Fewer students expected on campus, 31 years ago

The UW-La Crosse campus was under pressure to limit enrollment in the 1980’s.  Early in 1987, Chancellor Noel Richards said the projected enrollment for fall would be 97-hundred students, but he warned that the university would have to reduce that number down farther, to 92-hundred.  Richards said the state was aining for even lower 88-hundred.  He believed that the university had reached the point where there were too many students for the budget.  UWL now has an enrollment around 10-thousand.

The White House was accused of lying, and deceiving the public, about the role of U.S. troops in Central America.  Members of a La Crosse “Peace and Jobs Coalition” were protesting Reagan administration decisions to send Wisconsin Army Reserve soldiers to Honduras…which they believed might be part of a plan to overthrow the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.

“Beverly Hills Cop 2” was a big hit in theaters during the early summer of 1987.  “Robocop” and the comedy version of “Dragnet,” with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks, also made money that summer.  Even the Dustin Hoffman-Warren Beatty bomb “Ishtar” still ranked #1 at the box office the week it opened, in 1987, yesterday in La Crosse.