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[EiX/BE*£ IT 15 ( LAST F&VTOF j * UYE- w/o T?- Flaming Zucchini astonishes students in Red Square CAROLYN CRAIG "Praise Reverend Chumley!" Quiet at first, then louder, the reverent cry" rose skyward from a sun drenched Red Square. It came from a large group of students sitting in an enraptured circle around a bearded, pony tailed young man. Who was he? A prophet, a saint perhaps? " I , " he said, "am the Flaming Zucchini. The acolyte of . Reverend Chumley's Miraculous Church of the Incandescent Resurrection." "Brothers and Sisters," he cried, with all the fire of an old time revival, "are you ready to be astonished? Are you ready to be amazed by unmitigated feats of moral outrage?" "I have here flame," he said, brandishing a lighted torch, "as worshipped by Hedonist and Calvinistic savages. "And now, in a feat of moral indignation and self abasement, the flaming singe!" With that, he knelt on the ground, tilted his head toward the sky and lowered the flaming torch into his mouth. Hundreds of students gathered Thursday afternoon in Red Square watching the Flaming Zucchini perform his remarkable fire eating act, looking on in amazement. After the act, The Flaming Zucchini, who asked that his legal name (which he calls his alias) remain a secret, explained he started out as a "starving actor." "But I've discovered that most people would rather watch someone set their' head on fire than go to the theater," he continued. A self-taught flame eater, the Zucchini said "every second rate carnival performer and sideshow artist in the past 200 years has written an autobiography. So I went into an old book store, "bought one written by a flame eater in the '20s and started practicing." But practicing flame eating is quite different than practicing the piano. "I burned the shit out of myself at first," The Zucchini said. Four years later, he had about as much difficulty lowering one, two, even three lighted torches into his mouth as most people would have putting a Rawls ice cream cone into theirs. The Zucchini not only eats fire, he also lays on a bed of nails, walks the tightrope, does trapeze stunts and lays between two stools with a 50 pound cement block on his bare stomach. As if that isn't enough, he has a volunteer from the audience pound the block to pieces with a sledge hammer. The Zucchini is planning to embark on an around the world sailboat trip next fall, even though he's not quite sure yet where he's going to get the sailboat. For the present, though, the Zucchini is content with his life on Stewart Island in the San Juans. "My wants are few," he said. Occasionally, since he doesn't make wine or grow his own, he leaves the island to do a show. And the show goes on . . . "Now, brothers, and sisters, the flame eating stunt that has stunted many a flame eater." "Yes, before your very eyes, I will perform an unnatural act!" he cries to a wide-eyed audience. "The Flamiiv Flame Ball!" "But I cannot do it alone — I need your spiritual succor to raise me to an orgasmic frenzy of divine power." "Now, use your diaphragms, those of you who brought them, and raise your voices to the sky!" screamed the Flaming Zucchini. "Praise Reverend Chumley!" "Louder, heathens, do you want to burn?" he growled. ' ' P R A I S E R E V E R E ND CHUMLEY!!" The Flaming Zucchini stepped backward, looking reverently toward the heavens, and from his mouth a huge ball of golden flame shot skyward. HEARTBURN? The Flaming Zucchini sends a ball of fire skyward at the climax of his revival sideshow performed on Red Square last Thursday. State employes union rejects strike proposal GREG COHEN Students, faculty and administrators can breathe a collective sigh of relief at least temporarily following the announcement Friday that Washington Federation of State Employes barely missed authorizing the union's leadership to call a strike. The unofficial results of Thursday's election, NO STRIKE - Although the WFSE union membership voted not to strike now, this button may still be used this summer. announced