After several accidents which caused the death of three of the Wooster ducks, the ducks left campus and returned to their farm. In an effort to keep some ducks on campus, rubber ducks will be hidden by the ESU duck social media page for students to find.
“We have 53 (rubber ducks),” said Kathryn Jackson, sophomore biochemistry and molecular biology major. “We’re going to hide one a week, I think on Fridays. They are only couple dollars. We got them on Amazon.”
The hunt for the ducks began last week.
“The one we did on Friday was in the (Teachers) Hall of Fame,” Jackson said. “I will try to make them not too hard, probably won’t take too long to find them.”
There will be clues on the duck’s social media accounts to help people find the rubber ducks.
“I still wanted to keep a duck (social media), because the ducks are no longer on the campus, because of the accident that happened”, Jackson said. “I want to do something fun…plus someone on Twitter had suggestions of a rubber duck”
Jackson created and runs the social media accounts by herself.
“The ducks brought so many people joy on campus,” Jackson said. “Now they are no longer here. I want to keep making people happy, even if it’s just a little rubber duck.”
For Jackson, getting to see and feed the ducks helped her to deal with stress.
“I loved…putting in one quarter (to those) things and feeding the ducks, especially (after I) had a particularly hard test that I didn’t think I did too well on,” Jackson said. “It’s just kind of destress type thing.”
Students, including Imen Rajhi, junior information systems major, are happy that the hunt for the rubber ducks is starting.
“The ducks are super nice, super cute,” Rajhi said. “That (rubber duck hunt) is interesting of course. It’s fun to go look for them. I’d love to go.”
There will be more duck themed events in the future, according to Jackson.