This is the archive for September 2011
By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The New Haven Boosters Association, which is helping the New Haven Schools Foundation with its $100,000 donation that helped save after-school activities for the 2011-12 school year, will hold a fund-raising carnival and chili cook-off Sunday, Nov. 6, in the parking lot at James Logan High School.
The “Carnival of Thanks,” from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. will include game and food booths, a talent showcase and prize giveaways and 50-50 fund-raisers that will give participants a chance to donate to the activities fund and also win gift baskets and cash prizes.
Posted by courier at 10:43 AM. Filed under: News
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MISCELLANEOUS
James Logan students age 16 and up, donate blood at our semi-annual fall American Red Cross blood drive event on October 4th. There will be a table in Colt Court during both lunches all week for sign-ups and information. If you donate blood you will receive a free t-shirt and would save three lives!
Posted by courier at 02:36 PM. Filed under: News
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By Candace Laxamana and Rae Atabay,
Courier Staff Writers
Manika, an aspiring young singer song-writer visited James Logan High School's campus and performed during both lunches. She also appeared on James Logan's live newscast.
Manika is an 18 year old performer from Las Vegas, Nevada and she now resides in Los Angeles. Manika pursued her dream and was signed by the famous Frank Dileo, the very same Frank Dileo that also managed Michael Jackson.
Posted by courier at 12:13 PM. Filed under: News
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By Justyna Torres,
Courier Editor-in-Chief
For students who wanted to get more involved in school activities, The Unity and Club Recruitment Fair allowed them an opportunity to learn about and join the many clubs Logan has to offer.
About three days prior to the event, announcements were made promoting the Thursday lunch time attraction planned by the Humanitarian Assistance Club and faculty. However, it left students confused becuase every year Logan has two separate events, one for the unity fair and another for club recruitment.
Posted by courier at 01:15 PM. Filed under: News
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By Zohal Sharif,
Courier Staff Writter
Jessica Diaz, a James Logan student, passed away due to heart failure on June 18th, 2011. An autopsy revealed that an enlarged heart was her cause of death.
An outstanding girl with the future ahead of her, Jessica finished her Sophomore year smiling brightly as always. Family and friends were in total shock after hearing this unfortunate loss of life. She was a part of the Puente Program at Logan, who serves Latino and other traditionally underrepresented students.
Posted by courier at 12:02 PM. Filed under: News
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By Candace Laxamana and Gurpreet Bhasin,
Courier Staff Writers
Getting wisdom teeth extracted may be one of the many obstacles a student may need to go through in their high school career. Many students at James Logan High School have or need to get their wisdom teeth extracted.
Posted by courier at 11:54 AM. Filed under: News
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MISCELLANEOUS
Did you know that the exclusion policy has been updated this year? Do you remember…we covered that when we went through the Student Planner during the first few days of school! Make sure you review it as it now applies to the full year! It’s on Page 10 of the planner, and also on the school web site. And remember, there are no appeals! So, stay off exclusion. We all want to attend that dance at the end of the year. And since the truancy notices count period attendance (not the full day), you may get your third truancy notice before you realize how many times you’ve cut class!
Posted by courier at 02:51 PM. Filed under: News
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By Ronnell Coaster,
Courier Sports Editor
Editor's Note: This student played in the Staff versus Student kickball game.
The Teachers versus Students game kickball game, that was advertised all week, took place after school on Wednesday.
To start things off, the students took the field to play offense while Mrs. Johnson took the position as the teacher's starting pitcher.
Posted by courier at 02:46 PM. Filed under: News
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By Christi Parsons
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday morning unveiled major changes in the way public schools are evaluated, scrapping an essential element of President George W. Bush's signature education program in favor of letting states come up with their own plans.
Bush had good intentions with his "No Child Left Behind" plan of 2002, Obama told a crowd of educators and students, but it ended up inspiring states to lower their standards and schools to "teach to the test."
