The article discusses the course, course and effects of the ‘hunger strike’ organized by the students of the Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń in November 1957. This event has not been described so far yet it was only invoked in the memories written by students and lecturers of the Toruń university. Among the causes of such ‘state of affairs’ it would be necessary to indicate mostly the shortness of the students’ boycott, the social character of the submitted postulates and not numerous sources. This last cause was levelled thanks to the operational documentation of the Security Service regarding Eugeniusz Synak who was one of the co-organizers of the students’ strike. The files includes typical material of the security services, e.g. reports and accounts from the operational work, documentation related to inspections of the correspondence as well as original posters and leaflets prepared by the students. These materials supplemented with the archival ones stored in the Archives of the Mikołaj Kopernik University in Toruń and State Archives in Bydgoszcz allowed to reconstruct the preparations for the strike and its course as well as getting to know the moods of part of the students’ society. The evaluation of the effects of the students’ boycott and factors that influenced the accomplished result was obtained by the transcripts from phone taps, in particular from the call of the present Vice-Chancellor of the Mikołaj Kopernik University with Vice Minister of the Higher Education.