From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 17, 1975:

• The heavy use of graduate assistants as course instructors at Kansas University was defended this week by KU administrators. In a faculty workload study conducted in September, 1974, by the Kansas Board of Regents, it had been revealed that graduate assistants taught 32.3 percent of the courses at KU. Full professors, the study showed, taught 23.3 percent of the classes; associate professors taught 17.1 percent; assistant professors, 18.9 percent, instructors, 3.8 percent, and others, 4.6 percent. Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said students should not feel short-changed because a graduate student taught their course. “In reality, most of the graduate assistants are people with master’s degrees with some teaching experience and many are excellent teachers,” Shankel said.
• The Lawrence City Commission this week took the first steps toward condemning land for the city maintenance garage at 11th and Haskell. The city had been negotiating with Orville Hay, owner of the 12.4-acre site, for more than a month and had been unable to reach a settlement, City Manager Buford Watson told the commissioners Watson said the city could have possession of the site in about 60 days if all went smoothly, and the project was expected to be completed by the beginning of 1976.
• Movies showing in Lawrence theaters this week included “The Day of the Locust,” “Aloha, Bobby and Rose,” “The Other Side of the Mountain,” “Jaws,” “The Eiger Sanction,” and Walt Disney’s “The Apple Dumpling Gang.” The Sunset Drive-In was offering a double feature of “The Exorcist” and “Deliverance.”