The James Logan Courier

By Samuel Jue, Courier Sports Editor

Ryan Shay, a top distance runner, collapsed Saturday after running for five and a half miles during an Olympic Trial in New York.

Medical response after the collapse was swift, but to no avail. Shay was shipped to Lenox Hill Hospital where he then pronounced dead at 8:46 AM.

He died at the age of 28.

Courier Staff Report

When it comes to backs who can run wild against defenses, the James Logan Varsity Colts are well stocked, to put it mildly.

Of course, they have Rashad Evans, the star who averaged around 25 yards-per-carry coming into Friday night's home game against Irvington, the latest Mission Valley Athletic League victim.

But Evans had what is, for him, a bit of an off night, gaining "only" 138 yards on nine carries, an average of "only" about 15-yards-per-carry. He did score three touchdowns, though. So maybe it wasn't an off night, after all.

Whatever. The Colts won, 42-0.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

The following editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star on Wednesday, Oct. 24:

High tuition costs are forcing college students to work full-time jobs while taking classes, mortgage their futures with excessive loans, and defer their educations.

The College Board, which tracks financial trends in colleges and universities, has provided numbers to confirm what students and families already understood: The cost of college is handily outpacing inflation.

Much less clear to consumers and public officials is why education costs are continuing to climb so rapidly. Schools need to do a much better job of providing students, parents and the public with detailed accountings of how the institutions operate, and how tuition and tax dollars are spent.

By Nick Perry
The Seattle Times (MCT)

After high school, Melissa Pederson yearned for a traditional college experience. So she moved into campus housing with roommates from around the world and immersed herself in her wooded, secluded school.

Yet Pederson's move was far from typical: She was among the first students in King County to live on a community-college campus. Now finishing her sophomore studies at Green River Community College in Auburn, Wash., Pederson, 20, is one of a growing number of students taking advantage of shifts in the mission and approach of two-year colleges.

From wikipedia:
Calvin Fairbank (November 3, 1816 - October 12, 1898) was an abolitionist minister who spent more than 17 years in prison for his anti-slavery activities.

Biography
Born in Pike, in what is now Wyoming County, New York, Fairbank grew up in an intensely religious family environment. Listening to the stories told by two escaped slaves whom he met at a Methodist quarterly meeting, he became strongly anti-slavery. He began his career freeing slaves in 1837 when, piloting a lumber raft down the Ohio River, he ferried a slave across the river to free territory. Soon he was delivering runaway slaves to the Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin for transportation on the Underground Railroad to northern U.S. cities or to Canada.

Read Calvin Fairbank's autobiography, Rev. Calvin Fairbank during slavery times : how he "fought the good fight" to prepare "the way," free from the Kentuckiana Digital Library.