As students and faculty have returned to the campus of West Virginia University, administrators have decided to stop reporting COVID-19 testing data as they exhibit a callous attitude that disregards transparency.

With the beginning of the new semester, the WVU Student Government Association has compiled a report of initiatives that we completed last semester, and have addressed what we would like to accomplish this semester.

Staff Shorts are tidbit writing by our editorial board. They're meant to be light-hearted, but we sometimes touch on more serious, important topics. They aim to express the many student voices of the University. 

The intent behind TED Talks, defined in extended acronym as “Technology. Entertainment. Design.” is admirable. But it is more often than not far from a complete education on a given talking point.

10 minutes is a long time for a song, but Taylor Swift’s 10 minute version of All Too Well wasn’t a song—it was a story.

From the open arms that nightclubs have to invite teenagers through their gates, or the beer cans that coat lawns as a mark of pride, it is clear that Morgantown has a drinking problem.

When the lead single, “Leave The Door Open”, for this album was released, it was hard to imagine Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak ever being separate again.

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Hell hath no fury like a university scorned.

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Acclaimed director Denise Villeneuve has always had a handle on large spectacles. Whether you look towards his neon-soaked masterpiece “Blade Runner 2049” or his meditative alien flick “Arrival,” Villeneuve displays his worlds in all their ambitious beauty, without a fearful impulse to hide …

Like every other state school, WVU’s Morgantown campus offers your run-of-the-mill college majors: Biology, Communications, Accounting, etc. 

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For those who have endured the WVU on-campus dining changes over the years, it is no surprise that a good amount of students are disappointed with our current situation especially in comparison to what it once was.

What makes John Carpenter’s 1978 “Halloween” the classic that it is? It’s a question I asked in 2018 when director David Gordon Green brought the iconic murderer back for the 11th film in the four decade franchise and it’s the same question I ask now with “Halloween Kills”. The answer: tensi…

“(They have) all the time in the world,” James Bond (Daniel Craig) tells his “Spectre” lover Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) when she asks him to talk about Vesper, his deceased “Casino Royale” love that has riddled him with guilt four movies later.

Students hate to pay outrageous amounts for parking. As a student worker myself, I understand that trying to pay for parking in addition to living expenses and school is a pain.

This Monday brings us to yet another round of controversies surrounding the impending “celebration” of Columbus Day (how does anyone actually celebrate? play golf?). Stubborn and misguided efforts to continue the tradition of honoring Columbus come at a time when Indigenous peoples and the n…

I had the pleasure of attending my first game at Mountaineer Field this past weekend. As a Texas Tech alumnus, I had heard many accounts of the devoted and fiercely loyal Mountaineer fans.

Homecoming 2021 is your chance to celebrate Mountaineer traditions and show your spirit during this year’s in-person events. There will be traditional activities – some with a new twist – for you to enjoy with friends, families and returning alumni. Be sure to check them out.

Declines in mental health. A need for public space. A desire for more research opportunities. What is one way to help ease this all? I argue that a campus aquarium is what we need.

Mike Flanagan has returned after his traumatizing masterpiece “The Haunting of Hill House” and less frightening, but more atmospherically chilly, “Bly Manor” with a new limited horror series that seeks to leave scars before the Halloween season even begins.

Since 2018 when Lil Nas X set fire to the scene with his smash hit “Old Town Road” (which just made history by being the first song to go 15x-platinum), eyes have been on the viral star, waiting to see if he would be a one-hit wonder or pop’s newest wave-making sensation.

It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to notice the vast array of students with stuffy noses and sore throats roaming campus. In my own classes, it is rare that a silence on behalf of the professor is not met with a cough.

Imagine yourself inside a small space, crammed with around 14 other people on a five-minute ride between campuses. Despite TSA requirements, some passengers may decide that it is not worth wearing a mask during a pandemic, thus exhaling their breath into the cramped vehicle.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, uncertainty and anxiety are present in our everyday lives. This has led to the fabrication of many lies and half-truths surrounding public health approaches.

While the Proposed Resolution on a Vaccine Mandate (PRoaVM) states “THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Faculty Assembly supports mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for all students and employees by January 1, 2022, with limited legally mandated exceptions,” the Faculty Assembly’s arguments for supp…

For WVU students and staff, nothing much compares to the feeling of touring WVU’s beautiful campus and seeing it bustling with life.

It’s been almost thirty years since the release of Bernard Rose’s Candyman, a wicked horror tale based on Clive Barker’s “The Forbidden” that remains one of the most respected horror/thrillers of the nineties, a story about urban legends among many things that has become one itself.

On the evening before the first day of the fall semester, the University informed us that masks would be required again within the classroom for the next 30 days. It felt like a step backwards after so much progress in the fight against COVID-19.

It’s been over five years since Lorde released Melodrama: a heartbreaking, lonely album that rings like the musical equivalent of a guttural cry. She has since then floated under the radar and out of the public eye.