nosotros, ya seamos religiosos, ya seglares. El decreto sobre el Apostolado del Laicado, aprobado y promulgado por el Concilio Vaticano II, marca un cambio abierto en la actitud oficial de la Ig lesia hacia el papel y capacidad del laicado catolico, o sea, de contribuir dentro de su reducida escala hacia el cumplimiento del mandato de Cristo: “Id, pues, e instruid a todas las naciones...” (Mateo 28, 19). Todos los catolicos deben acusar el impacto de este cambio y, reconociendolo, deben comenzar por actuar y desempenar su rol en el drama de la Ig lesia viviente que desde el momento de su conversion ya ha sido legalmente suyo. — MARCIANO LI. APARTE Page Thirty THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 La Politica y La Iglesia "El cristiano no es enemigo de nadie. ni del Emperador. a quien sabiendo que estd constituido por Dios, debe amar, respetar, honrar y querer que se salve con todo el romano imperio." — Tertuliano, Apologia. 1. —Fin y esencia de la politica Como fuerza conductora, la politica es una ciencia y un arte. Segun Robert von Mohl, la politica es “la ciencia de los medios por los cuales se pueden obtener en la realidad los fines del Estado de la mejor manera posible." Considerandola como arte, la politica no esta siempre unida a la ciencia, como bien lo atestigua la historia, sino que se condiciona a las naturales aptitudes de conductor y estadista que a su vez entroncan en una vi sion real de politica; en la fuerza de saber enardecer y arrastrar masas y en una voluntad fdrrea y consciente de fin y proposito. La politica verdadera consiste en la conduccion de las fundamentales fuerzas eticas de una comunidad hacia la consecucidn del bien comun. La legislacidn estatal debera ser, pues, expresidn de la legislation eterna por la cual se rige la Creation y la vida que en ella pulsa. Como que la politica s61o puede dar termino a su cometido en base al acatamiento a Dios y al orden de su Creation, sacara sus principios de la moral y del derecho naturales, y se supeditara en la formulacidn de sus fines y en la seleccidn de medios a esta moral y derecho natu rales. El Estado y el Derecho, a los cua les sirve la politica, se enraizan en el orden dtico-moral, y s61o sobre el terreno de las leyes dticas se hace viable el establecimiento de un orden perdurable en la vida publics. 2. —Deberes y derechos de la Iglesia La contribution effectiva de la Religidn cristiana a los fines polfticos y es tatales es un hecho incontrovertible. La Iglesia obliga a sus files, ya en las palabras de su divino Fundador, a “dar al Cisar lo que es del Cisar” (Mateo 22, 21). Los Apdstoles ordenaron prestar obediencia a la autoridad estatal “no silo por temor del castigo, sine tambiin por conciencia" (Romanos 13, 5), a pagar los tributes y orar por las autoridades civiles (Rom. 13, 1-7; 1 Pedro 2, 13-17; 1 Tim. 2, 2). De esta suerte se mostraran fieles a su Iglesia y se tornardn ciudadanos concienzudos. La Religidn cristiana propende primordialmente a mantener a toda alma individual en unidn viva con Dios, para luego tambidn asentar el Reino de Dios en la colectividad. La Iglesia necesariamente enuncia y defiende que la fe en Dios es el fundamento de todo orden en la tierra. La Iglesia insiste en el cumplimiento de las eternas leyes eticas de la humanidad, de los mandamientos de Dios y del ordenamiento juridico implantado por el mismo Dios, Hacedor y Senor de todo lo creado. Ella demanda el necesario lugar ambientado, los debidos recursos y facilidades materiales para posibilitar una education y formacidn cristianas para los diversos estados y esferas de vida, maxime para la juventud. En virtud del encargo de su divino Funda dor, la Iglesia lucha por preservar en toda nation, mediante medios espirituales, los derechos de Dios y exige para si misma, como sociedad perfecta, la libertad necesaria para poder dar cima a su misidn divina y asi poder suministrar a los hombres los bienes de la economia de la Redencidn, la verdad, la moralidad y la gracia, y aplicar para ello los medios oportunos y pertinentes. Su derecho y competencia en el campo formativo-educacional de la colectividad por derecho natural, los reconoce la Ig lesia en el hecho de que Iglesia y Estado no se amalgaman en manera alguna ni se fusionan totalmen'te. La Iglesia, en rigor de la ley natural, no tolera exceso de poderes estatal en aquellos terrenos cuya constitution organica social no emana directamente del Estado, como la sociedad familiar, el campo de la educaci6n. El absolutismo estatal destruye la vida individual, esa vida que es garantia y responsabilidad de los miembros de la colectividad — todos ellos altos valores sobre los que descansan toda actividad ciudadana y no en ultimo tlrmino el Es tado mismo. La influencia y el ascendiente dticoreligioso de la Iglesia en la formacidn y desenvolvimiento de la opinidn ptiblica popular no implica en manera alguna un cercenamiento o una coartacidn de los derechos del Estado, o una supeditacidn de la politica a la Iglesia en asuntos puramente terrenos; al contrario, sirve para apuntalar la autoridad estatal. 3.—"Catolicismo politico" Si estudiamos sobriamente las relaciones fundamentales e histdricas que median entre la Religidn y la politica, adquiriremos una perfecta dilucidacidn de la expresidn tan de moda hoy dia: Catolicismo politico. Esta expresidn pue de considerarse bajo dos aspectos: en primer tdrmino puede concebirse como una filosofia de vida de cardcter religioso y como conviccidn personal que tendrA su repercusidn en los diferentes frentes del campo politico. En segundo lugar se le puede considerar como objetivo y actua tion politicos que para la consecucidn de su fin se sirve, en forma egoista, de me dios religiosos. Es evidente que Catolicismo politico en el segundo sentido ha de rechazarse rotundamente porque represents un abuso y una denigracidn de la Religion que se usa exclusivamente como medio para subyugar y dominar politicamente al hombre. Asi lo asienta el Papa Le6n XIII en carta a los obispos de Portugal del 14 de septiember, 1886, en que dice: “Aunque cualquiera puede tener su opinion sobre las cosas meramente politicas, con tai que no se opongan a la Religion y a la justicia, asi como sostener este juicio honesta y legitimamente, veis, sin embargo, el pernicioso error de los que, no discerniendo bien lo sagrado y lo civil, aducen el nombre de la Religion en defensa de su partido politico" (Pergrata Nobis, 14 de septiembre, 1886). El estructurar la vida y el ordenamien to de las cosas publicas en base a la fe en Dios y a la conservation de la libertad de la Iglesia, no puede ni debe tildarse de catolicismo politico. El Cristianismo, como Relig6n, posee un carActer de totalidad, que abraza la integralidad del hombre. La razdn de ser del Cristianismo propende no s61o a impregnar y compenetrar el ambiente privado y hogareno, sino tambidn a vivificar e informar la vida publics. 4.—Crasos absurdos Es igualmente falso y absurdo el pre tender que el seguir las normas directivas de la Iglesia entrana una mengua de fervor patridtico, lucha y sed inordenadas de dominio autoritario del Papado, estrangulacidn de la conciencia y una caricatura de la verdadera Religidn. Es tas gratuitas imputaciones son posibles debido a un desconocimiento craso tanto de la Iglesia como institution sobrenatural de redencidn, como tambidn de la misidn y esencia del Papado, asi de las verdaderas relaciones entre Religidn y Nacidn, entre Iglesia y Estado. Es obvio, empero, que el derecho y el influjo de Cristo no puede detenerse sobre el filo de los lindes del campo de la polftica. Ya lo di jo Cristo: “A Mi se me ha dado toda potestad en el cielo y en la tierra" (Mateo 28, 18). Pero asimismo seria errdneo presumir que- todo estd supeditado a la jurisdiccidn de la Jerarquia eclasi&stica. La Iglesia tambidn estd sujeta al orden de la Creacidn, y dentro de este orden (Continua en la pagina 32) January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Thirty-one iSi Pudiese Vivir Nuevamente Mi Vida! EN EL AMBIENTE desconcertante actual en que se debate un mundo politica y econdmicamente desvencijado y moralmente resquebrajado, es imperioso que nuestra juventud se guie mediante un elevado juego de valores morales y espirituales. Esc juego de valores es muy intangible, pero algo inapreciable, algo que necesitamos urgentemente si es que pensamos medrar en esta vida. Se dan los casos, y con harta frecuencia, que padres de familia incurren en gastos cuantiosos para proporcionar a sus hijos recreation, diversiones y otras mil ventajas triviales y superficiales. Ocurre, asimismo, que estos mismos padres olvidan de medio a medio la estricta obligation que les incumbe de pro veer a sus hijos de los adecuados medios de defensa para asegurarse una vida realmente feliz y dichosa. ‘‘iOh, si pudiese vivir nuevamente mi vida!” — jCuantas veces oimos esta ex clamation! Pero no siempre involucra necesariamente un sentido tragico. A veces, si es proferida por personas que han fracasado totalmente en la vida; otras veces proviene de labios de un criminal quien se ha percatado demasiado tarde de sus errores. Muchas veces, empero, forma parte de la conversation ca sual, cuando personas re-examinan su vida, en esos momentos de ocio o de melancolia cuando se entregan a anorazas, fabricando castillos en el aire. Pero muy a menudo acontece que esa exclamation cae de labios de personas que se hallan en la primavera de la vida, personas rezonablemente felices y meritorias, pero que a esa altura de la vida se dan cuenta cabal de que no han aprovechado las posibilidades de su existencia en un cien por ciento, ni desarrollado sus facultades hasta el extremo limite de elasticidad. Se dan cuenta ahora de que con un tantico de esfuerzo, o, tai vez, de haberse hecho guiar mejor en su juven tud, habrian llegado a ser individuos enteramente diferentes de lo que son ahora. Todo ello, na turalmente, representa en forma real un grandisimo despilfarro de oportunidades y talentos; porque Dios nos otorga a cada uno dones particulares, hecho real que origina la obligation y el deber de inculcar en nosotros un sano sentido de respeto para con la propiedad y la opinion de nuestros semejantes y un sentido de profunda reverencia hacia Aquel que es el Dador de todo bien. Si el adolescente y el joven se basan en estos principios, invisibles pero con cretes, podran con desenvoltura hilvanar para si una maravillosa y magnifies existencia. No le es dado a cada cual resol ver siempre todos los secretes cientificos del cosmos, ni componer a discrecion una sinfonia conmovedora. Pero el que se empeha de todas veras en medrar todo lo posible en su formation etico-espiritual, haciendo que ella informe su vida cotidiana; si realiza todo trabajo u obra que emprende como si fuese la obra maxima de su vida, entonces si se hallara en si tuation de devolver al Dador el fruto centuplicado. El mundo se halla pletorico de “cosas”; pero los valores materiales y deletereos de este mundo no pueden constituir jamas un equipo capaz de elaborar una exis tencia verdaderamente feliz. Asi como sera totalmente paraddjico el comprar le a un niiia un costoso instrumento de musica, y negarle, por otra parte, las correspond !entes lecciones para el uso de este instrumento, del mismo modo sera ilusorio esperar que el niiio sepa consti tuir su vida a menos que en primer termino sepa cuales son los elementos esen ciales sobre los cuales edificar una exis tencia verdadera y realmente feliz y venturosa en esta tierra. —LUIS EUGENIO LA POLITICA ... (Continuation de la pagina 31) establecido por el Creador, debe acatar la competencia del orden politico y estatal todas las veces que no contradigan la ley natural y divina. Consecuente con su misma naturaleza, no puede ejercer influencia en contra de los naturales intereses vitales de exis tencia y de la lucha de supervivencia de la Nacidn, intereses sancionados por Dios mismo. Sin embargo, este mandate no podra mantenerse totalmente exento de posibles tensiones y reciprocos malentendidos. Paralelamente, pues, a esta clausula de independencia de la politica, coexiste tambidn una indispensable Orien tation derecho-habiente en el terreno po litico basada en las normas eticas enunciadas por la Iglesia, consonantes con el derecho divino de libertad de accidn por parte de esta misma Iglesia. LUIS