Mark Woods, an 18-year-old UC Davis economics major, was arrested today after authorities found a couple of pipe bombs in his dorm room, going well above and beyond the school's no hot plate policy.

More than 400 students were quickly evacuated from their dorm rooms last night after a n anonymous tipster called the police about the explosive materials. Woods, now facing two felony charges, including possessing explosives to make a bomb, meant no harm, according to his roommate:

Woods' roommate Robert Chao says that Woods wasn't plotting to do harm to anyone. "He had no intention of blowing anything up. He had no ill intentions as a person. That's not him."

Poor kid. We'd normally rail against him for acting so foolish, but seeing as how there's little to do in Davis aside from huffing glue and giving cows makeovers, we feel bad for Woods. But only a little. Anyway, goes on to report that "[a]uthorities believe it was an isolated incident and said there was no need to detonate any devices." And the evacuated students? They pulled "couches together in the dining hall and passed the time with movies." Ah, the college life.