The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS
Next week we are going to have our first Intruder Alert Drill. An intruder alert means that there is someone or something on campus that is dangerous, and all students and staff need to get into a locked classroom immediately. The intruder alert bell sounds different than a regular passing period bell. I want you to hear it once before next week’s drill so that you know what it is when you hear it. This is only a test. This is only a test **Play Bell** Students, when you hear the Intruder Alert bell next week, please go immediately into the closest classroom you see. It doesn’t matter if it’s your teacher or not, go into the first classroom you see. If you are out on the field during PE, your teacher will bring you into the closest classroom from the field or area you’re at. If you’re in a bathroom, leave immediately and get to the nearest classroom. Then wait for an announcement that all is clear, and that you’re safe to go back to your regular class.

By Larry Gordon
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

SAN FRANCISCO — University of California students could face annual tuition increases of 8 percent to 16 percent over the next four years, possibly bringing the fee as high as $22,068 for the 2015-16 school year, according to a long-term budget plan the university unveiled Wednesday.

UC leaders said the proposal was intended only as a guideline but that it would help students, parents and faculty to plan more realistically. This summer, the state budget crisis resulted in deeper-than-expected cuts to UC and a second tuition increase just weeks before the school year began.

Jack Bragg, Courier Entertainment Editor

Coming out of the gate with a debut that feels natural and catchy is a tricky mark to hit. Local San Francisco band, The Hundred Days, have hit that mark dead-on with their debut album Really?.

The band has sculpted a musical masterpiece that, if paired with decent publicity, could potentially rocket them on to mainstream radio.

By Randy Lewis
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — Nick Lowe, lauded in many quarters as one of pop music's master craftsmen of the last three decades, says he hears a lot of pretty good music these days. And that's not good.

"Sad to say, it seems everyone can make a pretty good record in their bedroom today," the 62-year-old English singer and songwriter said recently. "You go buy the kit and you can make a pretty good record. 'Pretty good' is the new 'terrible.' In a tsunami of 'pretty good' stuff, you can't find the really good stuff. So I've kind of given up looking."

James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was a prolific and popular American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered as a novelist who wrote numerous sea-stories and the historical novels known as the Leatherstocking Tales, featuring frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel The Last of the Mohicans, often regarded as his masterpiece.

James Fenimore Cooper was born in Burlington, New Jersey, the son of William and Elizabeth (Fenimore) Cooper. His father was a United States Congressman. Shortly after his first birthday, his family moved to Cooperstown, New York, a community founded by his father.

Read The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper, one of dozens of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.