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Caution! The University

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has Mice!

By Doug Smith
This isn't a joke. Even as
this story is being typed,
there is a mouse darting
around the computer lab.

What could it want in here?
Maybe it wants to open a
computer account, but Myron
isn't around. Maybe it wants
to bite my toes. HEY! GET
AWAY FROM ME YOU
LITTLE BUGGER! Maybe
the mice are the ones

responsible for crashing the .
network and not the students. -

(Are you listening CTS?)

So has the university found .

money in the budget for
mousetraps? Unlikely. After
all, this is a sanitary
university. Mice shouldn't be
able to penetrate this fine and
secure learning institution.
Nonetheless they are here.
And hey - mice are sooo
cuuuute! Who cares if they
share your lunch or spread a
few diseases?

What do we have to look
forward to now that we have
these four-legged comrades?
They obviously intend to
stay, so don’t be frightened if
you see 4 mouse somewhere.
They can turn up in the

damnedest places. One could .

be in the cafeteria, finishing
off someone else’s. lunch.
Another could be in the
computer lab, typing up a
. letter to its cousin Max.
Another still could be sitting
next to you in class, taking
notes and fulfilling its dream
of becoming the first mouse
to design a maze for humans.

One word of caution, though:
DO NOT TRY TO
CAPTURE A MOUSE!
Mice know all too well what

humans have done to mice ,

and their rat cousins. Any
sudden move toward a mouse
can cause it to become
extremely ferocious. And
mice know where to bite, too.
They'll crawl right up your
pant leg and bite you in a
very sensitive place, so just

don’t try it. +

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