The Kansas Board of Regents gave its approval to a 20 percent rise in student fees at state universities, with the increase to take effect in the fall of 1983. The Kansas University increase would be $68 per semester. The new annual salary approved for KU Chancellor Gene Budig was $80,000, up from $75,000. Duane Acker, Kansas State president, was to get $78,500 the coming year and Clark Ahlberg at Wichita State was to receive $70,000.

Seven years of Lawrence Chamber of Commerce planning for an industrial park north of the city had fallen through. In a lettered delivered to Mayor Marci Francisco, Chamber President Martin Dickinson Jr. revealed the chamber was abandoning plans for the 400-acre industrial park southeast of U.S. 24-59 along the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Midland. Dickinson said the state of the economy was the main culprit.