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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 20, 1968
Magician performs for God
Illusionist performs in dorm
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
Andre Kole, internationallyknown professional illusionist, performed at 11 p.m. Tuesday at Naismith Hall to a crowd of more than 100 persons.
Kole's KU visit was sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ.
He travels to colleges and universities across the world and just recently returned from the Far East where he performed and spoke to Moslems and Buddhists at Eastern universities.
Kole, card manipulator, began by demonstrating the slickness of his hands with card tricks and fascinated the audience with magic.
Now this trick is just a little bit of mind over matter, he said.
"I don't mind and you don't matter." The audience chuckled.
"It's an experiment because it doesn't always work," he chuckled.
entific experiment.
Following more card tricks, Kole said he wanted to try a so-
Kole seemed to drill a hole in the boy's forehead with an instrument, then put a faucet over the spot, held a siphon under the faucet. Amazingly enough to the audience, the trick worked.
As the boy's girlfriend pumped his hand, water flowed out of the faucet and into a drinking cup Kole held under the faucet.
Enough of that, Kole moved on to a coin trick. He walked around the cafeteria and using a can he pulled quarters from many in
the room—out of a student's nose, a girl's purse, from the air and out of a reporter's hair.
"Through a magician's eyes, I studied Christ's miracles. But I had a problem with His resurrection."
He said Christ was either one of three things—what he said he was as the Son of God, or a liar, or the greatest imposter the world has ever known.
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