The James Logan Courier

By Randy Furst and Jeff Shelman
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)

MINNEAPOLIS — On the University of St. Thomas campus on Monday, activists unfurled a large banner: "Let Tutu Speak!"

By Monday evening, St. Thomas' president, the Rev. Dennis Dease, had received more than 2,500 e-mails from a national Jewish peace group urging him to reverse his decision not to invite Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu to campus.

"There is an overwhelming majority of students who are appalled by this," said Stephanie Edquist, 21, editor of the student newspaper. "Students are saying. `Who else is going to be restricted from coming to campus?'"

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

The following editorial appeared in the Miami Herald on Friday, Oct. 5:

When it comes to assembling a circular firing squad, you've got to hand it to the Democratic Party. Nobody does it better. The fiasco over the party's presidential primary has reached such farcical proportions that — get this — two of the state's most prominent Democrats are suing the national party so that party members in Florida can have a say in choosing the party's next candidate for the White House.

This is Florida ...

Think about that for a second. This is Florida, the most hotly contested battleground in national elections. Florida, where Democrats still believe they were robbed in the 2000 election. Florida, where they're still wrangling over 18,000 "undervotes" in a Gulf Coast congressional race in 2006. Instead of wooing Florida's pivotal voters, the Democratic National Committee decided to punish them by refusing to seat delegates selected in the Jan. 29 primary. Ever wonder why the party's symbol is a donkey?

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent

The world is not ending in the music industry; it is just becoming digitalized.

Earlier this year, there were reports that album record sales have gone down by 20 percent and the Recording Industry Association of America, known as the RIAA, is complaining.

That is because a whopping 90 percent of music sold in the U.S. is generated and distributed by the RIAA. Unsurprisingly, the RIAA blames piracy, which is illegally downloading and sharing songs online.

But is piracy to blame? Maybe a little, but not entirely.

Courier Staff Report

The truth is that the Colts took victory against the hapless Mission San Jose football time for granted, and they weren't disappointed. The game went according to plan: 65-0, Colts.

Before the game, players told The Courier that the plan was to take it easy on Mission, and get the second string into the game by the second quarter, at the latest. They planned to come out in the first quarter, get a half dozen scores or so, then go on cruise control and get everyone on the team in on the fun.

The score was 37-0 Colts in the first quarter. Everyone played.

By Krystal Henderson, Courier Staff Writer

High school students seem to take hygiene extremely seriously. So seriously, in fact, some girls can spend an hour beautifying themselves before school—and then spend half of second period retouching their hair and makeup. Throw out the makeup, and the guys aren’t different; notice them brushing their hair in class and grooming their goatees?

Yet, you’d think that people so concerned with appearances would care a bit more about what should be the most hygienic room on campus. Yes, I mean the bathroom.

Not to insult the janitorial staff (I don’t believe they’re the ones dirtying things up) but the Logan restrooms are on the verge of becoming entirely disgusting. Toilet paper wads littering the floors and clogging the sinks. Puddles of unidentified liquid at the base of the toilets. Similar, smaller puddles spotting the toilet seats. Graffiti and gang signs on the stalls. Ladies leaving sanitary products on the floor; gentlemen leaving sprinkles around the urinals. And, of course, the dreaded “treat” left behind in an un-flushed toilet.

The Adventures of Fred by Krystal Henderson

Team Strikedown by Pepper Moto
Casual Genius by Howard Yang

From wikipedia:
Katherine Mansfield (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction.

Mansfield was born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp into a socially prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand. The daughter of a banker and born to a middle-class colonial family, she was also a first cousin of authoress Countess Elizabeth von Arnim. Mansfield had a lonely and alienated childhood. Her first published stories appeared in the High School Reporter and the Wellington Girls' High School magazine, in 1898 and 1899. She moved to London in 1902, where she attended Queen's College, London. A talented cellist, she was not at first attracted to literature, and after finishing her schooling in England, she returned to her New Zealand home in 1906. It was upon her return to New Zealand that Kathleen Beauchamp began writing short stories. Weary of the provincial New Zealand lifestyle, Beauchamp returned to London two years later in 1908.

Read The Garden Party and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield, one of three of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.