Provincial Board Member Kris Ablan (in barong tagalog) poses with English, Humanities and Literature faculty members during the celebration of English Week.
Age was not a minus factor when debaters from the Laboratory High School-Science Curriculum engaged their college counterparts in a debate held Feb. 26 at the Teatro Ilocandia.
Sponsored by the Association of Students of Humanities, English, and Literature as one of the activities in the celebration of English Week, the debate bannered the motion, “This house believes that the Sangguniang Kabataan must be abolished”.
Neil Justine De la Cruz, a second year nursing student, won as best debater while Antonio Guerrero III, a fourth year high school student, grabbed the best speaker plum.
De la Cruz was joined by Nestor Corrales, A.B. English Studies II, and Mark Lester Toledana, B.S. Nursing II, in the government side. Aside from Guerrero, other high school students who argued for the opposition were Natalie Crisostomo, fourth year, and Kimberly Retuta second year.
The match was preceded by a debate lecture delivered by Mr. Herdy Yumul, CAS social sciences instructor and debate trainor.
During the culmination program in the afternoon, Provincial Board Member Kris Ablan, himself a former college debater, served as special guest.
Contests on love-letter writing, song interpretation, storytelling, photography, and spelling were also held during the three-day event meant to hone the skills of students in communications and in the arts.
In his message, Dr. Joselito L. Lolinco, CAS dean, broached the idea of designating English-speaking zones in the university as a way to arrest students’ deteriorating facility of the language. (Herdy L. Yumul of MMSU News for the Week)
