The James Logan Courier

By Abraham Rangel, Courier Staff Writer

Shirock, an up-and-coming band out of Nashville, is blazing the scene with a very well-rounded album, Everything Burns.

Their single and lead track of the album, “New Solution”, is a strong message of finding out one's true self. Great guitar riffs just make the song have an empowering flow.

By Alonyia Godfrey, Courier Features Editor

The tempers of parents and students flared as many were not admitted into the Sadie Hawkins Dance last Friday night. Although it was established that the dance would start at 7 p.m. sharp, many were not aware of the fact that the doors would close an hour later. As a result, many expectant ticket holders found themselves staring not at a welcoming dance floor, but being told that they could not enter into a dance for which they had paid because of the fact that they had arrived at 8 p.m. instead of 7 p.m..

In my case, had I arrived a mere twenty minutes later, I would have been among the unfortunate few to be denied access to this dance, left outside in the cold in my “Friday best”, too angry to utter intelligible sentences. I don’t understand why the doors closed at such an early time, without any forewarning.

Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Early life and writings
Octavio Paz was born in Mexico City, Mexico during tumultuous times, as his country was undergoing a revolution. Born to Josefina Lozano, a religious woman, and Octavio Paz senior, who was a journalist and lawyer for Emiliano Zapata involved in agrarian reform following the revolution, activities which caused him to be largely absent from home. Paz was raised in the village of Mixcoac (now a part of Mexico City) by his mother, his aunt and by his paternal grandfather, a liberal intellectual, novelist and former soldier supporter of President Porfirio Díaz.

Read Octavio Paz' 1990 Nobel Lecture, given when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature, free from nobelprize.org.