I don't know if it's true in this case or not, but I'm pretty sure this same story about sidewalks has been told about every university in North America.
At <http://ask.metafilter.com/62599/Where-the-sidewalk-ends>; there are reports of it at Columbia (by Eisenhower), Tufts, Long Beach State, University of South Florida, Iowa State and/or Iowa, and CMU. I certainly heard it about my alma mater (none of the above).
At <http://ask.metafilter.com/62599/Where-the-sidewalk-ends>; there are reports of it at Columbia (by Eisenhower), Tufts, Long Beach State, University of South Florida, Iowa State and/or Iowa, and CMU. I certainly heard it about my alma mater (none of the above).
At <http://books.google.com/books?id=C_FFMePR204C&lpg=PA184&...; they claim this was done at Disneyland.