E. SCHONFELD, S.V.D. ODDS-----I nilda --------------and I mildred JEJJOJS— | I ST, Another child was baptized — a child in one of the slum areas, who, had it not been for the zeal of some apos tolic workers, might never have been baptized. That child was lucky. But for every lucky child, how many unlucky ones are there who would never be cleansed by the waters of baptism? Many times, we have renewed our baptismal vows, “...I promise to live a good Christian life...” What is the standard for a good Christian life? Are we not making a promise which we do not even know how to fulfill? A good Christian life is lived as closely as possible to the way Christ lived — as reported in the gospels. If only we would be taught not what the gospels are but how the gospels ought to be lived! And actions speak more eloquently than words. "This is My body. This is My blood.” It is a joy to hear those words pro nounced in Holy Mass. Much more so if they are pronounced by one who is living, or, at least, striving to live the mass. If only all would! # ROTC (Continued from page 29) say. The activities during the picnic were the following: a swimming contest among the companies, a gymnastics ex hibition, and a judo exhibition. In the swimming contest "Alpha” Co. represented by Cdt. Pvt. Edgardo Gum ban, Jr. got the first place. Mr. Alarde, one of the swimming instructors of this university, acted as the judge of the contest. The gymnastics exhibition was pre sented by Cadets Gonzales, Albaracin, Mancao and others. The judo exhibi tion was presented by, of all people, the WATC. But because they were so few they had to take in some men to help them. WATC cadettes Lucy Runa, Luz Lucero, and Sylvia Aquino, together with ROTC cadets Cdt. 2nd Lt. Rabuza, and Cdt. F. Hopista gave the exhibition. Cadette Capt. Sylvia Aquino, however, acted only in an advisory capacity. During the picnic Cdt. Capt. Mars Diez was the coodinator of all the activities. Present during the picnic were the Commandant, Capt. Aleonar, his wife and guests; Lt. Col. and Mrs. Pedro Bermejo, Capt. Quipot, Dr. Martinez, and Fr. Luis E. Schonfeld, SVD, Dean of Student Affairs. Gracing the picnic with their beauty were also the follow ing sponsors; Misses Grace Cabrera, Jane Bernabe, Diana Torres, Stella Nacua, Abilene Alvez and Wendelyn Lisondra who were chaperoned by the no less winsome adviser of the sponsors, Miss A. Sarthou. Page Thirty-two THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL (Continued from paye 13) The Council has successfully drafted major docu ments that answer the need of a complex and pluralistic world. All of them are of vital and supreme import ance; their significance can never be doubted. As a matter of fact, all the documents are never sneered or harshly criticized by the world press. Even Protestants and other religious sects acknowledge their worth en thusiastically. All the documents are proofs of the Church's broadmindedness; they are all products of deliberate thinking; they are the laudable gestures of a living institution which is acutely aware of the need of the milieu of the time. The day the council ended, the periti had almost exhausted their brainpower. But the very fact that the schemata are accepted are reward enough for their hectic time in drafting the said documents. To repeat, the Council is a success. The role of the periti in the Council cannot be ignored. Of course, they are less visible in the eyes of the world but the role they played cannot be ignored. Methodist observer Dr. Albert C. Outler, himself a scholar of theology, says: ''This is the first council since Nicaea where the decisive balance was tipped by theo logy professors. When the council began, there were perhaps 500 who knew what the consequences would be, and 300 of these were conservatives. They knew, they still know the consequences of radical change. But this council of 2,400 men was led to form honest convictions on the progressive side — and without any real leadership in the American sense of the word. In every instance it was the professors who tipped it. Most bishops didn't know the answers. But they knew administration, and one point of administration is to ask if you don't know." To the periti Pope Paul said: "It is the bishops who build the church but it is you who draw the blue prints." Dr. John K. S. Reid, an observer from the World Alliance of Reform and Preysbyterian Churches, opines: "By working together, the council has enabled the Roman Catholic Church to form a common mind. At the first session nothing was decided. In the final ses sion, a real consensus had grown up." TIME magazine, aware of the success of Vatican II commented thus: "The success or failure of Vatican II cannot be judged merely by the bulk of written do cuments. More important is the spirit that brought the council together and inspired its discussions. The most apparent impact of those discussions was the bishops' self-discovery of their common responsibility for the church as a whole." Germany's Evangelical Bishop Otto Dibelius, quips: "If the Roman Catholic Church had looked 450 years ago as it looks today, there would never have been a Reformation." But that is enough. The old error has been cor rected; let the dead past bury its dead. Let's all work for better unity. Now that the Council is over, Pro testant churches consider the old differences between their churches and the Catholic Church as something less relevant. It no longer matters so much; better understanding has bridged the age-old gap. In the second week of December, when the Council was about to close, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople issued, TIME reported, "a joint statement deploring the mutual excommunications that Roman Catholic and Orthodox leaders had hurled at each other in 1054." The event aroused not only sym pathy of the world but also praises from the world press. It is, no doubt, a healthy sign of reconciliation, a return to the spirit of friendship and unity, a grow ing understanding of principles and doctrines. POSTSCRIPT The day the council ended, Cardinal-Patriarch Maximos IV Saigh of Antioch opines that Vatican II has "put the church into a permanent state of dialogue —dialogue with itself for a continuous renewal; dia logue with our Christian brothers in order to restore the visible unity of the body of Jesus Christ; Dialogue, finally, with today's world, addressed to every man of good will." The speech of Pope Paul VI during the last session summarizes the points which the church wants the world to know: "The church of the council has been concerned not just with herself and her relationship. . . with God, but with man — man as he really is today: living man. . .man as the superman of yesterday and today, ever frail, unreal, selfish and savage; man un happy with himself as he laughs and cries. . .man as he is, a creature who thinks and loves and toils and is al ways waiting for something. . .We call upon those who term themselves modern humanists. . .to recognize our own new type of humanism: we, too, in fact more than others, honor mankind." The end of the Council is only a beginning. How ever, there is a fair hope that the harmony and unity of different churches will continue to flourish and to grow; after all, the fruit of this better understanding and friendship is all for the good of humanity and for the greater glory of God. Even TIME magazine foresees a favorable future of the Church when it writes: "Thus the more the church returns in spirit to the unfettered simplicity of the Gospel from which it sprang, the more likely it is that its voice will be heeded again by the world.'' (By the way, we feel like adding this: the Church did not spring from the Gospel; Christ himself founded the Church). The formal closing of the Council ended when the Pope raised his arms and bid farewell to his bishops. Then he uttered the final words: "Ite in pace." January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Thirty-three The University of San Carlos Warriors, atoning for their last year’s miserable performance, turned the UV gymnasium into a slaughter house as they steam-rolled the San Jose Recoletos-Five, 77 - 62. Coach Martin Echivarre’s starting five — Jose Reynes, Ernesto Remidio, Luis Ceniza, William Yu and Liberato Berbesada got out from a shaky start and romped away with a 6-0 lead. Gonzaga spoiled what would have been a five-minute shut-out by the P. del Rosario dribblers when he sank a beauty from underneath. In the last 1:40, Berbesada knocked in a twinner with a pivot at the center, grabing the lead from San Jose, 22-26. These followed a series of errors by both teams. Joe Reynes heaved a long one from the quarter court and ended the half for USC, 29-26, sending the partisan crowd in a flood of joy. Jaguar Rabuya started the second half for San Jose with a long blow that chopped the lead down to one, 29-28. But that was the best they could do. An undergoal stab by Luis Ceniza. SAN CARLOS Demy Jumoad, Luis Ceniza and Ernesto Magale, took turns in snipping off the Jaguar’s picket lines and sinking field goals almost at will outside, inside and underneath. The Warriors started their uphill climb, 42-32, with 14:9 still left to play. A rebellious CSJ-R threatened to revolt when they chopped the lead down to five points, 42-38. But a series of team plays engineered by Coach Martin Echivarre Jr. quickly doused out the fire. The fierce Ernesto Remidio prevented Fred Gonzaga from the what he was before — a scoring machine. December 5, 1965 — The miracle boys of Atty. Martin Echivarre Jr., putting up one of their finest shows of the season toppled down the CIT Wildcats, 80-73, bringing them selves closer to the championship last night. The gigantic task of unhorsing the defending champion, University of the Visayas Lancers, now rests on their laps. Joel Cenabre of CIT raced down the court and scored the first field goal of the game, after Luis Ceniza’s three successive undergoal attempts. That was the Wildcats only taste of lead. A cluster of baskets by Reynes, Remidio, Ceniza and Yu proppelled the Warriors to the driver’s seat for good, 11-2. Page Thirty-four THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 With five minutes left of the first, Coach Alveola ordered his men to a pressing man-to-man defense which reduced the Warriors’ cushion to seven points at the end of the half. 32-25. Hovering over the Warriors like a plague, the Wildcats threatened to cheat defeat when they staged a searing uphill climb led by the impeccable Cenabre and Gica at the second canto. The Warriors, their defenses deflated by the loss of its clutchmen — Re midio, Yu, Magale on disqualification and to top it all slippery Ceniza who wrought havoc in the CIT ranks, succumbed to a leg cram,—held on for dear life. But the reserves — Jigger Villegas and Edwin Quiamco — although with shaky knees and taut nerves came off the bench to choke off the Wildcats uprising, combining efforts with Jumoad and Berbe sada, and clinched the game for San Carlos with plenty to spare. December 12, 1965 The University of the Visayas Lancers crushed the USC Warriors, 89-78, in the first of the two-outof-three play — of series last night at the UV gym nasium. The Lancers have only to win their game on Sunday to clinch the CCAA championship. San Carlos, on the other hand, has to sweep their last two games from UV to have the claim to the throne. Banking on their tremendous height advantage, the Lancers built up a solid 43-29 lead at halftime. The overflow crowd expecting a neck-to-neck battle were disappointed as the Warriors, complete outreached, displayed a below par performance — far below their old form. The Warriors seemed headed for the big time at the start but suddenly UV’S brigade of Goliaths — Cheongtek, Grafe, Callelero, Singson and Kong exWilliam Yu defying CIT sentinels. PLACES SECOND IN CCAA SPOT Reporting by MANUEL RAMOS OCHOA Sports Editor Berbesada and Singson grapple for the ball, as Cenlia and Jumoad watch. In the foreground Is Cheongtek. ploded like hell broke loose, thoroughly obliterating the San Carlos defenses. There were however, signs of the Warriors old form when they fought the Lancers basket for bas ket, tying the score up six times: 2-2, 4-4, 6-6, 8-8 14-14 and when they sliced UV’S lead down