The James Logan Courier

Courier Staff Report

James Logan's students, teachers and administrators joined others around the state in protesting ongoing cuts to education budgets and the resulting crowded classrooms, reductions in services and staff lay-offs besetting the high school and other education institutions.

The day started with teachers passing out protest fliers (right) to parents and others as they dropped students off for their day at school.

By Alyssa Pimentel, Courier School News Editor

The semi-annual musical presented by the drama and choir program, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, was a hilarious treat for the audience.

The musical was about six kids competing in the spelling bee, all hoping to be the winner. Each character’s background story was performed as an aside as the spelling bee competition progressed.

By Megha Satyanarayana and Jennifer Squires
Santa Cruz Sentinel (MCT)

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The student-led strike and campus shutdown at the University of California, Santa Cruz, continued Thursday with a rally at the main campus entrance in which students with signs, drums and bullhorns marched down the street, carrying with them a giant paper puppet of the school's mascot, the banana slug, covered in slogans decrying privatization of the University of California system. Cars drove by, honking in support.

Speakers from university unions, faculty and grass-roots organizations congratulated the roughly 200 students, staff and faculty for their role in shutting down campus.

MISCELLANEOUS
P.E. Clothes and BART tickets will only be sold after school from 3:30 to 4:00 p.m. No exceptions! Plan ahead! Check or EXACT CHANGE ONLY.

Attention TAs – Most TA passes are ready to be picked up from Mrs. Whitaker in the main office.

Attention AP Students: Time to sign up for AP testing. Come to the main office between February 22 and March 12. See Sarah Muse to pay for your exams at lunch or after school until 4:15. Your AP teacher has detailed information.

By Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer

February 18 to 21 was the 2010 CBDA All State Honor Band convention, where the best players of the state accepted by audition met in Fresno and after an intense few days of practicing performed a concert.

Eric Brown and Kevin Notohamiprodjo from James Logan participated in the event. It was Notohamiprodjo’s first year accepted, and Brown’s second, though they are both seniors. Brown plays B-flat clarinet and E-flat clarinet; Notohamiprodjo plays bassoon and piano.

By Farah Habad, Courier Staff Writer

Chris Brown released his newest mixtape a few weeks ago, and, mind you, I've been a Chris Brown basher since the first time I heard his high pitched wail that passes for singing.

Things change. I downloaded his mixtape "In My Zone" last night and I was blown away. I actually listened to the entire thing and I did not have suicidal thoughts afterward. In fact, I even enjoyed it!

From wikipedia:
Garrett Augustus Morgan, Sr. (March 4, 1877 - August 27, 1963) was an African American inventor who originated a respiratory protective hood (similar to the modern gas masks), credited with being the inventor of the traffic light for which he holds a patent, and invented a hair-straightening preparation. He is renowned for a heroic rescue in which he used his hood to save workers trapped in a tunnel system filled with fumes. He is credited as the first African-American in Cleveland to own an automobile.

Read about Garrett Morgan's rescue of trapped workers, and the racism that kept him from getting his due praise for heroism.