The James Logan Courier

By Vicente Marcelo, Courier Sports Writer

In order to make the "Wall of Fame" in the James Logan High wrestling room, you have to do one of two things: win a North Coast Section title or place in the top eight at state finals.

It is very difficult to earn a spot on the wall of fame. It is also an award that is not given out every year.

For James Logan Colt Wrestler Lawrence Blanco, a spot will be reserved for him after he won the section title two weeks ago. However, Lawrence wants more than a section title and a spot on the Wall of Fame.

By Christina Karma, Courier Editor-in-Chief

After a James Logan science teacher Lisa Childers won a $60,000 California Bay Watershed Education and Training (BWET) grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, every James Logan freshman will have the opportunity to take two field trips to local watersheds next year.

“Last summer I went to a teacher workshop in Monterey and I met someone from the NOAA. He was from a Federal Government organization for the ocean,” Childers said.

By Victor Godinez
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)

I used to think PC gaming was dead.

But, since I just bought a new computer, I've decided to change my mind.

Long live PC gaming!

Now let's see if I can scrounge up some facts to back up my newfound faith in the old workhorse.

Hmm.

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ACTIVITIES:
Come support your boys volleyball team as they take on their league rivals, Washington tomorrow. Jv starts at 5 pm, Varsity immediately follows.

Guess what? The Improv Show is this Friday! Tickets are $3 presale, $5 at the door. Show starts at 7, doors open at 6:30.

By Sarena Bains, Courier Copy Editor

Students have found a way to have their Cell phones ring in class and get away with it sometimes by using a special ringtone inaudible by aging teachers.

The trick is using a downloaded ringtone employing a high pitched buzzing easily mistaken for a mosquito noise, but closer to the ringing in peoples' ears. According to Fortune Magazine this ringtone emits ultrasonic tones that are inaudible to most people after the age of 40, but annoyingly audible to younger people. As they age, people tend to lose their ability to hear higher frequencies.

Apparently, it works.

From wikipedia:
Benjamin West (October 10, 1738 – March 11, 1820) was an Anglo-American painter of historical scenes around and after the time of the American War of Independence.

He was born in Springfield, Pennsylvania, in a house that is now on the campus of Swarthmore College, as the tenth child of an innkeeper. The family later moved to Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, where his father was the proprietor of the Square Tavern, still standing in that town. West told John Galt, with whom, late in his life, he collaborated on a memoir, The Life and Studies of Benjamin West (1816, 1820) that, when he was a child, Native Americans showed him how to make paint by mixing some clay from the river bank with bear grease in a pot. Benjamin West was an autodidact; while excelling at the arts, "he had little [formal] education and, even when president of the Royal Academy, could scarcely spell"(Hughes, 70).

See some of Benjamin West's paintings, free from CGFA.