to seven, 47-40, on Jumoad’s and Berbesada’s terrific outside shooting with 17:05 left of the second half. But it was to no avail. UV went on to win, 89-78, going away. December 19, 1965 — A highly demoralized San Carlos quintet succumb ed to the murderous onslaught of the UV Lancers to the tune of 100-71. The victory gave UV the un disputed claim to the crown. The Warriors fell the victims of the Lancers as they poured mercilessly their wrath on the hapless Warriors. After seven minutes of play, the Lancers had already appeared master of the situation with their complete domination of the board. It was a rebounding, running, scoring UV team that was so determined to win. San Carlos was not even half of it. Although the old Warrior spirit came to life with still six minutes left. Seven consecutive field goals lighted the Warrior score board but was not enough to overcome the buffer UV had established earlier. January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Thirty-five YOUNG POET: RAGE, RAGE, RAGE.. . (Continued from page 7) boogie-woogie by learning the fundamental steps, ac quiring an inner grace and probably a little talent. And after we have mastered these fundamentals, we move slowly toward the variations and that is, learning rock n'roll, the twist and the new dance craze, the jerk. And applying these to poetry, the young poet starts with language, acquires an inner ear for melody and rhythm, and develops the proper usage of form, figurative language, symbols ideas, effects, imagery, etc. And after learning these, the young poet can hope to descend into poetical variations as the narrative poetry and prose poetry. In this manner, his anguish and rage, instead of becoming a cry of a fool in the wilderness, will have proper direction and he can hope to arrive at something definite, at least, the poetic sensibility. In explaining the development of a young poet, W. H. Auden, a professor of poetry himself, has this to say "If the young man, after being asked why he writes poetry, answers, 'I have important things I wont to say,' then he is not a poet. If he answers, 'I like hanging around words listening to what they say,' then maybe he is going to be a poet." Then Auden adds: "In the first stages of his de velopment, before he has found his distinctive style, the poet is, as it were, engaged to language and, like any young man who is courting, it is right and proper that he should play the chivalrous servant, carry par cels, submit to tests and humiliations, wait hours at street corners, and defer to his beloved's slightest whims, but once he has proved his love and been ac cepted, then it is another matter. Once he is married, he must be master in his own house and be responsible for their relationship." In his explanation, it is apparent that Auden com pares the groping poet to a young lover courting. And like any lover, there is the rage to love. Perhaps this is the rage of the young poet: his search for identity. And once he has found his lover and is married to her, he must learn to control her and become her master. Otherwise, if he would become a henpecked husband, all his rage would turn to ashes and his poetry would become as meaningless as a fallen leaf. And as Thomas warned him before: "Do not go gentle into that good night! Rage, Rage, Rage against the dying of light!" But in the ultimate conclusion, however, as George Barker would have it, "All Poems are Elegies and soon all the poets would have died." And he further dec lares: "That moment of truth when God with the sword in his hand profiles in front of the poet to deal him the kill of a poem is the moment when the poet sees home to the heart of things: the inspiration which is the as sassination. . .To be so closely caught up in the teeth of things that they kill you, no matter how infinite simally kill you, is, truly, to be a poet: and to be a poet in fact it is additionally necessary that you should pos sess the tongues and instruments with which to record a series of deaths." But beneath these deaths rise the light and the poem weaving the universe in the blues of the world. And Dylan Thomas, in his craft of sullen art, decries the yell of poetry from the poets' dead hearts: “Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spendrift pages Not for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art. THE WHITE CHRIST (Continued from page 12) to completion. I helped him secure a 300-year-old tabernacle owned by one of my mothers’ kins. He was greatly impressed. We talked more about old wooden saints. Suddenly I struck upon an idea. “Father”, I said, "the best thing to do in order to securb those old wooden saint images is to exchange them with new ones. Most people would not part with their old things easily for sentimental reasons. They regard them highly and consider them as heirlooms, but if we exchange them with new ones or some of your discarded images, Father, for sure, we can persuade them,” I said, and I was filled with zest and enthusiasm. “Quite a good idea,” he said. “Oh Father”, I cried. “There’s one image I know. It’s the right one we need. In the research room in the science depart ment, on top of one of those big cabinets, there is a crucifix about three or four feet high. The image is still intact but maybe there’s some slight damage since it was dumped there, but someone we don’t know who. I’m sure the natives will like it. And you must know Father how they value things coming from religious people like you. In not less than two seconds, Father R.... studied the floor. Then he said: “Come and show me this crucifix right now.” We went down to the next floor and found ourselves talk ing to a young faculty member. We asked for the head of the department. The head of the department was not in the office at that moment so we managed to let him open the door after asking his permission to get something from the research The priest wasted no time in climbing the cabinet to get the white Christ. He saw the miserable condition and gave instruction to the faculty member that I could get it anytime.., I looked at the bruised knees and the cuts on his legs, his precious blood stained the escayola white sculptured work. My eyes were misty. It looked real — the image. His precious blood no longer dried dark brown but red and fresh. How could this thing be discarded and left to lay under a pile of rubbish and allowed to accumulate dirt. I recalled the letter sent to me from an esteemed artist and also a member of the faculty. The letter was deeply Hurt ing at the beginning and finally explained how the crucifix was left to him by a priest who was out of the country. Ac cording to him the crucifix was to be painted and would under go some repair and that he was bringing with him a sculptor the next day to fix the broken parts. He was making it clear that I had to return the crucifix immediately to the place where I got it. Days passed. The crucifix was retrieved but it never went back to its dirty place on top of the cabinet where the smell of badly preserved marine organisms and cadavers of cats gave off a most repugnant odor. I felt greatly relieved. Page Thirty-six THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 LESSONS FROM A RIVER BY THE TRANQUIL hometown of my grandparents there flows a river. For many a time I have visited it, during vacation spent with my old folks, view ing the quiet flow of the river. I met the river again on a summer vacation. In common with other streams of its kind, this river suffers much from the summer heat. I have seen it so shrun ken that fishes lay lifeless on the parched sand and gravel of its bed; but this past summer I noticed something which I never saw before. . One hot, summer morning, a friend and I started out for the hills to spend the day by the rapids. We followed the course of the river. After we had covered a kilometer or more, I observed that the river had disappeared, and only the dry bed was to be seen. I looked around in wonder because past my grandparents’ cottage and out to the sea half a mile or so away, the river was flowing clear and steady in its usual summer depth. But at the place where we stood at that moment, there was no water any where to be seen. All about us the wide river bed was hot and dry. On toward the hills we continued our way, and not until we had covered an other kilometer or so, did we see the stream again, at the point where it had spread itself so thin, that it was lost at the edge of the waterless stretch of scorched sand and stones. But as we continued our way, into the hills, we found the river strongei- and deeper than as it passed by our cottage. For many people, I suppose, there is nothing strange or significant in this. Perhaps they have seen such phenomenon more than once. To me however, it was a new ex perience and it gave a strangeness. But it wasn’t merely strange to me. To me, it was awfully suggestive of spiritual truths that can inspire and teach les sons of highly considerable values. One of the thoughts that immediately came to my mind was the lesson of de termination and struggle. Flowing from ifs source in the mountains, just as it was leaving the last foothills, behind, it was checked by the long, restraining stretch of sand. I had read of other streams that upon confronting similar obstacles inevitably lost themselves in sand. But this river, determined to reach the sea, tunneled its way, so to say, under its sandy bed, until at last, at the end of the long obstacle, it came out steady on its march to the sea. And then I thought of human enCommerce III deavor. I was reminded of many lives that stopped short of greatness only be cause they lacked the power of will to "tunnel through’’ obstacles. But I thought most of al) those who, like the river, confronted with nearly prevailing hindrances but, undespaired, continued their struggle, buried in precious hopes but persistently pushing their way to the sea, to the sea of their life’s great goal. I remember the words of many great men, one of them, Baden Powell, the founder of Boy Scouting, who said, “You can’t always sacceed without failures. Let the failures be stepping stones to success.” I’m reminded of Benjamin Franklin who, having failed more than a thousand times in the same experiment, succeeded to become the inventor of the electric light. The irre solute and exalted lives all remind us what that river has taught us; the lesson of determination and struggle to the goal of success. Another lesson I learned from that river is in the fact that the river was not only able to overcome its barriers but to reach a great end, the sea. How different with so many lives! How different that many persons in the springtime of their youth and in man hood appeared apparently victorious over barriers, determined to reach a goal, only to end in disgrace and disillusion. A few years back, during my high school days, I happened to room with a AUDIO-VISUAL COMMUNICATION Man learns to perceive, to conceptualize, and to generalize through the medium of his senses and to acquire attitudes through the totality of his involvement as a person. Through audiovisual com munication, this encompassing learning experience which of necessity must be supplied vicariously during many ins tances in the learning process is what we are after as means to achieve better and “permanent” learning in the stud ents. Audiovisual communication viewed this way is realized as something not ex trinsic to the teaching-learning activity in the classroom. Furthermore, contrary to the opinions of educational enthusiasts, if we may call them, audiovisual communication cannot substitute for the teacher’s role. This is true even when the latest ins tructional media as the multi-channel approach with the use of closed circuit TV-computer combination for immediate retrieval of information and direct teststudent who, the same as I did, studied in a university in another city. He had a quiet, unassuming, yet impressive per sonality. For he made good in acade mic pursuit. He maintained a success ful path into graduating as an honor student. We parted ways and I haven’t heard from him until somebody, who we both know, told me that he and my erst while roommate were together in college. "And how he has changed,” he sounded incredulously! "Well, what year