Life Lesson
OSU students studying the science of life had to deal with the sickening smell of death this week.
A large, walk-in size, freezer in the Life Sciences West building malfunctioned nearly one month ago leading to the slow thawing and rotting of animals used for student research.
According to a story in the OSU student newspaper, the doors to the freezer were jammed and physical plant workers didn’t try to fix the problem until the stench of leaking, rotting flesh filled the building.
Inside the freezer were snakes, fish, rats, frogs and — get this — an adult camel that may have been donated many years ago by a zoo. Posthumously, of course.
One research assistant who helped clean up the mess yesterday said it was “very gross and mushy.”
I’m sure it was.
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