The James Logan Courier

By Beatrice Esteban, Courier Editor-in-Chief

Hundreds of Logan students missed their first two classes to protest anticipated budget cuts resulting from a failed parcel tax election.

This morning, students gathered in front of the Logan parking lot on H Street expressing their frustration with the failure of Measure B.

Students were carrying signs with messages such as “Don’t Kill Choir” and “Save Our Kids.”

Senior Alonzo Rosales, who helped organize the demonstration, gave a speech about the importance of extracurricular and cocurricular activities. He said that the failure of Measure B is “cutting lives.”

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's website:

Chang and Eng Bunker were born in Siam (now Thailand) on May 11, 1811, connected at the chest by a five-inch-wide band of flesh. The location of this connection suggested to some doctors and other observers that the brothers shared a heart or some respiratory functions.

These medical assumptions would be proven wrong.

According to their biography, the twins shared relatively "normal" boyhoods in Siam, running and playing with other children, doing chores, and helping to support their parents and siblings by gathering and selling duck eggs in their small village.


Read Mark Twain's short story, "The Siamese Twins," inspired by Chang and Eng Bunker, free from readbookonline.net.