Brilliant but troubled 3rd year BWU-NY student Oliver
Wicks, more commonly
known by his hacker handle of "Beelzebub," was
found catatonic in his dorm
room on Sunday night. Friends say he had been awake almost
75 hours,
gleefully watching the hacker "freshman class"
attempt to solve a series of
baroque puzzles. Some malfunction--possibly a directed
transmission from a
sinister source--apparently cut through his tweaked head
amp and put him
into some kind of dark R.E.M. lockdown. An unidentified
psychiatric
resident working at the campus Emergency Room is quoted
as saying that Wicks
"gives out the EC Probe footprint of a guy trapped
in a nightmare he can't
wake up from." Others who have seen the student describe
his expression as
"blood-curdling," "grotesque," and
"cut-your-own-throat terrified."
The
University is urging all students to avoid tweaked shunt-jacks,
and stay
away from hacker hijinks.
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