The James Logan Courier

LUNCH:
Southwestern Baked Chicken with Potato Wedges,
Milk, Baby Carrots, Fresh Fruit, Cookie, and Fun Chips

ACTIVITIES:
Interested in Cross Country? Come to the Track Tuesday, June 12, and get all the necessary information.

CLUBS:
GSA has its final meeting this year at 3 pm today in Room 52.

By Jasmeen Banwait, Courier Staff Writer

Two students from Evergreen High School in San Jose by the names of Amrit Kahlon and Jasdeep Duhra were killed in a fatal car crash on Yerba Buena Road last Saturday evening.

According to San Jose Mercury News, “San Jose Police Sgt. Nick Muyo said two people were killed in a car accident when the driver, traveling northbound at a high rate of speed, lost control of the vehicle, jumped the median and slid into oncoming traffic around 5:30 p.m. The car hit another vehicle head-on, skidded off the road and became wedged between two trees before bursting into flames, Muyo said.”

By Deuce P. Clayton, Courier Staff Writer

In the past three years, the popularity of nu metal has dwindled. Heavyweights in the genre like Limp Bizkit, Papa Roach, and P.O.D. have been unable to replicate the commercial and critical success they experienced in the late 90's and early 2000's. So I was a bit excited about Linkin Park's third full-length release, "Minutes to Midnight", hoping it might lead to a resurgence in the genre as a whole.

Unfortunately, it seems like the band has given up on the genre as well. Minutes to Midnight is an almost complete departure from the nu metal sound Linkin Park perfected on their first two albums. Instead, the band draws heavily on the sound of other established bands, resulting in a very uninspired album.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Entertainment Editor

One of R&B’s young sensations, Rihanna, has arrived again with her third album, “Good Girl Gone Bad.” After her two previous albums, “Music of the Sun” and “A Girl Like Me,” she has finally secured her spot in the music world this time around. The album dropped on Tuesday, June 5, 2007. In “Good Girl Gone Bad,” Rihanna worked with artists like Ne-Yo, Jay-Z, Timbaland, and Justin Timberlake. There are potential hits all over the album, except for a few. Stripping away the Caribbean sounds, Rihanna is no longer that one-hit-wonder (or perhaps, few-hits-wonder). She is here to stay.

Courier Staff Report

Minutes after he announced a $100 reward for information leading to the apprehension of whoever set a fire in the girls bathroom Wednesday afternoon, Principal Don Montoya had his culprit.

Montoya said Thursday that he received information from several sources as to the identity of the female firebug within seven minutes.

Last month, after a series of similar trashcan fires around the campus, it took 11 minutes after he offered a $100 reward for the guilty party to be identified.

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Tracey Liebig of Alvarado Middle School was named the District’s Teacher of the Year and Rosa Thompson of Barnard-White Middle School was named Classified Employee of the Year at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Board of Education.

By Michelle Raskin, Courier Staff Writer

Weeks before the class of 2007 held their Senior Ball last month, Principal Don Montoya made an announcement saying that guests couldn't be over an age limit of 20 and that chaperones at the Ball would be checking via photo ID.

Some students and parents disagreed with the rule, which in previous years was not enforce, but most ballgoers arrived at the San Francisco Hilton prepared to have their IDs checked, but the rule was enforced only spottily. Of the five adults who were checking in the students, two adults, Activities Director Linda Kingston and Leadership Advisor Cheryl Kuhlmann,checked IDs. The other three inconsistently checked, setting up a situation in which some students complained that their date's were not asked for ID, and some were angry because they could have attended the dance with their first-choice date who were over the age limit, rather than the back-up dates they did attend with.

Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (7 June 1831–15 April 1892) was an English novelist, journalist, lady traveller and Egyptologist.

Born in London to an Irish mother and a father who had been a British Army officer before becoming a banker, Amelia was educated at home by her mother, showing considerable promise as a writer at a young age. She published her first poem at the age of 7, her first story at age 12. Amelia thereafter proceeded to publish a variety of poetry, stories and articles in a large number of magazines that included Chamber's Journal, Household Words and All the Year Round. She also wrote for the newspapers, the Saturday Review and the Morning Post.

Read A Thousand Miles Up the Nile by Amelia B. Edwards, free from A Celebration of Women Writers at the University of Pennsylvania.