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: MohSSfosay CCidoey foundation .jeam vaults into the LtL2cdd : uSSntaSy needs your cans -pages season's first win -page6 SJU Volume 96, Issue 103 v '. . f s s - v Hail from the chief George Bush, who was sworn president, greets guests with his laiim foirmer sttycflemt tok LSD, official From staff reports William J. McMichael III, the Carrboro man who was shot and killed after forcing his way into a Chapel Hill home on Jan. 10, had taken LSD hours before the incident, according to District Attorney Carl Fox. People who were with McMichael on the night of the incident told Chapel Hill police they saw him taking the drug and consuming alcoholic beverages hours before his death, Fox said in a press conference Friday. McMichael, 23, a former UNC student and founder of Helium Highs, a successful wholesale balloon Smith enters race for RHA president By AMY WAJDA Staff Writer . David Smith, a junior political science major from Banner Elk, has announced his candidacy for Residence Hall Association president. Smith said his main goal as president would be to expand RHA into more aspects of resi dents' life. ' Smith said he would put RHA representatives on all student government committees that deal with residents. These committees include transportation and park ing, food services and campus Security and safety. ; He also said he would work closely with the student body president as a main part of student government. "I would be president of resident students on campus and represent them in everything that relates to them," he said. As another part of RHA's expansion, Smith said RHA would be the main representative of resident students on the parking issue. If the elimination of sophomore parking is approved by UNC Chancellor Paul Hardin, Smith said RHA would protest the decision and work with student government to prevent further losses of student parking. In the drink when I - in Friday as the nation's 41st wife Barbara at the Inaugural company, was shot by Lee Sizemore four times after he entered Sizemore's house at 102 Bristol Drive. Sizemore will not be charged in the shooting because he was acting within the law to defend his home and family from McMichael, Fox said. The investigation revealed no prior con nection between McMichael and the Sizemore family. Tests to determine if any illegal drugs were present in McMichael's body at the time of his death have not been completed, Fox said, but investigators are certain the tests will show McMichael had taken hallucin ogenic drugs. Previous tests showed no evidence ''t .f lit r - S i ? i t i i r, 1 t t V ; ' i t i i i : f. r -w . .-. i : . . 1 w. i : -'; 1 X t David Smith Elections U9 past, too many parking sacrifices have been made by students and not enough by faculty and staff, he said. RHA would also examine the success of guaranteed sophomore housing, Smith said. RHA would especially monitor the effect of guaranteed sophomore housing on students, parking and residence See RHA page 2 have occasion u 1 rs. - V Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Monday, January 23, 1989 Ball. The ball, which was part Bush, was held at Washington's of alcohol in McMichael's system, but investigators think any alcohol he may have consumed had passed through his system by the time of his death, Fox said. McMichael's friends expressed surprise at the findings of the police investigation. Chris Crute, McMichael's room mate, said McMichael was not a drug user and did not even like to drink too much. "IVe never known him to take drugs. . .any kind. . .period," Crute said. "I've never even seen him drunk." John Haydock, who worked with McMichael at Helium Highs, also Protester criticizes '80s activism By BRENDA CAMPBELL Staff Writer Activism in the 1980s is a mere! shadow of activism in the 1950s and 1960s, one of the students who started the national wave of sit-in protests told about 50 people Sunday in the Union Auditorium. Franklin McCain, who partici pated in the first sit-in at Woolworth's in Greensboro, was sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha as the final event in the Martin Luther King birthday celebration week. McCain said he was heavily involved during both waves of acti vism in the 1950s and '60s. "I was a very angry young man during the first wave," he said. "I thought I had all the answers to all the problems. It wasn't until I was about 30 that I realized not only did I not have all the answers, I had just begun to realize how to ask all the questions." A few significant movements started national participation in civil rights activism, McCain said. Rosa Parks' bus boycott move ment in Montgomery, Ala., was significant because of the sheer courage of one frail little lady, he said. The civil rights movement in the South was reborn in Greensboro when four black men from N.C. A&T State University staged the first sit in demonstration. The impact of the demonstration was nationwide, he said. The