Many students did a double take Monday morning as they walked past the iconic Bunny statue covered with a blue tarp after an act of vandalism committed on Friday night. Students walking to class got a rude awakening as they stopped in their tracks to read signs posted by Maintenance Operations on pillars around the statue.

Just outside of Mallinckrodt but before you hit the library hulks a thin and pensive piece of bronze known affectionately by Washington University in St. Louis students as “the Bunny.” Thought by many to be a Wash. U. original—after all, how many bronze bunnies does one see—this piece is just one of many emaciated bunnies [...]

Just outside of Mallinckrodt, but before you hit the library, hulks a thin and pensive piece of bronze known affectionately by Washington University students as “the Bunny.” Thought by many to be a Wash. U. original—after all, how many bronze bunnies does one see?—this piece is just one of many emaciated bunnies placed throughout both the country and the world.