The James Logan Courier

By Rebecca Trounson
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — California and the Western United States are leading a nationwide surge in interracial marriage, according to a new study that paints a picture of a broadly diversifying nation, one where color lines are blurring and old taboos fading.

One-fifth of all recent weddings in the western United States were between people of different races or ethnicities, said a report being released Thursday by the Pew Research Center. Nationwide, 15 percent of recent marriages were interracial, researchers found.
"In the space of half a century, intermarriage has evolved from being illegal to taboo to being merely unusual, and with each passing year, much less unusual than it used to be," said Paul Taylor, director of Pew's social and demographic trends project, which produced the study.

By Randy Lewis
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — Not surprisingly, the public's appetite for Whitney Houston's music erupted in the hours after she died Saturday in Beverly Hills, as more than 100,000 albums and nearly 900,000 individual tracks sold in a little over 24 hours.

The Nielsen SoundScan retail sales monitoring service reported that 91,000 digital albums and another 10,000 physical albums along with 887,000 digital tracks were sold by the close of the reporting period that ended Sunday night. Those numbers and new Billboard chart positions will be released on Wednesday.

From wikipedia:

William Sanders Scarborough (February 16, 1852 - September 9, 1926) is generally thought to be the first African American classical scholar. Scarborough served as president of Wilberforce University between 1908 and 1920 after having been born into slavery. He wrote a popular university textbook in Classical Greek which was widely used in the 19th century.


Read "Professor William S. Scarborough, Classics Scholar and First Black Member of the MLA," by Ajuan Mance, free from Black on Campus.

MISCELLANEOUS
Seniors and Students: Graduation has been moved to Saturday, June 9th at 9:00 a.m. Please see the Logan website for an end of year calendar.

Washington Hospital is hosting a Medical Explorer Healthcare Career Day on Saturday, March 17th. Only 24 spots have been allotted for Logan students. To sign up, see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center by Tuesday, February 21st. Spots will be given to students on a first come, first served basis.

The 22nd Annual Sabor Latino Dance will be held on Saturday, February 18th, sponsored by the Ballet Folklorico. Tickets are $8 in advance or $10 at the door. For more information, see Mr. Huertas in House 1. Tickets will be sold Friday, 2/17 at both lunches in Colt Court.