URBANA — After numerous Student Council meetings, the agenda for this year's Spirit Week is jam-packed and ready to go.

The festivities begin on Monday, with music playing in the hallways during passing periods and a dress-up theme for each day:

• Monday: Cartoon/Superhero Day
• Tuesday: Twin Day
• Wednesday: PJ Day
• Thursday: Crazy Hair Day
• Friday: Class Colors Day (subfreshmen: green, freshmen: pink, sophomores: blue, juniors: red, seniors: orange)

Last year, spirit events took place during lunch, featuring things such as frozen T-shirt contests and dance parties. This year there will be a spirit-judging contest each day in Uni Gym. Students who feel they are displaying extreme school spirit in their apparel for each theme have a chance to be judged against others for candy prizes.

In addition, tickets to Uni High home basketball games will be half-price (one ticket gains admission to both JV and varsity):

Monday, Jan. 12: Girls Hoops

• JV vs. Monticello (6 p.m.)
• Varsity vs. Normal Calvary Baptist (7:15 p.m.)

Tuesday, Jan. 13: Boys Hoops

• JV vs. Normal Calvary Baptist (6 p.m.)
• Varsity vs. Normal Calvary Baptist (7:30 p.m.)

Thursday, Jan. 15: Girls Hoops

• JV vs. Cornerstone Christian (6 p.m.)
• Varsity vs. DeLand-Weldon (7:15 p.m.)

Friday, Jan. 16: Boys Hoops

• JV vs. DeLand-Weldon (6 p.m.)
• Varsity vs. DeLand-Weldon (7:30 p.m.)

The week's activities will culminate in a Spirit Olympics to be held Friday during an all-school assembly at Kenney Gym. This is a competition in which representatives from each grade along with faculty teammates will compete in various team and individual activities for their class.

Members of each team were randomly selected, and the participants were notified and asked if they would partake in the activities. Each team is made up of four students and two faculty members.

"Having both students and faculty participate in the Spirit Week assembly will make it more fun for everybody to watch," said Student Council executive president Isaac Chambers. "Also, instead of doing the more traditional assembly competitions like volleyball, we've got some comical and zany competitions planed."

Events on the agenda include a faculty dance-off, faculty arm wrestling, faculty karaoke, pingpong, limbo, half-court shootout, charades, hula hoop challenge, and tug-o-war.

The Olympics will also contain an obstacle course in which contestants will complete a variety of tasks from leapfrog to balancing calculus books on their heads. Some events are for the entire team while others are for single team members.

Periods on the day of the assembly will be shortened to 40 minutes. Last year's all-school assembly was never held due to an unexpected snow day.

The Bell Schedule

• 1st — 8- 8:40 a.m.
• 2nd — 8:45-9:25 a.m.
• 3rd — 9:30-10:10 a.m.
• 4th — 10:15-10:55 a.m.
• 5th — 11-11:40 a.m.
• lunch — 11:40 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
• 6th — 12:15-12:55 p.m.
• 7th — 1-1:40 p.m.
• 8th — 1:45-2:25 p.m.
• assembly — 2:30-3:50 p.m.

Students can then mark the end of Spirit Week (and celebrate the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend) by attending winter formal, which will be held from 8 to 11 p.m. at the Illini Union.