Word: disrupter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indecent exposure during a Miami concert, although the paper ran a typically wry headline: MORRISON'S PENIS is INDECENT. The paper startled its readers by attacking the yippies just before the 1968 Democratic Convention for proposing "methods and means as corrupt as the political machine they hope to disrupt...
Burke emphasized that students were petitioning as members of the department, rather than as outsiders who wanted to disrupt. "When we started out, some of us had at least identified with the department--we didn't want to disrupt it," he said. Burke said that some people are in favor of boycotting the essay now, but that circulars sent out from the department in the past week have stressed that the essay counts for one half of the yearly grade...
Whether SDS was attempting solely to disrupt the compus is a question which I doubt will be answered. And the moderates who are now raging are not concerned with the ROTC program but more with the rash actions of President Pusey. I would like to ask this--does anyone care about the ROTC problem? Or is everyone so awed about "unrest at Harvard," thereby completely forgetting why there was such unrest...
...unlawful acts committed by the rebels in the ghettoes, on the campuses, on the city streets on the one side, and the deeds perpetrated by the forces of order in Vietnam, in Bolivia, in Indonesia, in Guatemala, on the other? Can one meaningfully call it an offense when demonstrators disrupt the business of the university, the draft board, the supermarket, the flow of traffic, to protest against the far more efficient disruption of the business of life of untold numbers of human beings by the armed forces of law and order...
Also included in the adopted resolution was a statement of "determined opposition to coercive efforts to disrupt the orderly processes and exercise of the University." This was as close as the group came to condemning the occupation of University Hall...