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In regards to "are these reasonable?" as always, it depends from person to person. Me and probably most everyone else on this forum is unhappy about campus carry restrictions, but I respect that other voters' opinions count, too. If we as a society, or as a state, or as a campus come together and have a consensus that they don't want something, I respect that. Some people get upset at this because they misinterpret something like the second amendment to be the absolute gospel of law, but there are other factors in our legal system that supersede the apparent and obvious interpretation of the second amendment.

A discussion made at a campus-wide level like you're discussing is really past the point of trying to make arguments as to what is safe or reasonable. It's a discussion of what most people want, and whether those wants are valid or have some sort of logical basis to them is irrelevant. I think the only thing you can really do is say, here, look at the statistics for people who have been harmed on university campuses by people lawfully carrying firearms. If they dismiss that, there's really nothing else you can do because you're already beyond the point of logic and reason.

Labs deal with a lot of very dangerous materials. It's not an environment you want to use a firearm because the potential for harming everyone in the room, or in the entire building, or even the entire city block is extremely real. The ones at my university had extremely large (several hundred pound) canisters of god-knows-what being exchanged all the time. They're very possibly a single bullet away from killing or maiming everyone in that corner of a room.

Yes, sometimes these labs are being used for dissecting frogs, but that says nothing about what is being stored there. I think it would be too much to have to make safety committees to determine what is currently stored in which labs and whether they pose a threat due to possible firearms discharging and to put up or take down signage accordingly.