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Attention all football players: the 2008 season parent meeting is on Monday night, Feb. 25, @6:30 pm in the Student Union.

Good luck to the ten wrestlers competing at this weekend’s North Coast Section wrestling tournament. Wrestling starts at 9:30am this Friday and Saturday.

Ballet Folklorico is having its 18th annual Sabor Latino Dance is this Saturday, 2/23, in the Pavilion. Tickets are $6 in advance at lunch in Colt Court, and $9 at the door. For more info see Mr. Huertas in the counseling office.

Juniors & Seniors! Show your class spirit and participate in Powderpuff on April 4. Applications are now available in Room 305 or the Activities Office during lunch.

Note: Each week, The Courier spotlights books newly arrived, or expected to arrive, in the James Logan Media Center.

When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak by Neil Hayes.
Paperback: 402 pages
Publisher: Frog Books (August 23, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1583941304
ISBN-13: 978-1583941300

From North Atlantic Books:
By 2002, The Streak—a historic 13-year run of consecutive wins by the Spartans, a high-school football team from Concord, California, that couldn't be beat—was still going strong. In this revised edition of When the Game Stands Tall, author Neil Hayes, who had unrestricted access to the De La Salle team, writes from the inside about the games, the players, and their visionary coach, Bob Ladouceur, who managed to amass the highest winning percentage in football history (.995) through standing for something greater than winning. The book, which also features interviews with major sports figures like Bill Walsh and John Gruden, is a revealing portrait of the coach who believed above all in instilling basic life skills where winning is not the goal, but merely the byproduct of playing the game.

By Julia Keller
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

I hail from a family of arguers. Recreational arguers, you might call them. Most would rather argue than eat. My kinfolk are the kind of people who, if you say, "White," will automatically say, "Black," even if they don't know to what you are referring.

Scratch that: Make it especially if they don't know to what you're referring.

The goal is to oppose, to counter, to rile up, to square off, to nitpick, to irk, to goad. They want to keep an argument going as long as possible, like kids on a beach vacation trying to keep a plastic ball aloft forever with a series of strategic taps. My childhood memories include the spectacle of various red-faced relatives as they wrangled over politics, sports, cars, music, war, free will versus predestination — and those were just for starters. I don't seem to have inherited that yen for contentiousness, but nor does it trouble me overmuch; the earliest lullaby cooed in the midst of my infant ears surely was a surly, "Oh, yeah? Well, lemme tell you what I think about that."

By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Editor

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Genre(s): Dystopian novel
Publisher: Chatto and Windus (London)
Publication date: 1932
Media type: Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages: 288 pp (Paperback edition)
ISBN: 0-06-080983-3 (Paperback edition)

A world in which one’s class determines one’s features, social stature, and line of work; this is the world that Aldous Huxley creates in his novel Brave New World.

Humans are created artificially in bottles and controlled from the moment of their creation. The society strips many and most freedoms through its very design. Things out of the set ordinary are discouraged and punished by banishment from the regular society.

By Sarena Bains, Courier Staff Writer

Someone Like You by Sarah Dassen
Reading level: Young Adult
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Puffin (June 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0141302690
ISBN-13: 978-0141302690


Scarlett and Halley are best friends who grew up together. These two girls love each other and will always care for each other.

In high school everyone knows Scarlett as the popular, loud, energetic girl and her best friend Halley as her tag along best friend. Scarletts boyfriend dies in a motorcycle accident leaving her alone carrying their baby. Scarlett seeks all the comfort from her best friend. Scarlett eventually decides to keep the baby and gets support from her best friend unlike her own parents who are pushing her to have an abortion. Scarlett introduces Halley to her late boyfriends friend Macon. Macon is a party boy, barely at school who jumps around from girl to girl. Macon eventually begins to fall for the innocent Halley and they go out.