Mardi Gras to open as scheduled tonight According to Dan Haugh, Mardi In addition to the other activities, Gras committee chaimlan, 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 entertainment. over and under, a ping pong ball Festivities will continue from 2 game of chance. p.m. until2 a.m. tomorrow, featur­ ing the bluegrass group "Sugar­ Despite some minor delays be­ foot.'' Sunday will be a special cause of the weather, the festival family day with activites scheduled will open as scheduled. Mardi from noon until midnight. The Gra~ will. run through next week, barbershop quartet "Ice Cream closi~g with the raffle drawing and special award ceremonies next Mardi Gras workers have been going full-time to insure that the Social" will be featured during 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 Joss 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 Angeles Times Syndicate, stopped functioning. "I didn't know that power plant Teah responded to Malley's be between 400-500. pending resolution of a billin 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 Lobund were not direct­ the letter cancelling our subcrip up on the lab's exterior when a situation." He went on to exclaim, this system, but right not we don't ly effected by the blackout, but tions for the summer months, power failure occurs. He also "Our hands were full and we didn't have enough money for an extra Teah and Julian Pleasants, assoc­ 1977 was apparently lost in th noted that the power plant officials have time to call everybody. generator." Teah, though, also iate professor of microbiology, did mail. The disagreement ha were negligent, for they did not Security knew that they didn't have claimed that, "I have been told by lose some mice and rats due to the been resolved to the satisfactio notify security of the blackout. In any power, so why didn't they call power plant engineers that no extra power failure. of both parties. such a case, Teah noted, security is then supposed to contact him. "The deaths of these animals caused a slowdown of four to six weeks," claimed Teah. "We Albee, Seeger to highlight SLF '78 worked like hell to keep the lab going smoothly," he said. "We by John O'DonneU appearing on Monday, Feb. 13, at 8 even came in during the bad p.m. in the Library Auditorium. weather to check on things. Then This year's Sophomore Literary A workshop will be held on to have this happen is very upset­ Festival, which will begin on Feb. Tuesday, Feb. 14, in the Library ting." 12 and conclude on Feb. 18, Lounge beginning at 9:30 a.m. Teah admitted that other animals consists of appearances and work­ Appearing at this worksh()p will be in the lab survived, for they were shops by artists in the literary field. Michael Sparough, a young Jesuit confined in less crowded cages. According to Theresa Rebeck, scholastic; Louie Zukofsky, an A­ Arthur Pears, director of Secur­ chairman of the Sophomore Literary merican poet; and George Mac­ ity, initially responded to Teah's Committee, the theme of this beth, a British poet and novelist. accusations by stating, "Douglas festival is to capture the visions of The format for such workshops will Road, from which the warning literary artists as they address the be diverse--some will feature ques­ lights on the back of the Lobund Notre Dame community. tion and answer sessions, while Lab can be seen, had not been others will consist of literary pres­ cleared of snow then, so none of The main attraction for this entations. Sparough will conduct a security's regular checks on the lab .i:estival will be Edward Albee, workshop of his own on the same were made that Sunday." winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. day beginning at 2:45 p.m. in the According to Pears, ''If the Albee, one of the finest playwrights Library Auditorium. checks had been made, then we in America, has written such plays On Tuesday at 8 p.m., Zukofsky would have seen the lights on.'' as: Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf; will appear at the Library Auditor­ A subsequent check by this A Dellcate Balance; and his latest ium. Zukofsky is well respected in reporter with Edwin Lyon, director work, Seascape. Albee will be the the poetry field and has been of Maintenance, confirmed the fact · first speaker of the festival appear­ labeled by many peots as "the that Douglas Road was impassible. ~ng at 8 p.m. on Feb. 12, at most important contemporary A­ "However,"he stated, "a service W~hington Hall. merican poet." drive into the lab area was plowed T~ second speaker for this Macbeth will make a presen­ and could have been used by festivall;.:.ill be Karl Shapiro, a well tation on Wednesday at 8 p.m. in security as far as I am concerned.'' known American poet. Shapiro the Library Auditorium. Among Confronted with this informa­ has written V-Letter and Other Macbeth's works include the novel tion, Pears again stated that his Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee will be the Poems, which is a book of war Samurai, which is a tale of a officers apparently did not check main attraction of this year's Sophomore literary Festival. poetry that has earned him a Japanese soldier found in the the building. "The lab is usually [Photo by Beth Corbin] Pulitzer Prize, also. Shapiro will be (continued on page 8] ------------- ------ - ---------------------- ------~-- ----... 2 the observer Friday, February 3, 1978 ,....News Briefs ____---... Mogab announces: t============================= National Commencement plans expanded by Sue BaUmann Senior Reception will be held from over a two day period they won't be 8 p.m. to midnight. so crowded. "This way, people Park questioninR· to beRin The traditional graduation activ­ Commencement exercises will who have friends at Notre Dame WASHINGTON - House ethics committee investigators announced ities for St. Mary's have been begin at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, will be able to attend their bac­ yesterday they will begin closed door questioning of accused South expanded to two days rather than May 20, and will last approximately calaureate Mass which starts at 5 Korean indluence peddler Tongsun Park on Feb. 21. the usual one, according to Senior two hours. Following graduation, p.m. on Saturday. It will also give Class president Nancy Mogab. there will be a picnic and some type people more time to pack up or The baccalaureate Mass will take of reception for the speaker and the enable them to get an early start Weather place at5 p.m.