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Formal Launching of 108th Founders Day Set August 16 A worship service at the Silliman University Church at 9AM on August 16 will formally mark the start of the 108th Founders Day celebration themed "Living Justice, Mercy and Humility with God”. The opening celebration in the University will be coincided with “Silliman Sunday” events at two churches of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP): UCCP Bradford in Cebu City and UCCP Ellinwood in Manila. Rev. Bernadette Morales, Associate Pastor for Christian Education and Nurture of the SU Church will lead the opening in Silliman, while Silliman President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III and Pastor Bobby Alguso will be in Cebu and Manila, respectively. More
than the festivities, the Founders Day at Silliman is always a celebration
of friendship and an institutional recommitment of faith to God. World Bank Country Director Mr. Bert Hofman is the lecturer for the 2nd Annual Eminent Persons Lecture on August 26 at the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium. Mr. Hofman will discuss “Prospects of Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis in the Next 2 Years”, and will tackle the role of good governance in bringing about steady growth and development for the Philippines. A distinguished personality in the field of economics, Mr. Hofman has accumulated over 16 years of experience in the World Bank, 13 of which in the Asian region. Prior to his assignment in the Philippines, he was detailed in China for three years where he headed a team that provided economic policy advice to the government. He will have an an audience composed of alumni, students and representatives from government, private sector, academe, civil society and media. The
Annual Eminent Persons Lecture was launched during the Founders
Day last year with former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos as
its first lecturer. Silliman University President Dr. Ben S. Malayang III was the resource person in a forum on climate change held August 10 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). Titled Kape, Dilis at Champorado, the forum organized by the AIM-Knowledge for Development Center discussed the country’s preparedness in addressing climate change. Dr. Malayang, who is among the environmental science professionals in the country and whose recent interests include climate change, expressed concern that the Philippines might not be ready to respond to climate change. He tackled statistics and data related to climate change and its effects globally, among them those presented the Human Development Report 2007/2008 of the United Nations Development Programme. “We are not presently building up the needed resources to meet the costs to adequately address the risks associated with climate change… The costs would seem too high for the present economic, financial and socio-political capabilities of many nations, including the Philippines,” he said. The Philippines, he said, will need billions of dollars a year to lessen negative climate change effects on agriculture and the poor. This is apart from the issue of climate change displacements and its impact on migration. “And there appears to be no build up of political will to address the risks,” he added. Dr. Malayang said among the possible effects of climate change are sea level rise, salt water intrusion, altered patterns of rainfall and drought events, and altered political, social movements and human-environment dynamics. While climate change is a complex and an interconnected issue, he stressed that a change in behavior and lifestyle aimed at decreasing carbon emissions is among the measures needed to reduce climate change and its threats to humanity. [
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