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From Wikipedia:
Simon Fraser (20 May 1776 – 18 August 1862) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fraser was employed by the Montreal-based North West Company. By 1805, he had been put in charge of all the company's operations west of the Rocky Mountains. He was responsible for building that area's first trading posts, and, in 1808, he explored what is now known as the Fraser River, which bears his name. Simon Fraser's exploratory efforts were partly responsible for Canada's boundary later being established at the 49th parallel (after the War of 1812), since he as a British subject was the first European to establish permanent settlements in the area.

Read Simon Fraser's journal, free from the Quesnel Museum.

By Tierra Negra, Courier Special Correspondent

I have two last names in Mexico. The first in order comes from my father and the second one is inherited from my mother’s family. It has created some issues with my children because in this country nobody “recognizes” the mother’s last name therefore I currently do not share any surname with them.

There was an old custom in my country -now becoming obsolete, of using the husband’s name after the first and last name attached to the word “de” as if automatically the husband would be in possession of the wife (i.e. Maria Lopez de Tejeda would literally mean Tejeda’s Maria Lopez)

I never used it because I concluded that I was nobody’s property and I had the right, at the very least, to own my whole name. Sadly, after I went through a lot of thinking and research, what I considered once a female surname is only an illusion because there are none within a patriarchal society.

From Wikipedia:
Hồ Chí Minh (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung and also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành and Nguyễn Ái Quốc, was a Vietnamese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary leader who was prime minister (1945–1955) and president (1945–1969) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). He was a key figure in the foundation of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, as well as the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Việt Cộng (NLF or VC) during the Vietnam War.

Read Ho Chi Minh's obituary, free from the New York Times.

By David Siders
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — University of California regents warned Wednesday of more potential tuition increases, while student protesters again disrupted a meeting of the university's governing board.

The UC system, which raised tuition last year by about 18 percent, is considering a 6 percent tuition increase this year.

Frustrated students, who have clashed with administrators over fees and service cuts for months, forced regents to break unexpectedly from the public portion of their meeting when about 18 protesters wearing prison garb started marching in a circle in the audience.

The students at the meeting, at the Sacramento Convention Center, complained they had been "sentenced to debt."

From Wikipedia:
Carl Mydans (May 20, 1907 – August 16, 2004) was an American photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration and Life magazine.

Mydans became devoted to photography while in college at Boston University. While working on the Boston University News as an undergraduate, his first reporting jobs were for The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. After college, he went to New York as a writer for American Banker and then in 1935 to Washington to join a group of photographers in the Farm Security Administration.

Learn more about Carl Mydans, free from digitaljournalist.org.

MISCELLANEOUS
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!

Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.

Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations

The vast majority of nearly 1,000 parents who responded to an electronic survey say the New Haven Unified School District meets their children’s academic and social needs, provides a safe learning environment, practices equity and communicates effectively. And the District’s marks in virtually every area have improved – sometimes dramatically so – in comparison to a similar survey taken in 2010.

A total of 952 parents responded to District-wide and school-specific automated phone invitations to participate in the survey, which was open from April 10 through May 4. The response rate – roughly13 percent of the District’s approximately 7,500 households – is about average for such surveys.

From Wikipedia:
Archibald Cox, Jr., (May 17, 1912 – May 29, 2004) was an American lawyer and law professor who served as U.S. Solicitor General under President John F. Kennedy. He became known as the first special prosecutor for the Watergate scandal. During his career, he was a pioneering expert on labor law and also an authority on constitutional law. The Journal of Legal Studies has identified Cox as one of the most cited legal scholars of the 20th century.

Cox was the son of Archibald and Frances Perkins Cox. His mother was the sister of Maxwell Perkins, an editor at the publishing house of Charles Scribner's Sons. A native of Plainfield, New Jersey, Cox attended the Wardlaw School, and St. Paul's School. He graduated from Harvard College in 1934 and from Harvard Law School in 1937 where he was a member of Phi delta phi legal fraternity. He was a clerk for U.S. Judge Learned Hand of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. After his clerkship, he joined the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge and Rugg, now known as Ropes & Gray. During World War II, he was appointed to the National Defense Board, and then to the Office of the Solicitor General.

Learn more about Archibald Cox, free from Columbia University.

MISCELLANEOUS
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!

Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.

Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.

By Carolyn Kellogg
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

FADE IN: A car idles in the foggy pre-dawn, pointed at the end of a cul-de-sac. Inside, an attractive 30-ish couple, DAMON and AMY, are worn from travel. She is dark-haired, pale-skinned and tense, and she leans against the passenger window. Behind the wheel, he carefully watches her mood as they evaluate the appearance of an owl in front of them. Good omen or bad? They can't decide, and continue on, lost.

This is the opening scene of "Rain Dragon," the second novel by Jon Raymond, who earned devoted fans with 2004's "The Half-Life." Since then, he's gone into screenwriting, earning an Emmy nomination for his work on the 2011 HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations

The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a plan to designate the District’s Independent Study Program as its own school, to be located on the campus of the New Haven Adult School.

The Independent Study Program, currently headquartered at the Cabello Student Support Center, includes independent study for James Logan High students as well as independent study for kindergarten through eighth grade students and home schooling for kindergarten through 12th grade students. It is estimated that the new school will serve about 300 students, the vast majority in grades 9 to 12.

From Wikipedia:
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.

Terkel was born to Samuel Terkel, a Russian Jewish tailor and his wife, Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York. At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his life. He had two brothers, Ben (1907–1965) and Meyer (1905–1958).

Visit StudsTerkel.org.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

From its core out to the fringes, "Prototype 2" has a lot — arguably too much — in common with "Prototype."

But the one significant change — outside of a new main character, and more on that in a bit — is a good one. This time, all that's good and fun about "Prototype 2" isn't completely torn down by the horrifying A.I. and difficulty balancing meltdowns that made its predecessor one of 2009's most obnoxious games.

Conceptually, it's business as usual. As James Heller, you're still taking on both military and mutant forces. And despite filling a new set of shoes, you're still a superpowered one-man army who can jump 50 feet per bound, sprint up the side of a New York City skyscraper, throw a car like a baseball and fully consume other people to shapeshift into them and acquire their memories and abilities.

MISCELLANEOUS
It’s almost summer, the sun is out, and the weather is warm. But remember, this is school, not the pool! Please dress appropriately for school; tops must have straps and cover cleavage, the stomach and midriff, and bottoms not too short. This goes for both boys and girls. Please review our Student Handbook for specifics. Thank you!

Yearbooks are now on sale! From May 9 until May 25, prices are $65 with ASB and $75 without. After May 25th, prices are $80 with ASB and $90 without. Get yours before prices increase.

Former Cesar Chavez Middle School students: Is your blue promotion gown just taking up space in your closet? Make them useful again by donating it to a current 8th grader. Bring your promotion gown to House 1 in Colt Court.