In a real “There’s nothing in the rule book that says a dog can’t play basketball” moment, two Cornell students hunted down a bear, brought it back to their dorms, cleaned it and then packaged up the meat.

This immediately set off a wave of backlash, with students wondering if you really could just bring a bear carcass into the dorms and turn it into trichinosis-filled stew. Well, now the University has responded by saying that yes, unfortunately, you can.

According to the Ithaca Voice, the people involved were properly licensed and, so long as they were hunting in the Catskill Mountains, which are an approximate two-hour drive away, legally allowed to be hunting black bears.

There’s also no part of the university code that says you can’t do this so, technically speaking, you *can* skin a bear on the Cornell campus. However, it’s not likely to make you a lot of friends.