The Daily Nebraskjn
Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1961
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EDITORIAL
Campus Election
Signifies Trend
Homecomings come and go. Displays are built and j
burned but the independents are here to stay. j
The Buskers staggered, stumbled and blew another j
gam. No surprise. The Kappa Sigs won first place in j
the Lomecoming displays again which shocked Mo one. !
An independent was crowned as the 19(1 homecoming j
queen and everyone was shocked except the independ-
ents.
Nebraska was an underdog from the start, most j
houses did not expect to win or place in the display I
judging and the Greeks should have expected the inde- I
pendent queen. i
The days of one or two bouses blocking together to
push a single candidate to the top in an all-University
election under the "vote for one" ballot are over. The j
Greeks should have sensed the results of this election i
a year ago. A mass independent vote gave this campus
its first independent queen in 1960 and a similar vote l
did it again last week.
The rise of the independent does not stop with qneei
elections. Most alert students noted a strong move by
the dormies to reorganise the method of selecting Stu
dent Council members last spring. Although do action
has been taken to date the latter proposal, there are j
indications already that a reorganization of the Conn-
cil's membership selection is on the way.
Before the Greeks critue the dormites for mass I
block voting, consider your own situation. In past elec-
tions when Greeks came out victorious, mass and block
voting was not unheard of. It still goes on today but in I
a less effective method. Prior to last year, the com- !
petition was centered around the Greek houses with in-
dependent candidates in "the background. The situation I
has changed. We now see two political factions: the in
dependents and the Greeks.
Ten girls were chosen as finalists' for the 131 home
coming queen election. Two were independents and eight
were members of sororities. Perhaps the results of the
election last Wednesday comes as m surprise, now.
The Greeks were competing with each other as well as
. with the independents.
It is not our purpose to widen the split between the
independents and the Greeks, far from it We do not
propose that the dormies put up one candidate and the
Greeks do the same and then let the chips fall where
they may. We feel both sides should compete honestly
for finalists and the campus voters freely select what
they feel to be the best individual for the queen, king,
prince, etc Therefore, we condemn block and mass vot
ing. Such organized tactics do not always lead to the
best results.
It matters not if our homecoming queen is an inde
pendent or a Greek. What we want is the individual
who best meets the criteria demanded by the title, posi
tion or what ever.
PROBLEM OF
THE WEEK
Sponsored by Pi Ma EpsOon
National Mathematics
Honorary Fraternity.
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iParking Problem
Prompts Letter
Dear Editor of the Daily
Nebraskan:
There is a news bead-
line concerning campus
i parking posted on the door
of Professor Gaffney's cf-
fice. The news article,
I from the Daily Nebraskan,
I states that the parking
problem has now been
solved, according to a cur
I rent issue of the same.
paper. But, says the news
f paper, the problem is one
of convenience or the lack
g of it. There are not enough
parking spaces in front of
the Student Union for the
s people who want to drink
f coffee in the morning or
in front of Andrews Hall
for the students with
classes just inside the
I door. In other words, we
I do not want to walk five
blocks to class after find
ing that promised parking
place.
I enjoy walking, bit
when I am late for a
class, it is irritating to
park far across the cam
pus. Two days ago, I came
m eamptts at one forty-
for a two-o'clock
class and parked several
blocks from my class. Out
f breath, I raced across
the campws lawns,
squeezed throngs a hedge,
and raj ep U the second
floor of Betsey HalL
About fwrr o'clock I re
membered that, I bad
parked la a two- ear
zone! I slipped est of the
botany laboratory,
squeezed t r g h the
hedge, and raced across
the lawn to my car. Ex
haisted and limp, I took
the ticket from aader the
wiper blade. I was tea
late to beat the police, bat
I had had a great experi
ence as a pedestrian.
There is a certain
sport in being a pedestri
an because the other driv
ers who are locking for a
spot to park their cars
resent the fact that you
have already found one.
For example, there is the
driver who creeps through
the crosswalk almost
running down one's heels
and the "y ellow -1 i g h t
jumper" who races
through the light endan
gering all the pedestrians.
The drivers who are the
most hair-raising are the
lawless "red-light torn
ers." They wait until the
pedestrian is well on his
way and then turn right in
from of him unexpectedly
on a red light The pe
destrian stops on his toes.
The passing door handle
unravels bis tie.
