Word: hokansons
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Both the chairman and the publicity director of the Business School's Vietnam Peace Committee yesterday called upon the leader of the Business School's student body, Carl G. Hokanson, to resign his post. They charge him with stopping the local and national press from publicizing their anti-Vietnam petition...
...Hokanson, a second-year MBA candidate and chairman of the Student Association, said last week that he telephoned United Press International, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Herald-Traveler to warn them about the "accuracy and validity" of the petition, which was signed by more than 500 MBA students...
That same evening, Hokanson prepared a statement for immediate release and telephoned the national press...
...Hokanson said that during the past week he has spent 40 to 50 hours working against the petition. "I felt I was fulfilling my duty to the complaining students," he said...
Asked why the 100 students complained to him, Hokanson replied, "I'm visible and they think I'm the one who can solve their problems. It just happens to be a function of the job that you take a lot of shit from everybody...