In a bizarre turn of events for this quaint little college town, Emily Deaver, a professor of Environmental Science here at SMSU, has created artificial life.

Using techniques hinted at in Mary Shelley’s famous work “Frankenstein” as well as the writings of famous alchemist Cornelius Agrippa, Deaver has created a humanoid creature, not unlike the monster in Shelley’s novel.

“Creating life has always been a dream of mine,” Deaver said in an interview, tidying up her secret laboratory under the ST building. “So I decided, in my free time, to collect a few discarded cadavers and make a monster.”

Her creation, nicknamed “Adam,” was brought to life last Tuesday after a lightning storm provided her archaic equipment with the necessary voltage to animate dead flesh.  In order to work the bits and pieces of the delicate project, Deaver had to make the body quite a bit bigger than the average human, up to eight feet in height.

“He’s nothing like the monster you’ve seen in the movies,” Deaver explained. “In those, he’s a lumbering, unintelligent wretch, with bolts sticking out of his neck.  My wonderful creation is actually quite smart.  He will be helping me teach my classes once he learns how to properly speak English.”

“Unnnghhh,” the creature said, still grasping at the delicacies of language. “Science… environment… GMO’s…”

However, the campus religious community was not too pleased with Deaver’s efforts, saying she “went a bit too far” in creating life.  Some have even accused her of playing god.  Deaver denied such claims.

“I was in no way trying to play god,” Deaver told reporters. “It was more of just a hobby.  A project on the side, if you will.”

“Hnnnghhh?” The creature said, already halfway through reading Milton’s Paradise Lost.

When asked where she got the necessary body parts to create the construct, Deaver declined to comment.