Director Steve Epperson has elected to preserve Uni's current 8 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. schedule for the entire 2009-10 school year. Epperson weighed the merits of shortening each of Uni's eight class periods to 45 minutes, as well as extending the lunch break to the same length. He announced his decision in a schoolwide e-mail.

Uni students never seem to have enough time — but surely an extra half hour every day can't hurt. As an experiment for the first semester of the 2009-10 school year, Uni is considering a shorter daily schedule, running from 8 a.m. to 3:20 p.m. All class periods would be trimmed to 45 minutes while lunch would be expanded to that same length.