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Juniors and Seniors - Powderpuff team rosters will be posted at the Activities Office on Friday at lunch. Check the list if you are eligible. Practices begin on Monday!

Any junior boys football players that are interested in helping coach the junior girls Powderpuff team, please see Coach Fortenberry in Room 121.

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the elimination of five District-level management positions as part of the District’s efforts to deal with Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposal for a massive cut to the state’s K-12 education budget.

The Board also approved a recommendation that 24 other management employees, at both site and District levels, be notified that their assignments may be changed for 2008-09. Also, as part of the process of closing Barnard-White Middle School, the Board approved a reduction in the classified workforce, including seven full-time and 25 part-time positions.

By Christina La, Courier Editor-in-Chief

The San Francisco Chronicle has announced that they will no longer be providing schools with free paper editions, ending the availability of free paper copies in the James Logan Media Center and some classrooms.

“The Chronicle won’t give the school free newspaper anymore. We use to get 20 copied for free and they no longer provide that for us,” said Media Center staffer Christine Smith.

As an alternative, the Chronicle is offering free access to online facsimiles of the daily paper.

In an announcement of the end of the free newspapers for schools, the San Francisco Chronicle said that the school could continue to receive newspapers, but that the cost of print editions will be 50 cents per copy which also means that it will now cost $90 to get one copy a day for one school year. A class set of 33 for a year would now cost the school $2970.

By Emily Low, Courier Staff Writer

A student rushes past in a whirlwind of bags and texts, attempting to make it to class before the tardy bell rings on the high school campus. He turns the corner and narrowly misses slamming into the wall in his attempt to find the path with the least arc length, but manages to hook his backpack on a door handle. The sound of tearing material seems to echo as a multitude of scholarly supplies rains on the floor.

What might be a part of the pile that has tumbled to the floor? Pencils, perhaps, with bite marks where the eraser once was. Loose papers, dog-eared at the corners, with dates recording homework assignments that should have been turned in last month. A binder. A water bottle, unopened. Maybe a gigantic text or two, pages splayed wide.

By Najia Qadir, Courier Staff Writer

Andrea Sachs has the job a million girls would die for! She works for the most powerful woman in fashion; the editor of Runway magazine, Miranda Priestly. The beautiful people of New York’s finest socialites, designers and models surround her. She gets to attend the most fabulous exclusive parties, not to mention she literally has a closet full of designer clothes at her disposal. Amazing right? Not according to Andrea.

The Devil Wears Prada, by Lauren Weisberger, is the story of Andrea’s steps out of her comfort zone of Hollister and Abercombie and directly into the high fashion world of Gucci, Chanel and, of course, Prada.

By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Editor

The Iliad by Homer is a famous epic poem involving a brutal battle. The lengthy poem continues to educate new readers about Greek mythology.

The Greeks and the Trojans have fought many battles throughout history and when they fight the battle continues for years on end.

This poem involves such a battle, the Greeks have a superior more powerful army but some of the more powerful gods reside on the Trojan side. The battle portrays unnecessary bloodshed and within the battle there are many small character battles.

Read Homer's Iliad, as translated by Alexander Pope, free from PublicLiterature.org.

From wikipedia:
Gerardus Mercator (March 5, 1512 – December 2, 1594) was a Flemish cartographer. He was born in Rupelmonde in East Flanders to parents from Gangelt in the Duchy of Jülich. He lived in Duisburg from 1552. He is remembered for the Mercator chart named after him.

Mercator was born Gheert Cremer (or Gerard de Cremere) in the Flemish town of Rupelmonde. "Mercator" is the Latinized form of his name. It means "merchant". He was educated in 's-Hertogenbosch by the famous humanist Macropedius and at the University of Leuven. Despite his fame as a cartographer, Mercator's main source of income came through his craftmanship of mathematical instruments.

Read one of Gerardus Mercator's letters, free from Google books.