ON THE LIGHTER SIDE OF CAMPUS LIFE. ON THE LIGHTER SIDE OF CAMPUS LIFE TRUE CONFESSIONS "MY SECRET LOVE IS A SNAKE." A tender love story about a beautiful girl and a gentle boa constrictor. (The following is a true story-but the names have been omitted to protect the innocent.) "It was a cool feeling to have him crawl around me. He would crawl around my neck and arms, but he didn't squeeze or anything like that." It all began during rehearsal for a Weber State theater production in January. The plays were related to medicine- man shows. According to the director of the performances ("The Doctor in Spite of Himself" and "Mistress of the Inn"), medicine-man shows would first try to sell their "medicines" and then would put on shows to entertain people. A big part of these shows was the appearance of exotic animals and snakes, he explained. And so, in trying to capture the feeling for this type of production, a boa constrictor was acquired from Exotica Pet Shoppe. The snake's role in the production consisted merely of being wrapped around the arm of one of the actresses throughout most of the prologue of the play. Recalling her emotions when informed she would become involved with the snake, she disclosed, "I just died. There was no way in the world that I wanted to handle that snake." When introduced to the exotic creature, it took her more than a quarter of an hour to work up the courage to touch it. Finally, in a moment of determination, she decided it was a case of "mind over matter." "When I finally did touch it, it wasn't at all what I had expected. He wasn't scaley, rather it was just like touching a person's hand. And I could sense that he was just as nervous as I was." After this first encounter, a warm relationship grew between them. Deciding that she must give her new companion a name, he became known as Harvey. Reminiscing about her friendship with Harvey, the young actress related, "It was a cool feeling to have him crawl around my neck and arms, but he didn't squeeze or anything like that." She was fascinated by the manner in which he could move around and suspend himself. Harvey was about as long as a person's arm and about as big around as a quarter or fifty-cent piece. She said that when she first handled Harvey he would be cold, but that he would warm up very quickly. The director of the production also mentioned that they tried to get a monkey for the show but ran into problems trying to insure it. e.b. j. from a story by Terry Porter Theater representative: 'apprehended' by law officers in Colorado. A WSC station wagon carrying a group of theater personnel was stopped, and its occupants handcuffed by Colorado police November 3. The group was traveling to Boulder Colorado to attend a conference of the Rocky Mountain Region, American Theater Association. According to John M. Elzey, of the WSC theater staff, six carloads of Colorado law officers swooped down on them and ordered them to pull off the road, "We were all handcuffed while the officers held riot guns and other weapons on us," Mr. Elzey said. "The officers didn't as much as make an explanation of what they were arresting us for." "Fortunately," Mr. Elzey recounted "One of the officers was my cousin, Jim Weber of the Colorado State highway patrol, who identified me." Mr. Elzey said they were released, still without an explanation or even an apology "It turns out," Mr. Elzey said, "that the troopers thought we were fugitives from Utah who escaped from a Salt Lake City prison and then stole a white station wagon Others in the Weber State station wagon enroute to the theater conference were Wanda Whalen, WSC theater designer Robert Macek, WSC theater director, and students Drauca Holmes and Jeff Hirsch However the trip did end on a happier note. Mr. Elzey was elected first vice president of the regional organization, which placed him in direct line for the presidency of the group. In addition WSC theater students sept the contest in stage design competition. Larry West placed first, Nels Carlson second, and Larry Fulton, third. They were all students of Miss Whalen. Two feet deep-and rising: a dressing room dilemma. How long can you tread water? An opera theater student, Bruce Johns almost had the chance to find out in November. Bruce had a part in the opera theater production, "Amahl and the Night Visitors." After a weekend performance, Bruce, who played one of the kings was taking off his makeup when he was accidentally locked in the dressing room by one of the custodians. The room had no windows and only a thick door as a means of escape. After unsuccessfully trying to summon help, Bruce decided it was either settling in for the weekend without even a book to read, or setting off the sprinkler-alarm system and having the local fire department rescue him in a few minutes. Six hours later, after finding out that the sprinkler system worked, but the fire alarm didn't, Bruce was sitting on a stool in a foot of water watching parts of costumes float by. Luckily he was dramatically saved by a campus policeman. The officer saw a van parked in front of the Fine Arts Building which was believed to belong to someone who made a practice of running up and down the service tunnels under the campus. After seeing a light, the policeman let a cold, wet, Bruce and a rush of water out of the dressing room. After drying out the costumes the show went on. Single men, leap for your lives! 1972 was a leap year. The Weber State male could laugh about possibilities of being proposed to by a member of the "Gentler sex." But it wouldn't have been as laughable if they had lived in another time and place. In 13th century Scotland, France, and Genoa and Florence, Italy, it was no joke. The Scottish law said either the single man married any single girl who proposed during leap year or he had to pay a $500 fine. (Which would amount to a much higher figure in 1972 currency.) Actually the unnatural courtship of the years of yore have been replaced with another. It's called the election of the U.S. president. This leap year activity brings all sorts of crackpots out of the woodwork to try to woo the hearts of the American public. But fortunately some of these suitors can be denied their proposal... and thank heavens for that. ASWSC Legislative Vice President, Fran Wheeler claims to have broken his pounding block twice, and placed three large dents in a formica covered table with his gavel this year calling Glen Curtis to order.