The James Logan Courier

By Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

SAN FRANCISCO — University of California leaders on Wednesday apologized to black students at the University of California, San Diego for recent racial incidents at the campus and proposed changes in admissions policies aimed at boosting enrollment of minorities across the system.

UC President Mark G. Yudof and other UC regents acknowledged that the UC San Diego episodes, including an off-campus student party that mocked Black History Month, has brought attention to the low enrollment of black students on the campus.

MISCELLANEOUS
Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.

Attention Students: As detailed in the Student Handbook, inappropriate displays of affection or sexual contact between two persons are not allowed. Parent contact will be made for those students unwilling to cooperate. Defiance of this policy will result in suspension.
ns. If you do not turn in a form, your name will appear on your diploma as it is listed in school records.

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspaper (MCT)

At least this time Jane Austen doesn't get a Zombie wedgie.

In "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls" author Steve Hockensmith doesn't have to contend with adding zombie mayhem to an existing revered text. He makes the most of this prequel, set four years before, to concentrate on how the Bennet girls — Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia — became the excellent zombie killers.

Zombies, or "Dreadfuls," have only one interest in life: killing the living and eating their brains. They were stopped for decades by the simple precaution of decapitating the dead. Unfortunately this was stopped and the zombie plague re-emerged — literally — from the tombs, graveyards, basements, local ponds and wherever there might be a dead body.

From the Smithsonian Institution:
Janet Waterford Bragg (1907-1993), became one of America's first black women pilots after enrolling in the Curtiss Wright Aeronautical School in 1933. There she helped form the Challenger Air Pilots Association, which later evolved into the Coffey School of Aeronautics.

Read more about Janet Bragg, free from the University of Arizona.