late Friday gave a 7,745 yes vote and 3,984 against. That averaged out to a 66 per cent "to strike" vote. The union needed 67 per cent affirmative votes. It fell 73 votes short, according to union spokesmen. The union's local at Western had voted 165 in. favor of a strike and 56 against. The union had called for the strike vote to show its discontent for the legislature's failure to come , up with additional funds for state employes salaries above the recommended 11.43 per cent average boost. ' ' "We'll keep negotiating with the legislature for additional salary increases in the supplemental and general budgets," Larry Goodman, union director of personnel board activities, said. State employes are almost assured of an 11.43 per cent average salary' increase. The increase is part of the supplemental budget approved by the Washington House and now before the Washington Senate. Gov. Dan Evans has recommended a six per cent keep-up factor for state employes beginning next July 1 as part of his general budget. The union is seeking a ten per cent boost to offset inflationary costs. Union sources in Olympia said Friday that the union could still call for another vote and possibly strike action if the legislature fails to approve "adequate" salary increases. Asked if the outcome of Thursday's vote would have an adverse affect on the union's bargaining position with the legislature, Goodman said: "Our position hasn't been jeopardized by the vote. We set a very high goal for ourselves and I think we now can show we have a mandate to continue seeking just salary increases." ^ Environment is still an issue Frontscope takes a look at some of the problems still plaguing the environment and at what some people are doing about it. Story on page 7. The Front parodies the P-\ There's something funny about this Hertz newspaper. See if you can find it on page 9. k* J
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Title | Western Front - 1975 March 11 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 67, no. 33 |
Date Published (User-Friendly) | March 11, 1975 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1975-03-11 |
Year Published | 1975 |
Decades | 1970-1979 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Editor | Bob Speed, editor; Connie Tedrow, managing editor; Karen Harvey, news editor; Gary Johnson, arts & entertainment; Keith Olson, sports editor; Louis Phillips, copy editor; Becky Fox, copy editor; Dick Milne, copy editor; George McQuade, photo editor |
Staff | John Manly, production manager; Suki Dardarian, assistant production manager; Gary Johnson, graphics; Steve Barrett, business manager; Al Raines, advertising manager; Reporters: Steve Adams; Nancy Aust; Robert Baldwin; Jody Bento; Bryn Beorse; Jeff Bettinson; Tori Bonneville; Ann Carlson; Dorthann Cloud; Robert Coale; Greg Cohen; Carolyn Craig; Karen Crispien; Rick Donker; Tom Ellison; Anthony Floor; Steve Galbraith; Michael Gallacher; Robert Geddes; D. Starbuck Goodwyn; Bill Graves; Randy Green; Bruce Hayes; O. K. Johnson; Mona Johnson; Scott Johnson; Tim Johnson; Patricia Jones; Janene Lofgren; Ken Martin; Marie McClanahan; Dick Milne; William Munday; Michael Nelson; Mamie Niece; Charles Pilgrim; Barton Potter; Dennis Ritchie; Robin Russell; Bernadette Sauve; Dale Schwarzmiller; Shelley Sherman; Roy Tanaka; Mike Thompson; Steve Thompson; Lynn Truckey; Tony Volchok; Lea Webb; Eileen Whipple; Sherry Wickwire |
Photographer | Mark Kaplin; Randy Green; Chris Anderson; Dan Lamont; K. L. Slusher; Bob Speed; Mona Johnson; Tony Floor; Scott Johnson |
Faculty Advisor | Schwartz, Jim |
