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...problem that we run into a little is that it’s difficult to stop a senior from getting a beer and giving it to a sophomore,” Hawkins says. “That can happen at an event with a BAT team, that can happen at a bar and that can happen at our Stein Club...
After this sighting, the room spent some days in the grips of terror. They kept outside doors to the bedrooms closed, Gagnon and Holmgren even went so far as stuffing socks in the crack between the floor and the door hoping to confine the bat to the room’s common areas...
Reality struck one morning when Gagnon woke with small, red, swollen spots on his finger, cheek and shoulder. It was only after a bit of thinking that he associated the spots with the bat and high-tailed it to UHS. “They told me they weren’t bat bites, but that I could get rabies from even sleeping in the same room as the bat,” says Gagnon. He is now getting rabies shots which he describes...
There was some intra-room dispute when faced with what to do about the bat. “I was threatening to catch the bat and keep it and release it outside,” says the humanitarian Myers. Dissent came from LaFlamme and Holmgren who commented that he was ready to go after it with a lacrosse stick. But then one night . . . “I heard this rustling noise, so I was a little wary,” says LaFlamme. He and Myers proceeded to enter his room and search out the critter. The noise came from behind...
...bat was last sighted in 317 when it was headed for the fire door connecting to 302. “The bat is probably still in our room,” says Conor Black ’04 of Mather 302. Even though the bat flew at his head last Saturday, Black doesn’t really mind that the bat might be a semi-permanent resident. He argues “they just get a bad rap from the same following that said wolves were merciless killers throughout the twentieth century...