Word: hackney
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Penn President Sheldon Hackney's response to the "DP" theft was a tepid statement that bemoaned the conflict between diversity and open expression, "two important University values." A charge of racism is serious, and both campus officials and DP editors should respond vigilantly. But theft of a newspaper seems an inappropriate way to raise a complaint, however justified...
...evidence refuting this charge mounted, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, Sheldon "Behema" Hackney, remained strangely unmoved. He said, "I thought it was much better to let the process work...
Theoretically, this idea might have some merit, but when the process is conducted by people like Read, who blur together the entire Eastern hemisphere, and who allow a 18-year-old kid to be dragged through a public trial for the sake of placating Greeks without gripes, Hackney should have intervened on the side of truth and justice with all possible speed...
Penn should consider itself lucky to unload Hackney, and his spinelessness and reverence for a illogical bureaucracy will ensure a long tenure at his new post. The arts in America, instead of life at Penn, will suffer if he is confirmed...
...Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) will begin an inquiry, said David Hackney, the Pennypacker proctor who showed the officers to the room, but will not act until after exam period so that the students involved may concentrate on their finals...