Last month, residents discovered two bats on the third floor of MU’s Responsibility Hall, prompting Residential Life to contact pest control services. It took them about 10 hours to respond.
MU freshman Rachel Phelps discovered the first bat, which was dead, by the third-floor elevator at 9:35 a.m. on March 6. Phelps sent a message to her floor’s GroupMe chat, warning others not to go near the bat or touch it. Her residential advisers were not in the group chat, and she said that she decided not to contact them due to the early timing of the incident.
On the same floor, MU freshman Reagan Swatosh discovered the second bat in her room minutes later. As she walked into her suite’s living room, she saw the bat lying in front of her room’s door, alive.