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...Lambs, the third-highest grossing movie released this year. Next year she co-stars in . . . a Woody Allen picture. But right now she is a director, and a damned fine one, of a small-budget film. Little Man Tate is something sensitive with three people: a gifted child (Adam Hann- Byrd), his sympathetic teacher (Dianne Wiest) and the mother, a defiant single parent, torn between love and loss...
...DOUGLAS HANN, a junior at Brown, stood outside a dormitory in the middle of the night last fall and showered a first-year student with epithets like "fucking faggot" and "fucking Jew"--insults that Brown's Undergraduate Disciplinary Council didn't like. So two weeks ago the council expelled...
Such a measure constitutes not only a dangerous infringement on free speech but also an ineffective way of combatting discrimination against Blacks, Jews and homosexuals--the groups which Hann reportedly slammed in his drunken tirade...
...most important response to words like Hann's is the one expressed by his fellow students. If we show our disapproval of racial or ethnic slurs, people like Hann will get the picture. If we indicate in ordinary conversations--at parties, in dining halls, in classes--that such epithets are offensive, ridiculous and socially unacceptable, a stigma will become attached to the offenders, and the epithets will begin to disappear. If we indifferently let obnoxious comments slide by, however, we are acting as an accomplice to bigotry. It is our indifference that allows the discrimination to spread...
...LIGHT OF the Hann incident and indications from Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 that the same incident at Harvard might produce the same result, Harvard's policy must be reexamined. Undoubtedly, certain kinds of speech should be frowned upon, but no constitutionally protected speech should be outlawed...