for the university relations ed cornell has had 903 cases between december 7th and 13th and are closing some of the campuses. exams have moved online. this is a campus where nearly everyone is vaccinated. the vp says virtually every cas of the variant they have found in fully vaccinated students, a portion of whom had also received a booster shot. how are we supposed to navigate this? we ve got to stop measuring the pandemic by the number of cases and look at hospitalizations and severe sickness. that s what our goal has been t reduce hospitalizations and right now if you look at the ne england journal of medicine paper from last week, no one under age 30 who has been fully vaccinated has died of covid. among those who had full vaccination, the risk of gettin in infection and getting sick from it is 0.04 percent. so if we require boosters at th universities and colleges, ther
The Oblation statue in UP Diliman | Photo: Visual Tales Blog
UP Diliman is not only famous because of its picturesque sunken garden and Mang Larry s
Isawan, the campus also holds the 3.3-metre original
It was conceived during the reign of UP President Rafael Palma in 1925. Palma, who commissioned Tolentino, wanted the statue to be inspired by the second verse of Jose Rizal’s
Mi Ultimo Adios.
According to Tolentino, the Oblation statue is inspired by man’s patriotism towards his country. “The completely nude figure of a young man with outstretched arms and open hands, with a tilted head, closed eyes and parted lips murmuring a prayer, with breast forward in the act of offering himself, is my interpretation of that sublime stanza. It symbolizes all the unknown heroes who fell during the night.”