A Kansas University faculty group urged the Kansas Board of Regents to include student and faculty representatives on its committee to help select a successor to Chancellor Clarke Wescoe. Dr. Wescoe had resigned surprisingly as of July 1969, to enter the private medical field.

The Board of Regents said plans for the new KU humanities building, eventually named for Clarke Wescoe, would have to be redesigned to meet the $5.8 million in funds available.