The James Logan Courier

LUNCH: All-Beef Hot Dog, Tomatoes,
and Ranch Dressing, Milk, Fresh Fruit, Fun Chips
Main Cafeteria Pizza: Hawaiian with Turkey Ham and Pineapple

ACTIVITIES:
Wrestling practice starts today. All first year wrestlers will meet in the Mat Room next to the Weight Room right after school. You must have your paperwork completed.

CLUBS:
Punjabi Club meeting tomorrow, to plan Diwali on Friday. Come one, come all!

MISCELLANEOUS:
The Courier has been nominated for the 2007 Best Educational Paper Award. Vote for your school paper - go to jameslogancourier.org for more info.

By Barb Hart, Career Center Technician

The following is a listing of current scholarship applications which are available for your pick-up in the Career Center. This list is intended to give you a brief synopsis of the most pertinent information for each scholarship or award. If a scholarship looks interesting to you, come to the career center to pick up a hardcopy application (located in the money box), or if a web address is provided apply on-line or down load your application using the stated web-site. Please note the deadlines, and that some scholarships target only a certain population.

Most of these scholarships are for seniors. Last year’s class of 2007 was awarded 127 private/corporate donor scholarships.

By Carmen Shiu, Courier Special Correspondent

KYLD Wild 94.9's Boost Mobile Boo Bomb 2007 was held Tuesday at the HP Pavilion in San Jose. The radio station may have impressed its listeners with the lineup, but the show itself wasn't so impressive.

American Idol 2007 winner Jordin Sparks was supposed to be a special guest host. KYLD must not know what a host really is, because appearing once for a brief moment with another DJ is not called hosting. Sparks did sing a short acapella of her new song, "Tattoo," though.

By Howard Yang, Courier Staff Writer

With the arrival of the fourth installment of the SAW series, it would seem that going out to the movies to see a SAW sequel has become part of the Halloween tradition. Movie-goers would be glad to know that SAW IV delivers on its promises of a frightening night at the theatres.

Tobin Bell makes a return in his role as John Kramer, the Jigsaw killer whose notorious reputation comes from his ingenious traps that force their victims to make a decision, suffer extreme pain in order to save themselves or die a gruesome death.

By Sandhaya Mansfield, Courier Staff Writer

"The world ended with no warning, and all that was left...was hope."

SciFi fans should be gearing up for the third season of Battlestar Galactica by executive producer Ronald D. Moore premiering this Sunday.

For those who don't know what Galactica is about: Basically it's a remake of the old 1978 series and focuses on the battle between humans and the Cylons (man-made super-machines gone bad). Cylons were created by the people of the Twelve Colonies and used as slaves and warriors. Because the Cylons were created with such high intelligence they rebelled against the humans and thus a war between humans and Cylons began. The war lead to a bloody stalemate and finally the Cylons fled to a remote place in space.

By Rechie Cruz, Courier Staff Writer

Academy Award winners Denzel Washington, and Russel Crowe star in the new blockbuster American Gangster.

It's the story of African American business man Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), who works his way past the big time Mafia bosses to make his way to be one of the most notorious criminal masterminds of the streets of Harlem.Working as a big time heroin supplier in the 1970's, he raked in more than $250 million dollars in cash importing heroin through military officials in Vietnam.

By Charles Yi, Courier Staff Writer

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a lawyer who "fixes" malpractice legal cases of powerful, corporate conglomerates. Although financially successful, Clayton is a troubled single parent struggling with gambling problems; he is also beginning to doubt his career and where it will take him in the future.

One day, colleague Arthur Edens (Tom Wilkinson) drags Clayton into an important case where the defendant is steadily gaining advantage in a malpractice case. Clayton unravels the truth behind the case and discovers clear evidence of illegal protocol by the corporation, thus becoming an assassination target of the corporation.

By Debbie Ly, Courier Staff Writer

The ban on candy sales at school is costing students who join the California Scholarship Federation more in dues.

Membership in the CSF, which recognizes students' academic achievements, now costs $3, up from two.

Teacher and CSF advisor Dean Cozine said the raise in dues is because the club can't sell candy anymore due to a statewide ban on junk food sales that went into effect this year. Until a fundraiser that replaces the lost revenue is found, the dues will remain at $3, he said.

Courier Staff Report

Voting for the 2007 Weblog Awards began last night, and The Courier, a finalist in the Best Education Blog category, trails in early polling.

As of 7:30 a.m., The Miss Rumphius Effect blog lead with six votes out of the twenty. The Courier had two votes, trailing Frumteacher and Education Week, which both had three. Teaching ...Multiple Special Needs was tied with the Courier.

Click here to vote for The Courier.

From wikipedia:
Sultan Mahommed Shah, Aga Khan III(November 2, 1877 – July 11, 1957) was the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.

Early life
He was born in Karachi (then British India, now Pakistan) to Aga Khan II and his second wife, Nawab A'lia Shamsul-Muluk, who was a granddaughter of Fath Ali Shah of Persia (Qajar dynasty).

Watch the coronation of the Aga Khan IV, grandson to the Aga Khan III, the day after his death, free from the History Channel.