a r vjr lilVlWuMl Sua to 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. , d 'P; n roondsy. jsnusry 31, 1977 vol. 1 CO no. 67 lincqln, nebrzdea 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 n , . - tltvK UZL ch:mi-ts are Karchirg for a dssd col ' cj: p "lbriAilre:: Two onecct XIian operas are c?szz?i at Ztztzl IliU thj weekend , . - p. 12 f-ra: Io'i State Udvsrcty tanla U-Lcrpr tr 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 r L - ILTo trcsi face! BteoHBSs&oll EichaEl glares zx the strange fece ia the mirror afler bdsg issde-ep by ' 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. I'm-4- tv -i L&er kimi &Lm l-k in - -- P- 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- t n. . , 3 t ,