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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...
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...