Word: disruptionism
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FOR THE FIRST TIME in a decade, Harvard University arrested political protesters. While the arrests last Friday elicited little comment from Harvard officials, they marked a significant change in Harvard's response to political protest. From the blockade of a South African diplomat at Lowell House in the spring of...
The Attorney General, though, seemed to suggest that more vigorous kinds of opposition by officials were also legitimate. Without mentioning him by name, Meese cited with approval the example of newly appointed Federal Judge Daniel Manion, who as an Indiana legislator once introduced a bill just slightly different from a...
Currently, protest cases are relegated to the CRR and other incidents of disruption are heard by the Administrative Boards of the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which also hear cases resulting from infractions of academic rules.
"Matters such as disruption of college activities, harassment of groups and organizations and actions that seriously endanger the safety and welfare of the community would ordinarily come to the new committee," the plan said.
As far as Harvard's scoring was concerned, however, a little disruption might have been more welcome than stability.