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Volume 41, No. 13
New rat species discovered
Meade Heights dig prompts closure, site
cordoned off by Feds
By Cathie McCormick
Capital Times Editor In Chief
Information became avail
able last week that shines a dif
ferent light on the need for new
dorms and the closing of the PSH
Meade Heights residence area.
In a phone call to The
Capital Times office March 27,
an unnamed University Park
employee reported seeing a letter
from Bruce Babbitt, former U.S.
Secretary of the Interior, to PSU
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the
President Graham Spanier.
According to the source, the let
ter informed Spanier that UGI
employees uncovered fossil
remains while repairing a gas
leak in the Meade Heights resi
dence area of Penn State
Harrisburg early in 1999.
A team of archeologists
were discreetly dispatched to the
Middletown area and, while dis
guised as utility workers, gath
ered sufficient evidence to iden
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tify the fossil record.
In the letter, Babbitt report
edly notified Spanier that leading
archeologists at the Smithsonian
Institution in D.C. determined
that the remains represented a
new species of the order
Rodentia.
In keeping with federal reg
ulations designed to protect
archeological sites, Babbitt
reportedly provided Spanier
notice that the federal govem-
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ment was invoking the law of
eminent domain and a 1/4-mile
area surrounding the discovery
must be evacuated and all exist
ing structures destroyed.
Reports concerning a pay
ment by the federal government
to the Pennsylvania Department
of General Services to replace
the residence area are still uncon
firmed.
A scientific study attached to
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Happy April Fools' 2001
Unlucky
13 skipped
Issue rife with
faux pas
irregardless
By Cathie McCormick
Capital Times Editor In Chief
The March 19 issue of The
Capital Times should have been
Volume 41, Number 13. In a
superstitious attempt to avoid
tempting the gods, the editors
Continued on Page 3
The rare Hawaiian Rodentia
Muridae Tacobellius commonly
called by its native name,
Chihuahua (Ka hoo a' hoo—i7j.:'
Rare
Hawaiian
rat at
large in
Middletown
Last seen near
Eisenhower
and Rt. 283
By Joanne Catherson
Capital Times Staff Write,
Despite numerous trapping
attempts in the past week, an
unusual rat continues to terror
ize residents in the Meade
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