The James Logan Courier

Courier Staff Writer Abdul Nawabi contributed to this report

Family and friends of Logan graduate Kebret Tekle will gather tomorrow at the Greek Orthodox Church in Oakland to honor the memory and life of the Sacramento State student who was murdered in an errant drive-by shooting last week.

Tekle, 20, a 2004 Logan graduate, died Wednesday about 16 hours after she was shot in the neck while sitting in her car outside a Sacramento night club, according to a University Police press release.

By Naweed Zemaryalai, Salim Dost and Jagdeep Singh, Courier Staff WritersHundreds of Logan students spent a quarter to gain admission to the annual Cinco de Mayo car show Friday to see custom cars and bikes on display.

It's been more thanthirty years since Logan started putting on the show, according to Gabriela Esquivez,advisor to Logan's MEChA students(Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano Aztlan) club, sponsors of the event.

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LUNCH:
Egg Roll with Rice,
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Thursday is Open House - tell your parents! Thursday, May 10 @ 6 pm.

If you are participating in the Unity Fair, you must attend a mandatory meeting after school on May 10, in Room 476.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

The following editorial appeared in the Chicago Tribune on Friday, May 4:

If you haven't watched the dance of bees, either in the hive or on clover or in the air, then you may not understand why they are so important. If we needed a perfect model for a society, we would find it in the hive. Not for us, mind you, because we are individuals, but for bees, because they all seem to fit together so well. Each exists for the greater good, the drones and soldiers, the queen, the persistent workers.

By Claudia Melendez Salinas
The Monterey County Herald (MCT)

MONTEREY, Calif. — Nineteen-year-old Mara Diaz sees it among her peers — the pressure to look a certain way.

"Like in movies, in sitcoms, they use skinny women, and how come they don't use women size 14 to be the star of the show?" asks Diaz, a Hartnell College student. "In a way, they tell you you have to be size 5 to be successful in your career, to find love, to have friends. A lot of the nation is not as skinny as how they portray it in the media."

By Oscar Peņaranda, Courier Special Correspondent
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.Note: This is the third installment in The Courier's serialized history of the struggle for independence in the Philippines, written by Filipino Poet, Author and Activist Oscar Peņaranda, who also teaches Filipino studies at James Logan High School. Look for the next installment next Monday.

More and more restrictions were placed on the Filipino people and soldiers as more and more U.S. Troops landed in the Philippines. The Spaniards had surrendered, yet more and more U. S. soldiers were being landed. Things went from bad to worse.

On December 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed to end the Spanish-American War. One of the provisions of the Treaty was for Spain to receive $20,000,000 from the United States for (the former's) "ceding" the Philippines to them. Philippine Ambassador Felipe Agoncillo, present in Paris, was not even admitted to any of the meetings or proceedings.

From biography.com:
Wife and political partner of President Juan Peron of Argentina. Born May 7, 1919, the youngest of five children, in the little village of Los Toldos in Buenos Aires province, Argentiina.Following the death of her father, the family moved to the larger nearby town of Junin, where her mother ran a boarding house. At the age of 16, Evita, as she was often affectionately called, left school and went to Buenos Aires with the dream of becoming an actress. Lacking any theatrical training, she obtained a few bit parts in motion pictures and on the radio, until she was finally employed on a regular basis with one of the larger radio stations in Buenos Aires.

Learn more about Eva Peron, free from the James Logan High School website.