The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS
Students: It is against school policy to sell candy on campus. If you are caught doing so, candy and money will be confiscated and kept until a parent can pick it up. All on-campus fundraisers must be approved by ASB and if food is sold, it must, by law, meet certain nutritional requirements.

Attention TAs – If you have not registered with Mrs. Whitaker regarding your TA assignment, you must do so ASAP. Mrs. Whitaker is located in the main office.

Attention AP Students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office between February 22 and March 12. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 4:15. Your AP teacher has detailed information.

By T.J. Matsumoto, Courier Sports Editor
It was a fitting way for seniors Jesa Sales, Leandra Galloway, and Erin Jones to go out.

The James Logan Lady Colts were victorious over the first place Washington Huskies by a score of 42-41.If you were at the game you felt like you were on a seesaw. Whenever one team would score the other always had an answer. The fourth quarter was one to remember.

By Alexa Rocero, Courier Staff Writer

Our school’s Close-Up club recently returned from their 6-day annual trip to Washington. It was a very successful trip, where students got to experience first-hand our country’s government at work.

Among many of the activities planned for the students, they were able to go to Capital Hill and meet with Congressman Peter Stark, observe a committee meeting in action, and watch as Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner testified about our nation’s economy and President Obama’s administration. Some students had the opportunity to meet Senator John Kerry, and some even saw John McCain.

By Alyssa Pimentel, Courier School News Editor

Ellen Hopkins, known for her books that are structured like poems, has another great read, Impulse.

Before opening to the first page of the novel, Hopkins already sets up an attention grabber on the book’s back cover. The first words a reader sees are,
“Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to your chest.”

Those simple five lines summarized the basic plot line of a 688-page book. But there is so much more to the book. Impulse focuses on three teenagers, Tony, Vanessa and Conner, who lived a life so painful and traumatic that it led them to Aspen Springs, a psychiatric hospital, locked up because of their previous actions. All three of them, in one form or another, harmed themselves.
Tony took to pills to forget his childhood. Vanessa could not resist the temptation of cutting. Conner tried to kill himself with a bullet through the heart but missed. Three different lives outlined in the five lines given above.

By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Managing Editor

Many members of the Union City community concerned about proposed cuts to athletic, music and other programs, and other concerned about the re-opening of Barnard-White Middle School, gathered inside the New Haven Unified School District Office for a regular meeting of the Board of Education Tuesday night.

There was much traffic along Decoto Boulevard and Alvarado-Niles Boulevard as people struggled to find parking inside the parking lots. Those not so fortunate parked in areas such as the nearby Marina Foods area and the Union City Library. People shuffled inside promptly at 7 p.m. to get seats before the scheduled 7:30 p.m. start time, but the meeting did not start until 7:45 p.m.

Shinna Kim, a Logan junior and member of Logan Forensics team attending the meeting to decry proposed cuts to faculty stipends that support the team, said that she did not really know what was going on within the district, “and most don’t. I just want to figure out what’s happening at our school.”

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a list of potential program reductions to balance the 2010-11 budget and provide the state-mandated starting point for balancing the 2011-12 and 2012-13 budgets.

The list includes $4.5 million in augmentations and reductions for 2010-11, including modification of the class size reduction (CSR) program in kindergarten through third grade (where the student-to-teacher ratio would rise from 20:1 to 25:1) and the elimination of CSR in ninth grade (where the ratio would increase to 30:1).

Dr. Huey Percy Newton (February 17, 1942 – August 22, 1989), was co-founder and inspirational leader of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, a black nationalist/racial equality organization that began in October 1966.

Early life
Newton was born in Monroe, Louisiana, the seventh and youngest child in his family, from Armelia and Walter Newton, a sharecropper and Baptist minister. He was named after Louisiana governor Huey Long. Newton's family moved to Oakland, California when he was three. Despite "completing" his secondary education at Oakland Technical High School, Newton still did not know how to read. During his course of self-study, he struggled to read Plato's Republic, which he believed he understood after persistently reading it through five times. This success, he told an interviewer, was the spark that caused him to become a reader.

Watch a film clip of an interview with Huey Newton in the Alameda County Jail, free from the University of California, Berkeley.

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