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It causes frozen pipes, colls, colossal heating blUs and
chilly walks to class, but tiy to itmernbfir during this
writer of record tows, sub-zero weather really isn't all that
bad.
"The colder and snowier it is, the better it is far my
tki shop," said Cob Rosenberger, maneger of Gerry's
Sport andSki Siop, 1 324 P St. ' - -
Ssles of cc!d-weather clothes increase as lors as the
mercury drops, Rosenberger said. Good sales during Janu
ary are especially notable because Christmas bills and in
come taxes are due for many, he said.
Eittor cold and snow from a Friday blizzard continue'",
to paralyze the East Sunday. President Jimmy Carter
declared Pennsylvania, and New York federal disaster
areas and said he would do the same for Florida today.
Special federal loans and programs are available to vic
tims in the disaster areas. '
Business in cold-weather clothes is slow on warm days,
said Diane Deling, saleswoman at Sports Comer, 1213 Q
St It takes cold weather to convince people they need
hats, gloves, and boots, she said.
Some persons apparently are not getting their cold
weather clothes soon enough. Sales of cough and cold
remedies are up 20 per cent this winter over last winter,
when the weather was milder, according to Frank Zajic,
owner of Eradfield Drug, 3 161 South St.
Other local pharmacists said cold remedy sales will
increase when the weather changes, because it is prime
time for cold catching.
It is usually hard' to find something nice to say about
trlcd fuel bills, but Dcanna KcrdJk found it.
This winter more than anything else is going to con
vince people to insulate," said Kcrdlk, co-owner of Arctic
"Air Conditioning and Heating, 3901 Touzalin Ave.
. TvVve been talkfog-bout this for years," but the
consumers had to be hit in the pocketbook to get the
message, she said.
Most furnace functioning is not affected by the cold
weather, she said. Furnaces usually last IS to 20 years no
matter how cold it is, she said.
Teople just don change furnaces like they do coats,"
she said. Furnaces do have to work continuously during
cold weather, so most furnace repairs are for overheated,
burned out motors, she said.
James Kreifels, president of Action Keating and Air
Conditioning, 5602 S. 50th St agreed that frigid weather
does not affect heating, systems much. But it sure plays
havoc with water pipes, he said.
Cold weather combined with strong winds freezes
the water pipes, he said. Pipes on the inside freeze because
wind and frost seep in through cracks in the ground, also
.caused by cold, dry weather. '
Photo toy Ssott Sw4da
UNL student Susie Troyer found a way to keep,
warm darbg last week's bdow-csro temperatures. ,
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About 7,000 turn out for Waipurgisna
cht festival
By Mary Jo Pitzl
Judging the success of a witch's demonic orgy can be
difficult.
But if the estimated 7,000 people possessed to come
to the Nebraska Union to catch part of the festive spell
were any indication, Winter' Wafpurgisnacht may have
fulfilled its goal of being the biggest bail -on campus.
. . JtThere... wasn't a -peak all Right," WabjnssaachX4&air-l
person Sherry Cole said. The flow of people was steady
throughout the bulk of the nine hour1 winter "festival.
Red-faced students, - bundled in scarves, ski jackets
and mittens, braved sub-zero temperatures to attend the
winter festival. Long lines formed at the coat check as
flustered volunteers scurried to accommodate the barrage
of coats, hats and even bowling bags.
- AU-night ritles '
From 6:30 pm. until the early morning hours virtually
eyery nook and cranny of the Union was filed.
Well-dressed faculty members and a sprinkling of stu
dents enjoyed a three-course meal to the light-hearted
melodic strains of the American Parade Cabaret.1
Vengeful students wielding sledge hammers attacked
the vending machines in the Vendo-Kill attraction until
the noise interfered with the University Studies produc
tion of Catch-22 in the adjoining room.
Chevy Chase, former star of NBCs '"Saturday Night
live," spent a half hour answering questions by phone
from the over-flow crowd packed in the South Crib to
here his telelecture. . ,
Despite a fuzzy connection, Chase apparently amused
the crowd with his replies to an impression of Emily
Liteila, a "Saturday Night" character, and other ques
tions students always wanted to know about Chevy Chase
but never had the chance to ask. .
Dazed students walked away slowly from the spell
binding presentation of hypnotist Todd GirisielL ChristeH
'hzsd student volunteers to exercise his hypnotic talents..
The Mala Lounge was the center of activity for the
third annual ' Winter Walpcrgisnacht, dubbed "WWII!"
by UPC members.
Traffic circulated slowly through the lounge as stu
dents en route to a movie or concert stopped to talk and
exchange comments about the evening.
rrrjectmiew - :
Lcurrg around the Union Program Council cilice
after all activity but the late movies had subsded, event
sponsors reviewed the pre; set they had worked on since
September. . '
Between long sfhs and early morning yawns, they talk
ed about what went r:;;ht, what to remember nest time
and how lorrg it would take to clean up the debris. -- .
Cole fpecuhtsd Wsursaacht would break even on -its
$400 budget.
At 4 ajn the deserted Main Lounge pve little hist
that just a few hours before, UNL's version of a demonic
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at Ztztzl IliU thj weekend , . - p. 12
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witch's orgy had occurred there. The last of the hard
core volunteers were putting finishing touches on cleaning
the Harvest Room.
By 530 pjn., the Walpurgisnacht spell was lifted
from the Union as Union Program Council stragglers
retreated to Cole's for breakfast
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' mscibers cf the Linccla CcmmusSy n-hoase darins Wpsrgfcacht Friday.
New building to have o!d fumisSiings
The new Life Sciences Eldg. stiH is not slated to open
until June and it w21 open with eld equipment and de
ficiencies in three major areas, according to Russcl Meints,
director of the school of Life Sciences. ,
Corinxtion of the baHdingbegan in 1975. Stout Hall
was torn down to make room for the'-cew buildings in
1974. - ' ' '" -. -
Te have - been awaiting the opening cf the buHding
since Ai'g. 15," Meints said, "and it is very "unfortunate
that r,'2 have b een delayed becsuse it has debyed rtsirch
nd student educatcn." " -
The dday , according tc ilailcy Schrader, L.X physical
zl director, was parfy because of the chzrgrg cf
ccr. Auction contracts from a now bankrupt company
to the university itself. - :
Allhoih the quality cf '-education w3 be Luproved'
tsrith the new building Meints -ssid, the fcuEdir is not .
Original plans called for the construction of fjesn
house on the roof of the new building. Meints said this
was a critical cut because?' the greenhouses ere "decrepit
and falling down. V
A 250 seat lecture hall to fce built to one end cf the
structure also was lost to inflation, Idests said. With this
cut also came the loss of 43 dascs a year that ceedsd the
hall ja order to "properly instruct siid pro's-de d-ssn.stra-tions,",he
said. "' ". ' ':
Meints said the third, and most critical loss -was
$500,000 in equipment. - "
It is almost criminal," fce said, "that wa have to move
fcto a beautiful cewbuildicg wSh old emilpracnt
; "It is not fair to the people of Kebrasia," ha "for
parents to send their sons and drillers to tlie umralty
and expect thern to get quality education, wha the
equipment i lar too ca sna cot up o par.
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e cf inflation, he saSJ, the school was forced to
anxious to move into the buSdins.
"It wi3 give us the chance to hare 1 our drrcs to-
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