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In cwru.general Maelstrom <Maelstrom@cwru.edu> wrote:

: Anyone notice there is a major rat infestation on the quad? Primarily
: near baker, and olin.

        It's a free-range protein supply for the Wood Company.  The buggers
are thriving quiite nicely, aren't they?

        *Rich*
-- 
Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D.            | "Aplysia californica" is your taxonomic
Department of Biology, Slug Division | nomenclature.  /  A slug, by any other
Case Western Reserve University      | name, is still a slug by nature.
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7080  U.S.A.  |     -- apologies to Data, "Ode to Spot"

And besides these newsgroups (which no one in facilities or maintenance
reads), where else did you report it?

Problems get fixed faster if they're reported to something approximating the
appropriate person.  Hell, even calling the operator and asking for
facilities would probably get you in the right direction.

I've only seen one rat-like creature around Olin in the past couple of
years, and I tend to be around a bit in the evenings on friday and saturday
nights (due to film society).

How many have you seen?

- Paul

"Maelstrom" <Maelstrom@cwru.edu> wrote in message
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> Anyone notice there is a major rat infestation on the quad? Primarily
> near baker, and olin. Or are we following CWRU policy and waiting to the
> very last moment to get something implemented? Like waiting for the rats
> to appear in the buildings when it starts snowing.
> Mael
>

The University has a contract with various exterminators to take care
of these sorts of things.  From teenie creatures to giant ones!!

Call 2580, which is the Plant Services Customer Service Center.
They should be able to hook you up.

Joel

PS...They were creeping around Yost last night, too!

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With big pointy teeth!

"Paul Schneider" <froggy@eecs.cwru.edu> wrote in message
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> With big pointy teeth!

What, behind the rabbit?

Ken

In article <bo8b9u$bpm$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>,
Paul Schneider <froggy@eecs.cwru.edu> wrote:
>How many have you seen?

For what it's worth, I've seen three.  One was between Baker and Adelbert,
and two were on the quad near Stro.

        Stephen

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Stephen Trier
Technical Development Lab
Cleveland FES Center
sct@po.cwru.edu

Plant services knows about it. I have seen some pretty bigs ones. They 
make 'Big Ben' look small. (I think that was the name of the big rat in 
Willard).

Mael

Maelstrom wrote:

> Anyone notice there is a major rat infestation on the quad? Primarily 
> near baker, and olin. Or are we following CWRU policy and waiting to the 
> very last moment to get something implemented? Like waiting for the rats 
> to appear in the buildings when it starts snowing.
> Mael
> 

Y'know, if they tore down baker the rats in that building at least would
have to go elsewhere....

- Froggy

Yeah. Aldebert.

Paul Schneider wrote:

> Y'know, if they tore down baker the rats in that building at least would
> have to go elsewhere....
> 
> - Froggy
> 
> 

3 big bad arse rats spotted tonight running around between bingham and
glennan.  I hope they don't carry the plague!

one ran right up to me till i started stomping after it scaring the crap out
of it...

Josh


"Maelstrom" <Maelstrom@cwru.edu> wrote in message
news:bo6vuj$i2e$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu...
> Anyone notice there is a major rat infestation on the quad? Primarily
> near baker, and olin. Or are we following CWRU policy and waiting to the
> very last moment to get something implemented? Like waiting for the rats
> to appear in the buildings when it starts snowing.
> Mael
>

Methinks it's time to call 2580 until they get so sick of hearing from us
that they properly address the problem.

- Froggy

I called them, and they said everything was 'under control'. HA. I've 
seen a couple more, I swear I saw one eat a cat. What the hell are they 
eating to get so fricken huge.

Paul Schneider wrote:
> Methinks it's time to call 2580 until they get so sick of hearing from us
> that they properly address the problem.
> 
> - Froggy
> 
> 

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:53:17 -0500, Maelstrom wrote:

> I called them, and they said everything was 'under control'. HA. I've 
> seen a couple more, I swear I saw one eat a cat. What the hell are they 
> eating to get so fricken huge.
> 
Mad scientist on campus?

~Dan

probably the eggs or newborns of other populations around

Maelstrom wrote:
> 
> I called them, and they said everything was 'under control'. HA. I've
> seen a couple more, I swear I saw one eat a cat. What the hell are they
> eating to get so fricken huge.
> 
> Paul Schneider wrote:
> > Methinks it's time to call 2580 until they get so sick of hearing from us
> > that they properly address the problem.
> >
> > - Froggy
> >
> >

"Andrew Kibler" <00@cwru.edu> wrote in message
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> probably the eggs or newborns of other populations around
>
> Maelstrom wrote:
> > What the hell are they eating to get so fricken huge.

The ultimate answer probably lie's somewhere in the bowels of Sodexho....

