This past Saturday, 2003 Uni graduate and guitar genius Jake Hertzog performed at the Urbana Sweetcorn Festival. Sindha Agha and Laura Dripps met with him to talk about Uni, his career, and the art form of guitar playing itself. [Audio included]

The musical lineup for this year's Sweetcorn Festival will include jazz guitarist Jake Hertzog, an award-winning musician who was sitting inside Uni classrooms as a student himself barely five years ago.

The trial and conviction of Yuri Ermakov, formerly an assistant track and cross country coach at Uni High, had a Uni connection that perhaps many did not know about. Senior editor Shivani Khanna recently spoke with the trial's prosecutor, Troy Lozar, and one of Ermakov's defense attorneys, Elisabeth Pollock, both of whom are Uni alums.