Article: Attention-getters keep West Virginia U. class interested

Jana Salisberry
University Wire
09-29-1999
(The Daily Athenaeum) (U-WIRE) MORGANTOWN, W.V. -- Usually at 10 a.m. students in class have a tendency to snore -- except when a flying blue Frisbee is whizzing around the room.

Political science professor Dr. Robert Jay Dilger has made a habit of bringing toys to his State and Local Government class in an effort to hold everyone's attention.

"All right, today I just couldn't help myself. We're going to pass around the Mountaineer," said Dilger.

In his navy blue, pressed suit and with a faint New England accent, he tossed the mountaineer figurine into the first row to real Mountaineer, Brandon Flower.

"I like the class. I like the craziness and ...

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