is he now?” I asked. “Believe it or not,” he exclaimed, "bu he’s still a sophomore when he should be a senior student!” On the other hand, let’s think of other lives that, like the river, kept true to the very end of their course. Did the river flow without purpose? No, it didn’t, for it furnished safe and running water for plants and fish and fowl and for man and beast. Indeed, it just didn’t flow in and enjoy itself, but it played its part in the process of nature. I believe that it should be so with man’s life. It is not to be lived for itself alone for its own joy and sa tisfaction, but for others in glad and devoted ministry. How thankful we should be to doctors and missionaries, who ventured into the dark forests of rudimentary civilizations, who met over whelming odds, who gave comfort and health and knowledge to their fellow men. For if man, who in the face of ob stacles, lacks the strength of will to go on ready to serve, he will ultimately be come useless to others. Lessons from the tranquil, placid flow of a river—so mysterious, so signi ficant — but do men see them? J (Continued on page 15) scoring is used in teaching. True, mod ern space-age learning devices may modify drastically the traditional activ ity of the teacher in the classroom. It is wise for the teacher to reckon with this progress. However, he should not be led to believe that he has no place in the automation of the teaching-learning process. Machines can only facilitate human learning. They can never satisfy the need for the humanizing element in education. For the teacher, his prime responsibility will always be to under stand how to use intelligently the simple as well as the advanced audiovisual methods, materials, and equipment which are on hand. In any case, there is little reason for the teacher to bide by his disappoint ment at not being understood. The in sincere can be indifferent to this pro blem, but the dedicated ones have much to hope for in the right understanding and application of audiovisual commu nication in the classroom. January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Thirty-seven ON INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING (Continued from page 14) club at the Intercontinental level, a continent shutting itself off from contact with other continents. A com mon Europe does not intend to isolate itself, and will not isolate itself from other nations. It will keep its doors wide open to share achievements and successes, to engage in reciprocal trade, to strengthen the free dom of the western world and to protect it against com munism, and above all to preserve peace. This is pos sible however, only if all nations are prepared in the same degree to sacrifice something in order to share in the common benefits. And this in turn is possible only if human beings can enter into dialogue, can dedicate themselves to a common task in which, of course, every nation must treat with respect the specific history, and culture and mentality of every other nation. Even when language differs it is the word that binds human beings together. You can think here on the first missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word who at the end of the nineteenth century were sent out into the world to speak the word to human beings and to experience something of their way of life. They were in the truest sense the first ambassadors of peace ful understanding from nation to nation and from con tinent to continent. They have freely left their home land thousands of miles behind and have carried in their knapsack only the simple word of understanding, whether in the churches through the announcing of the Christian message or in the schools through their teach ing. But beside the word stood and still stands today the deed, the act of brother love, above all in the mis sion stations and hospitals. In the past year on my journey to India I have myself seen how the missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word share their bitter poverty of the outcasts of leper colonies. Perhaps these are the reasons why in the history of the Society of the Divine Word there is no instance of Missionaries being persecuted by a people among whom they have been received and with whom they have lived together. It is true that the Di vine Word Missionaries were imprisoned in China, brutally man-handled and driven from the country that had become their homeland. But this was not the will of the Chinese people. It was the result of an imported and brutally imposed ideology, atheistic communism, that has subjected the entire Chinese people under its yoke. Of the many ideas that occasioned the foundation of the International Academy for Intercontinental Con tacts I would like to select and dwell on two. In Bonn, the seat of the German Federal Govern ment, dwell the ambassadors of more than 100 states. Like all ambassadors they represent their country and seek to establish good relations between their govern ment and the host government to whom they are ac credited, between their people and the host people. But in most cases this remains, perhaps because anything closer is impossible, a mere political contact on a government to government level. A people knows of the history of its neighbor for the most part only a few important dates and facts so obvious that they can be read in any encyclopedia. The underlying cultural, so cial and religious values are almost unknown. But in human history it was always music, literature, research and, of course, also trade which effected a drawing to gether of people and paved the way for good political relations. For this reason the Academy for Intercon tinental Contacts has set itself the task of inviting im portant personalities of various nations to speak in an atmosphere free of diplomatic pressures and niceties, to provide a deeper look into the soul of their people and above all to bring out the deeper relationships that bind people together. The Academy then is not meant to provide oppor tunities for diplomats to exchange floral wreaths with each other on the occasion of state visits, although this can be very useful and can create a good atmosphere. A state visit last only a few days or a few hours. More decisive is what happens when the visit is over and the diplomats depart. On this score it is of greatest im portance that teachers and students, engineers and doctors, economists and artists should spend some time in another country through an exchange program in order to be able to speak out their experiences when they return home. In this way many misunderstanding can be set aside once and for all and ungrounded sweep ing condemnations done away with. A second basic idea of the International Academy for Intercontinental Contacts is derived from the first. In Germany the most suitable place for the establish ment of this Academy was the provincial house of the Divine Word Missionaries standing as it does imme diately before the gates of Bonn, Germany's capital city. The SVD House was a place where these talks could take place without sentiment or resentment, for the Divine Word Missionaries have never allowed them selves to become enmeshed in the political or economic entaglements of a people among whom they were living. So it is today possible that the representatives of other nations can come to this Academy as speakers and listeners knowing that they have full freedom to speak and to listen. The lectures are published in many thou sands of copies and spread throughout the world, and so the spoken word becomes a carrier of goodwill among people. In this way the Academy is the practical imple mentation of an idea and of a task begun by the mis sionaries of the Society of the Divine Word many de cades ago, an idea and a task which they still pursue today among the men and women of 34 different count ries on all continents. This fruitful work of an inter national team, as it is embodied in the Society of the Divine Word, and its visible results, and increased un derstanding among peoples, are the foundations upon which we want to further build our movement. It is not sufficient, however, that only the mis sionary Church should possess this practical interna tional, ecumenical aspect. In our day we are fortunate to see this ecumenical idea forcibly breaking through at the Second Vatican Council. The task of promoting international understanding, once reserved for the small bonds of missionaries at the periphery of the universal Church, has now become a task for all mem bers of the Church at large. May I state my closing wish that this small cere mony may deepen in all of us here this evening our de dication to this task that the God of history has placed upon our shoulders. I thank you. Page Thirty-eight THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 THE WORLD WE LIVE IN (Continued from page 27) There's Christian formula that sounds very simple indeed but humanity has never learned it, it would seem. It is as old as Christ himself. "Love your enemies." The formula may hold true to a man of faith but what to a man who has none? Mao would surely change it to: Destroy your enemies! Peace for Red China is the triumph of her ideology over all others. "Love your enemies." It would only make Mao laugh and laugh and laugh until the world laughs with him. A man of Faith, Gerard Manley Hopkins, the priest-poet of the Victorian era but is very much a poet of our time had written a poem called "Peace." His time had not yet experienced the global catastrophes we had experienced in the 20th century. But just the same he was already tired of the alarms of war and of the "piecemeal peace" which was the only kind of peace that he knew. “When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut, Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs? When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of war, the daunting war, the death of it?’’ But an optimist, he was positive about the coming of True Peace, the kind of peace that we dream to have: “0 surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should have leave in lieu Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite, That plumes to peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo, He comes to brood and sit.” Well, that is Father Gerard Manley Hopkins, a tor tured genius of the Church. What this priest had writ ten is always the salient characteristic of the men of Faith. Only Father Hopkins knows how to write poetry while other do not. He has language; he has rhythm; and his theme is universal. Even his most didactic poem does not sound like a sermon; it is a virtue rare to di dactic poets. 