The James Logan Courier

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Unified School District Public Information Officer

The Board of Education on Tuesday night received information on proposed changes to the boundaries that determine where students attend school. With the closing of Cabello Elementary School at the end of the 2006-07 school year and Barnard-White Middle School at the end of 2007-08, the goal is to redraw to balance enrollments as evenly as possible throughout the District.

ACTIVITIES:
ID makeup pictures are TOMORROW!! Stop by the Pavilion Lobby before/after school or at lunch. Last chance!!

Talent show applications are available in Room 476. They are due on 10/31.

Bored of the Rings by the Harvard Lampoon (fiction, 149 pages)
Reviewed By Jessica Stewart, Courier Staff Writer

“This Ring, no other, is made by the elves,
Who’d pawn their own mother to grab it themselves.
Ruler of creeper, mortal, and scallop,
This is a sleeper that packs quite a wallop.
The Power almighty rests in this Lone Ring.
The Power, alrighty, for doing your Own Thing.
If broken or busted, it cannot be remade.
If found, send to Sorhed (the postage is prepaid).”

With a catchy poem like this on the very first page, who can resist reading the pages that follow? A parody of The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein, Bored of the Rings is a well-written and humorous novel. Although much shorter than The Lord of the Rings, it contains most of the key scenes. The authors have twisted everything to make it funny, and in most cases, they succeed.


The cover of the first edition of Bored of the Rings, published in 1969.

By Megan Twohey
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday that they are making nearly 500,000 historical books and documents available for a new search engine that aims to do with books what Google has done for Web sites.

By Kim Ossi
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

HALLOWEEN HORRORS
Just in time for Halloween, "Nightwood" by Patricia Windsor ($7.95, Delacorte Press), tells a terrifying tale of six teens on a trip that goes terribly wrong. Casey, Maryann and Gena decide to skip out on their class trip to D.C. and instead take a detour to Casey's parents' cabin in Delonga, Ga. (Note that in scary stories, rule-breaking is sure to end in disaster!)

By Jasmeen Banwait and Hassina Obaidy, Courier Staff Writers

Hundreds of students from around the Bay Area have been and will be coming to James Logan this month to take tests of their aptitude for college.


Students took the SAT Subject Area tests in a classroom in the 500 building Saturday.

By Rebecca Soltau, Courier Staff Writer

As you watch him teach his English 1 and 2 classes, you‘d never guess that an important part of George Moore‘s life is street fighting.


Logan Teacher George Moore, circled, is learning a martial art with his classmates at the Dragon‘s Den KaJuKenBo Club.