Students find mice in Sadler
A day after Francesca Mastromarino returned to her room on the fourth floor of Sadler Hall after Winter Break, she was surprised at what she found on the floor next to her desk: a dead mouse.
Earlier this week, Mastromarino, a freshman advertising design major, could hear nibbling and crunching noises under her bed where she had stashed a box of oatmeal. One by one, she and her friend pulled out three empty packets of instant oatmeal. The final package came out with a mouse attached to it.
‘It ran out the door and into my resident adviser’s room,’ Mastromarino said. ‘That must be one fat, happy mouse.’
Mice have been spotted on several floors of Sadler since the beginning of the semester, Mastromarino said. She said she has heard of complaints on floors three, four, seven and eight, but she could only confirm that the fourth has been a home of the rodents.
Resident advisers and resident directors would not comment on the issue and deferred comment to FIXit. FIXit could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
According to Mastromarino, FIXit has been doing regular mice checks in the building. They have already visited her room three times, most likely because she’s found four mice in her room, she said.
‘They ask if you want mouse traps,’ Mastromarino said. ‘But I personally don’t want any. I don’t want anything dead or dying in my room. A lot of people on my floor don’t want them either.’
In addition to handing out mouse traps, signs have also been posted on the bathroom doors, said Evan Hewel, a freshman economics major living on the fourth floor. They serve as reminders to not leave food in the open and tell students to clean up after themselves.
Hewel said he has also only seen one mouse on the floor, but his friends living down the hall managed to catch some.
‘They just threw them outside because FIXit can take too long to come take care of them,’ Hewel said. ‘Most guys that have found a mouse in their rooms just throw them outside if they can catch it.’
Sarah Labow, an undeclared freshman in the College of Human Ecology who also lives on the fourth floor, said she only saw one mouse in her room and it darted out the door. A couple of her friends solved their own mouse problem by catching it in a cardboard box, she said.
Published on February 3, 2010 at 12:00 pm
