The James Logan Courier

By Caitlin Baca, Courier Staff Writer

An email was sent to the Logan faculty Wednesday about the Halloween "dress code." Those who read the message are now aware that the adminstration will not tolerate Halloween costumes baring cleavage and thighs.

I am not supportive at all of the new regulations. Any Logan sophomore, junior, or senior is familiar of the way students dress every Halloween. At Logan, students tend to show their Halloween spirit by wearing costumes that show some skin.

By Jasmine Verona, Courier Staff Writer

Oh, the irony. We thought only students can cause major problems at school, but the school itself has proved us wrong. Over the course of final semester of last year and first quarter of 2008 at James Logan High, many changes have occurred, few of them positive.

Numerous electives (Creative writing!) have been eliminated and the teaching staff has been reduced, leading to an overflow of students in nearly every classroom.

But before we get into the actual problems of the current school year, one major part of school that Logan messed up on was the schedules.

By Jamey Padojino, Courier Staff Writer

Admit it: we’re all anticipating this year’s election. Everywhere you go the latest news on Obama, McCain, Biden, and Palin can be seen and heard, loud and clear.

In less than two weeks voters all over America will be at the polls choosing the next president.

And while voters of Union City are checking off who they want to see in the White House, they will also vote on multiple measures, one of them being Measure UU.

By Tearra Webb, Courier Daily Editor

One of the problems some teens face is the death of parents, which deeply affects the survivors' moods, attitudes and general outlook on life. The reason I know is that my mother recently died of lung disease.

Being a teen or a young child, it is hard to see your parent suffer through so much pain and misery. It is very hard to adjust to new way of living without a parent, not knowing what to do.

People tell you to stay strong, but it’s hard to when so many things are going through your mind. Death is a natural thing of life, but when a loved one dies it's like a nightmare that you haven’t awakened from yet.

By Trudy Rubin
The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)

This week's financial implosion has shifted attention away from foreign policy in the presidential contest.

Neither candidate has been inspiring in this arena. But we have only two choices. So who can best dig America out from the mess President Bush's foreign policy has made?

John McCain is campaigning on experience; one can only wish Barack Obama had more. Yet the next president will confront global challenges far different from those with which the aging Arizonan is familiar.

By Sequoia Sinclair, Courier Staff Writer

Homo, faggot, queer… that’s gay.

We hear those words more often than we should. Homosexuals are teased, put down, insulted and misrepresented in school and general society, simply because their sexuality differs from those of the familiar “straight” population. While there has been more tolerance of gays in society in recent years, the public views of gays and lesbians are still degrading and dehumanizing.

Yes, despite improvements, magazines, television, and the internet, still promote a revolting view of the gay “lifestyle.” Stereotypes of homosexual men as effeminate and hypersexual, or lesbians as orgiastic sluts, still dominate.

By Jessica Stewart, Courier Editor-in-Chief

Last Friday, Logan’s new principal, Judy Billingsley, appeared on Logan Live for a special interview. I give her props for knowing plenty of information about the school, but that does not make up for the fact that she spent the whole interview deflecting blame onto other people and making herself seem great.

Don’t get me wrong, Billingsley could very well be great, I don’t know, but it annoyed me that she could sit there and praise herself while blaming the school’s problems on other people. She’s the new principal, for goodness sakes’, so she needs to admit to some of the mistakes and not go looking for scapegoats.