From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 28, 1971:

• Students at Kansas University had voted 2,151 to 1,878 against a Student Senate plan to give nearly one-third of their student activity fee to the university administration to ease the school’s budget woes. The money from the $12 per semester fee, which would have amounted to $130,148 per semester, would have helped the administration at the expense of the organizations and activities that were the traditional recipients of the funds. Chancellor Laurence Chalmers, expressing disappointment with the outcome of the vote, questioned the usefulness of the referendum to judge every allocation and action by the senate. As the senate was representative of the student body, he said, the senators should have adequate information on which to base their allocation decisions.
• Federal, state and local officers were investigating a robbery of a contract mail truck east of Junction City. Several sacks of mail had been taken from the truck, which had been traveling from Colby to Kansas City.