Almost all of next year's class officers were announced at today's Student Council meeting. The president and vice president of the rising freshmen remain to be determined due to ballot error. Next year's subfreshman class officers will be elected in the fall. Check inside for the (nearly complete) results of this week's elections.

For the third straight year, the OG is publishing the bios of all candidates for class elections, which will take place Wednesday during English classes. We want to thank Student Council executive president Micah Berman for providing us with the bios and giving us permission to run them. Please note that the OG is running the bios without any editing.

Last week, junior Adam Tiouririne spiced up the race for Student Council executive president by challenging the previously uncontested Isaac Chambers. He won, but how he's resigned. Find out why inside.

It must be close to the end of the year because students have already elected Student Council executive officers for '08-'09. Check inside for the winners. Class officers for next year will be elected later this week. Look for candidate bios to be published in the OG as soon as all of them are turned in.

Uni students can expect to see a few unfamiliar faces in the hallways Thursday. That’s because the student councils at Uni High and St. Thomas More are in the midst of an exchange program. Six Uni StudCo members spent today at the Champaign school, while tomorrow five STM students will make the trip across town.

If it's the last week in January, it must be Spirit Week. This year the Uni tradition returns with several new events to go along with dress-up days and the all-school assembly. In addition, the girls basketball team will celebrate Senior Night at Kenney Gym Thursday against Normal Calvary, and the boys will host the same school on Friday.

This year the charity fundraiser known as X-Week was going to be combined with Spirit Week from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1. But at today's Student Council meeting, members concluded there wasn't enough time left to plan X-Week activities. Check inside for more. [UPDATED]

Tired of dances? Student Council and the junior class are putting on something different for the school: an ice skating party. The event will be held Saturday night from 8:30 to 10:30 at the U of I Ice Arena.