The sport of finding
space is m organized that
one must have a permit
to participate. If ene owns
a car whkh he must drive
each day to the univer
sity's efty campus, the
first project every morn
ing Is to find that spot to
which to park. Each sttv
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beginning of the school
year. The parking permit
does not insure a parking
place, nor does it promise
safety while the car is
parked. It is, rather, a
permit to play the game.
The words "Cimpn
Parting' are the stu
dent's first cine as to
what to expect. The word
"campus" comes from the
Latin and means "battle
field." hence battlefield
parting.
There are . only: two
rules to the ' game, 6'ii t
they are very important.
Role number one is.
'"Foot-soldier, beware!"
Anyone crossing the street
at ten minutes of eight is
is the same situation as
a rifleman before a machine-gun.
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two is, "Any parking
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the street." When a place
is spotted, apply the
brakes quickly and turn
the front of the car half
way into the other lane,
to insure parking square
ly. The man behind will
screech to a halt, the One
coming toward you will
scrape past. They may
blow their horns, buj. be
not distracted the place
is yours.
For example, this morn
ing as I contested for a
spot to park with another
"car. the driver applied the
brakes and backed rapidly
two car lengths. I backed
. just as rapidly and just
as far to keep from being
mangled. He did not get
the place, however, be
cause another car skill
fully maneuvered between
my car and the parked
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Staff Views
Out Of The Woods
By Jim Forrest
For all the arm-chair
lawyers and followers of
the invincible Perry Ma
son, there is an interest
ing case now running the
legal gamut of Lincoln
and Lancaster county
courts.
Les E 1 g a r t and six
members of his band were
arrested early Sunday
morning and held on open
charges after police said
they found a large quan
tity of marijuana and her
oin and assorted narcotics
in the band's hotel rooms.
All have been charged
with possession of nar
cotics and the six b a n d
members have pleaded
guilty to the charges, but
Les Elghrt has pleaded
not guilty.
During the search of the
hotel rooms, narcotics
were found in coffee
cans, bottles, plastic
vials, shaving kits, paper
bags and wrapped in met
al foil. The police really
must have made a thor
ough search of the rooms.
This was normal, good
and in the line of duty, if
it was legal.
It is this last "if" that
throws doubt into the legal
machinery. Apparently the
initial search made while
the band was playing for
the Homecoming dance
was done without a search
warrant.
(Police entered the ho
tel rooms of the band
members with the permis
sion of hotel managers.
Lincoln police would not
comment Monday when
asked by a Daily Nebras
kan reporter whether or
not a search warrant had
been issued.)
Police CapL Robert
Sawdon, who along with
seven officers waited five
boars to make the arrest,
said that the rooms in the
Lincoln and Capital ho
tels were searched with
permission of the hotel
managers. Nothing is said
about a search warrant.
Why? Legally speaking,
the room belongs to the
person who pays the rent,
and a search warrant is
still needed.
There is an exception.
When there is suspicion
that a felony is being
committed law enforce
ment officials have the
right to enter without a
warrant. For example, if
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a policeman hears a
scream from a person
about to be murdered, he
may enter in order to pre
vent the felony; however,
the police officer must
find a felony being com
mitted or about to be com
mitted, or else legal action
may be taken against the
law enforcement agency.
This exception- is b a s e d
upon the idea that there
would not be time enough
to get a warrant and still
prevent the felony. The
question is, was there
such a time element in
the arrest of Les Elgart
and band?
Reports say that Cap
tain Sawdon and seven
other officers waited for
five hours to make the
arrest or until after the
band had finished at the
Homecoming dance. Also,
a member of the Lincoln
Journal reporting staff
said that Captain Sawdon
phoned the newsroom
around S p.m. Saturday
informing the Journal
that there was to be a big
story breaking around 1
a.m. He couldn't say what
it was. but that it had
something to do with nar
cotics. In all these hours before
. the actual arrest couldnt
they have got a search
warrant so that they could
have entered the rooms
in a manner that would
satisfy any legal doubts
or questions? As it now
stands, it seems likely
that the case could be
thrown out of court on a
technicality.
Yet, there are extenuat
ing circumstances to this
search without a war
rant. The police received
the phone call from the
pharmacist who reported
two men wanting to bay
an excessive amount of
the drug codeine on Sat
urday when all the courts
are closed. The sab se
quent investigation f I
iowed by the search of the
hotel rooms was carried
on even later Saturday
and Sunday morning. With
the courts closed there
was no way to have a
warrant issued, maybe,
but does it take a formal
court setting and atmos
phere to have owe issued?
Couldn't the police have
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