This is the archive for March 2007
By Renee Schoof
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
President George Bush told the National
Cattlemen's Beef Association he'd veto the
war funding bill the Senate passed Thursday.
White House photo by Joyce BoghosianWASHINGTON — Rejecting President Bush's plans to build up American military forces in Iraq, the Senate passed a $123 billion bill Thursday that fully funds the war but demands that U.S. forces start to exit.
The emergency-spending bill, mainly for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, passed 51-47, with most Democrats voting for it and most Republicans against. It was the first time the Senate passed a bill that challenged the president's war plans, and it paves the way for a conflict with Bush in the weeks ahead.
Read President George Bush's remarks to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, free from whitehouse.gov.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Beth Davies Courier PhotoBeth Davies, a respected teacher, assistant principal and house principal during her nine-year career in the New Haven Unified School District, has been named principal of Hillview Crest Elementary School.
Ms. Davies, who served this year as a house principal at James Logan High School after three years as the assistant principal at Eastin Elementary School, will assume her new duties July 1. She will replace Brenda Lloyd, who requested a reassignment.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
Matthew Callison, an English Language Development (ELD) specialist and third-grade teacher at Pioneer Elementary School, has been named an Apple Distinguished Educator for 2007, and Kim Klindt, a fourth-grade teacher at Emanuele Elementary, has won a Fulbright Award.
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.
Charles Lindberg: A Human Hero by James Cross Giblin
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Clarion Books (October 20, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0395633893
ISBN-13: 978-0395633892
Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.8 x 0.7 inches
From houghtonmifflinbooks.com
Pilot Charles A. Lindbergh was one of the first Americans to be lionized by the news media. When LIndbergh made his nonstop transatlantic flight in 1927, radio and sound movies were just beginning to be popular, enabling people to learn of events almost as soon as they happened. Overnight, the 25-year-old Lindbergh, a man of modest means and education, was catapulted into the public limelight. He became the American hero whom everyone adored and thought could do no wrong. Lindbergh's popularity lasted little more than a decade. His ties to Nazi Germany and his outspoken isolationist views prior to World War II cost him the respect of many close friend and relatives, and of the general public as well. The story of Lindbergh's rise to fame and abrupt descent into disgrace is told here with frankness and understanding. The meticulously researched text and generous selection of archival photographs present a lively and rounded portrait of a man who earned his place in aviation history despite his faults.
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New Haven Unified School District press release
Dramatic academic improvement at Alvarado Elementary School and solid gains at Kitayama Elementary and James Logan High School are evident in the latest report on standardized test scores, released today by the California Department of Education.
The state today released the 2006 Academic Performance Index (API) "base reports," including 1-10 rankings comparing individual schools, both to schools across the state (“statewide rankings”) and to schools that are demographically similar (“similar-schools rankings”).
A State Department of Education chart showing Logan's
API score growth.
To read the entire report, click here.
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From the New Haven Schools
Helping struggling students through "Interventions" will be the primary topic Tuesday at the monthly meeting of the New Haven Community Forum.
The Forum, designed by the New Haven Unified School District to give parents and the community access to information and an opportunity to contribute ideas, will meet at Conley-Carabllo High School, 541 Blanche St., Hayward. The meeting will be from 7 to 9 p.m.
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A team of evaluators from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges arrived on campus today to begin the three-day process of determining if Logan High School deserves to be accredited and, if so, for how long.
"The 8-member WASC visiting team is "in the building," Logan Principal wrote in an email to school staff this morning.
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By Bill Gibron
PopMatters.com(MCT)
Frank Miller.
wikipedia photoHe has the magic touch. Either that, or Hollywood is so bereft of visionaries that his ideas must be copied – in some cases, literally – in order for motion picture innovation to be captured. Of course, it's Frank Miller that everyone is talking about – again. The celebrated comic book artist first came to the attention of film fans when his "Dark Knight" take on Batman was reference over and over again as the inspiration for Tim Burton's reboot of the famed superhero. Then Robert Rodriguez did the illustrator one better, actually giving him a co-director credit on his all-CGI take on the "Sin City" series. It was that unique post-modern noir, a combination of real live actors and carefully crafted digital backdrops that argued for Miller's arrival as a major influence in the world of cinema.
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Fidel Castro
The flag of Cuba By Frances Robles
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Seven months ago, Fidel Castro was considered all but dead. These days, he's reported to be taking long walks with old friends and calling other presidents to discuss global warming.
