The James Logan Courier

ACTIVITIES
Anyone interested in playing boys soccer should see Coach Sills in Room 73 and attend open field after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Join Cross Country and get in the best shape of your life! Come to the track after school.

Punjabi Club meets today after school in Room 442. We will be electing our officials for this year. Thank you!

By Maureen Ryan
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

The most compelling moment of the debut of "The Jay Leno Show" (10 p.m. EDT Monday-Friday, NBC) would be several seconds of silence, during which you could have heard a pin drop in Leno's NBC studio.
It came after Leno gently asked Kanye West if his mother would have been disappointed in West's behavior toward Taylor Swift at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards. After a long pause, a clearly regretful West answered that he'd have to take some time off and ponder how best to live a better life.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Good licensed videogames find a way to mold their subject matter so it conforms to whatever established gameplay genre it's trying to imitate. The bold ones, meanwhile, do the opposite, bending and melting popular gameplay conventions until they do justice to the license rather than the other way around.

"Batman: Arkham Asylum," to both its benefit and detriment, is one of the boldest licensed games around.

Presentationally speaking, it's the best game of the year thus far. "Asylum" toes a line between the animated series and the recent, darker films, but it never displays anything less than a spotless understanding of the Batman universe. A good storyline works in tandem with some incredible voice acting (much of it employing the same actors from the animated series), and the game is stuffed with audio and visual storytelling nuggets that overlay the action (a la "Bioshock") rather than interfere with it. Everything from the character designs to the speedy and stylish map/inventory/menu interface benefits from a superlative level of care.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Scores measuring student performance improved by more than 30 points at both Kitayama and Emanuele elementary schools, and gains by Hispanic students in the New Haven Unified School District more than doubled those of the District as a whole, according to Academic Performance Index (API) results released today by the California Department of Education.

More information is available on the California Department of Education website.

By Alyssa Pimentel, Courier Staff Writer

Since the school year started, traffic going to and leaving school has been one of the most discussed topics among the student body. It seemed that this year’s traffic iss worse than all my three years attending Logan.

On the first day of school, my mother insisted that we leave our house at 7:45 a.m. because of traffic. I tried to reason with her saying that it wouldn’t take thirty minutes to get to Logan, since last year we made it to school in fifteen minutes. Once we passed the Shell gas station by Burger King, however, it was clear that leaving at 7:45 that morning was a good choice. None of the cars ahead showed signs of advancing and when I looked back, other cars had already begun to form a line behind us. I remember worrying about making it to school on time because the cars were at a stalemate. That morning, it would have been considered lucky to have moved a block in five minutes.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The New Haven Unified School District has come to the assistance of a new Fremont private school that found itself desperate for classroom space at the start of the 2009-2010 school year.

Mission Hills Middle School opened last week in four classrooms on the campus of the former Barnard-White Middle School on Whipple Road. The school, which serves approximately 25 students, was left without a location in late August, after officials determined that the facility it had planned to lease was too close to a chemical plant.

From wikipedia:
John Beverley Nichols (September 9, 1898 – September 15, 1983), was an English writer, playwright, actor, novelist and composer.
He went to school at Marlborough College, and went to Balliol College, Oxford University, and was President of the Oxford Union and editor of Isis.

Read A Book of Old Ballads compiled by Beverly Nichols, free from Project Gutenberg.