The James Logan Courier

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Get paid for a WORLD CLASS education! If your GPA is above a 3.5, or better yet closer to a 4.0, you may want to consider one of the military academies…..U.S. Air Force, U.S. Naval, U.S. Coast Guard or West Point. To find out more about if you have what it takes to be accepted into an academy, sign up in the career center. The Naval, Air Force and Coast Guard academies will all be coming to Logan during the month of November. These presentations are open to serious students of all grade levels.

Calling all sign language lovers. Want a warm sign language hoodie sweatshirt? Then stop by Room 418 by Friday, November 18 to place your order.

By Candace Laxamana, Courier News Editor

The James Logan Girl's Varsity Water Polo Team is the first team in Logan's history to win a league title in this sport. Under the supervision of Martin Munoz, their coach, the team worked very hard and played diligently to achieve their goal.

This season marked the first time a team from our school made it to an NCS water polo game. They also advanced to the semifinals in NCS.

By Jack Bragg, Courier Entertainment Editor

This Veteran’s Day marked the release of one of the most highly anticipated video games in the history of the industry. The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, from long time Elder Scrolls and Fallout developer Bethesda, takes on the staggering amounts of monumental hype leading up to the game’s release and delivers fully to its expecting fans.

The game is the fifth installment of the highly acclaimed Elder Scrolls series. The game takes place in a land called Skyrim, full of a vast array of characters, from the Viking-like Nords, to the ruthless Orcs, to feeble Wood-Elves, cat-like Kahjiit, as well as giants, mammoths, bears, and an entire world full of widely varying creature and beasts.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Snowblind Studios gets kudos for telling a new "Lord of the Rings" story — set chronologically parallel to J.R.R. Tolkien's story and featuring his iconic characters, but starring a new set of characters created expressly for the game — instead of retreating to yet more recreations of the same old battles.

The flip side, of course, is that Tolkien's most ardent fans will be first in line to pick apart "War in the North's" fiction. Andriel the Elven Loremaster wields magic that's pretty out of step with Gandalf's arsenal. A giant talking eagle, while a very well-developed character who is great fun to summon in battle, will nonetheless remind some of Sean Connery voicing a dragon in "Dragonheart" more than anything from the "LOTR" universe. Finally, while the fellowship occasionally checks in with your party, the result of those check-ins often leaves you feeling like a second-string hero. "North" tells a comprehensive side story with branching quests and numerous mandatory and elective dialogue paths, but it's one that will strike some as a dungeon crawler with Tolkien trimmings instead of the other way around.

From wikipedia:
Franklin Pierce Adams (November 15, 1881, Chicago, Illinois – March 23, 1960, New York City, New York) was an American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.

Read examples of Franklin Pierce Adams' poetry, free from the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online.