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Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Benjamin Lightman (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...
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...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Benjamin Lightman (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Benjamin Lightman (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...
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...