Word: disrupter
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APART FROM how Dean Robert C. Clark has gone about fighting the protests at the Law School is the underlying question of whether he has the right to punish those who sit in at his office and disrupt the operations of the Law School. Clark has said in a letter to all law students that he will likely take disciplinary action against participants in future sit-ins. We believe Clark is justified in making these threats. While photographing and intimidating innocent bystanders is uncalled for, the Law School's right to discipline those who break its rules cannot be questioned...
From Clark's perspective, the issue is simple. The sit-ins keep him and other administrators from doing their jobs. He sees no compelling reason to allow students to disrupt the operations of the Law School by allowing them to violate the University rules they had agreed to follow. The students' liberal sympathizers may reject this reasoning on the grounds that the students are making a political statement that should not be suppressed. But would this position hold if the activists were conservative students disrupting the ability of University Health Services to provide abortion counseling? What if the Association Against...
...other officials could distribute relief unhindered. That would also foil two of Saddam's objectives: to tighten his control by pushing rebellious populations clear out of the country and to use refugees in effect as an offensive weapon by forcing them across frontiers in numbers large enough to disrupt the societies of neighboring countries...
Last summer Kaufman allegedly conspired to disrupt the Massachusetts state Democratic convention. Party officials say he helped organize a picket line of local policemen outside the hall in Springfield. The demonstrators roughed up a few would-be conventioneers and delayed the start of the ceremonies for a few hours. Within days, the state party sued Kaufman and other local operatives for damages. Lawyers will take Kaufman's deposition in Boston this week...
Take, for example, the recent St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City. Reluctant to disturb the predominantly Catholic flavor of the event, organizers rejected a request by a small group of Irish gays to appear in the parade. After threatening to disrupt the parade, the group was allowed to participate provided they not use their appearance to promote any partisan agenda. A victory for inclusion...