The James Logan Courier

LUNCH:
Boneless Chicken Drumettes
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Link Crew applications are now available in the Activities Office! Next year’s Juniors and Seniors - this is a great way to earn 30 hours of community service this summer! Completed forms due June 1.

Dance 2007 - Little Theater tonight and tomorrow, May 24 & 25th at 7:30 pm.
Tickets are $6, see Ms. Cervantez.

By Christina La, Courier Staff Writer

The Leadership elections committee managed to count all ballots cast in Monday's class elections and during 7th period announced the winners of the student government positions up for grabs.

The 2007-2008 class officers are:

Class of 2010
President: Stephanie Estabillo
Vice President: Amber Abutin
Secretary: Patricia Rodriguez
Treasurer: Trisha Rivera
Class Representative: Joelle Rivera

Reviewed by Jessica Stewart, Courier Book Editor

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Del Rey; Reissue edition (September 27, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345391802
ISBN-13: 978-0345391803

“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was the had been going wrong all this time, and she finally know how the world could be made a good a happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred and the idea was lost for ever.
This is not her story.”

It is, in fact, the story of Arthur Dent and his adventures in space with Ford Prefect and various other friends after they escape Earth right before a galactic construction crew blows it up. The plot is outlandish and amusing. I often found myself giggling out loud, leading to several awkward moments as I attempted to explain what there was to laugh about without having to explain the whole plot. It was certainly worth it, though.

Reviewed by Jacqueline Truong, Courier Staff Writer

The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas
Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Reissue edition (February 23, 1978)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140047433
ISBN-13: 978-0140047431

The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas consists of twenty-nine essays that were originally published in the New England Journal of Medicine. These essays collections are a fusion of biology, language, and sociology. Thomas often connects the ‘cells’ that he speaks of to its biosphere as a whole. Moreover, Thomas’s series of essays emphasizes a central theme in regards to how the cells act like bodies, which act like species, which, in turn, act like ecosystems. He focuses his essays on the correspondence between cells and organisms, how humanity functions as one macro-organism, and the recapitulation of small cells within larger cells.

Reviewed by Jasmeen Banwait, Courier Staff Writer

Smack, By Melvin Burgess
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen; Reprint edition (May 13, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060521872
ISBN-13: 978-0060521875

“I’m really looking forward to being clean again. It’s this weird thing with smack. First off it makes you feel so good. But after a bit, after your body gets used to it, it stops working like that. You start needing it just to stay normal…Then you get sick of it and give it up for a few days. And that’s the really nasty thing because then, when you’re clean, that’s when it works so well.” (Excerpt from Smack, by Melvin Burgess).

Drugs, Addiction, Robbery, and Prostitution. This novel describes the life of a rebellious teenage couple living in the United Kingdom, by the names of David, better known as Tar, and Gemma.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, May 12, 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) 2007 by Reed Elsevier, USA)


HARDCOVER FICTION
1. The 6th Target. James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown, $27.99
Last Week: -; Weeks on List: 1
2. Simple Genius. David Baldacci. Warner, $26.99
Last Week: 1; Weeks on List: 3
3. The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Michael Chabon. HarperCollins, $26.95
Last Week: 2; Weeks on List: 2
4. I Heard That Song Before. Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Schuster, $25.95
Last Week: 8; Weeks on List: 6
5. The Woods. Harlan Coben. Dutton, $26.95
Last Week: 5; Weeks on List: 4
6. The Children of Hurin. J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien. Houghton Mifflin, $26
Last Week: 3; Weeks on List: 4
7. Rant. Chuck Palahniuk. Doubleday, $24.95
Last Week: 4; Weeks on List: 2
8. Nineteen Minutes. Jodi Picoult. Atria, $26.95
Last Week: 10; Weeks on List: 10
9. Body Surfing. Anita Shreve. Little, Brown, $25.99
Last Week: 7; Weeks on List: 3
10. The Good Husband of Zebra Drive. Alexander McCall Smith. Pantheon, $21.95
Last Week: 9; Weeks on List: 4

By Sarah Turner
MarketWatch (MCT)

LONDON — In the halls of a London private elementary school, in some ways not so different from the Hogwarts of J.K. Rowling's wizard world, talk turns often to the final installment of the Harry Potter saga.

Just how will students get their hands on the seventh and last Potter book, which hits the store shelves on July 21? Who will die? (Rowling herself has promised to kill off two characters.) Will stricken headmaster Dumbledore return from the dead? And what's in store for the dark lord, Voldemort, in what promises to be a page-turner extraordinaire for the under-16 crowd.

From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 - June 19, 1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights activist.

The most important gender theorist of her time, Fuller was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (The Margaret Fuller House, in which she was born, is still standing today and is now occupied by an active community outreach program.) Her father, Timothy Fuller, a lawyer and prominent politician, gave her a vigorous classical education which shaped the bent of her mind but--according to Fuller's own testimony--also sensitized her to the personal expense of her society's masculinized values.

In 1836 she taught at the Temple School in Boston and from 1837 to 1839 taught in Providence, Rhode Island.