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With the curse of racism beginning to lift, one can perceive a kind of liberality. Notes Sheldon Hackney, president of Tulane University: "Traditionally, the South has been quite tolerant. Localities tolerate the village atheist arid the lonely radical. The family tolerates. The South, more than other places, honors the strong individual stand, the person who says what he believes...
Another plus for today's South, says Heard, is a freer "market of intellectual talent than before. Southerners are moving all over the country and non-Southerners are moving into the South." One intellectual who has returned is Sheldon Hackney, 42, a Southern historian who became provost of Princeton, then moved to New Orleans to become president of Tulane. He and his wife, Hackney says, "always knew we would like to come back to the South and see what we could contribute...
Positive Signs. One way that the South can help to reverse the brain drain to the North, suggest both Hackney and Heard, is to better integrate its universities. At Tulane only 5% of the 5,000 students are black; at Vanderbilt the percentage is even lower: 4% of 6,900 students. At both universities the black students are unwelcome in fraternities and sororities and do not join the mainstream of campus life. Yet even that degree of integration represents a revolutionary change in race relations over the past decade...
...something of a Southern chauvinist. He believes that "Southerners are more willing to talk candidly about race and to identify bigotry as bigotry," and adds, "I have always found that a reconstructed white Southerner on matters of race is committed. It's not for show." Like Heard and Hackney, Cheek sees positive signs for education in the South's more open racial dialogue...
...GLENDON HACKNEY Indianapolis Holden Caulfield Today Sir / Many thanks for Stefan Kanfer's Essay "Holden Today" [Feb. 7]. Yes, Holden Caulfield, the 16-year-old hero of The Catcher in the Rye, is already one of the immortals of American literature...