The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, August 13, 1980-Page 5
IT'S - WELL - DULL
Convention hoopla vanishes
By TOM MIRGA
Special to The Daily
NEW YORK - "Everybody came here to see some
blood spilled. But now that the 'open convention'
proposal has been shot down and Kennedy has said he
won't go for the nomination, there's no excitement
left."
That was the proclamation yesterday of Hank
Lacayo of Southfield, Mich., a delegate to the
Democratic National Convention here. By nearly all
accounts yesterday, the convention has become -
well - dull.
"NOBODY CARES about anything anymore," said
Jean Mayer, the League of Women Voters represen-
crowned, and I find the convention bloody dull."
Rose Marie Schmidt, a delegate from California,
attributed the absence of many delegates from
yesterday's session to the Carter camp's victory over
supporters of the so-called "open convention.",
"Their bubble burst," she said, "and you can't
blame many of them for not wanting to be here. I'd
say half of the delegates aren't around today."
DELEGATES WEREN'T the only people taking
time off from the convention-related activities. Mitch
Shapiro, a convention staff assistant in the special
press section, said his office processed half as many
requests for press credentials yesterday as they did
Monday.
"Monday there were at least 250 reporters nacked
in here pushing and hollering for credentials, and
look at it now," he said, pointing to a deserted
hallway.
Peter Pope, who also works in the special press
credentials office said, "My bet is that the ex-
citement won't reach Monday's peak again. Ever-
body wanted to see the fight, but now that Carter's
won the nomination for all practical purposes, there's
not much for these people to get hot about."
MARK WOLFF, who works for a Boston enter-
tainment magazine, said, "I think it's all gone. The
only real excitement for the week came (Monday).
Now they're going over the platform and that
material is a lot drier than the debate on the open
convention proposal"
Condition
of wounded
computer
whiz still
critical
. DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - James
Dallas Egbert, the 17-year-old com-
puter genius whose mysterious disap-
pearance last year was linked to the
"Dungeons and Dragons" fantasy
game, remained unconscious yesterday
with a bullet would in his head.
Max Peterson, spokesman for Gran-
dview Hospital, said Egbert was in
critical condition in the intensive care
unit following surgery Monday.
"IT DOESN'T LOOK too good," The
young man's father, optometrist James
Egbert of Huber Heights, said at the
hospital. "They don't expect him to
AP Photo make it."
Police Lt. Mike Sammons said
Egbert was shot once in the head and
inson, that a .25-caliber automatic pistol was
I by an found near him on a sofa in his apar-
tment.
Egbert disappeared from Michigan
State University for 28 days last year
and police speculated that he may have
been deeply involved in a live version of
the fantasy board game "Dungeons and
Dragons," in which players must over-
come such obstacles as dragons and
maze-like dungeons to reach a
treasure. Authorities speculated he
may have been hiding in utility tunnels
beneath the campus.
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filming for a movie, leaped from atop the downtown CN Tower - only to be restrained 60 meters from the ground
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EAST LANSING (UPI) " Michigan State University
President Cecil Mackey's official residence was opened for a
media tour yesterday in a bid to defend the nearly" $90,000
spent to spruce up the "front door to the university."
The expenditures on furniture, drapes and kitchen
remodeling - which came at a time when the financially
strapped school has announced tuition increases - sparked.
renewed criticism of Mackey.
DURING A TOUR of the official Cowles House residence,
MSU Vice President Connie Stewart and other school of-
ficials stressed that more than 90 per cent of the im-
provements made within the past year were in the works
before Mackey came to the campus last August.
The renovations, the first major improvements in the
house since the 1950s, were long overdue and concentrated in
the public areas of the three-story brick structure which are
used frequently for official university functions, the
"This is the front door to the university for its
Stewart said.
THEY ALSO DENIED reports Mackey skirted M
ted Board of Trustees in having the work done. Su
projects, conducted by the school's own staff, do n
board approval, they said.
A total of $89,196 has been spent on the 11,233 s'
house in the past year, according to Roger Wilkin
vice president for business and finance.
This includes kitchen renovations last July totali
an elaborate fire protection system installed last O
cost of $23,744, an antenna connection for th
television and radio costing $5,759, $24,007 in fu
cluding a grand piano, $3,822,in carpeting, $
draperies and just under $3,000 for wallpaper and p