VenusDeMuddFountain

Venus de Mudd is the nickname for the lovely lady who bravely stands nude in the KoiPond? (Koi Fountain?) in HixonCourt?, where she is ogled by a varying number of gargoyles who are believed to reflect TheRatio (male-to-female, at Mudd).

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There's a funny prank story handed down from AncientMyth involves Venus de Mudd: Apparently once upon a night, the bust of Seeley G. Mudd in Gallileo Foyer climbed out of its little niche and took a little stroll out into Hixon Court to pay Venus a visit of the, um, romantic persuasion. Or at least that's what the footprints (and handprints) leading from the niche to Venus on her pedestal suggested the next morning.

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It is widely believed that ProfessorSu is actually a fountain gargoyle. One of the gargoyles disappeared shortly before Su supposedly arrived at Mudd. ProfessorSu even has [a suspicious picture] on the math department's web server:

Later a new gargoyle was hired to replace him in his fountain duties.