Word: presse
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THIRD of the Business School's MBA candidates signed an anti-Vietnam petition for Moratorium week-yet their efforts went unreported in the local and national press. This happened because Carl G. Hokanson, president of the Student Association. used his official position as student body leader to warn the press that the perition's "accuracy and validity" was dubious. New the Business School community is fuming over Hokanson's actions...
...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...
HOKANSONS EXCUSE for putting a muzzle over the petition is that about 100 student came up to him complaining about the procedures which the Harvard Business School Vietnam Peace Committee used to circulate and release the petition to the press...
...country are the clientele of the embassy people and embassy cables do reflect this association." But the Peace Corps mission, May says, is as effective a lobby as any. May explains policy decisions simply in terms of options available to the actor. With possible reaction from the Congress and press, "If the President is told that there is a possibility that some other Carribean area will go the way of Cuba, he really has very little chance to react except by asking how many Marines we can get there on what sort of a timetable...
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...