IN 1978 – Kansas University officials announced, to the delight of many traditionalists, that all plans to relocate the familiar “Uncle Jimmy” Green statue from its site in front of the old law school building to the grounds of the new law school near Allen Fieldhouse had been formally and finally dropped. The statue still stands in front of what now is Lippincott Hall, across from Fraser Hall.

It was to be the last year Kansas counties would have to spend time and money conducting their own censuses, according to a bill to be signed by Gov. Robert Bennett. Federal census figures were to be used officially under the bill. Douglas County, with its heavy student population, was strongly behind the measure because students were included in the federal headcount as full-time residents. That was not the case with the local and state count system and it annually cost cities such as Lawrence and Manhattan, and their counties, dearly at tax time.

IN 1963 – Funds finally had been raised for the new Kansas University Memorial Stadium elevator on the west side of the 6,500-seat expansion currently under way. About $20,000 had been raised in addition to the $700,000 for the regular expansion work, and the elevator was insured. At one point it was feared that cost-cutting would prevent establishment of the needed elevator from the stadium expansion project.

IN 1903 – From the Lawrence Daily World of April 28, 1903: “KU covered herself with glory last Saturday in a decisive baseball victory over the Manhattan state agricultural college. KU had the best of it in the field, at bat and everywhere else even though the farmers put up a hard game (no score listed). … Two prominent citizens had a mixup on the street the other day. At first it looked like a fight but it ended up in a foot race. … Don’t you think for a minute that all the joints are all closed in Lawrence. They ought to be. The character of the stuff sold here takes the manhood right out of men.”