Word: ratting
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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...
...Rat Task Force was born...
Vautin and Lichten gathered the 15 representatives from various University groups such as Environmental Health and Safety, Facilities Maintenance, Building Operations, and the College Dining Halls. The band of ratbusters worked on the rodent problem for the next 21 months, implementing reforms such as rat-proof garbage cans in the Yard and self-contained compactor units that are impermeable to rodents...
...with the help of Ultra Fast exterminators, the Rat Force trapped the rats in the steam tunnels and sealed the pipes, holes and foundations of the dining service buildings...
...There is minimal activity at the present time," confirms Ultra Fast exterminator Robert Cormier. "Only one rat a month has been reported...