Word: disruptionism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) moved closer yesterday to approving a set of guidelines designed to define free speech at Harvard and to prevent disruption of controversial speaking events on campus.
The free speech report was prompted by the disruption of two campus speaking events in 1987, after which some administrators said they feared that controversial speakers would avoid engagements at Harvard.
Outside the courtroom, Rifkin warned that the widespread use of ice-minus would lead to all sorts of natural disasters, including the disruption of rainfall patterns. (Lindow and his backers say this is hogwash. They note that the ice-fighting bacteria, developed into a commercial product called Frostban, was sprayed...
The desperate situation is sparking an increasingly heated debate within the Soviet Union about the direction of perestroika. On the one hand are liberals, who think the country must move faster toward a free-market economy; on the other are conservatives, who want any changes to occur so gradually that...
-- In Rumania the harsh regime of Nicolae Ceausescu sought to immunize itself from any hint of change by locking its borders with reformist Hungary. Travelers trying to cross at five border points were turned back, possibly to prevent any disruption of a party Congress this week. With the Soviet Union...