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From: gt4395b@gitpyr.UUCP (Christodoulou,Michael Joseph)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Re: Abolition of Student Governments
Message-ID: <1132@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 12:18:33 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 12:18:33 1985
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Reply-To: gt4395b@gitpyr.UUCP (Christodoulou,Michael Joseph)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Keywords: flamingos



> 
> 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 college was the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  I'm not sure
of the entire story, but my old roommate (who now attends that school)
sent a postcard with a picture of the administration building lawn
covered with pink plastic flamingos.  The caption on back read something
to the effect that every 97 years, flamingos mysteriously migrate to the
University of Wisconsin.

As for the aftermath, I believe he (my roommate) said that they just 
disappeared the following day.
       
                                  -- Mike Christodoulou
                                     Georgia Tech