From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 10, 1987:

Under the state-lottery bill expected to be signed into law this week, Kansas University students, and anyone else age 18 or over, would be permitted to buy instant-win lottery tickets on campus. Jim Long, director of the Kansas Union, said he had been following the progress of the gambling bill and was considering the possibility of lottery ticket sales in the Union. “We are looking at the advantages and the disadvantages of it, but … we want to investigate it and see what our sister institutions have learned.” After the September 1987 roll-out of the lottery tickets, more than 2,000 retail outlets statewide were expected to sell them, including several Lawrence locations.