Word: hokansons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Samuel Goldhaber's editorial, "B-School Battle" is a most welcome boost to those of us at the "B" School who are sick and tired of being "messed over" by the likes of Carl G. Hokanson...
...former chairman of the Afro-American Student Union at the "B" School, I am quite familiar with both the attitudes and machinations of Hokanson and his conservative sidekicks who have served as the official non-voice of student body. They seem either unwilling or incapable of providing the leadership which an increasingly activist and even "liberal"-if one can use that word-M. B. A. student faction is demanding. Apparently unwilling to concede that more and more M. B. A. students (especially black and chicano students) are determined to put an end to the Business School's splendid and serene...
Anyone who knows what the traditional role of the SA has been cannot be surprised at Hokanson's actions on the anti-Vietnam petition. The SA's traditional role has been that of a well-dressed social committee, the main function of which was to provide M. B. A. students with noncontroversial entertainment and relief from the rigors of the two-year program. And there are many M. B. A. students who would like the SA to continue to limit its activities to "safe" and certainly non-political endeavors-such as Christmas gala affairs, blood drives, and United Fund drives...
Hostilitv toward Hokanson dates back to last April, While all the other graduate school student organizations issued statements on the takeover and bust of University Hall. Hokanson issued a condescending statement that the S.A. would not release a statement in order to avoid "the type of emotional response characterized by the statements of certain other elements of the University Community...Information presently available is too emotional in character, and too limited in scope, to form the basis for a useful recommendation...
...Hokanson's response turned out to be a politically unwise move. When the Business School finally did hold a mass meeting of about 1000 students, Hokanson received the loudest hisses of the day-quite a feat in itself considering the circumstances. Many of the Business School students dislike the type of leadership which has characterized his administration. Whether he is asked to resign or only censured. Hokanson should probably take it upon himself to bow out of the Business School's political scene...