The James Logan Courier

Courier Staff Report

A Logan student is in serious but stable condition in a local hospital tonight after being shot while off campus during school early Tuesday afternoon. The shooting resulted in a lockdown of the campus for more than an hour.

Union City police say that the Logan student, identified as African-American by school officials, was shot at H Street and 14th by what witnesses say was a Hispanic male in his early twenties, who then fled the scene. The victim ran toward the campus and collapsed in the driveway near the Little Theatre, according to police.

According to Principal Amy McNamara, the student was in Eden Hospital in serious but stable condition as of 5:15 p.m.

Courier Staff Report

At 12:14 p.m., James Logan Principal Amy McNamara announced that the school was being locked down and that all students and teachers should take refuge in the classrooms and other rooms.

"This is not a drill," McNamara said.

By 12:18 p.m. the outdoor areas of the campus was largely clear.

An email to staff from House Principal Jessica Lange said "There is currently a lockdown at Logan. UCPD reported to us minutes ago that there is a suspect in the area that they are working to get into custody. We have been directed into lockdown until cleared by UCPD."

The lockdown ended at 1:26 with an announcement to the school by McNamara via the public address system. She said that there had been a shooting on H Street near the campus, and that H Street was closed. Students who had to leave school before the 3:20 dismissal had to do so through the Myers Street gate at the back of the sprawling campus.

McNamara thanked the students and staff for their cooperation during the more-than-hour-long
lockdown.

The school is on a special schedule for the day, due to STAR testing. The lockdown started at the beginning of the students' lunch period, making necessary the provision of a special 30-minute lunch period. Second period classes, which were occuring at an unusual time because of the special schedule, were cancelled. Shortened sixth and seventh period classes followed the shortened lunch period.

By Michael Doyle
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Immigration politics will hit the Supreme Court this week as justices consider how much border-control clout the states can deploy.

The court must decide whether Arizona went too far with a crackdown that includes ordering police to routinely check the legal residency status of people they stop. The court's ruling answer this election year could ignite Capitol Hill, other states and, especially, Hispanic voters.
"This is a huge case, of great importance," said Andrew I. Schoenholtz, a visiting professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

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.

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.

By Brandon Bailey
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson unveiled a much-anticipated reorganization plan on Tuesday, in a memo that said the struggling Internet pioneer will focus its efforts in three main divisions that he hopes will build closer ties with consumers and advertisers.

Thompson planned to discuss the changes during an "all-hands" meeting with employees Tuesday, a week after he announced plans for to cut 2,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of Yahoo's workforce. The new CEO is under pressure to return the Sunnyvale, Calif., company to growth after a period in which revenue and profit have steadily declined.

By Meghan Farnsworth
The Hechinger Report (MCT)

Meredith Ballard is an economics major at Colorado College. But when she began her senior year last fall, she started feeling she was spending more time traveling to job interviews than going to class.

"It got stressful," said Ballard, 22, of Green Oaks, Ill. "I had to work on my thesis on top of having a very difficult class while trying to land a job."

The employment market may be picking up, but graduating seniors like Ballard — who landed a job with a Chicago advertising agency and will start next month — have in many cases known nothing during their college careers but economic turbulence and high unemployment.

By Rebecca Trounson
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — The federal government unlocked a treasure trove of U.S. history Monday, allowing researchers, genealogists and the public free online access to detailed information from the 1940 census.

Every 10 years, a decennial census becomes public, once a legally required 72-year waiting period has elapsed. But this one is different, officials say, not least because it's the first time the records have been made available online.

By Rae Atabay and Hadiya Hussain, Courier Staff Writers

This whole week students have been encouraged to register to vote if they are already eighteen, or will be eighteen by November, to help our school by voting for prop 1522.

Proposition 1522 would generate about $3.5 billion for schools in California annually by imposing a 15% fee on the extraction of natural resources. This money actually belongs to the people of California, and not the oil corporations. By closing the oil extraction tax loophole, this could help our education in so many good ways that teachers would be put back to work, kindergarten through twelve grade classrooms would not be overcrowded, class sections would be reintroduced in all types of California colleges, tuition in Community Colleges would be able to be free again, and CSU and UCs would be affordable to students.