Word: disruptionism
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A statement issued by the president and deans accompanying the official interpretation recommended suspension for students who cause a disruption while occupying University buildings.
Summers and the deans’ statement also went a step farther than the interpretation by recommending that students who cause a disruption while occupying buildings—regardless of Harvard affiliation—should be suspended.
“With a new president in place, I think it makes sense for him to signal how he views the possibility of a similar disruption, and this statement does so,” he said.
“Freedom of expression is an essential value of a community like this. So also is the avoidance of coercive disruption,” University President Lawrence H. Summers told The Crimson yesterday. “It’s essential to the doctrine of civil disobedience that...
Without protests that cause some disruption to University life, Harvard administrators have seen no reason even to respond to the arguments against poverty wages. Until janitors and students chose to disrupt the status quo, the only side of the story that most people knew was Harvard’s. Unlike...