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SUNYA Student Strike planned as part of a nation-wide student strike. Humanities and Social Science Buildings targeted as well as the Library. Strike supported by the Third World Liberation Front, the Black Panthers, and the Women’s Liberation Movement. (Vicki Zeldin, "STRIKE!") Three thousand...

SUNYA Faculty pass resolution canceling classes for the rest of the Semester.

Federal Building in Albany shut down for six hours by 3,000 demonstrators.

State University of New York at Albany commencement held.

Louis T. Benezet takes office as president. Inauguration on Sept. 2.

ASRC Whiteface Mountain Observatory accepted. Also accepted are the East and West Podium Courts.

Two Indian Quad occupied gradually(still incomplete). Cayuga Hall is accepted on August 20 with long punch list to finish . Tisdale predicts Cayuga will be ready for 200 male students by the start of the fall semester. Tisdale notes that strikes have caused significant delays at Indian Quad....

Sixty women and children of the Women’s Liberation Front, the New Left Organizing Committee, and Concerned Parents stage “crib-in” at President Louis T. Benezet’s office demanding a day care center.

Jewish students and the University Senate urge President Benezet to cancel classes on the Jewish High Holidays, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.