40 years ago: KU fee hikes under fire after federal freeze

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 17, 1971:

  • The recent wage-price freeze initiated by the Nixon administration continued to have effects in Lawrence. David Miller, Kansas University student body president, intended to send a letter to Chancellor Laurence Chalmers calling KU’s fee increases “unauthorized” due to the freeze. Specifically, Miller mentioned the increased costs of parking permits, student football tickets, and some services offered at Watkins Hospital. “I strongly believe every effort must be made to hold the cost of higher education in line with the national price freeze,” Miller wrote. Meanwhile, KU administrators were waiting for federal or state officials to answer questions about how the freeze was to affect salaries.
  • Water levels at Perry Lake were hovering just .2 of a foot below the “planned normal” level of 891.5 feet above sea level. Recent sparse rainfall had led to “generally murky” conditions, but fishing was reported to be fair to good at the 12,500-acre lake 16 miles northwest of Lawrence.