Students create group chat to document rabbit sightings around campus
Rabbit sightings across campus have sparked students to share pictures and videos in a GroupeMe chat, amassing over 230 members.
The chat, “nu bunny watching,” was created by Medill freshman Frankie Lucco in April. Even though the chat originally started as Lucco and a few friends, it soon became a larger group of students sharing sightings of bunnies on campus, she said.
Lucco said she was inspired to start the group chat after a friend at the University of Illinois told her about the school’s squirrel watching club. Lucco said that one of her favorite parts of the chat is sharing memes and humorous content about the rabbits.
A 1974 graduate, Maledy said there were P.E. sections in the pool her sophomore and junior years. As a high school girl, messing up your hair in the middle of the day wasn t desirable, Maledy said. In high school, your appearance mattered, and it took time to do your hair.
The 1969 Hickman High School yearbook, Cresset, on one page with photos notes that Hickman swimmers completed their first season in their own pool with a perfect 9-0 record. The 1968 yearbook said the pool was unfinished.
The pool is mentioned briefly in a school district history Public School Education in Columbia, which states the pool and a wing of classrooms were part of bond issues approved in 1962, 1964, 1966 and 1968.