5. WHAT IS THE FUTURE of man? What will be the ultimate result of the crisis of our time? The future may either be grim — total annihilation; or it may be a wonderful place to live in — a new Eden. The two possibilities are worth speculating. All of course want the future to be a world of order and not of bloodshed for we have had enough of it. But while we are wishing for the good, humanity, it would seem, is working for the opposite, hence our un easiness. FATHER SCHOENIG RETURNS (Continued from page 11) In 1961 he again took up residence at his Alma Mater, Notre Dame, to work for his Ph.D. degree. His specific line of study and research was the field of medical entomology, especially mosquito genetics for which Notre Dame is a world center, and is closely connected with the World Health Or ganization (WHO). To anyone not familiar with the work, the title of his doctoral dissertation might sound strange or unimpressing: STRAIN VARIATIONS IN BEHAVIOR IN AEDES AEGYPTI. However, it is one of the few existing investigations which combine a quantitative analysis of behavioral traits with the study of their genetic background. This line of investigation is considered vital for the solu tion of many intricate problems which face the WHO in its attempt to control insects, the worst carriers of human diseases. During his studies Father Schoenig attended a number of international meetings of biologists and read a couple of papers on the behavior and genetics of mosquitoes. SCHOLARLY TOUR After his graduation in May 1965, Father Schoenig visit ed various universities in the USA, Europe, India and For mosa (Taiwan). He discussed problems of mosquito control with authorities connected with the WHO: Professor H. Laven, Germany; Dr. M. Coluzzi, Italy; and Dr. U.M. Adhami, India. In Manila he visited the center of the WHO for East Asia with the intention of correlating his future work with the plans of this worldwide body. He intends to work on problems of medical entomology with the view of improving control over these carriers of plant, animal and human diseases. Most of Father Schoenig’s time in Germany was spent in soliciting financial help from government and industrial agen cies for much-needed equipment. Such transactions take time, and their fruits ripen slowly. It will take months, maybe a year, until the tangible results—equipment valued at P50.000 to P60,000—will eventually arrive. FAIR HOPE It is hoped that with the return of its head, and with the arrival of new and better equipment, the Department of Biology of the University of San Carlos will expand its scope of activities, intensify scientific research and put it on a higher level. The great American novelist, William Faulkner, who writes about the evil and the ugly side of man, as serts that man in the future will prevail. Surely it is one of the noblest utterances of our time, a moving declaration of an optimist's refusal to surrender to the ding-dong of doom. Anne Frank, a Jew, who had witnessed the terror of the Second World War and the cruelty of the Nazis was not convinced that such an orgy would last for ever. She clung to the old idea— an optimist as she was — that sooner a new reign would come, and every thing would be all right again. Wrote she: "I see the world becoming a wilderness, I hear the ever-approach(Continaed on page 48) January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Thirty-nine HEW ■ ADMINISTRATION PAGE AWARD FOR THE PRESIDENT Cebu City is earning distinctions in higher education with one of its univ ersities making academic gains abreast with leading institutions in Manila. This view found proof recently when the President of the University of San Carlos received an award from the Philippine Association for Graduate Education (PAGE) at a public ceremony November 27 in Manila. Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Jesus Perpiiian is shown congratulating Father President Rahmann who has just been presented the Leonard Bowman award in recognition of "distinguished service to PAGE." President Rudolf Rahmann, SVD, was cited for his "distinguished service as member of the Board of Directors of PAGE” as well as for his “contributions to higher education.” Earlier in November 15, the Univ ersity of San Carlos passed its first candidates in oral examinations for the highest academic degree offered in Cebu, the doctorate in philosophy. Private Schools Director Dr. Jesus E. Perpiiian came here as a special guest at the oc casion. The successful candidates were Prof. Alfredo Ordoiia of the USC Teachers College and Miss Tecla Revilla, of the graduate department of the Cebu Normal School. The Manila affair held at the Far Eastern University Auditorium, was the fourth national convention of PAGE. Father Rahmann was member of the executive committee and chairman of the session in Anthropology. He was one of three outstanding members honor ed, and the one who received the Leonard L. Bowman award. The other two were long-time educator Dr. Camilo Osfas and Chairman Juan Salcedo Jr. of the National Science Development Board. When the conference closed Novem ber 27, Father Rahmann was one of those inducted into office to serve another term as member of the board of directors, after obtaining the second highest num ber of votes. The University itself was awarded a certificate of appreciation "in recognition of its role in promoting the objectives of the PAGE.” USC is operating three doctorate courses: Doctor of Philosophy in Edu cation, in Philosophy, and in Anthropo logy. It is the only private school in the Visayas and Mindanao to operate doctorate courses. SAN CARLOS RECEIVES NSDB CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION The University of San Carlos was the recipient of a Certificate of Appre ciation signed by Dr. Gregorio Zara, Vice-Chairman and Executive Director of the National Science Development Board for “the invaluable cooperation and sincere interest in the promotion of science consciousness among the youth” as shown by the “active partici pation in the 1965 NSDB Regional School Science Fair” held in Cebu City last November 23-27. NSDB RECEIVES MEMO FROM FATHER PRESIDENT During the 4th national convention of the Philippine Association for Gra duate Education (PAGE) held in Manila last November 26-27, President Father Rahmann submitted to Dr. Juan Salce do, Chairman of the National Science Development Board, a memorandum on the promotion of doctoral studies in the Philippines. The memo was an appeal to the NSDB and other agencies to lend financial assistance to deserving candi dates for the doctor’s degree in Philip pine universities. The memo was ac knowledged by a letter to Father Rahmann from Mauro Gonzales, Chief of the NSDB Division of Development and Assistance, who agreed to the urgent need for promoting doctoral studies in the country. Gonzales assured, in his letter, to give Father Rahmann’s pro posal "careful attention”. USC CONFERS HIGHEST HONOR ON GERMAN INTERNATIONALIST “Human understanding should leap over the borders of individual states to produce a global solidarity of nations. The alternative is an overbearing selfesteem which can only lead to self annihilation.” This was the message of Dr. Helmut Reuther, German internationalist, upon receiving from the University of San Carlos recently the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Humanities, honoris causa. “We have the obligation to open the portals of human intercourse," Dr. Reuther said in his address, noting that 17 million of his people still live behind the Iron Curtain. Meanwhile, European nations have pooled their talent and la bors together in a common market, which, Dr. Reuther observed, should hold its doors open for continued re ciprocal intercourse with the rest of the free world. Conferral ceremonies were held October 29 at the USC audiovisual room, where Rev. Dr. Joseph Goertz, USC director of research, formally welcomed the honoree. The citation was read by Prof. Dr. W. Bruell and the honorary degree was granted by Very Rev. Dr. Rudolf Rahmann, S.V.D., USC Presi dent. Rev. Luis E. Schonfeld, S.V.D., master of ceremonies, noted that among 14 recipients of honorary degrees at San Carlos, Dr. Reuther is the fifth from the Federal Republic of Germany. Five others are outstanding Filipinos, three Americans and one from the Vatican State. Early this year, Dr. Reuther founded a movement for the promotion of priest ly vocations in the mission countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. In 1963 he organized the Publishing House for the Youth which turns out 80,000 pocketbooks annually. He had earlier served as private secretary to the late Foreign Minister Heinrich von Bretano, and is today a member of the Press and Page Forty THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 For fostering international understanding among the youth, a doctoral degree . . . Dr. Reuther receives from President Rahmann his diploma. Information Office of the Federal Re public of Germany. Dr. Reuther cited the missionaries of the Society of the Divine Word as his country’s "first ambassadors of peaceful understanding from nation to nation” who at the turn of the century began leaving home and family bearing in their knapsack only the simple word of understanding. The S.V.D., he said, presented the idea which is now being given practical implementation by an organization known as the Academy for Interconti nental Contacts in Bonn, Germany. Dr. Reuther is secretary general of that academy, which encourages an interna tional exchange of ideas on politics and economics, scientific research, culture, religion and history. For upholding the Christian ideals of peace in public service and a dis tinguished career as a foreign corres pondent and editorial writer, Dr. Reuther became one of only 70 members of the Teutonic Order as Marian Knight with cross and cape, the highest level of Catholic society in the German speaking countries of Europe. Concluding his message before Gra duate School faculty and students, he hoped that the ecumenism of the Second Vatican Council would deepen in all men the dedication "to this task that the God of history has placed upon our shoulders.” RESEARCH AT USC In a survey on scientific studies recently published by the Division of Documentation of the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), USC figures prominently among the 53 insti tutions of higher academic learning, technical government agencies and in dustrial establishments in the Philip pines included in the survey. From January 1964 to June 1965, San Carlos is credited with 13 published research studies, 42 researches completed but not yet published and 28 more still in progress. Listed in the survey report prepared by NIST’s Quintin Eala are USC researches in physics, chemistry, fossils, botany, zoology, engineering, cookery fuels and oils. Though the number of anthropologi cal researches at USC is not as impres sive as that in the field of science, they nevertheless are formidable enough to enjoy the support of the National Science Development Board, the Asia Foundation and the German Research Association, among others. Research work of USC’s Department of Anthro pology and Linguistics, being considered a social science, was not included in the survey. Rev. Dr. Joseph Goertz, SVD, research director at USC, has supplied the following data for anthropological research: 8 published studies, 7 com pleted but not yet published and 3 in progress for the period covered by the survey. One on-going project is that of Professor Marcelino N. Maceda, who studies archaeological and anthropologi cal data in Southern Cotabato. Other studies in the same department are in child-rearing practices, family life in a slum district of Cebu, agricul tural practices of the Manobo and the porcelain and pottery objects of Puerto Galera. With the number of research studies increasing each semester, San Carlos is not far from filling up the ranks of re searchers in the Philippines. MRS. TENAZAS RETURNS FROM STUDY TRIP Mrs. Maria Rosa C.P. Tenazas is back from a short research trip to Thailand, Malaysia and Hongkong. The research involved comparative studies of protohistoric trade potteries from China and elsewhere in Southeast Asia which were recovered from extensive burial sites in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro, and those which were exca vated in the countries visited. The trip was made possible by the extension of funds applied for by Rev. Fr. Rudolf Rahmann, SVD, from the German Re search Foundation for studies on the Puerto Galera specimens. While in Thailand Mrs. Tenazas vi sited the ancient Kiln Sites of Sakhothai and Sawankalok. In Pimai, the site of extensive Kmer ruins in the Northeast, she joined the archaeological team of the University of Hawaii, headed by Dr. Wilhelm G. Solheim II, once an assist ant of Professor H. 0. Beyer in the National Museum, Manila. Dr. Solheim is an authority on Southeast Asian pre historic pottery in general, and of Phil ippine iron age pottery in particular. He has made excavations on the Babu yan islands to the north and on the island of Masbate. Other archaeologists and authorities on Southeast Asia prehistory met and consulted each other. In almost all the museums visited Mrs. Tenazas was given a special tour as well as access to the libraries and storerooms of Archaeologi cal Materials. January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Forty-one Father Bustos receives his special diploma from Very Reverend Father Rahmann, while Father John Vogelgesang looks on. USC CONFERS HONORARY DEGREE ON FATHER BUSTOS The University of San Carlos con ferred the degree of Master of Arts in Education, honoris causa, on Rev. An selmo G. Bustos, acting secretary-gen eral of the university, on November 4 at 6:30 P.M. in the Audio-Visual Room. The small room was packed full with faculty members, students and various guests of the occasion. The programme started