Cornell University bans animal processing after two students used dorm kitchen to butcher black bear

Last fall, the story of two Cornell University students who butchered a legally harvested black bear in their college dorm kitchen went viral. A recent university policy change, however, will ensure this doesn’t happen again.
The students, whose names and exact location of the hunt were not published, harvested the bear in southeastern New York during the opening weekend of the 2025 early black bear season there. Upon research, they found no reason for not being able to use the campus dorm kitchen facilities to process the bear themselves.