(Oh come on, you knew that one was coming)

- Froggy

Paul Schneider wrote:
> "Andrew Kibler" <00@cwru.edu> wrote in message
> news:3FABBDD6.51A1@cwru.edu...
> 
>>probably the eggs or newborns of other populations around
>>
>>Maelstrom wrote:
>>
>>>What the hell are they eating to get so fricken huge.
> 
> 
> The ultimate answer probably lie's somewhere in the bowels of Sodexho....
> 
> (Oh come on, you knew that one was coming)
> 
> - Froggy
> 
> 
> 

Well then, I guess we'll only have to wait a few hours to get to the 
bottom of this?

Maelstrom wrote:
> Anyone notice there is a major rat infestation on the quad? Primarily 
> near baker, and olin. Or are we following CWRU policy and waiting to the 
> very last moment to get something implemented? Like waiting for the rats 
> to appear in the buildings when it starts snowing.
> Mael
> 

You know discussions like this are exactly why I should keep lurking.  I 
doubt I'd have heard about this reading the alumni magazine.  This is 
real news alumni should know. :)  For some reason the alumni mag rather 
run with "Hundert Prefers Red Kneck Ties" rather than "North End of Quad 
Overrun By Intelligent Rodents." :P

-John

Let's just surrender and build a massive solid gold Rat Shrine on the 
quad! who's with me?!

steve b wrote:
> Let's just surrender and build a massive solid gold Rat Shrine on the 
> quad! who's with me?!

CASE will change to Nihm. I hope I spelled that right. I haven't read 
that book (or seen the movie) in eons.

In article <bp0mru$3b2$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>, Maelstrom wrote:
> steve b wrote:
>> Let's just surrender and build a massive solid gold Rat Shrine on the 
>> quad! who's with me?!
> 
> CASE will change to Nihm. I hope I spelled that right. I haven't read 
> that book (or seen the movie) in eons.

Nimh 

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In article <bp0mru$3b2$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>,
 Maelstrom <maelstrom!@case.edu> wrote:

> steve b wrote:
> > Let's just surrender and build a massive solid gold Rat Shrine on the 
> > quad! who's with me?!
> 
> CASE will change to Nihm. I hope I spelled that right. I haven't read 
> that book (or seen the movie) in eons.

It's NIMH...and Case. Lest anyone perceive the name of the school as an 
acronym.

Enjoy,
Alison
ams58

NIMH, the National Institute of Mental Health.  http://www.nimh.nih.gov/

         Stephen

Followups to cwru.general, please.
-- 
Stephen Trier
Technical Development Lab
Cleveland FES Center
sct@po.cwru.edu

Maelstrom wrote:

> steve b wrote:
> 
>> Let's just surrender and build a massive solid gold Rat Shrine on the 
>> quad! who's with me?!
> 
> 
> CASE will change to Nihm. I hope I spelled that right. I haven't read 
> that book (or seen the movie) in eons.
> 
In reply to myself. Way to go dumbass; Nimh is how you spell it, and 
it's Case not CASE or C4S3 cause we do not want to imply there are 
h4x0rs here. /Doh

Alison Perera wrote:
> ...and Case. Lest anyone perceive the name of the school as an 
> acronym.

	You would think so, wouldn't you?  But they're actually insisting 
everybody refer to it (in html, anyway) as CASE, but with the "ase" 
being in small caps.  So all four letters are capitalized, but the C is 
normal sized while the ASE are smaller.  They're very strict about it, 
we're not allowed to display "Case" any other way unless it's part of 
the full "Case Western Reserve University" name.

	Yes, because I'm sure that just looks sooo much better to everybody 
(and will certainly be the deciding factor for many prospective 
students).  Don't ask me, I don't get it.

Tom

In article <bp2ql2$ef3$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>, Tom Trelvik wrote:
> 	You would think so, wouldn't you?  But they're actually insisting 
> everybody refer to it (in html, anyway) as CASE, but with the "ase" 
> being in small caps.  So all four letters are capitalized, but the C is 
> normal sized while the ASE are smaller.  They're very strict about it, 
> we're not allowed to display "Case" any other way unless it's part of 
> the full "Case Western Reserve University" name.

so it should be
 _
/  
\_ASE

if it's just in plain ascii, right? ;)

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In cwru.general Tom Trelvik <ttt@cwru.edu> wrote:

:       But they're actually insisting
: everybody refer to it (in html, anyway) as CASE, but with the "ase"
: being in small caps.

        And how, pray tell, are you to do this in nice HTML without
stupid <FONT> tags to change the size?

        Include me out.  It will stay "CWRU" on my pages :-)

        *Rich* (who has taken to calling this place "The University"
instead of "Case")

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Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D.            | "Aplysia californica" is your taxonomic
Department of Biology, Slug Division | nomenclature.  /  A slug, by any other
Case Western Reserve University      | name, is still a slug by nature.
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7080  U.S.A.  |     -- apologies to Data, "Ode to Spot"

In article <bp3utu$mat$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>,
 rfd@po.cwru.edu (Richard F. Drushel) wrote:

> :       But they're actually insisting
> : everybody refer to it (in html, anyway) as CASE, but with the "ase"
> : being in small caps.
> 
>         And how, pray tell, are you to do this in nice HTML without
> stupid <FONT> tags to change the size?

