Indiana University - Arbutus Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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NEWSEASONS simmer T HE newseason started strong with merry news and media blues. Many events were memorable; others forgetable; most cla- mored with controversy, trials and tribula- tions. Court cases and horse races, deaths, diseases and a Dunn Meadow Smoke-In dominated the warm weather headlines. Tired of stuffing towels under door cracks, the Bloomington and Washington, D.C. members of the Youth International Party (Yippies) and the Nameless Anar- chist Horde sponsored the first Bloomington Smoke-In on May 20. They distributed about one pound of marijuana to some of the 250 participants. lU and Bloomington police officers did not arrest any of the happy party-goers who spent a peaceful afternoon listening to bluegrass and rhythm bands. South of Dunn Meadow in the Indiana Memorial Union, however, all was not so well. An outbreak of Legionnaire ' s disease had been traced to the IMU, and a thorough investigation was conducted by the Federal Center for Disease Control. The baffling Legionnaire ' s virus, which in 1976 killed 29 persons at a Philadelphia American Legion Convention, was even- tually connected with water from the IMU cooling tower and the Jordan River. As a result of the investigation, numerous cases of the disease (including three fatalities) were linked to Bloomington. While Bloomington residents spent the summer gossiping about the disease, Californians spent their warm days griping about high taxes and escalating property assessments. Under the leadership of Howard Jarvis, a number of concerned citizens conducted a statewide campaign advocating Proposition 13, a bill which would lower California ' s excessive tax burdens. The campaign was a success, and on June 6, Californians passed the mea- sure with a two-thirds majority vote. De- spite the sunny optimism surrounding the bill ' s passage, however, government and school administrators estimated a $7 bil- lion loss in revenue per year. Across the nation on June 10, a young Marc Norrad, the pilot and an lU junior, stumbled unhurt from the nose-dived plane which he had unsuccessfully at- tempted to land on the Assembly Hall parking lot. According to Norrad, the plane skidded 330 feet on the gravel, crossed a small grassy area and eventually crashed into a tree at the beginning of 1800 Fee Lane. It was the first Flying Club accident in four years. The courts caused much controversy within media and minorities. On May 31, the U.S. Supreme Court held, 5 to 3, that law enforcement officials have the right to obtain a warrant and conduct unan- nounced searches of private property in order to secure evidence of a crime even though the owner or resident is unaware of her or his culpability. This decision was monumental because it was extended to newsrooms, an area usually protected by the First and Fourth Amendments. The case, Zurcher v. Standtord Daily, began in The baffling Legionnaire ' s virus was linl ed to water from the ll IU cooling tower. blacksmith ' s son from Kentucky, Steve Cauthen, and a three-year-old colt. Af- firmed, won the Triple Crown of Ameri- can Thoroughbred racing at the Belmont Stakes. Cauthen won 477 races in New York state in his first year as a jockey. In 1977 alone, he earned more than $6 mil- lion. Not bad for 18, Stevie. Back in Indiana, the lU ' s Flying Club plane crashed on June 13 when an emergency landing of the Cessna 150 re- sulted in $5000 damage to the plane. 1971 when nine police officers were in- jured in a student demonstration on the Standford campus. Following the assault, police obtained a warrant to search the Standford Daily offices for photographs they thought would help them identify the attackers. Legally, it was an expected decision. Precedent supports that a third party must surrender to a search warrant. Leon Friedman, Hofstra University law profes- sor, was uneasy about this court-