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Thursday, October 14, 2010



MISCELLANEOUS

Students…..Listen Carefully…...Regarding any attendance related items you may need to take care of, please report to your House Office. The windows in the Admin Office are no longer for this purpose!

Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.

Reminder to students about I.D. cards: You must have an I.D. to enter the Logan campus. If you do not have an I.D. you are subject to the following consequences:

1st Offense: Temporary I.D./I.D. Replaced.
2nd Offense: Temporary I.D./I.D. Replaced, $5 charge.
3rd Offense: Temporary I.D./I.D. Replaced, $10 charge, parent contacted.
4th Offense: Temporary I.D./I.D. Replaced, $15 charge, referral to administrator.



By Andrea Higares, Courier Film Editor

Tired of listening to the same thing? Want something new? Then try the new exciting band Runner Runner.

The band is comprised of five talented men: lead vocalist Ryan Ogren, guitarists Nick Bailey and Peter Munters, bassist Jon Berry and drummer James Ulrich. Their love and passion for music came together, showing the world the next boy band that will drive listeners crazy.

Initially the individual members were not in the same band. However, they did share the road and played with each other often. On the road there was a connection that lead them to make this band.




By Linh-Chi Nguyen, Courier Music Editor

In a scene that is very concerned with overdone haircuts and embellished appearance, the band Bring Me the Horizon has risen atop with more dominance than the usual metalcore cliché. Those who have predominantly buried themselves in the genre of metalcore have likely familiarized themselves with this band. The British quintet, formed in 2004, has three solid albums to date: Count Your Blessings, Suicide Season and the new release titled There Is a Hell, Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven, Let's Keep It a Secret.

With their debut album Count Your Blessings, Bring Me the Horizon established their status as a brutally dynamic band with insane instrumentals followed by vocalist Oliver Sykes's high-pitched (and occasionally low-pitched) screams. Two years later, Bring Me The Horizon unveiled their next release, Suicide Season, which denoted a more stylistic approach in respect to Sykes's seemingly differential vocal range and heavy instrumentals.

By Jose Baltazar, Courier Staff Writer

Many Logan teachers claim that the school's new e-mail system, SOGo, doesn’t work for them because of its glitches. It sometimes freezes while someone is typing and sometimes fails to send or receive e-mails.

Teachers are angry not only because the system does not work but also because they have to check in their boxes for materials they need to run their classes.


From wikipedia:
William Boyd Allison Davis (October 14, 1902 – November 21, 1983) was an educator, anthropologist, writer, researcher, and scholar. He was considered one of the most promising black scholars of his generation, and became the first African-American to hold a full faculty position at a major white university when he joined the staff of the University of Chicago in 1942, where he would spend the balance of his academic life. Among his students during his tenure at the University of Chicago were anthropologist St. Clair Drake and sociologist Nathan Hare. Davis, who has been honored with a commemorative postage stamp by the United States Postal Service, is best remembered for his pioneering anthropology research on southern race and class during the 1930s, his research on intelligence quotient in the 1940’s and 50’s, and his support of “compensatory education” that contributed to the intellectual genesis of the federal program Head Start.


Read more about W. Allison Davis, free from the University of Chicago.