Word: disruptionism
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THE RESTRAINT shown by Harvard students during William Coors' recent visit to the University did not prove Harvard students' commitment to free speech. Tight security made any potential disruption of Coors' address impossible. Bags and jackets were searched by police, twenty Conservative Club marshalls stalked the hall and video cameras...
In the meantime, distress has generated disorder. Last week in Rio de Janeiro thousands of truck drivers who haul food to warehouses went on strike for higher pay, and supermarket shelves began to empty. Some truckers who tried to deliver produce got their windshields smashed as they drove through gauntlets...
WHAT IS a question is whether students will go too far in demonstrating their anger. The past several years are filled with instances of conservative speakers finding themselves unable to address the Harvard community without serious disruption.
The schism among the contras is aggravated by a rift between the State Department and the CIA. State, convinced that the contras need civilian leadership to develop political and diplomatic support, forced Calero to accept the UNO power-sharing arrangement. The CIA, however, has indulged Calero's backhanded treatment of...
Regardless of their position in later life, Harvard graduates undoubtedly will remember their theses. If not for its bearing on their profession, at least for its disruption of their senior year; a time that did not have to be spent inside dark libraries and in front of cold word processors...