For four consecutive nights, the local police force had been supplemented by 25 Kansas Highway Patrol troopers. The additional patrollers were scheduled to leave Lawrence after one more night. The emergency rules and regulations came after two young men were shot to death on Lawrence streets during a week of violence.

A member of the President’s Commission on Campus Unrest met with several Lawrence citizens and KU representatives at the Kansas Union to discuss recent events in Lawrence. Meanwhile, a Yale psychology professor had told a White House panel that the way to end killings on America’s campuses was to take “murderous weapons out of the hands of civil authorities.”

Residents of Old West Lawrence were reported to be in sympathy with some Topeka citizens who were engaged in a losing battle against their city. The Topekans were fighting city efforts to cover up their red brick streets with asphalt. Lawrence residents who had enjoyed the “flavor” their brick streets gave to their neighborhood had also tried to halt repaving, but to no avail. People in both cities insisted that the current streets were quite adequate and that street-repair money should be used elsewhere, but the brick streets continued to vanish.