The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS

ASVAB permission slips are due back in the Career Center to Mrs. Hart next Tuesday, November 9th. No parent-signed permission slip, NO TEST!

Hey Logan! Did you know that since the beginning of school we have totaled more than 16,800 tardies. That’s 3600 for Freshmen, 5200 for Sophomores, 4900 for Juniors and 3100 for Seniors. That’s the same as each student at Logan having 4 tardies. Imagine if each tardy equaled one minute of class time lost…that’s 280 hours of learning lost. To improve our tardy situation, the Logan Tardy Roundups are back. Starting this week, and each week from now on, there will be random tardy roundups. If you get caught in one, that’s a phone call home and an hour of detention. If you hear the music, you know it’s on…so don’t be late!

Need Driver’s Education? Your place is the Adult School. Cost is $125. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday, December 20, 21 & 22, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for both an application and details.

By Linh-Chi Nguyen, Courier Music Editor

Any band that attempts to maintain their sound while trying not to create repetitiously insipid ballads has usually found it difficult to keep this right balance in mind. This is indeed a remarkable standpoint of the band Anberlin; they present Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place with tremendous decency and progression.

If there is one thing lacking from this album, it would have to be its lyrics. Ever since the beginning of their awaited successful career, they have written substantial lyrics that never lack depth and meaning. As the band progresses through each and every album they have put forth, it seems they have lost their lyrical touch. In Dark Is the Way, Light is a Place, the lyrics are basically repetitive lines that start to serve as an annoyance rather than a playful effect. This deficiency in the meaning of their lyrics is found throughout most of the album.

From wikipedia:
Eileen Jackson Southern (1920 in Minneapolis – October 13, 2002 in Port Charlotte, Florida) was an African American musicologist, researcher, author and teacher.

She attended public schools in her hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In childhood, as she developed as a pianist, young Eileen was introduced to and became partial to the music of those she calls the "piano composers," including Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Claude Debussy. In addition, her piano teachers, mostly white, were concerned that she would know music by black composers and introduced her to R. Nathaniel Dett's In the Bottoms, among other such compositions.

Read The music of black Americans: a history, by Eileen Southern, free from Google Books.