The James Logan Courier

By Julie Mendoza, Courier Entertainment Editor

John Green has become a popular author in young adult fiction. Paper Towns is a mystery revolving around Margo Roth Spiegelman. Green often creates strikingly beautiful and adventurous female characters in his novels; Margo is no exception. She can’t function the way society expects her to. Her impatience makes it impossible for her to wait for things to get better, and where there is impatience, there is impulse. Everyone regards her as someone who provides adventure. What they didn’t realize was that she only developed her impulsive qualities to escape the “paper towns,” the thin in genuine aspect of her life.

Margo refuses to get trapped in the plastic walls of the dull premeditated futures of her peers.

“College: getting in or not getting in. Trouble: getting in or not getting in. School: getting As or getting Ds. Career: having or not having. House: big or small, owning or renting. Money: having or not having. It’s all so boring,” said Margo on page 33.

By Jericho Faustino, Courier Staff Writer


Logan Science teacher Michelle Galaria is in charge of a grant for $20,000 from James Logan, for greener ways to recycle and store the school's trash.

The grant will be used to add new trash and recycling bins around the James Logan campus. Made by NexStation, the new Hex Stations are a greener alternative to average trash cans. They have 3 separate compartments for trash, recyclable bottles and cans. They keep trash out of sight and lock odors in. They are easy to identify and are more attractive to students, so it is hoped they will be more likely to dump their trash and recycle their cans and bottles, than to litter.

By Arthel Cargill, Courier Staff Writer

Logan implemented a new email system that is similar - although not the same - as the one form previous years. The system, called SoGo, was founded by New Haven's technology expert Chris Hobbs and seems to be a sufficient way of contacting teachers and staff members.

Rhonda Neagle, the Logan vice president of operations, said, "The previous email system cost us a maintenance fee, which runs twenty to fifty thousand dollars. The SoGo system is free and open source people make it work. Mr. Hobbs looked at many, but picked SoGo because it had an easy learning system. I can use it: it's fairly simple to learn. For me, it's a bit different in terms of how it is operated. I understand they'll be setting up SoGo on Thunderbird and the Mail program on Macs, but I think we're waiting for technicians to set it up. You know how it is, every little dollar counts these days."

From wikipedia:
Edward Alexander Bouchet (15 September 1852 – 28 October 1918) was an African American physicist who is most notable for having been the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from an American university. He graduated from Yale University in 1874 as the first black person to graduate from Yale. He completed his dissertation in Yale's Ph.D. program in 1876.

Edward Bouchet was born in New Haven, Connecticut to parents William and Susan Cooley Bouchet. At that time there were only three schools in New Haven open to black children. Bouchet was enrolled in the Artisan Street Colored School with only one teacher (who nurtured Bouchet's academic abilities). He attended the New Haven High School from 1866-1868 and then Hopkins School from 1868-1870 where he graduated first in his class.

Read excerpts of Edward Bouchet: The First African-American Doctorate, edited by Ronald E Mickens and free from googlebooks.com.