From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 22, 1971:

Kansas University’s proposed new humanities building, Wescoe Hall, was still facing obstacles to its construction as the Kansas Board of Regents had decided to reject all bids on a $2.5 million revenue bond issue which would help finance the building. Plans for the new building, which was to be named for former KU chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, had first been unveiled in November 1967, when it was a 25-story structure which would have been the tallest in Kansas. The plans were changed in 1968 to call for a 15-story building, but in May of 1969, when bids exceeded available funds, all previous plans had been scrapped and the project re-started. The four-story plan had emerged and the KU Student Senate in 1970 had committed students to paying $7.50 a semester to help finance the building.