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...last spring, Dunster House Master Karel F. Liem called in the big guns: Gary Alpert, one of Liem's former students, and Baird Professor of Science and eminent ant authority Edward O. Wilson...
Things looked grim. Alpert's office was flooded with student complaints. The Crimson even ran a photo of a student displaying a live, captured rat. Director of Facilities Management Thomas E. Vautin and Director of Physical Operations Michael N. Lichten realized that the time had come for the University to get a Pied Piper...
...Alpert says, things have vastly improved. "Rats have stopped coming up through the toilets or chewing their way into buildings," he says...
...Alpert says the Harvard campus is now virtually rat-free--except for one place. His office, the Environmental Health and Safety Building, is still heavily infested with rodents...
Cambridge dining establishments are often especially troubled. According to Alpert, rats can be found in the dumpsters behind the restaurants...