DEAN ARCHER RESIGNS GRADUATE SCHOOL POST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000102720001-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 23, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Dean E. James Archer of the University ?
? of Colorado graduate school submitted his .
resignation Wednesday, presumably .in
connection with the suspension of eight
1 graduate students who demonstrated
against the Central Inielllgenee Agency
(CIA) last Oct. 25. .. .
Dr. Joseph Smiley, CU president, con-
firmed that Archer had submitted his res-
iation but refused to discuss the con-
tents of the letter.?
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Smiley said he hasn't accepted Archer's
resignation, "and I won't until I've. had a
ei.:ance to discuss this with him.".
Archer couldn't be reached for comment
Thursday. Smiley said he has been un- '
able to contact Archer since he received
the resignation letter Wednesday morning.
Sources close to the CU administration
Thursday that Archer resigned be-
cause he believed the administration
planned. to reverse the school discipline
committee's action in suspending the eight
graduate students.
The Oct.. 25 . demonstration involved
, ahout 25 members of the .CU chapter of nation at a rally. Some 400 persons ate :.11
Students for a Democratic Society. ? --tended the rally.
The students blocked the door to ? the Talmey .told the gathering Archer should
school's placement btreau wherelhe CIA .resign becatiee of.. suspensions of the
was to conduct job interviews. , graduate students wore' excessively harsh 1;1
As a result, 23 students were called be. in relation to what they had done: ? .
fore the discipline committee.. One. re- ? When contacted after the Friday rally,
ceived a private hearing, the results of ? Archer said he had no intention of re-
which weren't disclosed. , ? .. signing merely. because Talmey had asked it
Of the other .22, four were placed on him to. ?
.probation, eight were suspended but the -Sunday, some 100 faculty members at I??
.suspensions withdrawn and the students .an informal meeting passed a resolution ..;
.put on probation, and 10 were suspended: to the effect that all 22 students suffered ?i;
.outright. . ?.harsh punishment as. a result of their .
Eight of the 10 actually suspended were actions. The 1G suspended students were ?
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At the discipline committee hearings at: to improve disciplinary procedures-at. the t;
CU, the: dew.' or,lhe college which ? the ' ?university. . . : , : ? . . ,' ii
student attends sits, with' the regular three-1- .The suspensions, Which were announced s i
member committee. ? ? . t ? -- ".: Nov. 15, have also been criticized by the. 11
It was learned that Archer recommend:: *school's newspaper ?and various* campus
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ed to the committee that the eight grad- ' *organizations. ? * ? ? ? ? 1
uate students be suspended. ? . Archer,?42,? caine to CU. in 1965 from
Last Friday, Paul Talmey, CU student the University of Wisconsin where he
body president, called for Arther's 'head of *the psychology department.'
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'Dean E. James Archer of'
STAT the University of Colorac:a:4
graduate school submitted?
his resignation Wednesday,
presumably in connection
with the suspension of
eight graduate students
who demonstrated against
the Central intelligence
Agency on Oct. 25. Dr.
Joseph Smiley, CU presi-
dent, confirmed that Archer
had submitted his resigna-
tion but refused to discuss?
its contents. He said'he has
not accepted it and will not
until he's discussed if ,with
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