800-pound snowball damages college dorm

Students started making snowball last week

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Two math majors at Reed College lost control of a massive snowball that rolled into a dorm, knocking in part of a bedroom wall.

No one was injured.

The students began making the snowball last week during a rare snowstorm in Portland, Ore.

The students responsible for the runaway snowball reported the incident and have not been disciplined. Myers says they didn't intend to cause damage and feel awful about what happened.

Nobody weighed it, but college spokesman Kevin Myers says it was estimated to weigh 800 pounds or more.

A maintenance manager told Reed Magazine it will cost several thousand dollars to repair the building.