Lake LaVerne

From Rofflehaus

Many things have been dumped in here, including trash cans, goalposts from the few games that the ISU football team won in the 1980s/1990s, and lamposts.

Home to two swans: Lancelot and Elaine.

There is a tradition saying that if you and a significant other walk around the perimeter of the lake 3 times without saying a word, you are destined to be married.

There's a plaque on the east side of the lake that reads:

THIS LAKE WAS A GIFT IN 1916 TO IOWA STATE COLLEGE FROM DR. LAVERNE W. NOYES ALUMNUS 1872 MANUFACTURER AND PHILANTHROPIST

Contents 1 Nicknames 2 Vandalism 3 News articles 4 External links

[edit] Nicknames

• Big Muddy
• Lake LaMud
• Lake Latrine

[edit] Vandalism

• May 25, 1959: Dam was blasted with a dynamite bomb with a homemade detonator (during a riot, apparently?)
• 1963: Another blast. See talk page.

[edit] News articles

• The article, Lake beautifies campus through the years, in the 02/24, 1999 edition of the Iowa State Daily is still unavailable due to a change in the Daily's website and general laziness of Rofflehaus contributors. If you'd like to help fix a broken link like this, check out Template talk:ISUD to find out how. Thank you for your patience. (D: 02/24/1999)

[edit] External links

• http://limnology.eeob.iastate.edu/LakeLaVerne-Timeline.aspx
• http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/wrg/Laverne/webpages/TimeLineOfNewsStoriesAndBombPhotos.html (better version of the above?)