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From: neveu@lll-crg.ARpA (Charles Neveu)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Re: Abolition of Student Governments
Message-ID: <1095@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 12:23:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 12:23:02 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Dec-85 05:34:38 EST
References: <641@im4u.UUCP> <678@milo.UUCP> <467@mot.UUCP>
Reply-To: neveu@lll-crg.UUCP (Charles neveu)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG Group
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In article <467@mot.UUCP> al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski) writes:
>> 
>A few years ago, the student government election at some University
>was won by a "surrealist" or "anarchist" party or something like that.
>The first thing they did was to buy thousands of pink plastic lawn
>flamingos and plant them all over campus. Does anyone remember the
>name of the University or more detail as to what they did or what
>the aftermath was?
The University was Wisconsin, the party was called Pail&Shovel (after
a campaign promise that they would take the student government budget
of $80,000, convert it to pennies, dump it on library mall and let the
students go after it with pails and shovels), the perpetrators were
Jim Mallon, President-For-Life and Leon Varjian,
Vice-President-For-Life. They were elected because people had become
rather cynical about student government for all the reasons so far
discussed on this newsgroup, and because they were genuinely funny,
creative, and they were powerful campaigners. The flamingos story is
true, but it wasn't the first thing they did. Before that there were
Toga parties, the famous Statue of Liberty on Lake Mendota, changing
the name of the school to University of New Jersey, etc.
					Charles Neveu
					Wisconsin '83