A sewage pipe burst in the Music Administration Building on Saturday, according to some Northwestern students.

The leak resulted in an odor that lasted throughout the first floor of the building, 711 Elgin Road, until Monday evening, Bienen sophomore Jesse Grider said.

“I’ve been talking to some other voice majors and they were saying they were in MAB around 6 p.m. and the smell was unbearable,” he said.

The smell was so strong that some choir practices were relocated to Alice Millar Chapel.

Weinberg and Bienen sophomore Vivia Chengshi said students could not smell the odor from classrooms, but the hallways “smelled like poo.”

The building is very old, so the pipe burst wasn’t a surprise, said Ilana Goldstein, a Weinberg and Bienen sophomore.

“I didn’t really know why it smelled so gross at first,” she said. “I assumed a pipe burst or something.”

Grider, who attended choir practice in MAB on Monday, said the smell was mostly gone by around 9 p.m.

“The smell has cleared,” he said. “Everything’s fine now.”

– Annie Chang