From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 16, 1988:

• The fall crop of movies provided several options this week for a night out. “Punch Line” was showing at the Granada, and “The Accused” at the Varsity. The Hillcrest multiplex was showing “Dead Ringers,” “A Fish Called Wanda,” “Messenger of Death,” “Tiger Warsaw,” and the locally-filmed “Kansas” as well as a one-night-only sneak preview of “Mystic Pizza.” Further down the road, the Dickinson theaters were screening “Alien Nation,” “Gorillas in the Mist,” “Big,” “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Die Hard,” and “Eight Men Out.” Movie fans could drive over to south Iowa Street to see “Young Guns” or “Midnight Run” at the Cinema Twin, or stay downtown and take in “Au Revoir Les Enfants” at Liberty Hall.
• An article this week informed high school students that some colleges and universities were now forgoing the traditional pen-and-paper forms in favor of “applying by computer.” For example, the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, was offering “disk applications” using either an “IBM-compatible or an Apple program” whereby the university mailed an application disk to the student, who filled it out on a computer and mailed it back. Going a step further, the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, had begun “using a modem” to allow students “to register from campus or thousands of miles away.”