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Hot Rally on a Wet Night McGovern Comes to Augsburg by Emmett Smith If you keep on singin' sones To the people who won’t iiaicn To the things that you are sayin’. Who do you think is gonna hear? And if you should die explainin' Mow the things that they complain about Are things they should be changin'. Who do you think is gonna care ...? So goes the refrain of Kris Kristoffcrson’s song, “Beat the Devil.” Singing it this time was Sioux folksinger Floyd Westerman. and his point in singing it to the nearly 4000 people gathered in Melby Hall on the night of October first. 1971. was perfectly clear if Augsburg students did care about such issues as war. poverty, and pollution, they had one choice, to campaign in support of South Dakota Senator George McGovern, then busily pursuing the Democratic nomination for president in 1972. By the time McGovern reached the Augsburg campus that rainy night in early au- tumn. his pre-convention campaign was in high gear. McGovern was running hard. And late I've lost ten pounds since last spring.” he said after arriving at Melby Hall fifteen minutes behind schedule. Some speculated that he was too late. McGovern's supporters, including in one way or another at that time, Augsburg students Nancy Voss, Bruce Carlson and Tom Snell, said ticket-sales went well: and the Augsburg Echo article published two weeks later reported about $8000 was raised, lending substance to the widely-reported attendance figure of nearly four thousand.” But just after the event there was a rumor that tickets were given away at the last minute in the College Center to pas- sersby. Probably to fill up the gym and make the Senator feel good, spcculaiedoneof McGovern's more fatuous Augs- burg followers when asked later if the story was true. If tic- kets were handed out gratis, to fill up the gymnasium, it was lor the benefit of the media. Television crews from all the major networks were on hand, a first at Augsburg, filming the event. Also there were newsmen from on and off campus. Plainly, the Senator from South Dakota was making his bid both to the students and the newsmen with an able team be- hind him. Sam Lay’s Blues Revival and The Sorry Muthas,” played furiously, whipping up the crowd. As they per- formed, McGovern’s Augsburg supporters, who had first approached McGovern’s team during that summer’s state fair about appearing at the school gym free of charge, were eclipsed by the senator’s own ratpack. On the average, they were young, earnest and modish in their dress (rather than simply shaggy). Scurring about nervously, they sorted out the tangled snarls of the usual last minute crises while the crowd gathered. What? There aren’t ANY telephones! one distraught young woman wailed when told that a re- porter wishing to call off campus would have to dial out through the campus switchboard.
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