(photo credit: The Longwood Hole)

As this weekend’s tragedy continues to garner attention from national news outlets, students are staying active on campus, doing such things as fighting for the return of the two-headed duck.

A Facebook group called “Where’s my Duck?” has earned one-hundred and twenty four members in less than forty-eight hours.

And they’re quite serious about its return.  The group provides a link to a website that offers Two-Headed Trojan Ducky for the low low price of $13,000.

We asked the group’s creator, Ashley Bowles, how she planned to come up with that much cheese.

“I would like to start a fundraiser,” she said. “Heck I’d love for the students to raise half and then have the university cover the remaining cost. But with the economy so [b]ad I doubt they are going to put in $6,500 for a sculpture so I doubt that will happen.”

Her group’s members have already been brainstorming.  One proposed that “if each person gave about 3 dollars there’d be enough money to get the duck back.”

You know, if every student threw in three dollars, we’d almost have enough money to buy back the Collegiate Readership Program.  Or a pony.

While we were never the duck thing’s biggest fans, we understand its importance for many students.  When asked why she was so attached to Ducky, Bowles said:

“When I started as a freshmen last year in the fall I couldn’t wait to show everyone who came to visit the two headed rubber ducky. It always cheered me up when the weather would stay cloudy for days or whenever I was having a bad day. I think it was the bright yellow. Personally I think the freshmen got gypped; they see it during orientation and then they come in expecting to see it and it’s not there. It’s quite depressing.”

We’ll look forward to the fundraising schemes of Bowle’s group.  If you get the money and Ducky is already purchased, don’t forget that there are always other positive investments to be made (read: pony!).