The James Logan Courier

By Claudia Buck
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ With three school-age daughters, Rob Lindgren, a stay-at-home dad whose wife is a Sacramento State University professor, is sure that all his kids will attend college someday. But how to pay for it? That's not quite so clear.

A decade ago, the couple opened an investment account for their oldest daughter, Bonnie, who's now 15, but it got beat up by the stock market's slump in 2000-01. They still have the account, but "when things went south, it was pretty discouraging."

The Lindgrens are now motivated to get going again. "Tuition and fees are rapidly increasing, loan rates are increasing. ... We need to set aside some money to address those future costs," said Lindgren.

MISCELLANEOUS

PACT study guides have arrived. Pick up your copy at the student windows in the mall office. PACT tickets will be sold until Nov. 7th at the student windows in the main office at both lunches.

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.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Parent and Community Relations

The New Haven Unified School District is one of a select group of U.S. public school districts being recognized for increasing access to Advanced Placement tests, while at the same time maintaining a high level of student success.

New Haven was named today to the AP Honor Roll selected by the College Board, a group of more than 5,900 schools, colleges, universities and other educational organizations who share the standardized tests used to measure a student's readiness for post-secondary education.

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

When "Batman: Arkham Asylum" wowed us in 2009, most praised it for prioritizing quality over scope and giving us a polished Batman experience in a confined space instead of one spread thin across yet another open world.

Two years and incalculable more polish later, "Batman: Arkham City" has arrived to make us all look foolish.

As the title implies and story explains, "City" takes place in a much larger space. The prison city of Arkham is walled off from the rest of Gotham City, but it's extremely spacious as prison cities go. "Asylum" nailed the fun of gliding, rappelling and ziplining as Batman, and "City" makes it that much more fun by giving you more room to move freely. The Batmobile remains absent, but given how fast you can bound across and around rooftops, it would have felt passe anyway.

From wikipedia:
Grantland Rice (November 1, 1880 – July 13, 1954) was an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.

Henry Grantland Rice was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the son of Bolling H. Rice, a cotton dealer, and his wife, Beulah Grantland Rice. His grandfather Major H. W. Rice was a Confederate veteran of the Civil War.

Read "The Four Horsemen" by Grantland Rice, free from the University of Notre Dame.