From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 28, 1988:

• An article today outlined the rise and fall of various maladies suffered by Kansas University students over the course of an academic year. Various seasons were likely to bring on their own particular sets of problems, according to physicians and counselors on campus, who said they could almost mark their calendars by the ailments. Early in the school year, homesickness, loneliness, and adjustments to life away from the family were common; career and class enrollment concerns marked October and early November; and the current “stress season” of late November and early December involved final exams and the upcoming holidays.
• Douglas County commissioners today agreed to file a lawsuit in Shawnee County District Court and in the U.S. District Court challenging the 1988 census. Three other municipalities had agreed to split the cost of the legal fees. Since the past summer, commissioners had been irate about the method used in the census, specifically the state’s method of counting university students in Lawrence. State law said that students had to be counted at their parents’ homes unless they specifically asked to be included in the college community figures. With two universities and a federal junior college, Douglas County stood to lose nearly 16,000 people in the state counts compared with the census 10 years earlier. The state was planning to use the 1988 headcount to redraw state legislative boundaries for the 1990 elections.
• “Supported employment” was to be the topic at an upcoming workshop hosted by Families Together, Inc., and the SEIK Project (Supported Employment Initiatives of Kansas). Supported employment was a new employment program for people with developmental or emotional disabilities who had previously been considered unable to maintain regular employment.