with the address of welcome by Very Rev. John Vogelgesang, Vice-President of the univ ersity and Rector of the Divine Word Fathers. This was followed by the reading of citation by Rev. Dr. Ray mond Kolk, Dean of Teachers’ College. The Very Reverend President of the university, Dr. Rudolf Rahmann, granted the honorary degree, after which Rev. Father Bustos gave his acceptance address. Emceed by the acting dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Rev. Father John Berry, the brief pro gramme closed with a lively musical rendition. PAPAL MEDAL AWARD FOR USC PROFESSOR For outstanding work in the service of the Church, Atty. Catalino M. Dor on io of the USC faculty became the reci pient of a special award from Pope Paul VI. It was Cebu Archbishop Julio R. Rosales who brought the glad news from Rome and first made the announcement at the midnight Mass he celebrated on New Year’s Eve at the Cebu Metropo litan Cathedral. He also named nine other recipients from Cebu City of the Papal Medal Award. The religious ceremonies took place at the Cebu Metro politan Cathedral on January 23, 1966. The award Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice is usually given to members of the laity who have distinguished themselves in fruitful Christian efforts with the The new Master reads his acceptance speech. widest possible benefits both to the Church as well as to its faithful. First to receive the award in the University of San Carlos was Engineer ing Dean Jose A. Rodriguez who was honored by the Cebu Hierarchy at special public ceremonies in June, 1962. Atty. Doronio has been an active leader in Catholic Action work, having served as president of the Cebu Ca tholic Lawyers’ League, president of the Archdiocesan Central Committee of Catholic Action, and was chairman of the program committee for the grand celebration last year of the Fourth Centennial of Christianity in the Phi lippines. He is a Deputy Grand Knight of the K of C Sto. Rosario Council No. 5508 and chairman of its Six-Point Program. Graduated in USC in 1948 with an A.B. degree magna cum laude, Atty. Doronio went on to finish law here in 1951 and is now a practicing lawyer. To his credit goes the formation of the USC Supreme Student Council with which he has served as adviser since 1957. Among his other achievements at San Carlos was his upgrading of the faculty status, when serving as president of the USC Faculty Club. Out of campus, Atty. Doronio also helps the cause of labor as education director of the Associated Labor Union. However it appears that two out standing activities prompted the grant ing of this award from Rome: Atty. Doronio’s crusade against indecency in the public theaters, and his role in co Page Forty-two THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 ordinating the activities of the First Congress of Catholic Action held in this city during the Centennial celebrations. A native of Borbon, Cebu, the USC recipient of the papal medal award is married to Gertrudes Pastorfide of Basilan City, with whom he has five children; one of these is a second year student of the Divine Word Seminary. The University administration, facul ty, students, staff and alumni rise as one to congratulate Atty. Doronio on this signal honor which he has, at the same time, brought to the San Carlos family. ■GRADUATE SCHOOL FIRST USC DOCTORANDS PASS ORAL EXAMS For the first time in its long history the University of San Carlos passed its first doctors. The fact that USC, the oldest educational institution in the country, did not achieve this status earlier than some Manila universities, does not lessen the significance of such a historical event. For the honor is that this is the first such event to take place in any university outside of Manila. Even in the capital city, out of fifteen or so universities, only six have had the privilege to award doctorate degrees. They are the University of the Philip pines, University of Santo Tomas, Phil The picture Includes these who were Invited to a dinner at the Casino Espaiiol tendered by father President Rahmann after Profs. Alfredo Ordoha and Tecla Revilla had passed their oral examinations for their Ph.D. degrees in Education. From left to right, they are: Rev. Dr. Raymond Kolk, SVD, Dean, Teachers' College; Dr. Marcelino Maceda; Rev. Dr. Ben Cordova, SVD, Acting Dean of the Graduate School, Divine Word College, Tagbllaran, Bohol; Rev. Dr. Anthony Buchcik, SVD; Miss Demefrla Pujante, Superinten dent of Private Schools for the Central Vlsayas District; Rev. Dr. Joseph Goertz; Dr. Gertrudes Ang; Prof. Tecla Revllla: father Vice-President John Vogelgesang, SVD; Dr. Jesus Perplfian; Rev. Raymond Quetchenbach, SVD, candidate for the Ph.D. degree In Education; Prof. Alfredo Ordoiia; and father President Rahmann. ippine Women’s University, Centro r;scolar University, Manila Central Univer sity and Arellano University. On November 15 two doctoral candi dates fulfilled the last requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Education) by passing the oral exam inations on their dissertations and in re lated subjects. They are Professor Al fredo Ordoiia, long assistant dean of USC’s Teachers’ College and Professor Tecla Revilla, head of the graduate de partment of the Cebu Normal School. Ordoiia wrote his dissertation on “Edu cational Trends in the Philippines from 1948 to 1963.” He passed his oral exams magna cum laude. Miss Revilla had her oral exams in the afternoon of the same day. Her doctoral dissertation was on “The Mutual Relations of the Substra tum of the Emerging Philippine Cul tural Values, A Relevant Philosophy of Education, and the Five Objectives of Education: Their Correlative Implica tions in Updating the Organization and Administration of the Public Elementa ry and Teacher Education Curriculum.” Like Professor Ordoiia, Miss Revilla ob tained a final grade which entitled her to graduate magna cum laude. They will be formally conferred their degrees at the USC graduation ceremonies in April. The panel of examiners for Prof. Ordoiia was composed of the following: Very Rev. Dr. Rudolf Rahmann, SVD; Rev. Dr. Anthony Buchcik, SVD; Rev. Dr. Joseph Goertz, SVD; Dr. Gertrudes Close-up picture of the successful examinees and Dr. Jesus Perpiiian. Ang; Dr. Lourdes Quisumbing; and Dr. Concepcion Rodil. The members of the committee for Miss Revilla were the same professors except Dr. Rodil in whose place Dr. Marcelino Maceda now examined the candidate. Dr. Jesus E. Perpiiian, Director of the Bureau of Pri vate Schools, was present during both examinations on the invitation of Presi dent Father Rahmann. Dr. Perpiiian later expressed appreciation for the opportunity given him to visit San Carlos in the name of higher education in the Philippines. To the new Doctors the CAROLI NIAN extends its warmest congratula tions. NEW CAROLINIAN MASTERS The Graduate School announces that the following students have suc cessfully defended their theses: LUCITA AVILA, M.A. English: “The Moral Vision of Man in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying." (MRS.) NIEVA AGUILAR, M.A. Mathematics: “The Concept of Equivalence: Its Role in the Teaching of Mathematics.” ROGELIO LOPEZ, M.A. Anthropo logy: "Agricultural Practices of the Manobo in the Interior South western Cotabato (Mindanao).” CONSTANTINO LEONOR, M.A. Mathematics: “Orthogonal Trans formations in their Geometrical Presentations.” (MRS.) JULIETA GONZALES, M.A. Education: “A Study of the Effect iveness of Teaching Pilipino in the Boys’ High School and the Girls’ High School Departments of the University of San Carlos for the School Year 1963-1964.” (MRS.) SHOWPI TSA TAN, M.A. Mathematics: “The Structure by January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Forty-three Magic Squares Based on the Nor mal Type.” REV. JUAN LAMELA, C.M., M.A. Education: "Study of the Extent of Christian Education in the Philippines in the Light of Canon Law.” REV. FERMIN DICHOSO, S.V.D., M.A. Anthropology: "A Study of the Life in the Slum Areas in Cebu City.” OFELIA ENRIQUEZ, M.A. Guid ance: “A Comparative Study of the Temperaments of Some Ame rican and Some Filipino Adoles cents As Revealed by the Thurstone Temperament Schedule.” ■ COMMERCE CAROLINIAN JPIANS ATTEND NF-JPIA 3RD NATIONAL CONFAB Five official delegates and six ob servers from USC attended the five-day 3rd National Convention of the National Federation of Junior Philippine Insti tute of Accounts (JPIA) in Baguio City from November 24 to 28, 1965. The USC delegation, headed by the USCJPIA president, Henrio Chan, was com posed of all chapter officers except the PRO and the External Affairs veep. The theme for this year’s convention was "The Role of the Accounting Stu dents in the Economic Development of the Country.” Its important outcomes were the resolution to formally affiliate the NF-JPIA with the Philippine Insti tute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) which was simultaneously having its 19th Annual Convention in Baguio, and the election of the board members and officers of the NF-JPIA for the next year. A distinct honor for the Carolinians was the unanimous election of Elena Chiongbian, USC-JPIA treasurer, as assistant treasurer of the Federation. At the close of the convention Elena, in behalf of the Cebu JPIAns, welcomed all the chapters to Cebu City, where the 4th NF-JPIA National Convention had been chosen to take place next year. NEW CAROLINIAN CPA’s Fifty-three candidates for Certified Public Accountant from the University of San Carlos passed the latest CPA board exams. This number constitutes 63% passing for USC while the na tional passing percentage is only 26%. New Carolinian CPA’s: Thelma Abamonga, Salvacion Acaso, Flora Acharon, Erlinda Alcordo, Ernesto Alinsonorin, Eddie Alunan, Juanita Arante, Hilda Arranguez. Remedios Babiera B. Benigno Cabanatan, Jesus Capahi, Rosita Calienta, Conchita Cinco, Rizal Co. Nenita Dejaresco, Aquiles Diaz, Al berto Dimatulag, Victor Dumon. Benjamin Figueroa, Aida Fonche. Soledad Gabutan, Victoriano Go, Lourdes Granados. Churchill Jajalia. Ceferino Laude, Lourdes Leano, Gre gorio Legaspi, Betty Lim, Paz Lim, Ni colas Lopez. Bruna Migrino, Minviluz Mojado. Rosita Nacario. Tranquilino Odevilas. Merle Padilla, Cesar Panimbatan. Helenita Quimco. Reynaldo Rana, Delfina Revalo, Restituto Rojo. Osman Jumalon, who obtained the second prise In the last national science contest (In biology); receives his medal at the NSDB Planetarium, December 10, 1965, from Mrs. Amalia V. Rodrigues, NSBD Regional Head In Cebu City. Looking on is Dr. Juan Salcedo, Director of the National Science Development Board. Rosa Santillan, Manuel Saso, Mila Salazar, Elnora Seguerra, Romancita Silva, Rebecca Sison. Venus Talian, Carmelita Tan, Magda lena Tan, Helena Tantiansu, Adelina Tinapay. Jaymelita Villapaz, Bella Villegas. ■ ARTS AND SCIENCES USC STUDENTS GARNER SCIENCE AWARDS Students of the University of San Carlos won 9 out of 19 prizes in the re cently concluded NSDB-sponsored Science Fair for the Eastern Visayas. The presentation of the awards was given at a testimonial dinner offered by the Cebu City government at the Social Hall of the Archbishop Reyes building on the USC campus. Guest speaker for the occasion was Dr. Jose Fernandez, a mem ber of the Board. Among the proud re presentatives of different schools were Rector and Vice President John Vogel gesang, Fathers Philip van Engelen and Raymond Questchenbach of USC and parents of the prize-winners, four of whom are children of USC Faculty mem bers. Page Forty-four THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 In the Biological Sciences on the College Level the first three prizes were won by San Carlos students. First prize went to Osman Jumalon for his “Study and Collection of Immature Stages and Adults of Moths and Butterflies of Cebu." Francis Savellon won the second prize for his "Survey of the Marine Fauna of Gapasgapas Island, Cebu.” Third prize was awarded to Henrietta Alensonorin for her “Study of the Mac rofossils of Bairan, Naga, Cebu." In this same category First Honorable mention was awarded to Mildred Zambo for her "Taxonomic Study of the Fa mily Strombidae of Cebu.” On the High School Level in the Biological Sciences, San Carlos won the fifst and third prizes and first and se cond Honorable Mention. For