Posted by courier at 10:59 AM. Filed under: News
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MISCELLANEOUS
More colleges and universities are visiting Logan’s campus than ever before. The latest to join the list is Cal Poly – SLO. For a complete listing of which colleges are coming and when, check the Logan website under college & career info. Then stop by the Career Center to sign up. But don’t wait too long as space is limited and open spots fill up quickly.
Posted by courier at 01:14 PM. Filed under: News
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By Kayleen Garingan and Mark Godoy,
Courier Staff Writers
Freshmen elections results were revealed last Friday to the student body after a week long of campaigning and voting amongst the freshman class.
This year was a little different from the rest because Ms. Walton, the school's activities director, decided to speak to the freshmen classrooms before announcing that elections were starting. By doing so it improved the outcome of freshmen campaigning to be elected for class office. Instead of having maybe two or three people going against each other for president, vice president, treasurer, representative or secretary there was a max of five people who ran against each other for each office position.
Posted by courier at 12:37 PM. Filed under: News
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By Lauren Mascarenhas,
Courier Managing Editor
After two years of planning, the highly anticipated Institute of Community Leaders at Logan opened its doors this month to a full class of one hundred and eighty fresh faced ninth graders.
The Institute of Community Leaders -or ICL as it has come to be known in and around campus- is a “school- within- a- school” at Logan. The program is intended to provide each of its students with a more personalized education in academics and leadership, which will eventually lead to a college education and hopefully a role as a leader in the community. Throughout their time in high school, students will take a set of pre-selected classes specifically designed to meet college enrollment requirements.
Posted by courier at 02:44 PM. Filed under: News
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By Julie Cart
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — A blistering summer melted Arctic sea ice to near-record lows, a trajectory that scientists say could reduce ice coverage in the polar region to its lowest since satellite measurements were first taken in 1979.
That's the grim assessment delivered Thursday by the National Climatic Data Center, which also calculated that global temperatures last month made it the eighth-warmest August on record, part of a general warming trend.
Posted by courier at 02:56 PM. Filed under: News
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The Bay and Delta from space.
USGS Photo
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — A natural poison responsible for one of the nation's worst wildlife disasters a quarter-century ago is a looming problem in San Francisco Bay — one that could worsen if aqueducts are built around the Delta, new research suggests.
The aqueducts could channel more selenium at higher concentrations into the bay, a possibility that has been largely overlooked in lengthy debates about Delta water, a top scientist said.
Posted by courier at 02:54 PM. Filed under: News
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By Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
SAN FRANCISCO — University of California students could face annual tuition increases of 8 percent to 16 percent over the next four years, possibly bringing the fee as high as $22,068 for the 2015-16 school year, according to a long-term budget plan the university unveiled Wednesday.
UC leaders said the proposal was intended only as a guideline but that it would help students, parents and faculty to plan more realistically. This summer, the state budget crisis resulted in deeper-than-expected cuts to UC and a second tuition increase just weeks before the school year began.
Posted by courier at 12:26 PM. Filed under: News
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Jack Bragg,
Courier Entertainment Editor
Coming out of the gate with a debut that feels natural and catchy is a tricky mark to hit. Local San Francisco band, The Hundred Days, have hit that mark dead-on with their debut album
Really?.
The band has sculpted a musical masterpiece that, if paired with decent publicity, could potentially rocket them on to mainstream radio.
Posted by courier at 11:54 AM. Filed under: News
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By Don Lee, Noam Levey
and Alejandro Lazo
Tribune Washington Bureau (MCT)
WASHINGTON — In a grim portrait of a nation in economic turmoil, the government reported that the number of people living in poverty last year surged to 46.2 million — the most in at least half a century — as 1 million more Americans went without health insurance and household incomes fell sharply.
The poverty rate for all Americans rose in 2010 for the third consecutive year, matching the 15.1 percent figure in 1993 and pushing many more young adults to double up or return to their parents' home to avoid joining the ranks of the poor.
Posted by courier at 11:48 AM. Filed under: News
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New bell schedule posters
Courier Staff Photo,
Courier Staff Writers
Before the 2010-2011 year ended, the students of James Logan High School were informed that a new bell schedule was going to be enforced the this year. The news about minimum days every Wednesday spread quickly, but not everyone knew that class was going to start earlier every day.
