The James Logan Courier

By Veronica Brown and Naweed Zemaryalai, Courier Staff Writers

The James Logan Wrestling team participated in the North Coast Sectionals at Newark Memorial High School last week, producing one NCS champion and finishing fourth overall.

Senior Colin Malcolm, recently recovering from a broken hand, was able to win the title of NCS Champion.

“ I’m really excited with my win,” says Malcolm. “But I am also proud of being a part of such a strong team, they’ve been my inspiration.”

ACTIVITIES:
Come see “The Music Man”, this Friday and Saturday at 7 pm, and Sunday at 2 pm. Tickets can be purchased at lunch or after school in the Theater.

Unity Fair preliminary forms are due today!! Room 476!

Congratulations to the following wrestlers for an excellent performance at the NCS held @ Newark. Placing for the Colts were, Colin Malcom-NCS Champion, Lawrence Blanco-NCS runner-up, Adrian Gomes-3rd, Ruben Baca-5th, and Rickey Streeter-6th. Top 3 advance to CIF State Meet!

Here is the bell schedule for Wednesday's minimum day.

By Rebecca Soltau, Courier Staff Writer


Students who record fights on their cellphones or other video device will face suspension just like those fighting will, according to a new school rule recently announced.

On January 30, Mr. Don Montoya, principal of James Logan High School, came on the PA System to address the school in order to review the school rules, as he does at the beginning of every semester.

After covering the rules about headgear and electronics, Montoya described the recent increase in school fights and violence and made it clear that he sees this as disrespectful activity.

By Eric Benderoff
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

As I watched an ad for GPS gadgetmaker Garmin Ltd. during the recent Super Bowl, I had a fleeting thought the $2 million spent would be a waste, just like all that money those long-gone dot-coms once spent on the big game.

Last week, as I read about a parade of mobile phone-based navigation debuts at a European trade show, that thought turned into pessimism for Garmin, Tom Tom, Chicago's Cobra Electronics and other makers of stand-alone global positioning systems.

By Mike Dorning
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Barack Obama's newly revamped Web site looks a lot like MySpace and Facebook, and that is no accident.

As a presidential candidate offering himself as a generational change agent, Obama is leveraging online social networking in a nearly unprecedented way in yet another clear measure of how the Internet is transforming politics.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service(MCT)
SONIC AND THE SECRET RINGS
For: Nintendo Wii
From: Sonic Team/Sega
ESRB Rating: Everyone (Cartoon Violence)

Few video game mascots have had a rougher 21st century than Sonic, who has been party to one three-dimensional letdown after another since showing promise seven years ago on the Dreamcast.

With "Sonic and the Secret Rings," Sega's iconic blue hedgehog finally gets his intervention. The Wii's unique controller all but forces Sonic to go back to the gameplay style that made him famous — blazing forward, jumping with precision, grabbing rings and busting some heads in mid-air for good measure. Boring exploration, pointless mech levels, contrived teamwork garbage, a bewildered camera that doesn't know where to point ... all gone, replaced by a fast, single-minded, streamlined adventure that employs the Wiimote's motion controls with sterling results.

By Ray Dequina, Courier Opinion Editor

Before I begin, a word: I'm the son of immigrants. My parents are not natural born United States citizens. They came to this country to escape the oppressive regime of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines during the 1980's and struggled just the same as any other immigrant family to earn their keep in this nation. I deeply value my family's sacrifices as they came to this country with nary a dollar to their names and only a smattering of English in their brains.