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...testing that instinct in her directorial debut with Little Man Tate, the story of a child prodigy (Adam Hann-Byrd), his caring mother (Foster) and a psychiatrist (Dianne Wiest). The film is due in the fall, but this month the new auteur is ecstatic. "I'm jammin'," she says. "It's getting a little hectic, but it's coming along great...
...LOOK at Hann's record shows that the Disciplinary Board has previously attempted to reform him politically as well as punish his delinquency. In 1989 the board found Hann guilty of making a racial epithet to a Black student in a bar, and forced him to attend a race relations workshop in addition to the requisite alcohol abuse counseling. Hann's bigoted attitude could certainly be improved, but it is not the Disciplinary Board's place...
...board, and similar enforcement bodies in other universities, claim that an important part of their disciplinary function is to prevent students from taking actions harmful to others. Under the definitions in the hate speech guidelines, Hann's shouting epithets was clearly considered a harmful action...
...emphasis Brown placed on Hann's drunken behavior in explaining its decision to the press, then, serves to obscure the fact that the main charge against him was violation of the hate speech rules, and that his drunkenness was a secondary offense. The real problem is the university's emphasis on a rule that mainly restricts what students say, and not how they say it. The university's primary complaint against him was ideological, and the suppression was a violation of his First Amendment rights...
...HANN WAS, after all, an ideal guinea pig on which to test the brand-new hate speech rules: his disorderly conduct supports the university's contention that he is unfit to remain, and his actions are so overtly bigoted that he has no popular support as a martyr. What seems clear is that Brown's Disciplinary Board, in making an example of Hann, punished him harshly because it wanted to prove the school's serious commitment to the hate speech code. The circumstances of his case made them feel they could do this with impunity. A fairer policy would have...