To hear National Assembly President Ricardo Alarcon tell it, Castro is in fact preparing for a comeback. Last week Alarcon said to foreign correspondents in Havana that Castro would be in "great shape" to run for president of the Council of State, his official title.
"I'd nominate him," Alarcon said after a National Assembly session.
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By Jasmeen Banwait, Courier Staff Writer
Two girls celebrate Holi Friday.
Courier PhotoThe Punjabi Club celebrated the colorful Hindu spring festival of Holi in Colt Court, during both lunches Friday.
The celebration was led by Harpaul S. Rana, who teaches the Punjabi language on the Logan campus. Students of Logan and a few off-campus visitors joined the colorful celebration, and by the end of lunch many were covered in colored powder. The celebration was accompanied with traditional Punjabi music and posters which explained the holiday of Holi.
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By Ron Hutcheson, Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers
(MCT)
WASHINGTON — Internal Bush administration e-mails suggest that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have played a bigger role than he has acknowledged in the plan to fire several U.S. attorneys.
The e-mails, delivered to Congress Friday night, show that Gonzales attended an hourlong meeting on the firings on Nov. 27, 2006 — 10 days before seven U.S. attorneys were told to resign. The attorney general's participation in the session calls into question his assertion that he was essentially in the dark about the firings.
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By Mike Dorning
Chicago Tribune (MCT)
A frame from the viral web video.WASHINGTON — The creator of a widely circulated viral web video portraying Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton as an Orwellian Big Brother was identified Wednesday as an employee of an Internet consulting firm that works for one of her opponents, Sen. Barack Obama.
The Obama campaign denied any involvement in the ad and the consulting firm said it fired the employee immediately after the company learned of his role.
Watch the video for yourself, free via YouTube.
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By Patrick Pilapil, Courier Staff Writer
Abel Shifferaw founded his
own political party.
Courier Photo
The ancient Greek playwright Euripides once said that “youth holds no society with grief”. One student from James Logan High School, however, could make a very strong argument against that.
Logan junior Abel Shifferaw started The People’s Vanguard Party for Social Defense (or PVP) in early this March. Described as a left wing political party, the PVP is dedicated to “end all social injustice”.
Shifferaw was inspired to start the organization because of his Ethiopian heritage and vast interest in politics.
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Apple Computer Inc. (MCT)
Top 10 albums on iTunes Music Store for March 20:
1. "Back to Black," Amy Winehouse
2. "Undiscovered," James Morrison
3. "Neon Bible," Arcade Fire
4. "Daughtry," Daughtry
5. "Live at Massey Hall 1971," Neil Young
6. "Costello Music," The Fratellis
7. "300 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)," Tyler Bates
8. "Music and Lyrics (Music from the Motion Picture)," various artists
9. "Luvanmusiq," Musiq Soulchild
10. "Year Zero," Nine Inch Nails
For more information, please visit the iTunes Web site at www.apple.com/itunes/.
Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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By Shashank Bengali and Jonathan S. Landay
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
An American citizen of Somali extraction,
arrested after the brief U.S.-supported
Ethiopian intervention in Somalia, Amir
Meshal languishes in an Ethiopian jail
because U.S. officials were unable to stop
Kenyan authorities from deporting him
in the middle of the night.
(Handout courtesy of the family/MCT)NAIROBI, Kenya — American diplomats on Wednesday paid their first visit to an American who was detained five weeks ago by Ethiopian authorities after a middle-of-the-night secret transfer from Kenya and said he was in good health.
But U.S. officials couldn't secure the release of Amir Mohamed Meshal, 24, of Tinton, Falls, N.J., who was arrested at the Somali-Kenyan border after the U.S.-backed Ethiopian army toppled the Islamist government in Somalia.
Instead, Meshal will appear at an Ethiopian hearing to determine whether he can be detained as a prisoner of war, said a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case.
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By Dave Montgomery
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
Bill co-sponsors Jeff Flake and Luis GutierrezWASHINGTON — Bipartisan legislation to be unveiled Thursday in the House of Representatives would offer temporary legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants but would require them to leave the country before they could be eligible for permanent residency and U.S. citizenship.
The bill by Reps. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., and Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., is the first major immigration legislation to be introduced in the current session of Congress, as lawmakers address the status of more than 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night received information on the development of secondary programs for English learners, including a “spotlight on best practices” featuring Pioneer Elementary media specialist Paula Figdor’s program of differentiated instruction in reading and listening.
