Students at Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s alma mater, Wesleyan University, called for his arrest and symbolically revoked his degree today during the Occupy movement’s “day of action.”

Hickenlooper earned his undergraduate degree from the school in Middletown, Conn., in 1974. He received his master’s degree there in 1980, then moved to Colorado in 1981, according to his official biography.

About 100 students protested today and were upset with their noted alumnus, holding him responsible for the arrest of more than two dozen protesters in Denver during the eight-week occupation, according to the Middletown Press newspaper.

They called for a citizens’ arrest of Hickenlooper. An actor dressed as school president Michael Roth participated in the mock revocation of his degree.

The Middletown Press noted that Hickenlooper’s office was notified afterward about the protest at Wesleyan involving him.

His spokesman, Eric Brown, did not immediately respond to a message on his cellphone tonight, and his e-mail inbox was full and could not accept new messages.

Hickenlooper delivered Wesleyan’s commencement address in May 2010, after he was given an honorary doctor of laws degree.

“This is the single most important honor I have ever received,” he told graduates, according to a copy of his speech posted on the university’s website. “It says a lot about this institution and all of you.

“Certainly, if anyone had polled my class 35 years ago, I would have been unanimously selected as the last person to ever receive an honorary degree or give a commencement address at Wesleyan.”

He advised graduates near the end of the speech, “Persevere against the naysayers.

Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com