School currently starts at 8:15 and ends at 3:20 everyday except for Wednesdays, opposed to starting at 8:40 and ending at 3:30 the previous year. The minimum days have the same starting time but ends at 1:45.
Posted by courier at 11:30 AM. Filed under: News
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Photo: National Institute of Health
To stem an outbreak of whooping cough, Logan students must be vaccinated against the disease by October 1, or they will be prohibited from attending school until they are.
"Pertussis (whooping cough) is a highly contagious bacterial illness spread by coughs and sneezes," according to the California Department of Public Health (CDPH). "People sick with pertussis have severe coughing attacks that can last for months."
Posted by courier at 12:25 PM. Filed under: News
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By Eryn Brown
Los Angeles Times (MCT)
LOS ANGELES — Watching just a short bit of the wildly popular kids TV show "SpongeBob SquarePants" has been known to give many parents headaches. Psychologists have now found that a brief exposure to SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward and the rest of the crew also appears to dampen preschoolers' brain power.
Angeline Lillard and Jennifer Peterson, both of the University of Virginia's department of psychology, wanted to see whether watching fast-paced television had an immediate influence on kids' executive function — skills including attention, working memory, problem solving and delay of gratification that are associated with success in school.
Posted by courier at 10:19 AM. Filed under: News
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By Carol Rosenberg
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
MIAMI — K-9 inspector Stephen Therrien and his partner Zadie, a black lab, spend their days searching for bombs bound for passenger planes. So when he took his wife to the U2 concert this summer, it was with a certain satisfaction that he watched security workers dig through her handbag.
Ten years after 9/11, preparations have taught us that big gatherings such as stadium events could be terrorism targets. But once inside, it was all about the concert.
Posted by courier at 09:55 AM. Filed under: News
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The Media Center is
closed at lunch.
Courier Staff Photo
At the end of the last school year, the New Haven School Board questioned whether the James Logan media center should be closed. After meetings of trying determining its status, it was decided that it would not be closed for this school year.
An argument for shutting down the library was that most of the staff that had worked in the library received pink slips; this left only one person working. Budget cuts, which were taken out of the school over the last passed year, also contributed to the question of whether or not the library should be closed.
Posted by courier at 12:29 PM. Filed under: News
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Mia Alansalon, ASB President
Lauren Mascarenhas/ Courier photo,
Courier Staff Writer
Student elected ASB president, Mia Alansalon, hits the ground running organizing school events for Logan students to keep this year fresh and exciting.
Mia has been a part of leadership throughout her time at Logan. “I feel very honored that I was elected and I want to do my best to bring something new to our school,” said Alansalon. The seventeen-year-old senior is planning on shaking things up, “We’ve been making a lot of changes this year with the way some things are organized and executed. You can expect something to be happening every week. Whether it’s an event, or a rally, or a performance, something will always be happening.”
Posted by courier at 11:52 AM. Filed under: News
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By Rick La Plante,
New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations
The Board of Education on Tuesday night welcomed its two student representatives for the 2011-12 school year, Lily Nguyen of James Logan High School and Victor Benites of Conley-Caraballo High.
The Board also recognized and thanked the New Haven Schools Foundation, the New Haven Boosters Association and a parents’ group known as TFIN (Their Future Is Now) for their contributions to the District.
Posted by courier at 11:58 AM. Filed under: News
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By Whitney Mountain
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
SACRAMENTO —: A pet python that underwent surgery after being bitten by a Sacramento, Calif., man is "looking a ton better," Sacramento animal control officials said Saturday.
The man who allegedly bit the female snake, 54-year-old David Elmer Senk, has been in custody in the Sacramento Jail since Thursday on $10,000 bail. Police arrested him on charges of maiming/mutilating a reptile.
Gina E. Knepp, acting animal care services manager for the city of Sacramento, said surgery that the snake received Thursday saved her life.
Posted by courier at 08:07 AM. Filed under: News
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