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
Here are the best sellers for the week that ended Saturday, March 10, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)
HARDCOVER FICTION
1. Nineteen Minutes. Jodi Picoult. Atria, $26.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Whitethorn Woods. Maeve Binchy. Knopf, $25.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. Shopaholic & Baby. Sophie Kinsella. Dial Press. $24
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 2
4. Step on a Crack. James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 5
5. Sisters. Danielle Steel. Delacorte, $27
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 4
6. Innocent in Death. J.D. Robb. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 3
7. The Watchman. Robert Crais. Simon & Schuster, $25.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 2
8. The Double Bind. Chris Bohjalian. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $25
Last Week: 6; Weeks on List: 4
9. For One More Day. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $21.95
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 23
10. Plum Lovin'. Janet Evanovich. St. Martin's, $16.95
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 9
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Staff Writer Michelle Morimoto contributed to this report
More than a dozen students walked
out of classes Monday to protest the war.
Courier PhotoAbout two dozen students walked out of classes and off campus to take up signs in protest of the Iraq war and demonstrate their dismay at the southeast corner of Alvarado-Niles Road and H Street.
Logan Junior Abel Shifferaw organized the demonstration. He told The Courier that he was pleased with the turn-out, considering that it was raining lightly and the school was busy administering the California High School Exit Exam, which prevented some students from taking part.
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The Courier today marks the end of its first year as a daily, year-round school news source with the publication of its 365th issue.
The school newspaper, which began publishing in 1959, began its transition from its original newsprint format to its current online blog-style format in 2000, when advisor Patrick Hannigan started sending digital copies of the paper-based newspaper to readers via email, mostly to save money, he said. On March 20 last year, he moved it to its current online format, located on the internet at www.jameslogancourier.org, where it has offered daily updates of school and other news, and a variety of features, every day since.
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The New Haven Unified School District will receive more than $300,000 to fund adult school education, one of 256 organizations to get a slice of $64.8 million in grants throught the Workforce Investment Act Title II: Adult Education and Family Literacy Act.
This grant program provides supplemental funds for adult basic education, high school subjects, English as a second language, citizenship, English literacy, and civics education. Eligible applicants included institutions of higher education, local educational agencies, nonprofit organizations, other organizations, or agencies.
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By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
President George W. Bush and President
Felipe Calderon of Mexico pause during a
tour Tuesday of the Uxmal, one of the
most famous of the Mayan ruins.
White House photo by Paul Morse
MERIDA, Mexico — Underscoring the complex nature of the immigration debate, Mexican President Felipe Calderon acknowledged on Wednesday that he has relatives living and working in the United States.
"Yes, I do have family in the United States and what I can tell you is that these are people who work and respect that country," Calderon said in response to a question during a joint news conference with President Bush at the end of Bush's two-day visit to Mexico.
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By Julian Kesner and Joe Babcock
New York Daily News (MCT)
NEW YORK — College kids might as well be majoring in pharmacology these days, with students illicitly popping pills in record droves, according to a new report.
Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse's four-year "Wasting the Best and Brightest" study says 49 percent of U.S. college students binge drink or abuse drugs, both prescription and illegal.
Download the report, free from Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
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By Jonathan S. Landay and Shashank Bengali
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
NAIROBI, Kenya — A U.S. citizen who was caught fleeing the recent fighting in Somalia was questioned about links to al-Qaida by the FBI in Kenya, then secretly sent back to the war-ravaged country, where he was turned over to Ethiopian forces.
Amir Mohamed Meshal, 24, is now imprisoned in Ethiopia, where the State Department's 2006 human rights report says "conditions in prisons and pre-trial detention centers remain very poor" and that "there were numerous credible reports that security officials often beat or mistreated detainees."
Read more about the U.S./African renditions, from MCTCampus: American's rendition to an Ethiopian prison raises new questions
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By Pablo Bachelet
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)
President Bush and Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez
hold a joint press availability March 10 at Estancia Anchorena,
the presidential retreat.
White House photo by Paul MorseWASHINGTON — President Bush returned from his weeklong trip to Latin America Wednesday with plenty of homework.
His hosts on his five-country tour appreciated his pledge to work with them to fight poverty, change U.S. immigration laws and push for free-trade agreements, but they also gave him an earful on issues such as U.S. tariffs on ethanol.
The tough part, many analysts say, comes now: delivering on issues dear to the hearts of many Latin American leaders.
