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Only two months into the school year and already we can rely on college students to break the drudgery of a slow fall day. Early this morning, a Georgetown University dormitory was evacuated after MPD discovered a suspected drug lab. Initial reports indicate that around 6:15 a.m. a hazmat team was called to Harbin Hall for a strange odor on the ninth floor. After 400 students, mostly freshmen, were evacuated investigators found a large stash of chemicals thought to be used for making methamphetamines in one of the top-floor rooms. Although no drugs were found by MPD, campus officials later said the lab was not used for making meth, but rather Dimethyltryptamine (DMT-hallucinogenic) and that three arrests have been made.

According to The Hoya, the ninth-floor of Harbin Hall has been a problem floor so far this year. “This is ridiculous, even for us,” said Eric Synowicki, a resident on Harbin 9, to The Hoya. But the main hubbub this morning seems to stem from the idea that Georgetown could be susceptible to this kind of behavior. The Washington Post gathered the first of the reaction quotes:

Georgetown students, as with many colleges, are known for occasional binge drinking and casual drug use. Hard drugs are less common, students said, and a meth lab in a freshman dorm room was heretofore unknown.

“For this campus, this is very out of the norm,” said Kayla Bostwick, 18, a Harbin resident. “This should not happen.

But as previously reported, maybe the squeaky clean image of Georgetown, the university and its environs, is coming to a head.