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PHILADELPHIA--The board of trustees of the University of Pennsylvania yesterday selected F. Sheldon Hackney, now president of Tulane University, as UPenn's new president, despite protests from students and faculty who had favored the university's provost instead...
...faculty senate, in a special session last week, voted to urge the trustees to nominate Provost Vartan Gregorian for president. However, Gregorian, who resigned two weeks ago, asked that his name not be considered and the trustees yesterday voted only on the nomination of Hackney, Bender said...
...meeting was called at the request of 120 faculty members who expressed concern at the nomination of F. Sheldon Hackney, now president of Tulane University, and the resignation of Gregorian, who many had expected would become president...
...faculty senate also will meet in special session to discuss the selection of Hackney. More than 120 faculty members signed a petition for the special session, but several signers said they wanted to understand why the trustees had passed over Gregorian rather than to overturn Hackney's selection...
...signed in an anti-Hackney spirit, or in a spirit of confrontation with the trustees," one petition organizer said, adding, "It's an effort to come to a better understanding of just what happened...