From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 6, 1975:

• The City of Lawrence today “unsexed” all its city job titles, according to a front-page article. In keeping with the spirit of affirmative action, draftsmen were now drafting technicians, firemen became fire fighters, foremen were to be known as supervisors, and a police patrolman was now simply a police officer. City Personnel Director David Mansfield said the change was part of the general affirmative action program, but that there were no specific federal regulations governing job titles. He explained that city officials felt they “may have been intimidating females” with male job titles.
• Centennial School parents had begun circulating petitions to oppose a Lawrence School District proposal to move their children to Cordley School the following fall. Beverly Carothers, 1635 Alabama, one of the parents who had initiated the drive, said several hundred names had been gathered already. The petition asked that the district find alternative ways to solve space issues at Lawrence High School other than closing Centennial. Under the district’s proposal, the LHS music and extension programs would move into the Centennial building.