men involved in the sit-in were "four people who were angry and who had been lied to," McCain said. and sometimes when I have no ((tor 4nl nn II II 11 CP- III II II Chapel Hill, North Carolina x::;;v:;?n-:: Yackety YackTony Deifell of a $30 million celebration for Union Station Friday night. - "I've never known him to take drugs . . . any kind . . . period." Chris Crute said he had never known McMichael to use drugs. But Haydock said he hopes McMichael is remembered for more than the strange circumstances of his death. "That's not the last thing IH remember about Bill," Haydock said. "Ill remember the things that hap pened before that." "They told me since being a young boy that the key to success, the key to acceptance, the key to exercising full and equal rights was to believe in the Constitution, believe in the Bill of Rights, attend school, exercise typical responsibility, think fast and mind my manners," he said. "None of these things happened that they promised me," McCain said. "They lied to me." Movements of the 1980s lack the principles of commitment, non conformity, persistance, and accep tance, he said, and so they have a limited impact. The outside world accuses the 1980s generation of being selfish, materialistic and idealistic. It believes that upon graduation the main concern of students is for "BMWs, Barbados and boogies," he said. Involvement is the direction that everyone has to move toward, See ACTIVIST page 2 o seat to By KIMBERLY EDENS University Editor UNC Athletic Director John Swof ford has responded to complaints about the lack of lower-level student seats in the Smith Center with the immediate addition of 50 lower-level seats. Swofford also said he would consider installing bleachers in the student sections, which could signif icantly increase the number of stu dents able to sit in the lower level of the $30 million, 21,444-seat bas ketball arena. Swofford met with Carolina Athletic Association President Carol Geer for six hours on Friday to discuss concerns about the number and quality of student seats. They also met with former CAA ticket distri bution chairman Denny Worley, Student Body President Kevin Mar tin and Student Congress Speaker Neil Riemann. Geer said the CAA is no longer considering the possibility of a five or 10-minute student boycott of a game because the athletic department is suggesting possible solutions to the lack of quality student seating. "As long as they're willing to work on the problem, I don't see where taking any drastic steps would help During the press conference, Fox also gave a more comprehensive account of what happened on the night of McMichael's death. People noticed McMichael acting strangely in downtown Chapel Hill and tried to help him, but he would not let them, Fox said. Later, McMichael stopped at Sizemore's home and knocked at a side door until Sizemore answered. McMichael then asked him "Is this the stairway to heaven?" or "Is this the gateway to heaven?" Fox said. Sizemore tried to close the door, but McMichael forced his way inside and came after Sizemore, Fox said. Sizemore struggled with McMichael Franklin McCain discusses stt X lr y C n hit Ar ;l ill occasion. Miguel Cervantes NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 oveo n yJeoDt us," she said. "I think students will be a lot happier in the Smith Center next year if we can work this out." Geer said she received hundreds of phone calls and letters from students who were very angry about the situation. Many said they would support a boycott. "Students are willing to act, if it is necessary," she said. The 50 lower-level seats were distributed Sunday for the Georgia Tech game, and students with line numbers in the low 600s were getting lower-level seats, Geer said. The exact number of lower-level student seats was discovered for the first time during distribution for the N.C. State game last Sunday. CAA officers discovered that students were given about 1,600 lower-level seats, although student leaders had been promised about 2,000 seats when the Smith Center was under construction. Swofford told Geer the discre pancy resulted from the athletic department's assumption that student leaders knew some seats, such as those given to high school basketball recruits, would be taken from the student sections. These seats also See TICKETS page 3 and broke free, then went to get a .25 caliber pistol out of his car, he said. When Sizemore returned to the house, the door was closed, but McMichael let him inside, Fox said. Sizemore showed the gun to McMi chael and told him to leave, but McMichael again came after him and Sizemore shot him twice. Sizemore tried to walk past McMi chael, but McMichael confronted him a third time and Sizemore shot him two more times, Fox said. Sizemore's wife, Debbie, had already called police, but they did not arrive until after the shooting, Fox said. V OTH Brian Foley civil rights activism Sunday j-": t
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