Scranton was asked to study the dissent , disorder , and violence breaking out on college and university campuses , particularly the national student strike that was then going on . The student strike was both a general protest against the Vietnam War and a specific response to the American invasion of Cambodia and the killings of four students at Kent State University in Ohio . Other violent confrontations , such as the killing of two students at Jackson State College in Mississippi , also incited public and administration concern
killings of four students at Kent State
Kent State shootings
President's Commission on Campus Unrest