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Reed Magazine editor Chris Lydgate tweeted this photo of the 900-pound snowball that slammed into a campus dorm on Saturday.

(Chris Lydgate/Reed Magazine)

It was a sign of the snowpocalypse.

A colossal, 900-pound snowball ripped a dorm room's wall apart at Reed College in Southeast Portland after a pair of math majors lost control of the icy globe, Reed Magazine reported.

The shenanigans started when several students began rolling the massive blob in a campus quad Saturday night, the report said.

By about 8 p.m., the snowball had become 40 inches in diameter. Meanwhile, rumors started to swirl among students that the school's Doyle Owl -- a totemic three-foot statue imbued with campus lore -- had been placed in the center of the sphere.

A crowd gathered with anticipation in the quad. The chants began to thunder: "Roll it! Roll it!"

That's when a pair of mathematics majors seized the giant snowball and started shoving it down a path toward Southeast 28th Street, according to the report.

Somehow, the math duo miscalculated the snowball's trajectory and it ended up plowing into a dorm room. Nobody was hurt and the crash caused about $3,000 in damage.

Maintenance workers had to spend 45 minutes cutting through the snowball.

The Doyle Owl was nowhere to be found.

-- Shane Dixon Kavanaugh