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Meanwhile Sheldon Hackney, former president of the University of Pennsylvania and President Clinton's nominee for chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, was savaged for saying, after black students seized and threw away copies of a campus newspaper with an offending column, "Two important university values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict." In fact, Hackney's statement also referred to "the overriding importance of freedom of expression," about which "there can be no compromise." (And the students involved face university punishment for their actions.) But merely for suggesting that the feelings of minority students...
President Clinton's choice to head the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sheldon Hackney, the president of the University of Pennsylvania, received unanimous support from a Senate committee last week, and his nomination now goes to the full Senate. In hearings, Hackney was mostly questioned about his politically correct policies. Only one Senator asked him about his administration's admitted misspending of nearly $1 million in federal grants earmarked for academic research. Some of the uses for the money...
...Sheldon Hackney may be the next Lani Guinier...
...Hackney has other supporters. Among them is former rival and Brown University president Vartan Gregorian, who was passed over for the Penn presidency in favor of Hackney in 1980. Says he: "Sheldon Hackney has a judicious, moderate temperament -- and you need somebody who is an umpire" to run the NEH. Gregorian himself turned down the appointment...
...Hackney once wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer that in the campus contests between left and right, he stood in the huge middle ground, residing "somewhere in no-man's-land (excuse me, . . . no-person's-land), ducking the shrapnel from the p.c. bombs exploding in the popular press." When the Senate finally holds confirmation hearings, Hackney may want to consider wearing a flak jacket...