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Reports of a discharged weapon in an adjacent park sent lunching students at James Logan High scrambling for cover in classrooms when Union City police told school administrators to "lockdown" the school while they searched for and arrested suspects in the case.
Half of the school's 4.000 students where in class while the other half were just finishing their lunch period when the warning klaxon was sounded.
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A water pipe break in the construction zone caused
some minor flooding of walkways near the 400s
Rebecca Soltau/Courier photoRestrooms on the south side of the Logan campus were out of commission Thursday afternoon after workers building new classrooms severed a water main serving that side of the school.
Principal Don Montoya told the school's staff about the break in an email: "A main water pipe has been broken in the construction zone. Consquently, we will NOT have water (and restroom) availability until after 4pm today" in the 400s, 500s, Pavilion and staff lounge."
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By Jasmeen Banwait, Courier Staff Writer
Aerial shot showing damage to Enterprise High School.
Photo by Robin Cooper, Alabama Governor's StaffJames Logan's principal and student body president have joined together to prod the high school community to donate cash to help disaster victims. This time the victims are the students and staff of Enterprise High School in Alabama, which was badly damaged when a deadly tornado struck it on March 1.
On Monday, Principal Don Montoya and ASB president Catherine Start spoke over the intercom during 2nd period to get the fundraising drive started:
“As most of you know, on Thursday, March 1st, a tornado swept right through Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Alabama, destroying the school and killing eight students. Many were left severely injured and lost their homes due to this tornado. We can only imagine the pain the students of Enterprise High School are suffering," Start and Montoya said in their joint announcement. "These students have just lost their classmates, their friends and their school. In a mere 30 seconds, their lives were changed—forever."
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A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 27 for former Hillview Crest and Alvarado Elementary principal Julia Strong Yoho, who passed away March 8.
The service will be held at the Swedenborgian Church, 3200 Washington (at the corner of Lyon) in San Francisco.
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Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books and other materials newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan High School Media Center.
The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction by Denys Johnson-Davies
Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor (October 17, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400079764
ISBN-13: 978-1400079766
From Randomhouse.com:
This dazzling anthology features the work of seventy-nine outstanding writers from all over the Arab-speaking world, from Morocco in the west to Iraq in the east, Syria in the north to Sudan in the south.
Edited by Denys Johnson-Davies, called by Edward Said “the leading Arabic-to-English translator of our time,” this treasury of Arab voices is diverse in styles and concerns, but united by a common language. It spans the full history of modern Arabic literature, from its roots in western cultural influence at the end of the nineteenth century to the present-day flowering of Naguib Mahfouz’s literary sons and daughters.
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James Logan's daily online student newspaper, The Courier, received the one millionth hit on its website Monday night, just less than a year after it started posting stories there.
The newspaper started operating at www.jameslogancourier.org on March 20, 2006. As of this morning, the site had received 1,003,433 hits, according to The Courier's website traffic analysis program, Webalizer. Almost 67,000 visits have been paid to the site, according to the software.
"It's a great improvement in such a short time," said Sports Editor Jezza Pimentel.
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Too many California kids are sitting around getting fat, state schools Superintendent Jack O'Connell says, and physical fitness tests show that many of Logan students are among them, although the school's test results are slightly better than average.
In announcing the results of statewide physical fitness tests of last year's fifth, seventh, and ninth graders in California public schools last year, O'Connell said "too many of our students are leading sedentary lives exacerbated by poor eating habits. This is a destructive trend that has resulted in an epidemic of childhood obesity and must be reversed."
"The 2006 test scores show a modest 1 percent gain in overall performance compared to last year’s results," O’Connell said. "We should be very concerned for our students’ health, their academic success, and the long-term effects this will have."
Click here for complete statewide and local results on the state Physical Fitness Test.
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By Nathanial Lealao, Courier Staff Writer
Author Mister Mann Frisby
spoke to African-American
boys in the Intervention
Program last monthIn an effort to close the "achievement gap," that has African-American and Latino students generally doing less well in school than other ethnic groups, James Logan High School has established a special "intervention program" to help members of African-American and Latino boys and girls do better.
The Intervention program is run by Logan teacher Perri Darweesh with the help several others teachers on campus.
There are four “support groups”, one each for African-American guys, African-American girls, Latino boys, and Latino girls who have D’s or F’s in english, math, or biology. The groups are set-up to provide help to pass classes and help prepariing for college. This class is open to any of those groups, she also has a list of those that is recommended by other teachers. She will have a list and ask certain students because they are shy to ask.
