What’s inside?

FA HIGHLIGHTS

1 LobbyThis is where sutdents inquire for the status of their classes

3 TambayanAfter a hundred years of existence CFA finally gets a formal tambayan.

5 Faculty and Staff Smoking AreaThis is where the missing staff go

7 Smoking AreaSmoking is prohibited inside the campus that’s why places like this are necessary.

9 LockersWhere are the lockers? They used to be in the open area between the studio arts classrooms but where are they now?

EDITOR’S NOTE

The College of Fine Arts has a reputation for being lenient to their constituents. Students are rarely late for classes, because guess

what; they don’t take attendance, or the profes-sor is late, or there are just no classes. Surprise! Which gives us the question: “Why are there still a lot of students

hanging out in the college premises?” Pre-cisely because they are hanging out. School just became cool; it is now the most hap-pening place to be seen. The college features lots of venues, where one can waste time doing practically nothing.

VOLUME IISSUE I September 2010

Gwen Garibayco-Editor / Writer / Page and Layout Designer

Seij Blancoco-Editor / Photographer

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1Defaced copies of classical sculptures 2”Bawal Tumambay..”during figure drawing classes, when the sculp-tures are used as models 3 View of the lobby from the corridor. Windows of the administrative staff are kept closed so no one will see them playing Farmville 4 Daily scene in the lobby

...the lobby is very informal; students are seen sleeping, eating lunch or scribbling on the benches...

First stop is the lobby. After passing "high" security measures like showing IDs, people are greeted by the sight of "Apollo" and "Artemis" and, depending upon the time of arrival, lots of students. As with most places in the col-lege the lobby is very informal; students are seen sleeping, eating lunch or scrib-bling doodles on the benches made by none other than national artist Napoleon Abueva. WHAT?!! Somebody stop these guys!

Meet me at the

Lobby

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1 Finally an official tambayan for FA orgs 2 Parking lot just in front of the “dining area” 3 Ate Babes, Mang Nestor’s “fren-emy” keeps the students’ phones fully-loaded and their tum-mies fully bloated 4 Sculpture Garden is fenced out-of-limits but is still part of college property.

Eating lunch while inhaling diesel exhaust; life doesn’t

get any better than that.

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The tambayan is the latest addition to the plac-es in the college; which is really interesting be-cause the whole college is practically a tambayan. It looks more like a big waiting shed, and the base is reminiscent of the wavy patterns on the aca-demic oval side walk. Beside it are food kiosks, and tada! The parking lot! Eating lunch while in-haling diesel exhaust. Life doesn't get any better than that.

TambayanAfter a hundred years, CFA finally gets a real tambayan

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Faculty and Staff

Smok-ing Area

The CFA employee sanctuary

Unlike the students, the faculty and staff are “not-so-prohibited” in practicing their nicotine-inhaling-abilities. Their smoking hangout locat-ed behind the bulletin boards is provided with amenities such as tables and chairs, there is also a shed were they can keep their stuff. The tables are decorated with mosaics made out of floor tiles depicting images of cards and mandalas. On the ground are innumerable cigarette butts scattered on the gravel, the reason why it would be ironic if they scold the students when-ever they smoke.

1 The faculty and staff “tambayan” well hidden from view 2 The queen of hearts is broken hearted; must have lost from a card game 3 Trees and plants act as natural screens and barriers 4 “ Bato ka na ba?”-yet another allusion to FA’s rep-utation as a place to get “high”.5 Sculp-ture of construction workers made out of construction materials, a student thesis

The faculty and staff are “not-so-prohibited” in practicing their

nicotine-inhaling-abilities.

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It’s the perfect venue for semi-ilegal activities since it’s not eas-ily accesible to most people

1 View from the roof 2 Ate Ethel selling her wares through the fence 3 Grafitti sticker found in the ceil-ing 4 Path from the studio arts classrooms leading to the smoking area.

Smoking Area

Stairway to “heaven”

Smokin, a special place dedicated for student smokers, located at the stair-way leading to the studio arts class-rooms.It’s the perfect venue for semi-ilegal activities since it’s not easily accesible to most people. Of course the smoking area would be useless if there were no cigarettes. In comes Ate Ethel, your one stop shop for all kinds of smokes; you name it she has it. She may even have those hand-rolled Cuban tobacco. You never know. Ate Ethel herself is kind of illegal, her jeep is a make-shift stall ready for get away in case of danger.

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LockersOr rather former lockers area

Lockers, or rather what used to be lockers area is now turned into a classroom cum extension of the workshop and the chicken wire fences prove it. So where did the lockers go? Well out to the shed; they go along with misshapen models and other discarded stuff.

(lockers) they go along with misshapen models and

other discarded stuff.

1 Flimsy fences act as walls for the newest classroom/work-shop in FA 2 A scary-looking doll adds to the freaky atmo-sphere of the dimly-lit locker area 3 The lockers were relocated to the former shed/workshop nearby 4 View from inside the lockers area 5 The use of lockers range from being a mere stor-age into a dump site for abandoned plates.

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