SEVEN NEWS. WEST SIDE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ENJOYING MARIPOSA BASIN PARK AND ITS DUCK POND FOR DECADES. WELL, NOW SOME ARE SAYING THAT POND IS FILTHY, FOLLOWING WHAT THEY CALL A SUBPAR RENOVATION ...

Jerry Coyne, a professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution and the official “duck-master” of Botany Pond, spoke to the Maroon about the pond’s new inhabitants.