Two Cornell University students created a stir when they brought the carcass of a black bear they killed back to their dorm building to skin and butcher it.

A Cornell spokesperson told The Cornell Daily Sun that the undergrad students killed the bear legally, as they both had New York State hunting licenses. Nonetheless, someone filed a complaint, and a police report was made after the students brought the bear into a Cornell residence hall for processing, according to Tompkins County Scanner Beat Facebook post.

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Comments posted to the thread varied between congratulatory remarks and backlash with some questioning the legality of the kill.

A Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) investigator visited the school but found no code violations.

According to the agency, the hunters killed the bear in the DEC’s Region 4, which includes Delaware, Otsego, Albany, Columbia, Greene, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Schoharie and Schenectady counties. Cornell is in Ithaca County, where the season comes in on October 1.