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Here's your SCUP Link to "That's Where the Walk Should Be"

Michigan Today has a thought-inducing article about the University of Michigan Diag, why it is shaped like it is, and the professor of history and law who planted many of the trees. (Professor White eventually became Michigan's first "Superintendent of Grounds." His pay was $75/yr. Oh, and he also went on to, among other things, found Cornell University.) So, why is the University of Michigan Diag the shape it is? We loved this part of the writing because it reminded us of SCUPers:

First, he observed the human geography—the paths that students had created simply by walking between buildings. No doubt he had in mind the same principle voiced some years later by President James Burrill Angell, who told students that "one of the finest examples of the value of precedent that I have ever seen is one of the paths which you fellows make across the grass of the Campus. We take that as clear proof that a walk should be there, and set about building one."