his study of "Chicken Egg Formation and Fac tors that Affect I” William Paulin re ceived the first prize. Mario Tan was awarded the third prize for his study of the "Conditioned Reflex in Earth worms." First Honorable Mention went to Arturo Ysmael for his “Electric Field: Its Effects on the Growth of Seedlings.” Jesus Galeos Jr. obtained Second Honorable Mention for his “Fil tered Light and Photosynthesis.” On the Elementary level first prize went to Delfin Tupas for his "The World of Colors.” Prizes consisted of cash awards, medals, certificates of merit and, for the first prize winners, round-trip tickets to Manila plus a P15-a-day allowance for a 3-day stay in the city. The Board of Judges for this year’s science contest was composed of Filipi nos and Americans who have distinguish ed themselves in the field of science. The first prize winners automatically became contestants in the National Science Fair Contest which was held in Manila last December 6-12. In a close fight for the top place, the orignal entry by Osman Jumalon lost out to the entry of the Don Bosco College of Canlubang (Laguna) by a mere .1%. Though he got only the second highest honor in the contest, Jumalon distinguished himself so well and his winning entry so highly impressed the educators and professors of Manila col leges and universities, that the director of the International Rice Research Insti tute encouraged him to apply for a scholarship. The professors who inter rogated him on his work found him highly knowledgeable. The awarding ceremonies took place at the Manila Hotel Fiesta Pavilion on Saturday, December 11. No less than President Macapagal, the main guest, gave out the awards. By winning in the national contest, Jumalon did several things: he emerged from the shadow of his famous father, Entomologist Julian, and proved that the University of San Carlos is an aca demic institution to reckon with by being a feather in its cap. POETRY AND GOD Miss Erlinda Chica of the English Faculty left the country for Angiers, France in late November to join the Good Shepherd Sisters. In answer to a call higher than the teaching of litera ture Miss Chica had applied for the sis terhood in 1959 when she started teach ing literature and grammar in several schools and universities. An AB Gra duate (’62) from St. Theresa’s College Miss Chica had been active in literary symposiums, forum lectures, writing workshops and poetry readings since she joined the San Carlos Faculty a year ago. FIRST WRITING WORKSHOP The University of San Carlos has never been famous for being a center of creative writing. While names of writers have been associated with it the concern of the university did not produce such writers. It is true that writers are not made from attending creative writing classes or writing workshops but if they are not "discovered” woe to the patron for having less such pro teges. The dearth of competent criticism in the classroom exasperates many an aspiring young writer who sees an alienation of their own work. One reason for the unfruitful relationship between literature-and-grammar teacher and the “promising” writer is the usual arbitrary choice of courses (which cannot be otherwise since the number of courses are as limited as the number of teach ers) which results in a tense classroom situation. Another reason is the fact that the number of literature teachers who write is almost nil. If this is the reason for the non emphasis on creative writing it is a bad reason but the students who feel the need for recognition for such activity should not lose heart — and they have not. Through the sponsorship of the SUNDAY POETRY SCHOOL a writ ing workshop was held for the first time in San Carlos. The workshop ran as scheduled for two Sundays, October 24 and 31, at a 3-hour period each ses sion, from 2:00-5:00 P.M. in the AudioVisual Room. The response was nothing less than highly enthusiastic judging from the number of manuscripts they submitted and the student writers did not disappoint themselves by sulking in a corner when they received criticism. The workshop panel was composed of a visiting Fulbright Professor on Ame rican Literature, William R. Rosegrant; E.O. Constantino, short story writer and fiction critic; Junne Canizares and Thelma Enage of the University Fa culty. Writing in English and the Vernacular, Mr. Canizares has had considerable short stories and poems published in national and local maga zines; while Miss Enage limits herself to short-story writing. It is believed that with the evident success of the first workshop THE SUNDAY POETRY SCHOOL will pur sue its original plan to hold regularly creative writing workshops this schoolyear beginning January. The works that merit publication will be included in an anthology for which various patrons have signified their support. ■ ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE NEW ARCHITECTS Teodoro L. Alcuitas. Roberto M. Elizalde. Rogelio A. Geonzon Rolando Lim. National Percentage...................... 64% U. S. C............................................ 66.67% NEW CHEMICAL ENGINEERS Rebecca Awit, Ricardo Alcano. Rolando Blanco. Remedios Cabezas, Afrodesia Cubita, Benjamin Chiong. Mariano Desquitado. Nemesia Juanillo. Emelio Liao, Jimmy Limoco. Francisco Reyes. Aida Torion. National Percentage ..................... 46% U. S. C............................................. 73.33% January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Forty-five ■ PHARMACY NEW CAROLINIAN PHARMACISTS In the board exams for Pharmacy graduates, USC obtained 88.9% passing for eight successful candidates, while the national passing percentage is 48.7%. .Vew Carolinian Pharmacists: Alwina Cafiete, Rosa Leria Aparecc, Minda Limpahan, Cirila Po (Ong Ai Den), Conchita Roa, Rafaela Rodrigucz, Aurora Tan, and Elizabeth Yu. ■ MISCELLANEOUS USC CHORISTERS TRIUMPHANT DEBUT: ALSO A CALL FOR MORE MEMBERS In their debut performance at St. Theresa’s Auditorium before Christmas vacation our new San Carlos Choristers proved themselves unexpectedly compe tent in a concert that ranged from Bach through traditional European melodies to contemporary carols. The group, numbering just forty members and aided by selected singers from U.S.C. Girls’ High, showed a mixture of exuberance and finesse not usually associated with premiere performances. Seasoned listen ers compared our group favorably with THE USC CHORISTERS who gave a very impressive performance during their premiere appearance at St. Theresa's Auditorium. other larger and better established choral groups singing in Cebu. After their initial performance the group was invited to take part in a spe cial TV performance on ABS Channel Three. They very thoughtfully treated the SVD Fathers of San Carlos to a sur prise round of caroling in the courtyard next to the faculty house after their TV appearance. The university administration and student body have every reason to com mend and feel proud of this new addi tion to Carolinan college life. Our thanks to all of them. Our special thanks to Mr. Stanley Munro, who ini tiated the project and used his past ex perience with choral groups and a strong sense of discipline to produce two enjoy able evenings of music; and to Mrs. Aileen Munro for her assistance both on and off stage. Thanks also to Father John Berry for his work behind the scenes to bring the group into existence. Our special thanks to the good Sisters of St. Theresa’s College for their coope ration in making the auditorium avail able. Mr. Munro and his choristers are now beginning rehearsals for their next show sometime in April. The special need of the moment is more choral members, es pecially more male voices and some sop rano voices. Auditions will be held on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from ■3:30 to 5:00 in the Audio-Visual Center. You can help make the San Carlos ChorMR. STANLEY MUNRO ... to him go our special thoughts . . . isters a major part of Visayan culture life, and a major part of your life— something you will be proud to belong to. Come and try out. ELECTION DAY PRAYER AT USC One morning in November several coeds dropped by President Father Rahmann’s office to suggest that the Ador ation of the Most Blessed Sacrament be held on election day. The suggestion was well-heeded. A ten-hour adoration was held on November 12 in the Univer sity Chapel, which was immediately fol lowed by a Holy Mass in late afternoon celebrated by the Rev. Fr. Buchcik. Both the adoration and the Holy Mass were well-attended by the students, fa culty members, the SVD Fathers and some sisters. NEW AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT Through some generous donations from Rev. Father Ralph, S.V.D., Director of the Office of S.V.D. Catholic Univer sities in Chicago, the Instructional Me dia Services has acquired a good num ber of new audio-visual materials, such as filmstrips for science, overhead transparencies and the equipment to make them. Additional equipment such as different projectors for various pur poses, a set of graphic illustration equipment, tape recorders and portable phonographs for classroom use. All these audio-visual materials and equipment will be used for teaching pur poses for the benefit of the students. The Instructional Media Services is now Page Forty-six THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 dedicated, as far as its resources allow, to encourage and to provide for better teaching and learning opportunities through better and more extensive use of audio-visual and other instructional media. THE McNELLIS SCHOLARSHIP What is it? A friend of the Dean of Education at the University of San Carlos, Mrs. Marie McNellis of Michi gan, indicated her desire to support a student through college by paying all tuition and some incidental fees. Quali fications were simple: real need, past evidence of good scholastic work and the recommendation of the dean. The be neficiary for this scholarship has been chosen and accepted by Mrs. McNellis. Her name: Miss Prima Ligronio. NEW ARRIVALS Rev. Thomas M'ueller, SVD, arrived from Manila last November 1 and since then has been an asset and power to the Mathematics degree from De Paul Uni versity, Father Mueller arrived in the Philippines on October 25. Rev. Ludwig Lehmeier has returned from Washington D.C. where he obtained a doctorate in Sacred Theology at the Catholic University of America. He has been appointed University Chaplain and Dean of the Theology Department. Rev. Charles Hutterer, a new ad dition to the Department of Anthropo logy, arrived at the University of San Carlos on December 1. He was accom panied to Cebu by President Father Rodulf Rahmann, a well-known anthropo logist. Brother Bernulphus (A. van Schagen) also arrived at the beginning of December. He is a specialist in stained glass art work and an artist whose drawMISS ERLINDA CHICA . . . headed for France . . . The USC SSC delegation to the 9th National Union of Students Congress in Bacolod during the last week of December. — Sitting from I to r: Sergio Cugtas, Rex Acosta, Ignacio Enerio. — Standing from I to r: Manuel Juanillo, Cesar Corazo Jr., Lilian Cui, Treasurer; Jennie Kimseng, Atty. Doronio, Adviser; Corazon Jara, Secretary; Lucille Dy, Dulcemina Ong, Edgar Male, Vice-President; Lorenzo Lee. ings were on exhibition January 6-12 at Talamban Technological Center. 