Updated at 1:15 p.m. Thursday

A doe charged into Moore Hall room 111, located on the north side of the building, around 11 a.m. today.

Jeffrey Smith, a broadcast and cinematic arts instructor, was teaching BCA 510: Broadcast and Cable Law with 23 students when a deer jumped through the first floor window. It shattered the glass all over the class and charged at him.

“My students said they have never seen anyone jump that fast,” Smith said. “I just tried to get out of its way.”

The deer was contained in the classroom for around 30 seconds because the door was closed.

“A couple of students jumped out the window because they were scared,” Smith said.

One student suffered an arm injury from escaping through the window.

Smith said all the other students moved to the back corner of the room and the deer moved away from the door.

“When the deer moved back I opened the door and the deer came out to the hall,” he said.

Bystanders who had heard the crash ushered the deer outside through the west entrance. Smith guessed the doe was inside Moore Hall for less than two minutes.

“It seemed like hours,” he said.

CMU Police Officer Alan McArthur said the deer headed south out of the building and was last seen crossing Broomfield Road.

“We are not going to continue to look for the deer,” McArthur said. “The evidence at the scene suggested only minor injuries to the deer.”

Smith said the deer was bleeding and seemed disoriented, but could not tell if it was rabid.

McArthur speculates the doe charged at its reflection in the window.

Moore Hall is currently installing new windows, but the first floor still had not received the replacements.

McArthur said because Central Michigan University is located in a rural area, and the campus landscape includes many plants and flowers it is not uncommon for wildlife to be seen at night.

“I recall in the past we have had some other encounters,” he said.

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