CIA POSTPONES UCLA, VALLEY STATE RECRUITING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300210002-0
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 2, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: November 16, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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16 NOV 1967
? (iA Postpones UCLA,
Valley State Recruiting
School Spokesmen Say Student Militancy
is Cause; Dow Plans to Keep Future Dates
BY JOHN KENDALL
Timat Staff WrOw
dent mil v, school spokesmen
But report Dow Chemical
Co.- of napalm-planned to
it Valley State.
,e u
reported Wednesday. will be allowed to recruit
The Centra! Intelligence Agency has postponed on-campus recruiting 29 be binding on he
administration. The refer-
at UCLA San Fernando Valley State College because of recent stu- nd m is hether Dow
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is interview dates at both
-n Nov. 28 at UCLA and
. )ow recruiters were also sche-
duled to interview students on
campus today and Friday at Cal
State Long Beach, despite protests
by peace groups at the school.
Reports that the supersecret CIA
had shied from the attention of
student protests at UCLA were
confirmed by Ed Shaw, who directs
the university's placement center.
Shaw said 25 UCLA students had
been signed for CIA interviews on
Nov. 28, 29, 30 and Dec. 1,? but the
sessions had bean postponed to Jan.
23, 24, 25 ar
The CIA r in Los Angeles, L.
H. Gage d to elaborate. He
commer
C
the UCLA campus, that's I.
Studer, io .press the desire to
be intE veo w ?11 be iwerviewed
in another location." '
Gage said he couldn't say vhen the
Interviews woul be re; :heduled
"be,: - know." Further
inf ::.:.:..;.., rle said, woul, have to
cor rom the UCLA placement
cep. ,e:
UCLA, Shaw said his Impres-
sion was that "the CIA does not
choose to interview at those campu-
ses where thi is going to be a
or de istration."
v's assumption was confirmed
Washington, D.C., where a
,)okesman said recruiters for
ganization had been told to
on campus and whether a
hold their Interviews off-campus student-faculty committee
when protests were expected. should run the student
At Valley State, Dr. Donald Kri
mel, executive assistant for informa-: placement cetiter.
tional services, said the CIA had U C L A administration
postponed its Tuesday interviews spokesmen have said the
without setting a future date. referendum would not be
"We didn't ask for a cancellation," binding on the school.
Krimel said. But, he added, the CIA Protesting students were
had been asked to explain why the. expected to meet with
interviews had been postponed. Chancellor Franklin D.
The CIA postponement at both Murphy, perhaps today.
UCLA and Valley State came follow- He has been in New York
ing student protests Tuesday. City. ,
Students Present Petition At Long Beach State
President Carl W. McIn-
At Valley State, 100 to 200 tosh refused to yield to
students marched on the adminis-' demands by the Student
tration building and presented a Action Committee and the
petition demanding elimination of Faculty Peace Committee
campus recruiting for the CIA, U.S. to ban Dow Chemical and
military, Dow Chemical and other military recruiters from
related industries. the cam
us
p
.
"In face of increasing campus - He urged the committee
pia comp ex and the increasing
elimination of recruiting .. " the 'l
businesses, industries and
government had inter-
viewed 2,633 students dur-
ing the 1966-67 school
year.
At UCLA, a week of stu-
dent discontent over on-
campus recruiting pro-
duced a sit-in of more than
150 antiwar demonstrators
Tuesday in the adminis-
tration building.
Among their demand-
was a provision thy,
cfiirlant rPfPrPndnm
William Thomas read a statement of
"The point Is to provide all.
allow each student free choice,"
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to consider whether exist-
ing rules might be clari-
fied, but he said:
"The intent of the regu-
lations is to prevent cen-
sorship committees and
vigilante groups from im-
posing their wills on the
campus.
"The intent is to keep me
or you or any other group
from standing in between
students and someone
they may want. to, hear,"