The James Logan Courier

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

A group of James Logan High School students will leave Friday for a week-long trip to Washington D.C., just in time to be in the nation’s capital for the inauguration of Barack Obama as President - where a Cesar Chavez Middle School student will sing.

Logan social science teachers Alida Lombardi and Jeff Ustick take students each year to Washington as part of “Close Up,” a government/citizenship program for high school students nationwide. This year, Logan’s contingent of 24 students will be in Washington when the new president is sworn in next Tuesday.

“We probably won’t get tickets, so we’ll be out with the hordes on Capitol Mall,” Ms. Lombardi said. “Obviously, though, just being there will be very special.”

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!

MISCELLANEOUS
Come watch the Varsity and JV wrestling teams as they dual the Mission San Jose Warriors in the Al Roderigues Gym tonight. JV starts at 5:00 p.m. and Varsity at 6:30 p.m.

By Suzanne Wu, Courier Staff Writer

Glitches in Zangle's the school's new student information system are resulting in inaccurate transcripts being printed, just as seniors need accurate transcripts to move on to college.

Earlier this year, James Logan Principal Judy Billingsley announced on her first interview on Logan Live that transcripts were not ready for distribution. After the initial announcement, no further information has been given about the status of the transcript system.

Currently, the new Zangle system the school has implemented suffers from an abundance of glitches that prevents the transcripts from being ready, according to a James Logan official who works daily with the system, who asked not to be identified. The old HP system, a program customized for the New Haven district and for Logan, was used for years until the debut of Zangle this fall.

By Jeffry Bartash
MarketWatch (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The incoming Obama administration on Thursday asked Congress to postpone the nationwide switch to digital television, saying too many Americans would lose their TV signals if the change takes place as planned in mid-February.

John Podesta, co-chairman of Obama's transition team, sent a letter to top lawmakers in the House and Senate requesting the delay until later in 2009. He said the government has not provided enough financial support and consumer information to make the planned switch.

"We have discovered major difficulties in the preparation for the February 17 conversion," Podesta wrote.

By Tawab Fakhri, Courier Staff Writer

The past few weeks seem to be among the darkest days in Palestinian history. The world has been exposed to images and videos depicting horrors that shock the conscience. Furthermore, the U.S. government seems to be oblivious to the outrage of the world community about these acts.

From wikipedia:
Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his The Way West. The author called himself "Bud" because he felt that Alfred Bertram "was a sissy name."

A. B. Guthrie, Jr. was born in Bedford, Indiana, and moved with his parents to Montana when he was six months old. His father was a graduate of Indiana University, his mother from a Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana. "My father came West to become the first principal of the first high school in the Montana territory," he said.

Learn more about A.B. Guthrie Jr. from Montana Newspaper Hall of Fame at the School of Journalism at the University of Montana.