The James Logan Courier

By Emily Low, Courier Staff Writer

Think about what a stereotypical image of a nerd looks like. Unkempt hair, with a pencil or two sticking out behind one ear. Crooked glasses, grimy with fingerprints from countless attempts to push them back on the bridge of the nose which seems to be permanently stuck in a book. Slumped shoulders, rounded out by years of dutiful humping of backpacks, heavy with graphing calculators and textbooks. Fingers stained with ink and crisscrossed with paper cuts from flurried research…the list goes on.

Do nerds like that really exist? Consider this: In a school of more than 4,000 diverse students, if such a nerd existed, we would have seen one around the school. However, in the three years that I’ve been here at Logan, I’ve never even glimpsed such a being. I can also claim that I have never heard of this nerd, either. It can logically be concluded that this stereotypical nerd does not exist.

By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor

The Boys Track Field team were knocked off 181‑151 by Newark Memorial in the MVAL Championships at Tak Fudenna Stadium on Friday.

Meanwhile, the Girls Team pounded their opposition, finishing with 252 total points and topped their nearest opponents by a wide margin (American 72.5, Newark Memorial 72).

The Boys team failed to finish among the top 5 for both the 100s and the 200s, but had a pair of top finishers in the 400s(Justin Brooks and Nick Shutes) and the 800s(Andy An and Shaun Shutes). Logan also finished with a top finisher in the long distance races the 1600m(Shaun Shutes) and the 3200m(Ravi Patel).

MENU:
Chicken Caesar Wrap, Milk & Fresh Fruit - All-Veggie Pizza

ACTIVITY:
This Friday night - double feature! Come see the 19th annual One-Acts at 6 pm and stick around to see the Logan Alumni Improv show afterwards at 7:30. Tickets for both events are $3 in advance, $5 at the door.

The James Logan Track & Field team crowned 50 MVAL champions. Great job all student/athletes!

Are you planning to run for class elections? Packets are due TODAY! After school in Room 305.

By Sarena Bains, Courier Staff Writer

The Chronicle of a Death Foretold , by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a journalistic novel that speaks of the death of Santiago Nasar. He has been accused of taking the virginity of Angela Vicario, who is returned back home five hours after her marriage with Bayardo San Ramon because she can not prove her virginity. When her twin brothers realize who it was that supposedly took their sister's virginity, they decide to kill him to regain their sister's and their own family's honor.

The day of Santiago’s murder is the day of which the Bishop is supposed to come to town to bless the newlywed couple. The Vicario brothers go all around town planning out the death of Santiago Nasar. Many of the town’s people hear this but ignore it not believing it. The killing is done and all that is left is Santiago’s body slaughtered like a pig.

Courier Staff Report

James Logan’s teachers started their Day of the Teacher this morning with a hot breakfast dished up by Leadership students.

According to the California Teachers Association, the Day of the Teacher “arose out of legislation co-sponsored by CTA and the Association of Mexican American Educators. Sen. Joseph Montoya (D-El Monte) wrote the bill and it was adopted in 1982 as Senate Bill 1546. California has patterned its celebration after the traditional “El Dia del Maestro” festivities observed in Mexico and other Latin American countries.”

By Jamie Maxfield, Courier Staff Writer

“When all is said and done, killing my mother came easily. Dementia, as it descends, has a way of revealing the core of the person affected by it. My mother’s core was rotten like the brackish water at the bottom of a weeks-old vase of flowers.”

These are the opening sentences of The Almost Moon, an intense novel by Alice Seabold. After reading that, there was no way I could walk away from this book, and it was well worth my time.

By Abhishek Saluja, Courier Book Editor

The Crucible by Arthur Miller is set in a theocracy during the 1690’s in Salem, Massachusetts.

Arthur Miller’s play highlights one of society’s rather ridiculous accusations on the innocent, that of accusing someone of being a witch.

A preacher by trade Reverend Parris finds his daughter along with her friend and his slave Tituba dancing in a forest. Then it follows that his daughter falls extremely ill and her father suspects that witchcraft is somehow responsible for the ordeal.