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  • UFU movie day to kick off personal sacrifice campaign

    Nov 5 – 10:32 pm

    The student group United for Uganda will host a movie day Friday in order to kick off the organization’s personal sacrifice campaign. The documentary "Uganda Rising" will be shown in Room 109 at 2:15, after school’s 2 p.m. early dismissal. Some refreshments will be provided. Check inside to learn more about UFU and its personal sacrifice campaign.

  • About one-quarter of Uni students receive H1N1 vaccine

    Nov 4 – 7:21 pm

    Slightly more than 27 percent of all Uni students took advantage of the opportunity to receive an H1N1 vaccination Monday at Uni Gym. Staff members from the McKinley Health Center were on hand to administer the live intranasal version of the H1N1 vaccine, which was the only form available. Students needed signed permission slips from their parents to get the vaccine.

  • H1N1 update: Vaccine to be given Monday at Uni

    Oct 29 – 2:36 pm

    Director Jeff Walkington announced today that the McKinley Health Center will give the H1N1 vaccine at Uni beginning 8:30 a.m. Monday. The vaccinations will most likely take place in Uni Gym. The only form of vaccine available is the live intranasal form. Walkington advised parents to contact their health-care provider if they are not sure their children should receive the vaccine.

  • If you plan to trick-or-treat this year …

    Oct 28 – 4:47 pm

    Here's a look at the official trick-or-tricking hours in area communities. Remember that when Halloween falls on the weekend, as it does this year, the hours are 5 to 7 in C-U instead of the usual 6 to 8. Also, keep in mind that Memorial Stadium will be letting out around 5:30 at the end of the Illinois-Michigan football game.

  • Illness update: 120 and counting

    Oct 23 – 11:25 pm

    The number of Uni High students absent today reached 120, or 38.6 percent of the student body. This compares to Thursday, when 91 were absent. Subbies and freshmen were especially hard hit, with those classes missing 27 and 36 students, respectively. That translated into 43.5 percent of the subbies and 56.1 percent of the freshmen.

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UFU movie day to kick off personal sacrifice campaign

The student group United for Uganda will host a movie day Friday in order to kick off the organization’s personal sacrifice campaign. The documentary "Uganda Rising" will be shown in Room 109 at 2:15, after school’s 2 p.m. early dismissal. Some refreshments will be provided. Check inside to learn more about UFU and its personal sacrifice campaign.

About one-quarter of Uni students receive H1N1 vaccine

Slightly more than 27 percent of all Uni students took advantage of the opportunity to receive an H1N1 vaccination Monday at Uni Gym. Staff members from the McKinley Health Center were on hand to administer the live intranasal version of the H1N1 vaccine, which was the only form available. Students needed signed permission slips from their parents to get the vaccine.

H1N1 update: Vaccine to be given Monday at Uni

Director Jeff Walkington announced today that the McKinley Health Center will give the H1N1 vaccine at Uni beginning 8:30 a.m. Monday. The vaccinations will most likely take place in Uni Gym. The only form of vaccine available is the live intranasal form. Walkington advised parents to contact their health-care provider if they are not sure their children should receive the vaccine.

Awards & Honors

Latest Achievements of Students, Faculty, Staff

A grant in no way scant: Inventors Club awarded prestigious InvenTeams funding

The Uni High Inventors Club today was one of just 15 teams nationwide to be chosen for the 2009-10 MIT-Lemelson InvenTeams initiative. The club won a grant of more than $7,000 to develop a device that will reuse waste from shrimp farms and thereby prevent the destruction of coral reefs.

Mestre, Vazquez earn accolades from National Hispanic Recognition Program

Seniors Maritza Mestre and Isabel Vazquez were among only 5,000 students to be named National Hispanic Scholars out of almost 200,000 who applied. Since 1983 the program has identified outstanding Hispanic high school students and shared information about them with subscribing colleges and universities.

Almost 30 percent of Uni seniors honored as National Merit Commended Students

Eighteen seniors have been named National Merit Commended Students due to their high scores on the PSAT/NMSQT last fall. When combined with the 23 percent who were named semifinalists last month, more than half of all Uni seniors have earned National Merit honors.

Election 2008

Election News & Coverage

Present at the creation: Students take part in historic Inauguration Day

You weren't able to see them on your TV screen, but they were there — junior Tuli Bera and subfreshman Wyatt Bensken, standing amidst the hundreds of thousands of fellow citizens who thronged Washington to be a part of Barack Obama's inauguration. They recently spoke with OG staffers Erika Belmont and Revathi Maturi about their experiences.

News analysis: Unity and inexplicable pride

There are those who have always been Obama supporters, and there are those who have never liked him, and possibly never will. Then are those of us whose feelings about Obama are variant. Columnist Diana Liu is only just recently beginning to appreciate Obama's unifying powers, but it is never too late to start.

Live blogging the inauguration: Reactions to history in the making

Earlier today, members of the Online Gargoyle staff live-blogged Barack Obama's inauguration as the 44th president of the United States. Inside are links to their individual blogs, followed by the full text of each blogger's entries. Check out their reactions as a new era in American history began.