Mark A. Heckler
Overview
 
Mark A. Heckler became the 18th president of Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso University, known colloquially as Valpo, is a regionally accredited private university located in the city of Valparaiso in the U.S. state of Indiana. Founded in 1859, it consists of five undergraduate colleges, a graduate school, a nursing school and a law school...

 on July 1, 2008. He succeeded the previous president Alan Harre
Alan Harre
Dr. Alan Harre was the seventeenth president of Valparaiso University, a post he held for 20 years from 1988 to 2008. Harre announced that he would retire following the 2007-2008 school year. He was followed by the current president: Mark A. Heckler....

, who had served since 1988.

His immediately previous position was chief academic officer for the University of Colorado, Denver. He first had been Director of the School of the Arts and a professor of theatre at that University, then founding dean of its College of Arts and Media and professor of theatre, film, and television, then acting chancellor, and finally, provost and vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, appoint to that role in 2003.
Quotations

The great advantage of abstinence education is that it introduces teenagers to hypocrisy at an early age.

Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, Arborophila|Arborophilia (2005)

Let the fundamentalist Christians raise losers. I want my teenagers to have as much sex as they can possibly get.

Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, Arborophila|Arborophilia (2005)

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Jacob Appel|Jacob M. Appel, American playwright, The Replacement (2006)

Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

George Bernard Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists", Man and Superman (1903)

Usez, n'abusez point […] L'abstinence ou l'excès ne fit jamais d'heureux.

Translation: Use, do not abuse […] Neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

 
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