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By John Chau, Courier Managing Editor
James Logan's student senators convened in the student union Thursday to discuss and be briefed on the school’s upcoming accreditation, an evaluation process that judges the school’s performance, and the validity of the diplomas it issues.
Visit the Western Society of Schools and Colleges' website.
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By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
The Board of Education on Tuesday night heard a report on English language development, highlighting the District’s partnerships with two of the top academic institutions in the country, Columbia University and Stanford University.
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Official numbers aren't available yet, but an informal accounting indicates that about 30 to 50 percent of seniors took Wednesday off to celebrate an unofficial "Senior Cut Day" holiday.
One senior, who said he couldn't cut for academic reasons, said that seniors, through some mysterious process, decided that Wednesday would be the day because the date, expressed as 03-07, corresponds to both the year they entered high school, 2003, and the year they expect to be graduated, 2007.
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By Yanira Romero, Courier Staff Writer
Logan students who are behind schedule earning enough credits to graduate on time are taking advantage of the school's Credit Recovery Program to try to catch up.
The credit recovery program has been in action at James Logan High School for the last ten years helping those students in need. Led by administrator Roxana Mohammed and teacher Steven Callahan, the program was designed for students who failed classes and are behind in credits.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
UNION CITY – Veteran educator Karen Saucedo, who started her career as a teacher at Barnard-White Middle School and went on to become the New Haven Unified School District’s Director of Special Services, will return to Barnard-White as principal for the 2007-08 school year.
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The attack took place near the
UC Landing Transit CenterA fight between riders on the AC Transit 97 bus, one of them reportedly a Logan student, ended with that student being struck in the head with a thrown brick.
According to a rider on the bus, the Logan student was sitting in the seat in front of him when another rider approached and punched him in the face.
Logan Principal Don Montoya said that he hasn't been able to confirm that the victim is a Logan student.
As the fight roiled, the bus driver stopped the bus, and the attacker left the bus for a moment, then returned with a brick and threw it at the Logan student, who was struck in the face. The attacker then left the bus, said the witness, a James Logan senior.
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By Naweed Zemaryalai, Courier Staff Writer
A Darfur village health post destroyed
by a Jingaweit militia attack.
USAID photo
The recent fundraiser for relief of victims of the Genocide in Darfur a sum of $1,620, a paltry sum according to fundraiser Danielle Lemi.
The class that raised the most amount was Stacey Berkowitz' class which came up with a total of $92.
Lemi, a founding member of Suluhiana, a school club formed to bring attention to the Darfur genocide, was in charge of this fundraiser. She said she hoped to raise $2,000, and said that if everyone in the school gave up 50 cents that they could have achieved their goal.
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By Sadaf Khan, Courier Staff Writer
An espresso machine staffed by students
will soon be producing coffee drinks for staff.
Courier photoA new cart selling Boyd’s Coffee will be opening soon in the Curriculum Center to serve James Logan teachers and staff.
Chef Mari Mochetti and her Culinary Arts class will be running a new coffee cart during first and second period only. Staff will be able to use these services in the curriculum center. It will not be accessible to students because of the time it is open.
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Michelle Morimoto/Courier photo A James Logan junior walked away uninjured after her Honda automobile crashed into a pole, bringing down a traffic signal and some signage at the intersection of H Street and Alvarado-Niles Boulevard Friday morning.
The student said afterward that she was a bit shaken by the experience, but uninjured.
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By Jim Fry, VOANews
Washington, DC
22 February 2007
General Richard CodyThe U.S. Army's second in command says he is disappointed in the living conditions that wounded soldiers endure at the Army's main hospital for the wounded.
A newspaper investigation in Washington, D.C. revealed what it called neglect of the soldiers, and frustration among those soldiers and their families. The Army is promising action and some in Congress want an investigation.
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By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer
UNION CITY – Patsy Lockhart of Barnard-White Middle School is one of a select group of teachers from throughout the state being honored as part of the California Teachers Association Human Rights Awards Program.
Patsy
LockhartMs. Lockhart is the recipient of the 2007 Lois Tinson Human Rights Award, one of eight awards to be presented Saturday, March 3, at the annual CTA Equity and Human Rights Conference in San Jose. The Tinson award is presented to an individual whose activities have helped achieve significant progress toward equal opportunity for African Americans.
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