Imperial_Samura
Anticrust Smurf
It seems clear - your university is training you to be soldiers, and stock piling chemicals which can be used in nerve gases and the like. I expect some manner of glorious, bloody, revolution to begin any day now.🥷
Though I guess it's not really that odd. Many chemical compounds have more then one use in research conditions - though in the Empta case I can't imagine what. Though I am sure there is some benefit to having it on hand. Even ones that seem serious can be part of bigger things that might have some benefit (as someone pointed out about the Sodium Pentathol.) And besides, any chemical can be dangerous if treated incorrectly, and the ones in question are only dangerous in the way they are thought if prepared and administered correctly.
Really it doesn't seem so strange. For example at my university/collage, there is quite a large research park and science division, and while teaching students is a large part of it's function, it also carries out a lot of legitimate state and corporate research functions - after all, if your going to lump a lot of resources in one area, it might as well be doing something more then just teaching. Killing two birds with one stone as it were. As a result there is certainly a lot of stuff about that could be considered highly dangerous, but it's stored correctly, and is used in the correct context, so no problem. I imagine it could be the same at your college.