Forty years ago on May 4, 1970 four Kent State students were killed and nine others wounded by Ohio National Guard troops during a protest against the American invasion of Cambodia. Those killings prompted a nation-wide protest by college students and shut down over 400 educational institutions. At Syracuse University students barricaded entrances to campus, broke windows, marched peacefully downtown, and staged a sit-in in the Tolley Administration Building.

To commemorate this important moment in SU's history the University Archives has established a subject guide on its web site for the 1970 Student Strike, at http://archives.syr.edu/collections/guides/. The guide provides researchers with a listing of the Archives holdings including clippings, student publications, photographs, slides, papers of the chancellor, schools and colleges and more.

Contact: SU Archives, E. S. Bird Library, Suite 600, 443-3335, archives@syr.edu

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