Article Titles | Flaming Zucchini astonishes students in Red Square / Carolyn Craig (p.1) -- State employees union rejects strike proposal / Greg Cohen (p.1) -- Scuba explores underworld / Charles Pilgrim (p.2) -- Four-college plan solution to unwieldy structure / Steve Galbraith (p.2) -- Tedrow chosen Front editor (p.2) -- Student default may tighten borrowing (p.2) -- Rockhound's, you can't bring home the forest / Steve Galbraith (p.3) -- Debaters win nine at PLU invitational (p.3) -- Betty Boop to star in history film series (p.3) -- Psych research in jeopardy / Jeff Bettinson (p.3) -- Editorial (p.4) -- Street beat / D. Starbuck Goodwyn (p.4) -- Letters (p.4) -- Front lines / Ann Carlson (p.5) -- Comment (p.5) -- Letters (p.5) -- Classifieds (p.5) -- Shorts and briefs (p.6) -- Events (p.6) - -Front cartoonist says goodbye to all of this / Bob Speed (p.6 & 15) -- Equal opportunity aim of project (p.6) -- Fight nukes with economics (p.7) -- Urban sprawl reaches for B' ham countryside / Sherry Wickwire (p.7) -- Frontscope (p.7) -- Act stirs controversy / Roy Tanaka (p.8) -- Trident project gets approval / Anthony Floor (p.8) -- Puget sound endangered by increasing oil tanker traffic / Connie Tedrow (p.8 & 13) -- Trident collides with foes / Anthony Floor (p.8) -- Seattle Post-Intelligencia (p.9) -- They shoot monkeys, don't they? rodinance in effect: animals evakuate city (p.9) -- Police bullets control students (p.9) -- WWSC sculpture given as steel donation (p.9) -- Roeing recalls rivets (p.9) -- Sickly (p.10) -- Mike's mailbag: drink it or not (p.10) -- Now you CETA-now you don't / Bellingham API (p.10) -- Pike Place misplaced (p.10) -- Win with sin (p.10) -- Patsy Hertz horribly heisted (p.10) -- Economy is just resting(p.10) -- Sky second all washed up and on the rocks (p.10) -- Couple united at ankles (p.11) -- Wrecks Reed: film comment (p.11) -- Life's stale: Clyde loses senses at track (p.11) -- Hints from Hermoine (p.11) -- Non-drinkers hold function (p.11) -- Advice from Sue Slanders (p.11) -- They're enraged (p.11) -- Boil Rauhm (p.12) -- Stupers regain losing form / Don Flair (p.12) -- Tokems and company bleed all over the ice (p.12) -- Ross Dam-who will win? / Dick Milne (p.13) -- Plant pollutes properly / Bob Gedddes (p.13) -- Georgia Pacific-friend or foe? / Carolyn Craig (p.14) -- Intalco's anti-pollution success / Bill Graves (p.14) -- Medicine man speaks of great spirit (p.15) -- Sports (p.18) -- Vikettes fifth: Boise state takes women's title / Mona Johnson (p.18) -- Ex-Vikette likes men's intramural's / Tim Johnson (p.18) -- Intramural playoffs start this week (p.18) -- Straight line years / Keith Olson (p.18) -- Aigner tenth at NAIA meet (p.19) -- Baseballers see nowhere to go but up (p.19) -- Warren and Wigg taste pro-grid camps / Mike Thompson (p.19) |
Photographs | [Flaming Zucchini] (p.1) -- [Strike badge] (p.1) -- [Diver training] (p.2) -- Connie Tedrow (p.2) -- [Three unidentified fishermen] (p.3) -- [Two unidentified campus security officers] (p.6) -- [Looking down Lakeway Drive] (p.7) -- Trident site (p.8) -- [Lettuce unite] (p.9) -- [Doomed stadium] (p.9) -- [Judith Darvon] (p.11) -- [Unidentified student] (p.11) -- [Donkey] (p.12) -- Columbia Cement Corporation (p.13) -- John Manly (p.15) -- John Lame Deer (p.15) -- Diane Bjerke (p.18) -- Carlos Warren (45), Tom Wigg (44) (p.19) |
Notes | Includes special section: Seattle Post-Intelligencia (p.9-12) |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 41 x 28 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Identifier | WF_19750311.pdf |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
Description
Title | Western Front - 1975 March 11 - Page 1 |
Volume and Number | Vol. 67, no. 33 |
Date Published (User-Friendly) | March 11, 1975 |
Date Published (machine-readable) | 1975-03-11 |
Year Published | 1975 |
Decades | 1970-1979 |
Original Publisher | Western Washington State College, Bellingham, WA |
Publisher (Digital Object) | Digital resource made available by Special Collections, Western Libraries Heritage Resources, Western Washington University. |
Editor | Bob Speed, editor; Connie Tedrow, managing editor; Karen Harvey, news editor; Gary Johnson, arts & entertainment; Keith Olson, sports editor; Louis Phillips, copy editor; Becky Fox, copy editor; Dick Milne, copy editor; George McQuade, photo editor |
