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From: neveu@lll-crg.ARpA (Charles Neveu)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Abolition of Student Governments
Message-ID: <1101@lll-crg.ARpA>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 15:11:26 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 15:11:26 1985
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In article <719@grkermi.UUCP> andrew@grkermi.UUCP (Andrew W. Rogers) 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 University was Wisconsin, the party was called Pail&Shovel...
>> [discussion of krazy kampus kapers omitted]
>
>Hey, these guys sound great!  Tell us more!
Well, it's a weird and twisted saga, but here are a few anecdotes.
One of their campaign promises was to bring the Statue of Liberty to
the University. That February, on the frozen Lake Mendota, they built
the top of the head (bridge of the nose and up) of Lady Liberty and
her torch arm. They claimed that they had stolen her during they
night, but the helicopter cable broke and she plunged through the ice.
The head and arm were designed by the man who used to do the sets for
the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera (this may be apocryphal). They looked very
nice. The torch even lit.
Last I heard (from P.F.L. Jim Mallon's sister) was that Mallon was
producing commercials in Minneapolis. Leon Varjian, self-proclaimed
professional student ("I've been in college for twelve years, I'm taking 
one credit and I never attend.  I'm the perfect student.") has a Master's 
degree in math and is/was a computer programmer. Every year in Madison 
on April 1st he leads the Boom-Box Parade, in which a couple hundred
people march in band uniforms, carrying boom-boxes tuned to
one of several different radio stations, each broadcasting a different
John Phillips Sousa march. 
They did lots of other things, too. There was the world's largest toga
party, the world's largest milkshake, the flamingos ("got'em dirt
cheap from a truck hijacker"), the Halloween party...
			Charles