Mardi Gras to open as scheduled tonight According to Dan Haugh, Mardi In addition to the other activities, Gras committee chairman, mardi special carnival games will be Gras will begin tonight at 6 p.m. in located at the Mardi Gras Com­ Stepan Center and continue until mittee booth. Carnival-goers may 2 a.m. The country and bluegrass play ring toss, nerf basketball, the group “ Grass, Food, and Lodging” Wiffle ball toss game, 7-11, and will provide musical entertainm ent. over and under, a ping pong ball Festivities will continue from 2 game of chance. p.m. until 2 a.m. tomorrow, featur­ Despite some minor delays be­ ing the bluegrass group “Sugar- cause of the weather, the festival foot.” Sunday will be a special will open as scheduled. Mardi w m family day with activites scheduled Gras will run through next week, from noon until midnight. The closing with the raffle drawing and barbershop quartet “Ice Cream special award ceremonies next Social” will be featured during the Mardi Gras workers have been going full-time to insure that the Saturday night. annual festival gets off on time tonight at 6 p.m. [Photo by Beth afternoon. Corbin] server an independent student newspaper serving notre dame and st. mary's Vol. XII, No. 75 Friday, February 3, 1978

Lobund rats & mice Animal deaths ignite controversy by Kevin M. Walsh checked three or four times nightly Teah?” generator is needed, since power Senior Staff Reporter when security drives by there on Malley stated that he couldn’t loss is such an infrequent occur- Controversy exists as to whether the way to University Village.’.’ understand why the lab did not ance.” the lives of 70 germ free animals in When asked why security officers invest in a standby generator, as he Also, Teah said that a mainten­ Notre Dame’s Lobund Lab could did not use the cleared access road, had suggested in the past, which ance man in the lab told him that have been saved during last Sun­ Pears said, “ I just found out about could be used in case of such a the power plant is supposed to call day’s blackout. this incident yesterday and haven’t blackout to restore power. “ If they security in a case such as this. According to Bernard Teah, as­ seen the midnight supervisor yet to have so many millions of dollars The Lobund Lab, located in the sistant faculty fellow of the Lobund discuss it with him.” invested in that lab,” he argued, Reyniers Germ Free Life Building Lab, these deaths, which occured Pears, however, accused power “why don’t they buy a standby on Douglas Road, is in its fiftieth close to midnight, may have been plant officials of not notifying the generator to operate their air year of operation and was the first prevented had he been notified of security office of the power failure, compressors in such emergencies? of its kind in the country. Lobund The Observer is happy to the power failure in the lab. Thirty thus preventing notification of They only cost a few thousand contains animals of all types, and announce the return of Art of the lab’s 60 Lou M rats and 40 Teah. dollars.” all germ free animals in the coutry Buchwald and Oliphant to its out of 63 C3H mice suffocated When informed of Pears’ state­ Malley cited that such buildings can be traced back genetically to editorial page. The column and when a generator that pumps air ment, Bro. Borromeo Malley, di­ as Grace Hall and the ACC have Notre Dame’s lab. Lobund’s total cartoons were stopped by the into the germ free environment rector of the power plant, claimed, such backup equipment. animal population is estimated to Los A ngeles Times Syndicate, stopped functioning. “I didn’t know that power plant Teah responded to Malley’s be between 400-500. pending resolution of a billing Teah accused security officers of officials are supposed to call secur­ statements by saying, “We have Experiments of most professors dispute. The dispute arose when not seeing warning lights that light ity or anybody else in such a been talking with Brother about working in Lob