like starfish said, people have been canoeing in that lake for decades. It happens pretty much every year and people act like its a new thing. Only difference is we have youtube and cell phone cameras now and it must have been a slow news week to make the paper.
now these guys took it to a new level.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQV5jBkkQjo. I was in a class in BSB at the time and watching them out the window and they were in there for at least 10 minutes and it was hilarious.
I'd rather see the pond made permanent and the paths fixed. What other universities have a pond in the middle of campus? Just keep the drunk idiots away from it.