This is the archive for January 2008
By Rebecca Soltau, Entertainment Editor
On Thursday morning, during second period, Principal Don Montoya came on the school public address system to address the school in his bi-annual State of the School. As usual, Mr. Montoya reminded students and staff of the major school rules, like Off and Away and things like that.
But this year, Mr. Montoya brought in Krystal Henderson, a senior, who expressed her views on the recent explosive violence that has plagued our city for the past year. In a very articulate speech, she called on the student body to "put aside racist stereotypes" and stand up against violence.
Unfortunately I seemed to be one of very few who people who agreed to take a stand.
Posted by courier at 12:48 PM. Filed under: Opinion
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The dreaded filter.,
Courier Staff Writer
Despite recent events, most of us know that Logan is a safe, and enjoyable environment. The administration and teachers work hard ot keep it that way. But one thing that might be overdoing it a little is the Internet content filtering that Logan uses.
We all know that Logan means well in protecting students from "unnecessary" websites. However, there are times when the filter can get in the way of everyday use. People have been having trouble accessing their email and sometimes it blocks useful sites that help out with research information, leaving students and even teachers annoyed and frustrated.
Posted by courier at 11:38 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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By David Collins, Opinion Editor
For many years, James Logan High has been a very diverse school. With it’s number of 4000+ students it can appear to some as a small village. Matter of fact, James Logan High has more students than some small towns has citizens. This being recognized, we must also come to acknowledge that being so different from one another in a cultural sense, Logan provides an open atmosphere for individuality and identity.
Posted by courier at 06:27 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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Posted by courier at 08:32 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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Michael Chertoff
U.S. government photo
Should banks cash checks from people who cannot prove who they are? Should parents hire babysitters they know nothing about? Should airlines let passengers on board without validating their identity?
For most Americans, these questions answer themselves. Our citizens depend on different forms of government-issued identification, such as driver's licenses, every day.
Posted by courier at 07:58 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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By Charles Yi,
Courier Staff Writer
During fifth period the other day, I bought a box lunch consisting of popcorn chicken, Cheetos, and chocolate milk, and as I was taking out my wallet, I was prompted to take an apple. I told the lunch lady, "I'm not going to eat it, though. I'll probably just end up throwing it away." She replied, "I don't care. The state requires that students have a serving of fruit at lunch, sir."
I wanted to continue the conversation, but I decided not to due to the horde of angry students in line behind me.
Posted by courier at 11:47 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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By David Collins,
Courier Opinion Editor
One "school week" ago, James Logan High School student Vernon Matthew Eddins was shot down on the Barnard-White Middle school campus in what’s rumored to have been in the name of gang violence, although no one is saying that Vernon was in a gang.
This tragic event has not been the first that the James Logan High School area has seen in the past few months. There have been other shootings, robberies and threats from rival gangs, which endanger the students as well as the surrounding community. The threat of gang violence has become more of a problem now more than James Logan has seen for many years.
Posted by courier at 07:06 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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By Krystal Henderson, Courier News Editor
Anyone ever hear a rumor? Rumors flew around that there was to be a shooting Friday at Logan. Some rumors said that the shooter was going to target Black students; others said that there would be a drive-by targeting Latino students; some said the shooter was going to come on campus to the 500's.
So, people are scared and with good reason: Threats of race-based violence and assault are horrifying. The sad part is, kids think this is a time to band together with other people of the same "race." That is one of the naive reasonings that led us to this situation.
Posted by courier at 06:10 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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By Sarena Bains,
Courier Staff Writer
“ The heart of the wise leads to right but the heart of a fool leads to wrong.”
Ecclesiastes 10:2
How do people decide what they do?
Every day we are forced to make choices; some are big, while others are small. Either way they will affect us or someone else’s life.
How is it that we come to make all these choices that we do? Of course, many things will affect our decisions, but our final true decision comes from within.
Posted by courier at 07:35 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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Posted by courier at 06:56 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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By Charles Yi,
Courier Staff Writer
Whenever I have an upset stomach and go to the bathroom during the middle of class or whenever I head over to the counseling or career center for an appointment, I almost always see students lounging on the stairways of the 500's or the lunch patios, horse‑playing with one another and disturbing the learning environment. If our CST's are always present to hassle students about something as trivial as a black beanie without a James Logan insignia, where are they during class periods when students need to be sent to their respective classrooms?
Posted by courier at 07:43 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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By Bethany Stringer,
Courier Publications Editor
While looking at my Yahoo! Home page, a news headline caught my eye. “Golf Channel anchor says young golfers should 'lynch Tiger Woods'”. What? Needing to know more, I clicked on the link and avidly read the entire story. By the end, I was shocked, outraged and humiliated. How can such overt acts of racism be continuing even now, in 2008?
Posted by courier at 07:14 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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Long lunch lines and short times
spur some to take cuts
Jessica Rosales/Courier Photo,
Courier Staff Writers
Here at Logan we have a very limited time to get our lunch. Lunch is approximately 43 minutes. That’s 43 minutes to stand in line, buy lunch, and find a place to sit and eat. Sometimes it is enough time, but for some of those who stand in line there is one very annoying, and more importantly, very time-consuming problem: line cutters.
Posted by courier at 07:00 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)
The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, Dec. 12:
Starting in 1991, the teenage birth rate declined steadily for a decade and a half, showing that young people were getting the message to avoid parenthood before they were ready for it.
Yet a federal report released last summer said that sexual activity among high school students is no longer declining. After dropping in the 1990s, the numbers of young people who said they had engaged in intercourse leveled off between 2001 and 2005.
Posted by courier at 07:11 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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Posted by courier at 07:03 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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So much water has been taken
from the once-mighty Colorado
River that it's delta is dry during
summer. NASA Photo
DETROIT — E-mails arrive daily warning of new efforts to open huge acreages of Western wilderness to gas and oil drilling, clear cut forests on mountains vulnerable to erosion, destroy major fish stocks in the ocean or pollute the skies and waters with mercury and greenhouse gasses.
Continuing threats to the places where we hunt, fish and camp illustrate that while things are better than 30 or 40 years ago, all we've really done is slow down the rate at which we are destroying our environment.
Posted by courier at 07:42 AM. Filed under: Opinion
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