The James Logan Courier

By Billy O'Keefe
McClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

Though "Halo: Combat Evolved's" impact has been exhaustively documented, there may be no finer point than the realization that the 2011 holiday season's best new first-person shooter may very well be a 10-year-old game with a fresh coat of paint.

At least on the solo (or two-player co-op) side, that's what "Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary" is — a pretty carbon copy of the game that launched with the original Xbox in 2001 and subsequently formed the foundation of a video game juggernaut.

MISCELLANEOUS

New volunteering opportunities for December. Check listings on Logan website, or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.

Are you looking for information on college visits, SAT’s, college fairs, community service, military or scholarship opportunities? This and more is just a click away on Logan’s website under College & Career info. Bar. Visit it often as updates are made daily.

by Lauren Mascarenhas, Managing Editor

On October 24, an incident involving a student in the house two office left House Principal Yvonne Hull’s office in disarray.

According to Hull, the incident, which took place during second period, involved a student who came to the office with a referral.

A student witness, whose name The Courier is withholding, reported the commotion lasted all period.

From wikipedia:
Amos Bronson Alcott (November 29, 1799 – March 4, 1888) was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a vegan diet before the term was coined. He was also an abolitionist and an advocate for women's rights.

Born in Connecticut in 1799, Alcott had only minimal formal schooling before attempting a career as a traveling salesman. Worried about how the itinerant life might negatively impact his soul, he turned to teaching. His innovative methods, however, were controversial, and he rarely stayed in one place very long. His most well-known teaching position was at the Temple School in Boston. His experience there was turned into two books: Records of a School and Conversations with Children on the Gospels. Alcott became friends with Ralph Waldo Emerson and became a major figure in transcendentalism. His writings on behalf of that movement, however, are heavily criticized for being incoherent. Based on his ideas for human perfection, Alcott founded Fruitlands, a transcendentalist experiment in community living. The project was short-lived and failed after seven months. Alcott continued to struggle financially for most of his life. Nevertheless, he continued focusing on educational projects and opened a new school at the end of his life in 1879. He died in 1888.

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