File:Barker Hall.jpg|<!--The early campus: Barker Hall in the center, the Main Building to the right, and a lake in the foreground where the Student Center was later built. File:Patterson Hall 1905.jpg|<!--Patterson Hall, shortly after its 1904 opening File:UKMillerHall.jpg|<!--Miller Hall In May 1970, students at the university began protesting the Kent State shootings|shootings at Kent State University.<#; In response, Governor Louie Nunn deferred to the National Guard of the United States|National Guard in an attempt to disperse the protesters. An outdated Reserve Officers' Training Corps|ROTC building was destroyed by fire. The Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries has 13 oral history interviews with participants in the protests, university officials as well as former governor Nunn. In 1979, the University of Kentucky hosted the first Kentucky Women Writers Conference, which is now the longest-running conference of its kind. The Kentucky Women Writers Conference is now in its 31st year. File:Engineering plaza.jpg| |archivedate = September 9, 2006}}