Staff | John Manly, production manager; Suki Dardarian, assistant production manager; Gary Johnson, graphics; Steve Barrett, business manager; Al Raines, advertising manager; Reporters: Steve Adams; Nancy Aust; Robert Baldwin; Jody Bento; Bryn Beorse; Jeff Bettinson; Tori Bonneville; Ann Carlson; Dorthann Cloud; Robert Coale; Greg Cohen; Carolyn Craig; Karen Crispien; Rick Donker; Tom Ellison; Anthony Floor; Steve Galbraith; Michael Gallacher; Robert Geddes; D. Starbuck Goodwyn; Bill Graves; Randy Green; Bruce Hayes; O. K. Johnson; Mona Johnson; Scott Johnson; Tim Johnson; Patricia Jones; Janene Lofgren; Ken Martin; Marie McClanahan; Dick Milne; William Munday; Michael Nelson; Mamie Niece; Charles Pilgrim; Barton Potter; Dennis Ritchie; Robin Russell; Bernadette Sauve; Dale Schwarzmiller; Shelley Sherman; Roy Tanaka; Mike Thompson; Steve Thompson; Lynn Truckey; Tony Volchok; Lea Webb; Eileen Whipple; Sherry Wickwire |
Faculty Advisor | Schwartz, Jim |
Notes | Includes special section: Seattle Post-Intelligencia (p.9-12) |
Subjects - Names (LCNAF) | Western Washington University--Students--Newspapers |
Subjects - Topical (LCSH) | College newspapers--Washington (State)--Bellingham |
Related Collection | http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/261544388 |
Program | Special Collections |
Geographic Coverage | Bellingham (Wash.) |
Object Type | Text |
Original Format Size | 41 x 28 cm. |
Genre/Form | Newspapers |
Digital Reproduction Information | Bitone scan from 35 mm silver halide, 1-up negative film at 600 dpi. 2011. |
Identifier | WF_19750311.pdf |
Contributor | The digitized WWU student newspapers are made possible by the generous support of Don Hacherl and Cindy Hacherl (Class of 1984) and Bert Halprin (Class of 1971). |
Rights | This resource is displayed for educational purposes only and may be subject to U.S. and international copyright laws. For more information about rights or obtaining copies of this resource, please contact Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9103. USA (360-650-7534; heritage.resources@wwu.edu) and refer to the collection name and identifier. Any materials cited must be attributed to Western Front Historical Collection, Special Collections, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University. |
Full Text | [EiX/BE*£ IT 15 ( LAST F&VTOF j * UYE- w/o T?- Flaming Zucchini astonishes students in Red Square CAROLYN CRAIG "Praise Reverend Chumley!" Quiet at first, then louder, the reverent cry" rose skyward from a sun drenched Red Square. It came from a large group of students sitting in an enraptured circle around a bearded, pony tailed young man. Who was he? A prophet, a saint perhaps? " I , " he said, "am the Flaming Zucchini. The acolyte of . Reverend Chumley's Miraculous Church of the Incandescent Resurrection." "Brothers and Sisters," he cried, with all the fire of an old time revival, "are you ready to be astonished? Are you ready to be amazed by unmitigated feats of moral outrage?" "I have here flame," he said, brandishing a lighted torch, "as worshipped by Hedonist and Calvinistic savages. "And now, in a feat of moral indignation and self abasement, the flaming singe!" With that, he knelt on the ground, tilted his head toward the sky and lowered the flaming torch into his mouth. Hundreds of students gathered Thursday afternoon in Red Square watching the Flaming Zucchini perform his remarkable fire eating act, looking on in amazement. After the act, The Flaming Zucchini, who asked that his legal name (which he calls his alias) remain a secret, explained he started out as a "starving actor." "But I've discovered that most people would rather watch someone set their' head on fire than go to the theater," he continued. A self-taught flame eater, the Zucchini said "every second rate carnival performer and sideshow artist in the past 200 years has written an autobiography. So I went into an old book store, "bought one written by a flame eater in the '20s and started practicing." But practicing flame eating is quite different than practicing the piano. "I burned the shit out of myself at first," The Zucchini said. Four years later, he had about as much difficulty lowering one, two, even three lighted torches