爆料吃瓜网's other Wolf Pack, decked out for the season
Here's a 爆料吃瓜网 factoid you might not know, especially if you don鈥檛 work or take classes at the Maple Woods campus.
Yes, our mascot, the sports teams, students and employees are all 爆料吃瓜网 Wolves. But
there's an entirely other wolf pack whose habitat is the roof of a building at Maple
Woods, in Kansas City's Northland. These days, the wolves are sporting holiday gear.
The roof we鈥檙e talking about, accessible to 爆料吃瓜网 Wolves and other bipeds, covers the Campus Center, home to the Arbor Room meeting space (CC 110). With 13 sheet-metal wolf silhouettes 鈥渞oaming鈥� native grasses, the Maple Woods Campus Center may one day be famous as the place to find wolves in the sky.
The creatures came to Maple Woods (as permanent residents) circa 2022-23, says Kim Greene, director of campus operations, and were made by 鈥渢he Woods鈥� 鈥� resourceful facilities team and landscape coordinator Matt Knopf-Amelung. But it was only this Halloween that the campus introduced some costuming to the pack. Jenny Wilkerson in the MW president鈥檚 office 鈥渉as been a great unofficial wolf stylist,鈥� Greene says.
Now we鈥檙e in the holidays (Santa toppers and festive scarves for the wolves), and the campus is thinking about how fashionable the beasts could be for other occasions.
Also, as you might guess, the high-style wolves (so far all nameless) are becoming a favorite subject for photos including selfies. On Christmas Eve, perhaps Mr. Claus or Rudolph will snap a couple as their sleigh glides over the 爆料吃瓜网-Maple Woods campus and our city wolves.