CNU Tops PASUC 7 Culture, Arts Festival 2018
Eight gold, 10 silver and eight bronze medals.
This is the total number of medals garnered by Cebu Normal University, the highest for this year’s Regional Philippine Association of State Universities and Colleges (PASUC) Culture and the Arts Festival 2018.
They were declared as the overall champion, followed by Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) with seven gold medals.
Bohol Island State University (BISU), Cebu Technological University (CTU), and Siquijor State College (SSC) all got five gold medals.
SSC hosted the four-day festival, from November 12-15, and celebrated it with the theme “Positioning higher education for strategic global transformation through culture and the arts.”
“We’re so happy and elated of the result. We traveled so far, from Cebu City to Siquijor, at least we won. After, I guess, four years of being a coach, this is the first time that we competed with those four schools. Our preparations really paid-off,” expressed Professor Joseph Elvir Tubilan, Chairman of the Department of Communication and Media Studies in CNU.
Tubilan coached the radio drama team of CNU who earned a gold medal for the university.
CNU also won both the standard and show choir, earning them two gold medals, and indigenous dance.
They also earned two gold medals for violin and banduria instrumental solo by Arthur John Yap and Glendyl Lepon.
Phoebe Godinez of CNU was also crowned Miss PASUC 7 with NORSU’s Wayne Banaybanay as Mr. PASUC 7.
First runners-up were Eunice Abegail Banagudos of NORSU and Jorel Franco Tangpuz of CNU and Angel Lambo of CTU and John Cris Tubal of SSC as second runners-up.
The Vice President of Academic Affairs of SSC, Steven Sumaylo, Ph. D., also expressed his gratitude to the participants who earned gold medals for the school and said they learned a lot from this year’s festival.
“Learning experience pud sya namo kay (to us because) we were able to witness some of the contests that we used not to join because we really didn’t know how it was done. And didto nakita na namo. (So now we have seen it.) So by next year, we will be able to send more participants and participate in more contests,” he said.
Winners of the Regional PASUC will compete in the National PASUC Culture and the Arts Festival 2018 on November 26-29 and will be hosted by South Eastern University in Davao City.(rac/PIA7Siquijor/MJ Banglos/GIP)
