From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 21, 1986:

• After a lonely day at the polls with a turnout of only 21 percent, election officials were able to announce the results. The $8.6 million school bond issue, slated to pay for a new elementary school and the expansion of three other schools, had passed by only 504 votes. School board members expressed their surprise at the narrow margin of victory, saying that there had been no organized opposition. The school board president, Maggie Carttar, speculated that the opposition had come from rural residents and from seniors on fixed incomes. The eight out-of-city precincts had, in fact, voted down the issue.
• In asking the Kansas Board of Regents to cut his latest raise in half, Kansas University Chancellor Gene Budig had kept himself from becoming the first university leader in Kansas to be paid more than $100,000 a year. Budig had been given a 5.2 percent increase from the regents at their monthly meeting, but he had asked the board to limit his pay hike to 2.5 percent, putting his annual salary at $98,400.