From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 11, 1986:

• Lecompton’s Constitution Hall was looking at a possibly brighter future thanks to recent action taken by a Kansas Senate committee. The Senate Ways and Means Committee had unanimously approved a bill to establish the building as a historic landmark and museum. The measure was now headed to the full Senate. The legislature also needed to fund a $172,200 restoration of the building, which had served as the state’s territorial capitol during 1856 and 1857. It was also the site where the Lecompton pro-slavery state constitution had been written. The Hall had already been designated as a national landmark by the U.S. Department of Interior.
• It was announced today that Del Brinkman, the dean of Kansas University’s journalism school, was appointed KU’s vice chancellor for academic affairs. The search for a new vice chancellor had begun when Deanell Tacha had resigned to accept an appointment as a federal judge on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.