By using Cascading Style Sheets, particularly "font-variant:small-caps"?

<http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/font/font-variant.html>

Jeff

Tom Trelvik <ttt@cwru.edu> wrote:
> But they're actually insisting everybody refer to it (in html,
> anyway) as CASE, but with the "ase" being in small caps.

CMIIW, but I think small caps is just for title-ish occurrences.  Body
text occurrences are supposed to be capitalized normally.


paul

In cwru.general Jeff Hunter <jxh106@po.cwru.edu> wrote:

: In article <bp3utu$mat$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>,
:  rfd@po.cwru.edu (Richard F. Drushel) wrote:

:>         And how, pray tell, are you to do this in nice HTML without
:> stupid <FONT> tags to change the size?

: By using Cascading Style Sheets, particularly "font-variant:small-caps"?

        I like my CSS-less vanilla HTML 4.01.  My pages pass the checker
at validator.w3.org, too, unlike the University's.  The prettier they
get, the less useful they are.  But I've said this before :-)

        YMMV,

        *Rich*
-- 
Richard F. Drushel, Ph.D.            | "Aplysia californica" is your taxonomic
Department of Biology, Slug Division | nomenclature.  /  A slug, by any other
Case Western Reserve University      | name, is still a slug by nature.
Cleveland, Ohio  44106-7080  U.S.A.  |     -- apologies to Data, "Ode to Spot"

Jeff Hunter wrote:
>>        And how, pray tell, are you to do this in nice HTML without
>>stupid <FONT> tags to change the size?
> 
> 
> By using Cascading Style Sheets, particularly "font-variant:small-caps"?

	Yup.

Paul Jarc wrote:
> CMIIW, but I think small caps is just for title-ish occurrences.  Body
> text occurrences are supposed to be capitalized normally.

	I may be mistaken, but my understanding was that we're to display it 
that way anytime we use the shortened form of the name.

Tom

Richard F. Drushel wrote:
>         I like my CSS-less vanilla HTML 4.01.  My pages pass the checker
> at validator.w3.org, too, unlike the University's.  The prettier they
> get, the less useful they are.  But I've said this before :-)


	Not all of the ITS pages validate, but I have to give major kudos to 
the guy managing the ITS template now.  Some consultants were paid to 
create a new look and feel for ITS, and give us a template to create 
that look and feel with.  They instead gave us a zip file full of ASP 
files (which we do not, and will not support), which was full of 
horrendous code I wouldn't have wanted to touch with a ten foot pole. 
But he converted it to static html (there was never any reason they 
needed asp to begin with, they just used it for no apparent reason), 
cleaned it up, made much more extensive use of CSS, and has actually 
made an active effort when maintaining the template to keep it validating.

	With something upper administration is so concerned with, it's rare for 
them to worry about anything other than how it looks in IE, but he's 
thrown that logic out and actually attempted to support the standards as 
best as possible.  I *really* respect and appreciate that.

	And Rich, I love that you prefer standards compliance, and plain 
vanilla pages, but have you considered looking into the *current* 
standards?  HTML 4.01 is a bit dated nowadays.  =p  Not to mention it's 
downright sloppy compared to the stricter syntaxes standardized on now. 
  It makes for much cleaner, less ambiguous markup, that makes me wonder 
why they ever allowed such loose interpretations of syntax requirements 
in the past.  And CSS is actually pretty cool.  =)  Looking over your 
lego lab page (which is much cleaner than most HTML pages), I think 
you'd only have to change a couple quick things for XHMTL 1.0 Strict.

Tom

In article <bp5d7s$n0a$2@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>, Tom Trelvik wrote:
> Paul Jarc wrote:
>> CMIIW, but I think small caps is just for title-ish occurrences.  Body
>> text occurrences are supposed to be capitalized normally.
> 
> 	I may be mistaken, but my understanding was that we're to display it 
> that way anytime we use the shortened form of the name.

i've seen both forms... 
	http://www.cwru.edu/webdev/
uses Case (with no smallcaps)
	http://www.cwru.edu/its/
uses CASE (with a pseudo-smallcaps effect done using font-size (as
opposed to smallcaps... odd)
so i dont know which form is the "preferred" one

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In article <bp2ql2$ef3$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>,
Tom Trelvik  <ttt@cwru.edu> wrote:
>So all four letters are capitalized, but the C is 
>normal sized while the ASE are smaller.

It seems kind of biblical...

         Stephen

-- 
Stephen Trier
Technical Development Lab
Cleveland FES Center
sct@po.cwru.edu

"Stephen Trier" <sct@po.cwru.edu> wrote in message
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> In article <bp2ql2$ef3$1@eeyore.INS.cwru.edu>,
> Tom Trelvik  <ttt@cwru.edu> wrote:
> >So all four letters are capitalized, but the C is
> >normal sized while the ASE are smaller.
>
> It seems kind of biblical...

I AM the CASE, thy University... thou shalt have No Other Universities
before Me.