The James Logan Courier

ACTIVITIES:
Come and support Hip-Hop Day at Colt Court on March 9. During both lunches.

Come out to Colt Court to play a cricket/bug picking game during both lunches tomorrow. The bugs aren’t real. Winner gets a prize.

The James Logan Boys & Girls Track & Field teams won the Mt. Pleasant Relays on Saturday!

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

UNION CITY – Veteran educator Karen Saucedo, who started her career as a teacher at Barnard-White Middle School and went on to become the New Haven Unified School District’s Director of Special Services, will return to Barnard-White as principal for the 2007-08 school year.

By Christina La, Courier Staff Writer

Campaigning for next year’s ASB officers began last Monday, and will continue through the next week. Students of all grade levels will be voting in their second period classes on Friday, March 16. If necessary, run-off elections are to be announced.

Candidates for the 2007-2008 ASB officers are:

ASB President: Blaise Bayens, Kirsten “KJ” Ignacio, Alvin Ngo, Nicole Soliman
ASB Vice President: Tiffany Hoang, Princess Valencerina
ASB Secretary: Trisha Paule
ASB Treasurer: Stephanie Ko
ASB Board Representative: Harris Mojadedi, Rajiv Narayan
Commissioner of Activities: Michelle Santiago
Commissioner of Athletics: Mandy Dhahan
Commissioner of Clubs: Fatema Etmadi
Commissioner of Elections: Susan Algarne, Geoffrey Astudillo
Commissioner of Publicity: Patricia Rodriguez, Janessa Canilao.
Commissioner of Public Relations: Bilquis Ayar, Sylvea Wong
Commissioner of Sales: Jennifer Lee
Commissioner of School Improvement: Siju Oonnuny
Commissioner of Spirit: Kriselda Caraos

By Sam LaGrone
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
RALEIGH, N.C. — Before Will Wright's genius mind unleashed "The Sims" onto the world, the single most popular game on the personal computer was "Myst."

That game was developed by Rand and Robyn Miller, a team of brothers who were among the first to delve into the CD-ROM realm of game production in the early 1990s. Remember back then: trading bootleg copies of "Doom 2" on eight 3.5-inch floppy disks? Calling the Web the Net? Jams, the shorts, not the bands?

"Myst" came in and wowed the world with 3D graphics and non-stupid sound.

By Jerri Stroud
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)

ST. LOUIS — Online gamers live or die — in the virtual world anyway — on their ability to respond quickly to opponents' moves.

While part of that response depends on reflexes, a gamer's equipment and the Internet can slow down delivery of the response, cause jittery images or lose a player's move altogether.

GameRail, a new St. Louis company, has developed technology that can shave milliseconds off response time — also called latency — by directly connecting Internet access providers and the servers. The technology also reduces jitter and delivers signals — or data packets — more reliably.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

CRACKDOWN
For: Xbox 360
From: Real Time Worlds/Microsoft
ESRB Rating: Mature (Blood and gore, intense violence, sexual themes, strong language, use of drugs)

Yes, "Crackdown" is the latest in a growing line of video games that overtly takes cues from the open-world formula made popular by "Grand Theft Auto." But "Crackdown" also is what happens when someone argues that "GTA" is, of all things, too restrictive.