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Plastic baby figurines scattered across campus

plastic babies is during Mardi Gras, when cutting the King Cake. However, at Hammond, it’s not rare to find the small figurine in a pencil pouch, hidden in a desk, or even at the bottom of your backpack.

For months, teachers have been plagued with finding these babies everywhere. In Dr. Ruehlen’s classroom, the symbol of luck is hidden under decorations and wedged into candles.

The question has been asked: who brought these babies here, and why?

Junior Lauren Asbill theorizes that the culprit may be someone in the AP Language class. When the Honors British literature class, which is also taught by Mr. Simpson, read A Modest Proposal, Simpson asked for the delinquent to donate some babies for a prank. The babies were placed on his desk the next day.

However, as these babies are also in Dr. Ruehlen’s room, the culprit must be in AP Language and one of Ruehlen’s classes, either AP US History or AP Government.

An upper schooler who prefers to stay anonymous is fed up with the babies: “It’s funny every once in a while, like when you see them in a tree or on a desk or melted in candle wax, but otherwise, I would not care if it disappeared.”

Both this student and Anna Katherine Adams, another junior, believe that the miscreant is not an upperclassman, but a freshman

Will the figurine felon end their rule? As of Fat Tuesday, the babies haven’t gotten any less common, nor any more common The answer remains unknown, and the culprit remains on the loose.