Occupy Harvard Rally - November 28, 2011. Goldman Says Class Dismissed as ‘Occupy Harvard’ Mars Recruiting Sessions. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Morgan Stanley (MS) are getting a chilly reception at top colleges, including Harvard University and Princeton University, as campus offshoots of Occupy Wall Street target investment-bank recruiting events. Goldman Sachs canceled visits to Harvard and Brown University last week following a November incident where Occupy Harvard protesters attempted to enter a recruitment session. Students at Yale University, Princeton and Cornell University have also rallied at campus events by investment firms. Students of the eight elite colleges composing the Ivy League in the northeastern U.S., such as Sandra Korn of Harvard and Tom Moore of Cornell, are criticizing their universities for sending high numbers of graduates to Wall Street, rather than to jobs that emphasize community service. “It’s kind of frustrating for students who think this is not the most ethical profession,” Korn, 19, said in a telephone interview.
Targeting Blankfein West Coast Shipping. Occupy Recruiting. I suppose I should have expected a backlash when I joined about twenty of my classmates in protesting Goldman Sachs’ summer internship info session on November 28th. Last year, more seniors who took jobs after graduation (16.5 percent) took them in finance than in any other sector of the economy; in 2010, the figure was 31 percent. Finance is popular (and at the salaries it pays, why wouldn’t it be?) And trying to make it more difficult—or at least more uncomfortable—to enter is sure to produce resentment. And once Goldman announced that it would cancel similar events here and at Brown due to the protest, the mumbled misgivings got louder. “Occupy alienated a large portion of the student body that might have been persuaded to be sympathetic to their causes,” tut-tutted Katie R.
The story of inequality’s rise in America is not one of the 1 percent but of the top 0.1 percent and the top 0.01 percent. This kind of inequality in and of itself is troublesome. Dylan R. Occupy Recruiting. JP Morgan-Chase Mic-Checked at Princeton University. Occupy Princeton Hijacked a Goldman Sachs Recruiting Event - Business.