The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS

Need Driver’s Ed? Check out the Adult School! Cost is $125. The next session is December 19, 20 & 21, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for an application or further information.

CLUBS

Support the Writing Club by dining in or taking out at Round Table on Thursday, December 15th.

Come to the Youth Alive Christian Club today right after school in Room 418.

By Zohal Sharif, Courier Staff Writer

Many species that are used for dissection include cats, mice, rats, frogs, worms, dogs, rabbits, fetal pigs and fish. Some animals come from breeding facilities that cater to institutions and business that use animals in experiments, and other animals are caught in the wild. Some animals are also stolen or abandoned companion animals.

Frogs are the most commonly dissected animals below the university level. The frog dissection has been used all over the schools in the US and other countries. By moral reasons some students or their parents are against it. Some cases go as far as an A student received a C refusing to preform the task. Why a frog? Some reason are: it is small, it is easily found, it is not cute or used as a pet, and they have about the same organs as a human’s body.

William Learned Marcy (December 12, 1786 – July 4, 1857) was an American statesman, who served as U.S. Senator and the 11th Governor of New York, and as the U.S. Secretary of War and U.S. Secretary of State.

Marcy was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts. He graduated from Brown University in 1808, taught school in Dedham, Massachusetts and in Newport, Rhode Island, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1811, and commenced practice in Troy, New York. Marcy served in the War of 1812. Afterwards he was recorder of Troy for several years, but as he sided with the Anti-Clinton faction of the Democratic-Republican Party, known as the Bucktails, he was removed from office in 1818 by his political opponents. He was the editor of the Troy Budget. On April 28, 1824, he married Cornelia Knower (1801–1889, daughter of Benjamin Knower) at the Knower House in Guilderland, New York, and their children were Edmund Marcy (b. ca. 1833) and Cornelia Marcy (1834–1888).

Read more about William Learned Marcy, free from the University of Virginia.