August 10, 2007

Gun Today, Hare Tomorrow

By PETER SCHMIDT

If Elmer Fudd goes off to college, he better leave the campus's wascally wabbits alone. That became clear last month at North Dakota State University, as police officers stormed the campus in response to reports of a man pointing a rifle from a vehicle.

The gunman turned out to be Wayne D. Larson, a maintenance worker taking part in a university-sanctioned rabbit shoot.

For more than a dozen years, the university has sent its maintenance workers out with pellet guns to control

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