A state legislative leader, Rep. Bill Bunten, R-Topeka, had opened fire on a new Kansas University policy allowing students in residence halls to have overnight guests of the opposite sex. Bunten (currently serving as mayor of Topeka) said the policy would be “fraught with problems” if implemented in the fall as planned.

Enrollment for the fall semester was planned in local schools, with classes due to start Aug. 24.

The cost for an academic year at an American college was to jump an average of 6 percent the coming fall and students going to Kansas University were to face a similar increase of 6.25 percent. Jerry Rogers of KU student aid said students wre due to average spending about $4,800 the coming school year.

A judge was to decide early in September whether to dismiss lawsuits brought against the city and local board of zoning appeals in response to approval of a $2 million expansion project at St. Lawrence Catholic Center.

The overall local crime rate had dropped about 9.8 percent during the first six months of 1984, a police report noted.