Word: hokanson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Association, on Wednesday, will consider a resolution tabled last week-that the S.A. give Hokanson a vote of no confidence and ask him to resign. Not surprisingly the emotion is sponsored by the anti-war petition's publicity director, David Baxendale whose efforts to get good press coverage went completely unrealized. Many S.A. member have taken careful mote of Hokanson's actions and, bolstered by unfavorable student reaction to him, might pass a vote of no confidence and ask Hokanson to resign...
...signers by not warning them that the petition would be released to the press. But more important than examining the petty charges against the petition, it might be worthwhile to find out who these 100 duped Business School students are and to get their point of view first-hand. Hokanson when asked for the names of some of these 100. replied, "Frankly, I don't give a shit whether you know any of their names or not. "He admitted that the Wall Street Journal reporter had asked him the identical question and, when pressed further. Hokanson conceded that...
Many MBA candidates understand that they can support freedom of expression by opposing Hokanson. They will speak to those S.A. members they know and ask them to pass the resolution against Hokanson which is on Wednesday's agenda. In particular, some students will try to impress upon first-year S.A. members who want a second term of office that their vote on this issue will be well remembered at recollection time...
...While Hokanson would not give any idea of the identity of these students, the student body is forming its own opinions. Richard E. Teller, a second-year student, said of Hokanson. "I thing he talked to two military guys and each one said he had 50 friends to agree with him." John Gilster, a first-year student in the liberal Section J, said that Hokanson should realize "if you're at the Harvard Business School and can't read, you get what you deserve...
Politically involved B-School students sav that passage of this strong an anti-Hokanson resolution is questionable whereas a weaker resolution to censure him will probably pass. If either passes. Hokanson will find that his effectiveness as a student leader will have been completely shattered. For the good of the Business School community he mav feel compelled to resign of his own accord...