Should This Student Be Expelled
Freedom of speech is one of the most fundamental rights that Americans enjoy. It is also one of the most threatened rights, because freedom of speech means the freedom to express one’s discontent with the statues quo and the desire to change it. Some fight to set limits to our freedom of speech, while others fight to defend it. Hentoff is one of those people who fight, via writing, to defend it.
Douglas Hann, a white, junior and a varsity football player at Brown University, was disciplined for alcohol abuse and for racial insults against a black fellow student. Hann was celebrating his 21 birthday party at the courtyard, he was really drunk and shouted into the air “Fuck you, niggers!” referring to a black fellow student and later another student opened the window and called for quiet, and he was answered with a religious insult “Fucking Jew”. Although there was no physical action or any violent fight or threats, but many students were offended by the remarks Hann made. Indeed, Vartan Gregorian, the president of Brown University had to take action, along with the Undergraduate Disciplinary Council and they concluded that Hann had to leave the University forevermore. The president of Brown University, Vartan Gregorian denies that they haven’t expelled anyone for the “excersice of free speech”.
Nat Hentoff, He took his B.A at Northeastern University and attended Harvard University for postgraduate study. He’s a writer of many magazines, journals, and newspaper. He writes a regular column for the village Voice, the New York City weekly and he contributes to the Washington Post, the New Yorker. In one of Hentoff’s article “Should this student have been expelled,” he clearly argues that Douglas Hann should have not been expelled from Brown University, regardless Hann’s drunken incidents and hateful speech. Hentoff feels that “hate speech” codes, such as the one at Browm University, violate the first amendment that guarantees freedom of
Douglas Hann, a white, junior and a varsity football player at Brown University, was disciplined for alcohol abuse and for racial insults against a black fellow student. Hann was celebrating his 21 birthday party at the courtyard, he was really drunk and shouted into the air “Fuck you, niggers!” referring to a black fellow student and later another student opened the window and called for quiet, and he was answered with a religious insult “Fucking Jew”. Although there was no physical action or any violent fight or threats, but many students were offended by the remarks Hann made. Indeed, Vartan Gregorian, the president of Brown University had to take action, along with the Undergraduate Disciplinary Council and they concluded that Hann had to leave the University forevermore. The president of Brown University, Vartan Gregorian denies that they haven’t expelled anyone for the “excersice of free speech”.
Nat Hentoff, He took his B.A at Northeastern University and attended Harvard University for postgraduate study. He’s a writer of many magazines, journals, and newspaper. He writes a regular column for the village Voice, the New York City weekly and he contributes to the Washington Post, the New Yorker. In one of Hentoff’s article “Should this student have been expelled,” he clearly argues that Douglas Hann should have not been expelled from Brown University, regardless Hann’s drunken incidents and hateful speech. Hentoff feels that “hate speech” codes, such as the one at Browm University, violate the first amendment that guarantees freedom of