From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 12, 1986:

• A former Kansas University student who had worked as a programmer in the KU computer center was sentenced to 18 months in the Douglas County jail for misuse of a KU computer the previous summer. In a plea agreement, the 25-year-old had pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts of illegally gaining access to the computer. The prosecution had contended that he had accessed the system in order to change his grades.
• Lawrence school district 497 was considering selling 10 acres of district-owned land located at Harvard and Randall roads for $75,000. The land was zoned at that time for single-family housing. The district had attempted to sell the land during the summer. However, they had received only one bid from a Lenexa company that wanted the land on the condition that it could be rezoned to multi-family, and the school district had not accepted the offer. U.S.D. 497 had originally acquired the land for a new grade school, but subsequent population growth had not supported a need for a school at that location.