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Logan Students: Just a reminder that you are not to be on other school campuses during their school hours. This causes a disruption for the other schools and may lead to a consequence.

College presentations are still taking place here at Logan, and USF is coming November 9th. Interested students should sign up in the Career Center.

Logan Students: Halloween is Monday, October 31, and we all like to dress up for fun. However, keep in mind that ALL costumes must be appropriate and follow Logan dress codes. There should be no masks, no complete face paintings, and no imitation weapons of any kind. These will be confiscated.

By Rae Atabay, Courier Staff Writer

In the book, How Soon is Never by Marc Spitz, Joe Green is a 30 year old cocaine addict who falls in and out of love his whole life. Joe is a protagonist most people can agree with, but by the end of the book no meaningful lesson is learned, and for all the Smiths fans, Morrissey never even shows up.

This book is very underwhelming and hard to follow if you are not a Smiths fan. There are many song and band member allusions throughout the book, which can make it very confusing. Even if you are a Smiths fan, the book is very disappointing because Joe never meets with Morrissey to interview him, which was the main goal of the book.

By Joseph Agharanya, Courier Staff Writier

Judith Tarr, a writer, who has written for many years now creating many great works of fantasy novels, demonstrates once again her talent of commanding narrative writing to contemplate ancient history.

Her book King and Goddess, a fairly well written novel, possesses all of the building blocks that make up a good story. The novel informatively describes the life of Maatkare Hatshepsut, a notorious Egyptian queen who is given a vision that she was destined to rule. Tarr's in-depth knowledge of Egyptian culture shows insight to the social lives of all of her characters within the story, and gives the reader a taste of ancient civilization in ancient Egypt. Readers explore the life of how common people operated and lived in Egypt, and observe the drastic contrast of those who live in the royal palace.

From wikipedia:
Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911 – January 27, 1972) was an African-American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel". Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world, and was heralded internationally as a singer and civil rights activist; entertainer Harry Belafonte called her "the single most powerful black woman in the United States". She recorded about 30 albums (mostly for Columbia Records) during her career, and her 45 rpm records included a dozen "golds"—million-sellers.


Read or listen to Mahalia Jackson: Voice Of The Civil Rights Movement, by Sonari Glinton, free from NPR.org