As some student’s minds are occupied with finals and others are distracted by visions of sugar plums, the Department of Public Safety warns students of being vulnerable to theft.
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SAO JORGE, Azores Islands — Slipping in mud and clinging to rocks on a steep escarpment, emergency teams combed a mist-shrouded mountainside Sunday in search for the bodies of 35 people killed when a twin-engine plane crashed a day before.
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MORGANTOWN — Dialects are like brains: Everybody’s got one.
Contrary to what K-12 teachers across America might say, linguists believe there is no standard for spoken English. And the speech patterns that characterize any given part of the country are, like that hard wiring inside the skull, unique.
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nspired by and borrowed from John Lennon’s “Happy X-Mas (War is Over)” — John Lennon/Yoko Ono, copyright: Capitol Records.
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As the year winds to a close, film studios are releasing a number of movies, hoping to receive both big revenues and some possible Oscar considerations. 1999 has seen Hollywood take a refreshing turn towards originality. Moviegoers have been scared stiff by the groundbreaking (and overrated) Blair Witch Project, seen one of the most impressive science fictions films of recent years in The Matrix, revisited their past via Star Wars memories with this summer’s The Phantom Menace and examined our culture’s obsession with materialism through films like Fight Club and American Beauty. 
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Chris Moss summed it up with one simple adjective. “Dumb” is how the West Virginia forward described his team’s 75-64 loss to Ohio (5-2). “We all played dumb, we didn’t play as a team. We’re mentally tired and it’s too early to be getting tired now. We have to stay together.”
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