The James Logan Courier

By Alyssa Pimentel, Courier School News Editor
Jenjon’s Café, conveniently located near the Logan campus, has become a hit among teens that wants a good meal for a cheaper price offered at the popular and overcrowded Tapioca Express.

Jenjon’s Cafe, though small for a restaurant, seem to provide more room than Tapioca because barely anyone goes there. The service by these workers is speedy and given with a friendly smile.

When entering the café, they greet you and give you a menu where you can order from a variety of foods such as sandwiches, burgers, salads, and other favorites like hot wings. With that order, you can buy smoothies, coffee, milk tea and other drinks.

By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Staff Writer
On our trip to Waikiki, my family and I were unaccompanied by extended family members who knew the area, so we were unaccustomed to the streets and places to go. We were walking along Kailana Road looking for a place to eat, and my dad began to make small talk with one of those seemingly-annoying people that pass out fliers. He gave my dad a flier that promised ten percent off breakfast, so we went to try the restaurant.

Due Divino is an Italian restaurant located on Ena Road, near the ABC convenience store. It’s a small little “hole-in-the-wall” restaurant next to a tattoo place. Not exactly what you’d envision for a “nice” breakfast, but my family and I were definitely willing to give it a try.

By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic

At James Logan High School, a school with a population of more than four thousand students, it seems like the one thing that they can agree on is the value and necessity of homework. Many students are able to agree that homework contains many fewer pros than cons, for a variety of reasons.

Twelfth grader Ian Phillips said “I believe homework is a waste of time because students aren’t forced to try as hard as they possibly can. Students see homework as a task rather than a learning opportunity and gain nothing from it.”

By Ranjana Prasad, Courier Staff Writer

Candace Nelson founded Sprinkles Cupcakes. Her great grandmother had a restaurant in San Francisco and was renowned for her wonderful desserts during the 1930s. So as a result of this Candace and her husband decided to continue this and they opened their own cupcake bakery in Beverly Hills. The legacy of her great grandmother still continues.

Sprinkles, billed as the world's first cupcake bakery, has now spread to many other states and they have established a place in the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto. Also, stores will be opening in many more places in the future.

From wikipedia:
Suleiman I (6 November 1494 – 5/6/7 September 1566) was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, from 1520 to his death in 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the East, as the Lawmaker, for his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system. Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th century Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political and economic power. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies to conquer the Christian strongholds of Belgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary before his conquests were checked at the Siege of Vienna in 1529. He annexed most of the Middle East in his conflict with the Persians and large swathes of North Africa as far west as Algeria. Under his rule, the Ottoman fleet dominated the seas from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.

Read The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent (1913) by Albert Howe Lybyer, free from archive.org.

By Julie Mendoza, Courier Staff Writer

No matter how many schools you’ve attended there are some things that never change. There are qualities instilled in all adolescent environments.

Being a student who’s transferred to 15 different schools throughout her life (James Logan being her fourth high school), I’ve discovered several indisputable truths. Entering a new high school is like entering the land of opportunity. At first, everyone is nice. And ultimately you can be whoever you want to be. Unfortunately, 99% of the time you don’t know who that is. It may be refreshing at first, but reinventing yourself is risky. In the high school society, students always pay closer attention to the unknown.

ACTIVITIES
Logan Football MVAL Championship at Washington High School tonight at 7:00 p.m.

Presale tickets for the Homecoming Dance are now being sold during lunch at Room 67 in the 300s courtyard. Tickets are $10 each, or $8 with ASB sticker. Buy your ticket now so you don’t have to wait in line. If you are on exclusion, you will not be able to purchase a ticket. Check your house office for the updated exclusion list.

One man murdered in the first degree, another’s life is in the hands of 12 temperamental jurors. This is all loaded into “12 Angry Jurors” presented by Logan Drama on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, November 12, 13 & 14 @ 7:00 p.m., and Sunday, November 15 @ 2:00 p.m., in the Little Theater. Tickets are $7, and $5 with ASB, and are available at the door.

By Micah Mahinay, Courier Staff Writer

The Evil 105 Subsonic Spookfest took place on October 30 at the Cow Palace. It was the debut of the first Subsonic Electronic music festival created by the one and only Bay Area alternative radio station, Live 105.

The festival featured had various dj’s and bands performing live on had two stages. The Death Dome, also known as the main stage, had performances by The Faint, Basement Jaxx, The Crystal Method, Diplo plus much more. The Deadly Disco Dungeon, the second stage, had dj’s and dj duos such as Dj Omar, Classixx, Paparazzi, Designer Drugs, Le Castle Vania, Steve Aoki, and Flosstradamus.

By Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer

In a high school campus of 4,000 students, it is inevitable that every school day there will be students who do not have their homework to turn in, for whatever reason. Usually these reasons include forgetting to do it, misplacing it, or not doing it in favor of something more interesting. The part I want to call attention to here isn’t the fact that the student didn’t do his/her homework, but the excuse they give. If you aren’t going to have your homework ready, the least you can do is come up with a more creative excuse than “my dog ate it’, which while classic has lost it’s charm. So here are 25 various excuses, in no particular order, to make your excuse making a little bit more interesting.


1. The cicadas outside the window make it impossible to read Plato’s The Republic.
This is for those AP English students who procrastinate reading almost every single book.
2. Had to rescue a kitten from a tree. Fire department unavailable due to mysterious arson in usual class building.
I think we can all appreciate this one after all the fire alarms school has been having.
3. Trying to master catching flies with chopsticks. Limited success.
Everyone needs a life goal.

Got a good excuse? Share it in the Comments section.

From wikipedia:
Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the international labor union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States.

Visit eugenevdebs.com, the official site of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation

By Anjelica Ramos, Courier Staff Artist
In The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, Susie Salmon, is a 14-year-old girl who lived in Norristown, Pennsylvania. On December 6th, 1973, Susie was murdered by one of her neighbors. The book is narrated by Susie, who is living in her own personal heaven that is filled with everything she could ever want and imagine. There she is able to watch all the people she once knew, from her family, her friends, even her crush, Ray Singh, continuing on with their lives after her death.

The only thing that troubles her in her perfect world is that her murderer, George Harvey has cleaned up his tracks so well that he will not be caught. Although her father later suspects that Mr. Harvey was, in fact, the one who did it. He tells the sheriff, Len Fenerman, of his suspicion, but Len cannot charge him for any crime because there is not nearly enough evidence.

ACTIVITIES
Logan Football MVAL Championship at Washington High School on Friday at 7:00 p.m.

Boys Soccer tryouts begin Monday, November 9. You must have the necessary paperwork turned in to Coach Sills by Thursday, November 5. See Coach Sills in Room 73 for more information.

All girls trying out for soccer must have physicals before tryouts. Soccer tryouts start Monday, Nov. 9.

Girls Basketball tryouts will be on Monday 11/9 and Tuesday 11/10. JV starts at 3:30 p.m.; Varsity starts at 5:30 p.m. in the old gym. All paperwork must be submitted to Coach Buchner before tryouts begin.

By Krislyn Perez, Courier Staff Writer

The Diary of Mattie Spencer by Sandra Dallas is an incredible story of hardship from the year 1865 to 1869. Mattie Spencer is not beautiful and considered plain and an old maid by the people of her small Iowa town. So when the most handsome man of Fort Madison, Iowa, Luke Spencer, asks Mattie to be his wife, everyone is surprised.

Everyone had expected him to be with the beautiful and delicate Persia Chalmers who he had always had some kind of relationship with. Luke proposed to Mattie with “You are a suitable cook and well made for work, and you’ll have plenty of that where we’re going. You are a strong-minded woman and not given to foolish ways. I’m glad you’re not the kind to attract men like bees around honey… I’m bound for Colorado and if you’re agree able, you may come, too.” As you can see, there was no mention of love in this proposal. No hint of any feeling.

By Krislyn Perez, Courier Staff Writer

Lynn Weingarten’s Wherever Nina Lies tells the story of a 16-year-old girl named Ellie.

When Ellie was 14 her sister, Nina, the person she looked up to and adored most, ran away from home. Since then Ellie has been obsessed with finding her sister, but Nina never came back. Ellie eventually accepts that her sister is gone and stops talking about her altogether.

Two years later at a thrift store, Ellie finds a picture that Nina has drawn and left in a book. Ellie then throws accepting her sister’s disappearance out the window and decides to look for her sister.

Through a community bulletin board Ellie finds news of a party going on that her sister would most likely be attending and decides to attend the party herself. She has no luck finding her sister, but instead finds a cute boy named Sean who is willing to help her find Nina. So with Sean’s help Ellie goes on a cross-country road trip to find Nina. As you can probably predict, Sean and Ellie become very close and “fall in love.”

From wikipedia:
Eden Phillpotts (4 November 1862 – 29 December 1960) was an English novelist, poet, and dramatist. He was born in India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer.

He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still have many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.

Read Phillpotts' The Grey Room, one of six of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.