From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 29, 1972:

Law school enrollment in the U.S. had risen from 41,499 in 1961 to 94,469 in 1971. According to Martin Dickinson, dean of the Kansas University Law School, there would probably be 1,200 to 1,500 applications for 150 available place sin KU’s 1972 entering class. KU’s law school was at that time housed in Green Hall [now Lippincott Hall], which had been built in 1905 to accommodate 150 students. Total KU Law School enrollment was currently 470 and was expected to reach 500 by next fall. Dickinson said he believed a new building was the solution, rather than renovation or expansion of the old building, but the university had received no funding for two years for the construction of offices, classrooms, or library space.