into his mouth as most people would have putting a Rawls ice cream cone into theirs. The Zucchini not only eats fire, he also lays on a bed of nails, walks the tightrope, does trapeze stunts and lays between two stools with a 50 pound cement block on his bare stomach. As if that isn't enough, he has a volunteer from the audience pound the block to pieces with a sledge hammer. The Zucchini is planning to embark on an around the world sailboat trip next fall, even though he's not quite sure yet where he's going to get the sailboat. For the present, though, the Zucchini is content with his life on Stewart Island in the San Juans. "My wants are few," he said. Occasionally, since he doesn't make wine or grow his own, he leaves the island to do a show. And the show goes on . . . "Now, brothers, and sisters, the flame eating stunt that has stunted many a flame eater." "Yes, before your very eyes, I will perform an unnatural act!" he cries to a wide-eyed audience. "The Flamiiv Flame Ball!" "But I cannot do it alone — I need your spiritual succor to raise me to an orgasmic frenzy of divine power." "Now, use your diaphragms, those of you who brought them, and raise your voices to the sky!" screamed the Flaming Zucchini. "Praise Reverend Chumley!" "Louder, heathens, do you want to burn?" he growled. ' ' P R A I S E R E V E R E ND CHUMLEY!!" The Flaming Zucchini stepped backward, looking reverently toward the heavens, and from his mouth a huge ball of golden flame shot skyward. HEARTBURN? The Flaming Zucchini sends a ball of fire skyward at the climax of his revival sideshow performed on Red Square last Thursday. State employes union rejects strike proposal GREG COHEN Students, faculty and administrators can breathe a collective sigh of relief at least temporarily following the announcement Friday that Washington Federation of State Employes barely missed authorizing the union's leadership to call a strike. The unofficial results of Thursday's election, NO STRIKE - Although the WFSE union membership voted not to strike now, this button may still be used this summer. announced late Friday gave a 7,745 yes vote and 3,984 against. That averaged out to a 66 per cent "to strike" vote. The union needed 67 per cent affirmative votes. It fell 73 votes short, according to union spokesmen. The union's local at Western had voted 165 in. favor of a strike and 56 against. The union had called for the strike vote to show its discontent for the legislature's failure to come , up with additional funds for state employes salaries above the recommended 11.43 per cent average boost. ' ' "We'll keep negotiating with the legislature for additional salary increases in the supplemental and general budgets," Larry Goodman, union director of personnel board activities, said. State employes are almost assured of an 11.43 per cent average salary' increase. The increase is part of the supplemental budget approved by the Washington House and now before the Washington Senate. Gov. Dan Evans has recommended a six per cent keep-up factor for state employes beginning next July 1 as part of his general budget. The union is seeking a ten per cent boost to offset inflationary costs. Union sources in Olympia said Friday that the union could still call for another vote and possibly strike action if the legislature fails to approve "adequate" salary increases. Asked if the outcome of Thursday's vote would have an adverse affect on the union's bargaining position with the legislature, Goodman said: "Our position hasn't been jeopardized by the vote. We set a very high goal for ourselves and I think we now can show we have a mandate to continue seeking just salary increases." ^ Environment is still an issue Frontscope takes a look at some of the problems still plaguing the environment and at what some people are doing about it. Story on page 7. The Front parodies the P-\ There's something funny about this Hertz newspaper. See if you can find it on page 9. k* J |
Language | English |
Language Code | Eng |
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