From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 25, 1989:

• Syndicated columnist and television commentator Pat Buchanan spoke to an audience at Kansas University this week on major political topics of the day. Buchanan, who had formerly served as an assistant to three Republican presidents, focused his lecture on President Bush’s first 100 days in office. “Let me get my cards up front,” Buchanan said at the beginning of the Vickers Memorial Lecture. “I’m not only Republican, I’m a right-wing Republican.” In what a Journal-World reporter referred to as “a message saturated with partisan rhetoric,” Buchanan said that Oliver North should be cleared of charges in the Iran-Contra affair and House Speaker Jim Wright should forfeit his seat for scheming to evade limits on outside income.
• A KU forum on students’ recommendation that condom machines be installed in campus buildings had been canceled, in part because several invited participants were unable to attend. “I couldn’t get commitments from several people we invited,” said Rebecca Newburn, chair of the Student Senate Task Force on AIDS. “It became clear to me that we weren’t getting a representative sample for providing a variety of views.” Newburn also said the task force had thought it best to meet with KU officials on a private basis, adding, “I’d personally like to see a meeting within two weeks.” As of this morning, KU officials had not yet approached Newburn about setting a date for a meeting to discuss administration approval for condom machines on campus. In a referendum April 13, students had voted 2,007 to 538 in favor of the placement of the machines in campus residence halls, scholarship halls, and several academic buildings.