The James Logan Courier

By Matt DiPietro, Courier Staff Writer

Matt DiPietro, #5 for the James Logan Varsity football team,is one of the team captains, and the team's quarterback. He's writing a weekly diary of his experiences, exclusively for The Courier

Going into the game I could tell that all the players were really relaxed and not worrying about what they had to do. We were all just relaxing and trying to stay focused. As we came out of the locker room I knew we were going to have a great game. As the game was going on and we were handling Mission, I noticed how poised everyone was. there was not much confusion on players not knowing what they had to do.


Matt DiPietro

ACTIVITIES:
Homecoming Dance is this Saturday!
Tickets on sale in Colt Court at lunch.

Dance guest passes are due to your House Principal by today.

Open field for boys soccer will resume next week - Tuesdays and Thursdays after school. See Coach Sills in Room 73 for more info.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Staff Writer

The homecoming game is coming up this Friday, which means that the classes will be showing off the floats they have been working on for the past two or three weeks.


Senior Stephanie Africa working on the "007" senior float.

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (fiction, 403 pages)
Reviewed By Jessica Stewart, Courier Staff Writer

“At soccer practice, I worried that I would miss the ball, when we boarded the bus for games at other schools, I worried that I would take a seat by someone who didn’t want to sit next to me, in class I worried I would say a wrong or foolish thing.”

A freshman at Ault School, a prep school in Massachusetts, Lee Fiora expresses the same fears that teenage girls in public high school face every day. She is afraid of confrontation so she doesn’t talk, but she feels left out because nobody talks to her. She makes herself blend in but wishes to be noticed. A walking contradiction, she represents the majority of the teenage female population of the world. The only difference is that she is lucky enough to get into a private school miles away from home, although it turns out that this isn’t as great as she believed it would be. Prep is definitely an interesting read.


Sittenfeld uses the name "Martha" 434 times in his novel, Prep

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best sellers for the week ending Saturday, Sept. 30 compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.
(Reprinted from Publishers Weekly, published by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Elsevier, USA. (c) 2006 by Reed Elsevier, USA)

HARDCOVER FICTION
1. For One More Day. Mitch Albom. Hyperion, $21.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. The Road. Cormac McCarthy. Knopf, $24
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
3. The Thirteenth Tale. Diane Setterfield. Atria, $26
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3
4. Under Orders. Dick Francis. Putnam, $25.95
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
5. The Book of Fate. Brad Meltzer. Warner, $25.99
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4

By Naheed Dastagir and Priya Jagannathan, Courier Staff Writers

This month, many of Logan's Muslim students are fasting in observance of Ramadan, a holy month in the Islamic lunar calendar.

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962) was an American political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States, 1933-1945 to promote her husband's (Franklin D. Roosevelt's) New Deal, as well as Civil Rights. After his death she built a career as an author-speaker, a New Deal Coalition advocate and spokesperson for human rights. She was a First-wave feminist (though she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment) and was an activist role model as First Lady. Eleanor was a leader in forming the United Nations, the United Nations Association and Freedom House. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Harry S. Truman called her the First Lady of the World in honor of her extensive human rights promotions.

See Eleanor Roosevelt speaking before 8,000 members of the Illinois Federation of Professional and Women's Clubs, urging women to aid the destitute unemployed during the Depression in 1933, streaming in 256k MPEG4, free from the Internet Archive. For more information and format choices, click here.


A White House portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt.