Posted on 09/12/2025 6:19:56 AM PDT by billorites
A pair of Cornell University students killed a 120-pound black bear before bringing the carcass back to their dorm where they skinned and butchered the remains, officials said Thursday.
The two undergrads who had "valid New York State hunting licenses killed a bear lawfully over the weekend," a Cornell spokesperson said in a statement.
The students then "brought the animal into a Cornell residence hall for processing on Saturday" before a "police report was made when a complaint was filed late Sunday night, but no charges have been filed,” the school official added.
An investigator with the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), which oversees hunting in New York State, visited the school on Sunday and found no code violations.
The bear was killed in the DEC's Region 4, which includes the following counties — Delaware, Otsego, Albany, Columbia, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Schoharie and Schenectady, according to the agency.
So the bear wasn't killed in Tompkins County, which includes Cornell University and the city of Ithaca. Ostego, three counties away to the east, would appear to be the area of Region 4 closest to Cornell.
The state agency confirmed school findings that "the incident does not present violations of the Environmental Conservation Law or DEC regulations."
Cornell's intercollegiate teams compete as the Big Red but with no official mascot.
However, fans have long embraced images of a bear and a person wearing a bear suit, decked out in Cornell gear, is a regular sight prowling the sidelines at Big Red football and basketball games.
A growling bear plays a star role in Cornell athletic imagery and bears are all over school memorabilia.
Cornell has conservative students? Who knew?
I got drug dealers to stop selling on my corner by going to the mailbox in my underwear while wearing a towel for a cape and running to the mailbox like I was superman.
Reminds me of Huckabee telling about cooking squirrels in his popcorn popper, in the dorms.
Yum Yum
I hope I never have to find out.
Beat me to it.
Still better than what they do at Miskatonic University.
Still consumes a LOT of Febreze after, to make the dorm room “bearable” again.
Coming soon to a Cornell University Student Handbook near you ...
A person very familiar to me is directly responsible for a change to a certain university's Student Handbook ...
Boxers or briefs?
tidy whities. I smiled and waved at them. They looked really scared. Then I bunny hopped all the way back to the house.
They left and never came back. I am still known as the crazy white guy and that was 20 years ago.
LOL!!!
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
I was a 41 year old overweight white guy with no shirt on at the time. Not a pretty sight...
Was your prof Ron Swanson?
It’s a pity they got suspended from NCAA competitions for using reanimated athletes.
Late 1980s—We had signs on the dorm entrances asking us to NOT clean our birds (ducks and pheasants) inside.
Update to the rule book coming….
My friends in Sanford have them roaming casually around their subdivision. They send me pictures from time to time.
The real problem at Cornell is that the bears were killed......with a gun!
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