The James Logan Courier

By Emily Low, Courier Staff Writer

Ahh…Spring break: a time for students to take a week away from school to do something, anything, other than schoolwork. Some students might be visiting family for the holiday or perhaps visiting college campuses in anticipation of the years after high school. At schools which take there break this week, many are probably sleeping in as you read this, whether it is ten o’clock in the morning or ten o’ clock at night. Easily, Spring Break can be perceived as the last time in the school year that we all get to take a week off from the ever-so-disdained schoolwork.

Not really.

By Debbie Ly, Courier Staff Writer

Jerry Ortega, James Logan’s current “Materials and Equipment Clerk”, is set to retire in August 2008. After working for James Logan and the New Haven Unified School District for the past 17 years, Ortega’s career will soon come to an end.

As the Materials and Equipment Clerk, Ortega’s main duties throughout the year are ordering and receiving supplies, maintaining the stock, and distributing them to teachers as needed. He is also responsible for distributing the books during Language Arts book rotations, and making sure that the teacher access copy equipment is off and running.

MENU:
Egg Roll with Fried Rice, Milk, Fresh Fruit, and “Fun” Chips
Sausage and Veggie Pizza


ACTIVITIES:
You can save two lives. Sign up in Colt Court at lunch to donate blood at our Blood Drive on April 9!

CLUBS:
BSU meeting Thursday after school in Room 529.

By Bob Fernandez
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

PHILADELPHIA — Software whiz Bram Cohen released BitTorrent for free on the Internet in 2002 so his hippie friends could swap concert videos. The first big success was a Grateful Dead concert.

Today, Cohen's peer-to-peer technology is so popular and powerful that it accounts at times for 50 percent of Internet data traffic, and has the potential to alter the economics of broadband Internet for companies like Comcast Corp. and millions of consumers.

By Josh Noel
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

CHICAGO — This must be what torture feels like, Jamie Nieto thought during six weeks in 2003 of physical therapy for burns covering more than half his body. He bore the pain by telling himself that every day he inched closer to going home.

Unlike Nieto, who could only close his eyes to cope, patients at Loyola University Medical Center's burn unit in Maywood, Ill., in the next few weeks will be able to distract themselves by gliding through a world of snowy canyons, launching snowball fights with snowmen and watching penguins cartwheel across icy plains.

From wikipedia:
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (April 1, 1868–December 2, 1918) was a French poet and dramatist.

Rostand is associated with neo-romanticism, and is best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. Rostand's romantic plays provided an alternative to the naturalistic theatre popular during the late 19th century. One of Rostand's works, Les Romanesques, has been adapted as the highly successful musical comedy The Fantasticks.