The James Logan Courier

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Creative Writing Club is accepting donations of used books until April 27th. Drop off books in Room 311 or 213.

Attention Spanish Speakers: Tutoring is available in multiple subjects, in Spanish, Tuesdays and Thursdays after school in Room 417.

Sign up in the Career Center for Chabot’s Assessment Testing. ONLY students who have already done their online application and are part of Early Decision will be able to test at Logan.

By Rick La Plante, Director and Parent & Community Relations

The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved the second interim report on the 2011-12 budget, along with projections for the next two fiscal years that include nearly $11 million in cuts in 2012-13.

The District is girding for a worst-case scenario prompted by the latest round of cuts to public education caused by the state budget crisis. The projections approved Tuesday night include a total of nine non-student, budget-cut days in 2012-13, increases class-size ratios to 30:1 in kindergarten, first and second grades and eliminates elementary specialists and middle school electives.

By Christine Cortes, Courier Staff Writer

If you are not familiar with the term "K-pop", it stands for Korean pop music. How is this relevant to the lives of Americans? While there is an obvious language barrier, for most of the songs are in full Korean, the cookie-cutter music is creating a craze all over the world.

The songs themselves are not that great, simple melodies that are addicting and lyrics that seem to be copied from a thirteen year old girl's diary. The random English inserted into the choruses of the songs tend to make no sense, and there is no depth in the meanings. It is as if one just took the most effortless, but appealing recipes for music and gave it to the South Koreans. There are few Korean celebrities with amazing voices, with just an average singing voice. So what is making it so big?

From wikipedia:
Greta Kempton (March 22, 1901 - December 10, 1991) born Martha Greta Kempton in Vienna, Austria. American artist. She served as the White House artist during the Truman administration.

She studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts before emigrating to the United States circa 1926 and in the 1930s was a student at the National Academy of Design and Art Students League both in New York City.

Visit GretaKempton.org.