The James Logan Courier

LUNCH:
Spicy Chicken Patty,
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Jamba Juice tomorrow at lunch in Colt Court. Bring $3.50 to help support Logan Girl’s Volleyball team!

Colt Necessities is back open today. Hoodies on sale for $16. Come and get your hoody.

Note: This is the second installment in The Courier's serialized history of the struggle for independence in the Philippines, written by Filipino Poet, Author and Activist Oscar Peñaranda, who also teaches Filipino studies at James Logan High School. Look for the next installment next Monday.

By Oscar Peñaranda,
Courier Special Correspondent

While the Filipino revolutionary leaders were planning to continue their struggle against the Spanish, they were "electrified" in March of 1898 by the news that a flotilla of the American navy had arrived in Hongkong on its way to Manila. "Their surprise knew no bounds when a Captain Wood, commander of the U.S.American ship the Petrel, acting on behalf of Commander Dewey, sought out Aguinaldo for a conference". (Malolos: Crisis of the Republic, T. Agoncillo, U.P. Press)

By Mark Johnson
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

"Hamlet" stirs in Room 100.

"Act 3, Scene 1. Lines 55 and following. Let's look closely at it. Miss Graf, will you please give us a reading," says Marquette University associate professor John Curran.

The only sound: a hurried riffling of pages.

"Center of the whole thing," Curran adds.

Allison Graf, a 20-year-old psychology major, takes a deep breath, then begins.

"To be or not to be: That is the question . . . "

Arguably the most famous lines ever written.