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Ver Pena resigns as CICT Chair

March 31, 2006

I am personally shocked that Ver Pena has stepped down as CICT Chair (see INQ7 story).  Taking stock at what has been achieved in the last 5 years, I guess you can say it centers around organizing the CICT and managing the first e-government fund. Good luck on your future endeavors, Chairman Pena!

I wonder who’ll take his place.  Time to get on the vine for the latest scuttlebutt.   

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The 2005 Bar Results

The nailbiting, constant praying and serious anxiety have all given way to either cheers or tears.  At around 8PM last night, the Supreme Court released the results of the 2005 Bar Examinations.  A student of mine, Joan De Venecia (a niece of the Speaker of the House) topped the bar dispelling a long-held view that UP Law valedictorians are cursed never to top this most watched professional exam in these islands — a strange phenomenon since we should actually honor engineers, entrepreneurs and technical people, who create value, more than lawyers, who merely reallocate value.

A colleague of mine in the faculty confided to me that he had a reliable barometer in predicting who will not top the bar — those who hang out at the college during bar review.   I guess the theory goes, time spent in the college is time taken away from studying. This prompted me to tell Ms. De Venecia on numerous occasions to “get lost.”  She always gamefully agreed but never complied.  While debunking an obviously flawed theory, I’m glad she held up the time-honored tradition of UP topnotchers having unflattering photos in the newspapers. 
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