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Rodin will succeed Penn's interim president Claire Fagin, who took over when former president Sheldon Hackney was chosen by President Clinton to lead the National Endowment for the Humanities...
...limo sitting in front of Mass. Ave. picks up five or six people and drives them a short distance for a fee, it looks like [the driver] is doing hackney [taxi] business," Rodriguez said. "Liveries can not do hackney, and we will enforce this...
...police. And though Jacobowitz, an Orthodox Jew, explained the epithet as a translation for the Hebrew behemah, slang for "fool" or "dummy," he was charged with racial harassment under Penn's hate-speech policy and threatened with suspension. The case became a symbol of correctness run amuck, and Sheldon Hackney, outgoing president of the university (and current head of the National Endowment for the Humanities), was blasted for failing to defend free speech. Eventually, the charges against Jacobowitz were dropped...
Shoemaker also said that some Trustees wanted to criticize the University earlier in the year, but did not want to derail then-President Sheldon Hackney's nomination as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. They probably figured that Hackney, who became a national media punching bag over the Jacobowitz case, and whose analysis of the DP incident was that "two important University values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict," was doing a fine job of derailing himself...
...That's why I came here," Ryan A. Hackney '97 said...