The James Logan Courier

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


MISCELLANEOUS
Happy Birthday to Abraham Lincoln, our 16th President, born this day in 1809!

Students: You must show your Logan ID to enter campus each day. Students without IDs must have a temporary ID to enter campus. Students who have no ID for two or more days will be charged for a replacement, and parents will be called. In-house suspension will be assigned for 3rd offense. One day suspension from school for 4th offense.

By Jessica Stewart, Courier Editor-in-Chief

“At times I thought that some of the stories the passersby told were exaggerated. The only wars I knew of were those that I had read about in books or seen in movies such as Rambo: First Blood, and the one in neighboring Liberia that I had heard about on the BBC news. My imagination at ten years old didn’t have the capacity to grasp what had taken away the happiness of the refugees.”

Unfortunately for Ishmael, he would soon find out first-hand exactly what taken away everybody’s happiness. A Long Way Gone is a devastatingly realistic memoir of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone and the trials he must overcome during his rehabilitation. It is at once inspiring and disgusting, and one cannot help but feel compassion for a young boy who has lost his family to rebels with a “just” cause and must pick up a gun himself in order to survive. As I read about Ishmael’s life and the choices he was faced with, I was extremely grateful for my family, my life and, above all, my safety.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The New Haven Unified School District as a whole and two schools in particular have even higher Academic Performance Index rankings than were originally reported, under the annual revised report released today by the California Department of Education.

Last September, the state reported that Alvarado Middle School had improved by 38 points on the API – from a score of 768 in 2006-07 to a score of 806 in 2007-08, becoming the fifth New Haven school to score above the state target of 800.

By Idrees Najibi, Courier Staff Writer

The red roses, the candy, the stuffed animals, the balloons and the cards all mean one thing: it’s Valentine’s Day. The day where lovers purchase little gifts for each other, to show how much love there is in their relationship.

But do we honestly need this day to show our partners how much we love them? What’s wrong with showing our love and appreciation on a daily basis?

This may be a narrow-minded and nonsensical analysis to some, but, contrary to what you may believe, Valentine’s Day essentially destroys the true meaning of love. Through phony commercials and unrealistic advertisements, business leaders feed us propaganda that brainwashes us into thinking, “If I don’t buy it, then she won’t love me.”