The James Logan Courier

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ACTIVITIES:
Powderpuff players and cheerleaders - presale tickets are now available for pickup at the Activities Office during both lunches. Tickets are $3 each and you must sell at least five tickets.

Think you’re the best Madden player? Enter the Logan Football Madden Tournament. Entry fees must be in by this Friday, 3/21. See Coach Billeci for details.

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Building on a reputation for environmental awareness and energy conservation, and continuing its efforts to redirect every dollar possible to the classroom, the New Haven Unified School District is adopting an aggressive program of energy management and conservation, Superintendent Dr. Pat Jaurequi announced today.

“Even before we knew of the financial challenges facing us (the District will receive $7 million less under Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal to slash state funding for education) we had identified energy management as a way we could reduce operational costs and redirect more dollars to teaching and learning,” Dr. Jaurequi said in a message to employees. “It is one of the reasons we incorporated solar energy into the design and construction of Conley-Caraballo High School, and one of the reasons we have begun the process of installing solar systems at Kitayama Elementary and James Logan High.”

By Tom Maurstad
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)

DALLAS — Thin is cool. Thin is sexy. Thin is chic. The thinner, the better.

If I were talking about us, about people, that whole "our bodies, ourselves" kind of thing, then I would be shouted down, pilloried as a dangerous disseminator of a wrong-headed and hurtful bias that has distorted our society's definition of beauty and driven countless young women and men into eating disorders in pursuit of an impossible ideal.

But relax. I'm talking about our electronic gadgets, where the pursuit of absolute, ultimate thinness is not only acceptable, it's celebrated.

By Etan Horowitz
The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)

Imagine a world where your cell phone or iPod never runs out of power and you can leave all your clunky chargers at home.

I tested three solar-powered devices that aim to make this world a reality: a backpack that lets you charge a variety of devices, a Bluetooth headset and a small, handheld electronics charger that clips onto your bag. And if the sun isn't shining, all of these devices can also be charged through conventional means.

By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Technology Writer

The wait has finally ended. The best-selling Nintendo hit has finally returned to the revolutionary platform that can use the full potential of the game and bring a flawless perfection that is the gaming experience of Super Smash Bros Brawl.

Gamers have already swung their hands off from hours of Brawl game play since its release last Sunday. Gamer David Collins says “Super Smash Bros Brawl’s response time allows the game play to reach a new plateau in fighting game history. The balance of each characters strength allows all players a chance at victory.”

By Cameron Lacson, Courier Sports Writer

The James Logan Colts’ Varsity Boys volleyball team will be playing in a match against the Moreau Mariners on Tuesday. The game will proceed at 6:30 pm in the Logan Pavilion.

Logan’s opposite hitter, Senior Mohammed Lodin said, “I feel nervous because we need to work on some minor things, but excited because we find out where our level of playing is at.”

Courier Staff Report

Students and staff returning from next week's Spring recess will find tighter security and new identification badges awaiting them.

James Logan Principal Don Montoya outlined the new security measures at a staff meeting Monday afternoon.

Students returning to campus after the holiday will have to enter campus through only four entrances, rather than the 32 they can use until Friday.

From wikipedia:
Madame de La Fayette (baptized March 18, 1634 – May 25, 1693) was a French writer, the author of La Princesse de Clèves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.

Christened Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, she was born in Paris to a family of minor but rich nobility. At 16, de la Vergne became the maid of honor to Queen Anne of Austria and began also to acquire a literary education from Gilles Ménage, who gave her lessons in Italian and Latin. Ménage would lead her to join the fashionable salons of Madame de Rambouillet and Madeleine de Scudéry. Her father, Marc Pioche de la Vergne, had died a year before, and the same year her mother married Renaud de Sévigné, uncle of Madame de Sévigné, who would remain her lifelong intimate friend.

Read Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne Comtesse de La Fayette's The Princess of Cleves, one of two of her works available free, and in English and French, from Project Gutenberg.