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...sure all of this has been a nightmare for Sheldon," says a friend of 25 years. "It plays to every weakness he has. He carries a classic load of communal Southern guilt on racial issues. He has always had a hard time with the notion that members of a minority group can misbehave...
...Sheldon Hackney's credentials are impeccably liberal. He is the husband of a Friend of Hillary, departing president of an Ivy League university, a white Southerner accredited in the civil rights movement, a defender of Robert Mapplethorpe against Jesse Helms. In April, Hackney seemed the natural choice to be President Clinton's nominee to head the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the agency that dispenses federal grants to academia (about $160 million in 2,200 grants last year). But in this post-Lani Guinier period, the past makes Hackney ideologically suspect. Once he may have been in the catbird...
...important University values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict. That was University of Pennsylvania President Sheldon Hackney's lament this April when a group of Penn students, citing an offensive editorial in The Daily Pennsylvanian, stole and trashed 14,000 copies of the college newspaper...
Penn President Sheldon Hackney's response to the "DP" theft was a tepid statement that bemoaned the conflict between diversity and open expression, "two important University values." A charge of racism is serious, and both campus officials and DP editors should respond vigilantly. But theft of a newspaper seems an inappropriate way to raise a complaint, however justified...
Director: Sheldon Czapnik Editorial Services: Christiana Walford (Director); Hanns Kohl (Photo Lab); Benjamin Lightman (Library), Beth Bencini Zarcone (Picture Collection...