The original path curved away from the new Nutt MECS Center at Trinity, but even engineering bears won’t follow a path that leads in the wrong direction:
An old story has it that [name of administrator] at [name of new college] had the architect remove all but the most obvious walking paths from the new campus plans. After the first year passed, then they paved the routes that people actually used.
Vassar College has a good example of that design in the residential quad:
But even they won’t slash diagonals across a lawn just for students:
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 