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Monday, September 14, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
From the KU Weather Service
Jello Biafra of the band The Dead Kennedys holds the shoe he used to collect money for the No More Censorship Defense Fund, an anti-censorship organization he founded. Biafra spoke Saturday afternoon at Liberty Hall.
Reunion ends with a flourish
By DEBRA A. PETERSON Special to the Kansan
The night everybody'd been waiting for had finally arrived. From as far away as San Antonio, Texas, punkers, poets and hippies descended Saturday night on Liberty Hall to hear beat and performance poets strut their stuff in one final, exultant, screaming paen to the glorious Left.
Long before the show started, a mixed crowd gathered outside the theater. They were young, old, dressed-to-kill, dressed-for-a-bikeride, carrying bongo drums or wielding New Testaments. Two wore signs that read, "I need a ticket" and one wore an eye medallion mid-forehead that stared at out the world. Some stood in three-piece suits and some lounged in paint-stained T-shirts.
oilfilled pail, on time for the 8 p.m. show, but it didn't start until about 8:30 p.m., just after an impatient audience member sailed a pail
er airplane from the upper balcony to the stage. Then the house lights dimmed, the curtain rose, and purple and magenta lights bathed the stage.
The evening's performance began with Frankie Edie Kieronau-Parker reading from letters written to her by on-the-road husband, Jack, and continued through the freedom-praising poems of Andrei Codrescu, the self-praising poems of John Giorno delivered in the style of a Las Vegas comedian, and the sage advice offered by the irascible, but beloved, granddaddy of them all, William Burroughs.
Diane DiPrima's political pleas, reflecting both Buddhist and feminist influences, closed the first set, and the audience filtered out into the cool evening to discuss what they'd heard and check out the video monitor that had been set up outside the main doors of the theater.
delivery, punctuated and augmented by flute, guitar, drums and modern dance, drew wild cheers from the crowd as she exited.
And then a hush fell over the theater. It was time to hear the most famous of the beat poets.
Allen Ginsberg entered carrying a sunflower. He sat down and, in a grand democratic gesture, requested that the theater lights be turned up, "so I can see who I'm talking to." They weren't, but Ginsberg read anyway, and the second poem he read was "How," with its line summing up the reason for the journey within the poem and the journey within the poet:
In the second half, performance artist Anne Waldman theatrical
"To recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame, rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm of thought in his naked and endless head."
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in 1967 was the surfacing of a movement that Ginsberg and Burroughs had helped to start in the '50s.
"67 was the coming-out party for the first class of the Baby-Boom generation," he said.
That was the first of many summers of love that continue today around the world, Leary said.
He then began speaking about drugs.
"I'll confess right now that I'm very brain-damaged," he said. "There are three effects of psychedelic drugs. First there is long-term memory gain, second there is short-term memory loss, and third
... Forget.
Former addicts and the government aren't experts on drugs, Leary said.
He said that in the history of the earth, only 25 people had died from smoking or eating marijuana.
"They probably giggled themselves to death," he said.
then ne spoke about computers, his new interest. He compared their importance to Gutenberg's printing machine; they would be a big part of the future.
He said that every thousand years the world goes crazy, and he could see it happening now.
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For that reason, lobbying groups from both sides have been spending freely to create enthusiasm among their members and to convince senators that their position is right.
Conservatives want a justice who would protect the rights of the unborn, be tough on criminals and put religion back in the schools.
Liberals want a swing vote on the court who would prolong a string of pro-civil rights and civil liberties rulings that began with the 1954 decision outlawing school segregation.
Senators and viewers will hear arguments concerning free speech, privacy, segregation, antitrust, respect for Supreme Court precedent, and the 1973 "Saturday Night Massacre," when then-Solicitor General Bork fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox, after Attorney General Elliott Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus had refused to do so.
Yet, Richardson is one of the prominent witnesses scheduled to testify in favor of Bork. Another is retired Chief Justice Warren Burger, who said previously that Bork "has got it all."
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first canoe to tip over. Two people also lost their shoes in the river."
Frederic Dotte, Besancon, France, junior, said a K-State team tipped them over during the race.
them over.
"Someone came up and grabbed the side and pulled," Dotte said.
"They were good but unfair. Somebody took a photo when they tipped us over."
Another KU team, Austin Peay, finished 21st. The team consisted of six men and five women from Stephenson, Miller and Douthart scholarship halls.
David Donley, Ellsworth junior and team captain, said the team had problems throughout the race.
p "I think we managed to tip over at every checkpoint." Donley said.
Lara Montulli, chairman of the K-State Association of Residence Halls, said the fourth KU team, the KU Lowifles, was disqualified because members did not wear life preservers.
Nigro said next year's race would be from St. Marys to Lawrence and would be organized by the KU Association of University Residence Halls.
Montuli said the Pyramid Pizza chain would put plaques in its Lawrence and Manhattan stores
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