1 With these and other arrivals, name- j ly Father Margarito Alingasa and Fa ther Enrique Schoenig and the depart- I ure of Father Hubert Lorbach, Father I Peter John Raats and Father Fermin Dichoso, the San Carlos SVD communi ty totals 29. i FORMER FACULTY MEMBER COMES HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Miss Aurora Labitan, formerly of the USC Chemistry Department, recently ar rived on a Christmas visit to her family in Tinaan, Naga, Cebu. Miss Labitan taught chemistry here [ from 1955 to 1957, then again in 1962. ] She left for Germany as a trainee in food and drugs at the Institute in Co logne, and in the organic chemistry de partment at Bayerwerk, Leverkuesen. During her stay in Germany she met a lot of Carolinians and made extensive tours of continental Europe. Miss Labi tan lavishly praises the German govern ment and people for their friendliness and hospitality. At the end of her train ing, she went on a world tour (met Fathei- Rigney in London), coming home via the United States. She plans to go aboad again very soon. The eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. i Demetrio Labitan of Tinaan, Miss Labi- | tan took her A A. here in USC, and ob tained her B.S. in Chemistry from the | University of the Philippines. I CEBU PRESS (Continued from page 6) Many of the papers have devel oped, consciously or unconsciously a standard lay-out formula. These stereo-type layouts are used day in and day out without fail. This dressing of news in the same old rag is taking the dynamics out of dynamic news. This kind of mo notony kills the suspense. Who wants to eat the same food every day? The readers know what to expect already; they might as well not buy the papers. Except for a few who genuinely like their jobs, many newswriters are evidently bored by journalism. They seem to believe that the best writing is dull writing and that the best way to build a great newspaper is to offend no one. Some news papermen write in the colorless fashion of a club secretary posting up minutes. Some seem to be copy ing from the telephone directory. Many reporters and columnists should even go back to school to learn what English really is. The way they grow bumper-to-bumper grammatical and idiomatical er rors, one wonders if they are em barrassed at all. In general, most of the city’s newspapers are remarkably suc cessful and alert-looking. But the healthy outside hides a rotten in side. It is encouraging that some seem to be aware of their defects and are trying to heal their sore spots. January-February, 1966 THE CAROLINIAN Page Forty-seven •&-//&■ EDlT°Tt November 18, 1965 Dear Sir, I should like lo thank you for the very interesting and enthusiastic article in the October-November issue of the Ca rolinian entitled, “New Hope for the Filipino Theatre”. I am most flattered, if somewhat abashed, to find myself called a “shining figure”. There are, however, one or two points I fear that may lead to misunderstanding. Please allow me to explain. First of all, I did not say that the Oriental drama has not yet fully developed the way Western drama has. I said that the history of Western drama shows a continuous development and change in which one form of drama is continually giving way to an other. While, on the contrary, in the Orient, traditional forms of drama tend to continue to live beside new styles that break away to form new’ traditions. For example, the Noh drama of Japan (which is certainly not new, but has a continuous tradition of 600 years) still exists beside the Kabuki and puppet theatres that developed out of it. I should like, also, to disabuse all my students of the myth that the history of any art is the story of its development or progression towards some unknown absolute perfection. Art is an expression of man’s being caught in time and space. The expression is, therefore, different (not necessarily better or worse) in mood, style and method between man and man, between age and age, and between society and society. Again thank you for your otherwise very splendid article. I remain, yours sincerely, (sgd.) MOYRA MULHOLLAND October 7, 1965 Dear Sir, I have a son who is studying in your school. Yesterday morning, I saw your magazine on the table where my son had left it. I went over it and read the article “Young Drivers” by a certain Reuel Carillo. It touched me for my son somewhat have the same situation as that por trayed by Mr. Carillo. We bought our son a car for his personal use. But he has neglected his studies and went roaming around. He has indulged in useless activities with his companions. I showed the article to my son and he read it but didn’t mind what message it told. But anyway I want to express my gratitude for the article printed which really has a message and that we can learn from it. Sincerely, a mother THE WORLD WE LIVE IN (Continued from, page 39) ing thunder which will destroy us, too. I can feel the suffering of millions, and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that this cruelty, too, will end." There is a devil in every man and a god, too. What is so obvious, so often exposed is his vanity, his evil temperament, the beast — and not the best — in him. But what is it in man that makes a Nero, a Genghis Khan, a Hitler, a Mussolini, a Stalin out of him? This must be what the Christians call Original Sin — or to use the modern jargon of modern psychology, Id, "a blind unreasoning drive, an unconscious will to murder, and rape, featureless, anonymous, an inheritance of the race, an ancient fault." What is to be done? In another poem, the poet T. S. Eliot, offers a solution to the human problems we are facing. This may not be the right solution but certainly it has some thing to say and it is worth trying. It is no royal gambit to test this tentative solution: Give, symphatize, con trol — Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata. Shantih! Shantih! Shantih! — THE END — Page Forty-eight THE CAROLINIAN January-February, 1966 • Instead of giving our own vieivs in this column as usual, we deem it suitable to reprint the editorial which appeared in THE SCROLL, (Vol. IV, No. 3. January 13, 1966), the official USC Student Cath olic Action Publication. Said editorial expresses so many good thoughts we ourselves could not ex press in any better fashion. LUIS E. SCHONFELD, S.V.D. Moderator THE CHALLENGE 1965 LEFT BEHIND A YEAR IS OVER ... a new year has taken its place. 1965 belongs to the past now, to history which has dutifully jotted down the momentous events which took place during its reign. 1965 was the fourth centennial year of the Christianization of our beloved country. It witnesses, too, the glorious closing of the historic ecu menical council. These two events alone are enough to make 1965 a year to remember. 1966 cannot help but look after the precious tasks that 1965 has left behind on its lap, tasks which are nothing but burden to those who want to skim only on the surface of life but a challenge that cannot be turn ed down by those who really want to live their lives rather than simply exist. We are all students so I dare presuppose that we are those who would take these tasks a challenge though I sadly fear that for some of us the contrary is true. To bring to reality what the council has agreed on and to bring Christ to Asia . . . these are the chal lenges that we cannot and we must not turn down. If these were man-made challenges, we would have to answer each separately but since these are heaven-sent and in the characteristic superiority of Divine plan ning, answering one would mean answering the other. By implementing the changes and by faithfully accom plishing the job which the Vatican council has given to us, we would be able to bring Christ to Asia which is the desired aftermath of our centennial celebration. The magnificence of this precious task that has become ours by right, the wondrous meaning of the full implication of its fulfillment is enough to make us dream and to delight in our dream. Let us keep this dream as an inspiration but let us not get carried away. '«E MODERATOR’S ----------------- Corner V/e are real, so we have to be practical. Let us start answering this challenge right now, here in our dear university. This is our first and immediate battlefield. Let us start by making the sacrifice of occupying the pews near the altar when we participate in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is always a funny sight to see so many students huddled in the pews near the door while the front pews are left empty. If we would just sit nearer the altar, then we won't have to worry about not receiving Holy Communion for the simple reason that the communion rail seems so far off and we are too self conscious to make the long walk to the rail. Also, let us not be selfish and stick to our own prayer books or to our own thoughts when we are supposed to be praying or singing together with the community. We should not be indifferent to the efforts our SVD Fathers are making in bringing the liturgy home to us. There are many other changes which the council has made but the few just mentioned would suffice to occupy our attention for the present. Besides asking us to implement these changes the Council has given us the job of becoming a bridge between God and man. The Church has very few followers because we are not good soldiers. We cannot sell our Holy Mather Church's ideas because we forget to advertise. We fail to realize that we are the best advertisement of the Church or of God. If we would just imitate the life of Him Who was the best among us, He Who was the perfect advertise ment! There is nothing out of this world in His life and we could start following Him by taking our studies seriously, by having kinder thoughts about our class mates and schoolmates, by not being too critical of their faults and mistakes but understanding them in the same way that we want to be understood, by using proper words when we speak to them, by listening to them when they are speaking or by helping them when they are in need of moral, intellectual or even financial help as far as prudence permits or just by the simple act of smiling at them when they cross our paths. These are not very hard to do but not too easy either. They can be done quietly without anyone noticing them. They won't degrade nor soil your re putation, won't make you a sissy or old-fashioned, but on the contrary they add a glow to your personality plus a reward in Heaven. Kind thoughts, kind words, kind deeds done out of love, love of a higher kind than what we usually think about, love that is divine, can not fail to produce a chain reaction always, anywhere, regardless of whom it is done to, for love is powerful and irresistible. And since God is never outdone in generosity, very soon without our knowledge, we would be able to conquer Asia or even the world for Christ, just by our diligence as students and by our kindness right here where we are. Why don't we start right now — at this very mo ment? Editorial Staff © ® M ft ® QD 'ft Marciano LI. Aparte, Jr. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Hilda Mildred M. Castro ASSISTANT EDITOR Pensees_________________________________________ Front inside cover Editorial — Marciano LI. Aparte Jr.-------------------------------------------------- 1 The Second Vatican Council — Coeur de Lion------------------------------------ 2 Ricardo I. Patalinjug LITERARY EDITOR Eduardo G. Yap NEWS EDITOR The Cebu Press: A Sick Dinosaur — Henry LI. Amor---------------------------- 6 Young Poet: Rage, Rage, Rage — Manuel Satorre, Jr.--------------------- 7 And the Owner Came — Raoul Briones------------------------------------------- 8 Juvenile Delinquency, A National Problem — Fulvio Rivera Aguilar — 10 Father Schoenig Returns------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11 Welcome Home Father Lehmeier------------------------------------------------------------- 1 1 The White Christ — V. Abregana___________________________ _ ____ 12 On International Understanding — Dr. Helmut Reuther--------------------- 14 Audio-Visual Communication -—Fr. M. Alingasa, S.V.D.---------------------15 The World We Live In — Ricardo I. Patalinjug__ __________________ 17 Poetry___ ____ ___________________________________________ 21-23 Wikang Pilipino_________ _____________ ._________ __________ 24-26 Society_____________ _______________________________—--------- 27 ROTC Reports_____________________________________28-29 Seccion Castellano_________________________ :_______________ 30-32 Odds and Ends___________ _ ______________ ‘_____________________ 32 Vivien Alix SOCIETY Virginia Flordelis Bernardita Duarte PILIPINO Manuel Ochoa SPORTS Myron Pelaez Rodolfo Kintanar ROTC Medardo Gabiana Rodolfo Cemine ARTS Lourdes Hermias Carmen Fernandez Melinda Bacol Reuel Carillo STAFF WRITERS Flora C. Del Castillo TYPIST Pete Uy PHOTOGRAPHER Miss Praxedes P. Bulabog ADVISER Rev. Luis E. Schonfeld SVD MODERATOR Sports — Manuel Ramos Ochoa 34-35 Lessons from a River — Reuel Carillo______________________________37 USC News-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------40-47 Letters to the Editor____ __________ ___________________________ 48 The Moderator's Corner___________________________ Back inside cover