Batch Tarugo Completes Tambayan Rehabilitation Project
by Pierre San Diego
The
former president must be very proud right now.
June "JV Ejercito" Sata and the rest of Batch Tarugo recently
completed their last requirement for acceptance as regular members:
their batch project.
Last
Saturday, the new members of the UP-Materials Science Society built
two new benches and repaired the old tambayan table. Pierre, Roli, Emer,
Cesar, and Carlo were there to help them. The work started at around
1pm and ended at 6:30 pm at the Yakal Dining Hall tambayan. New members
Ryan Paolo "Bu" Buan and Ryan Paulo "Bacu" Baculinao
demonstrated their mastery in carpentry and took the leadership roles
in the building process. Emer, Pierre and June furnished the materials
from a hardware store in Krus Na Ligas. However, the work couldn't have
pushed thru if not for Florephine "Suertz" Guiala, who provided
the saw, the most important and rarest tool used last Saturday.
A semester ago, then applicant Carlos Sumague accidentally destroyed
the old tambayan table when he took a nap at the top of the table. The
faulty design, soft wood, and heavy load contributed to the table's
lateral torsional buckling. The weight from Carlo Sumague's body and
the transverse load/force of Carlo's horizontal motion increased stresses
in the structure to the point that the joints, acting as pin connected
members, failed. The table was unbraced and thus had no support for
lateral loading. The application of a small amount of horizontal force
was enough to create a moment greater than what the wood could withstand.
The 1st semester applicants, under the supervision of batch head Ferdinand
Malilin, tried to repair the table as part of their tambayan clean-up.
However, they lacked the funding and expertise to undertake such projects
and Ferds' attempt at repairing the table failed. The table lay in an
unstable state until the new batch of members tried their hands at repairing
it.
The renovation proved timely as most of the tambayan furniture had
been moved to Vinzon's Hall for the FOPC.
The
former president must be very proud right now. 
Last
Saturday, the new members of the UP-Materials Science Society built
two new benches and repaired the old tambayan table. Pierre, Roli, Emer,
Cesar, and Carlo were there to help them. The work started at around
1pm and ended at 6:30 pm at the Yakal Dining Hall tambayan. New members
Ryan Paolo "Bu" Buan and Ryan Paulo "Bacu" Baculinao
demonstrated their mastery in carpentry and took the leadership roles
in the building process. Emer, Pierre and June furnished the materials
from a hardware store in Krus Na Ligas. However, the work couldn't have
pushed thru if not for Florephine "Suertz" Guiala, who provided
the saw, the most important and rarest tool used last Saturday.