Word: sheldon
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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...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Lany Walden McDonald (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...
...campus 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...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Lany Walden McDonald (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Lany Walden McDonald (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...