The James Logan Courier

Courier Staff Report

The early dismissal of students on Wednesdays to give teachers time to collaborate should continue next year, Logan's teachers have decided.

In a vote taken last week, mostly during Monday's department meetings, teachers were asked to either endorse or oppose the current daily bell schedule, which was adopted last year to provide a weekly time for teachers to voluntarily collaborate with each other to develop curriculum, brainstorm, receive training or other activities.

MISCELLANEOUS
Reminder to all Students: Friday, April 20th there will be no school because it is a furlough day for staff.

Over 800 students have bills for missing library books. Check your school e-mail, log in to your library account, or check the list outside the library.

Creative Writing Club is accepting donations of used books until April 27th. Drop off books in Room 311 or 213.

By Becky Yerak
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — Move over, mortgages. Get out of the way, Greece. Another economic doomsday scenario is emerging.

Student loan debt has reached about $870 billion, exceeding credit cards and auto loans, and balances are expected to continue climbing, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said last month. In February, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys referred to a "student loan 'debt bomb'" and wondered if it was shaping up to become "America's next mortgage-style economic crisis." Such a burden could crimp an already weak economy.

"Student debt poses a large and growing threat to the stability of our economy," Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan testified March 20 before a U.S. Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing in Washington on the looming student debt crisis.

From Wikipedia:
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flutist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played tenor saxophone and clarinets (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flutist during the 1960s. His most popular single was "Hijack," which was a Billboard number-one dance hit for three weeks in 1975.

Mann emphasized the groove approach in his music. Mann felt that from his repertoire, the "epitome of a groove record" was Memphis Underground or Push Push, because the "rhythm section locked all in one perception."

Learn more about Herbie Mann and his music, free from National Public Radio.