Occupy movement hits campus. Around 20 students staged a protest and walkout at J.P.
Morgan and Goldman Sachs recruiting events held on campus Wednesday and Thursday. The demonstrations were part of the Occupy Princeton movement founded this fall in response to the national Occupy Wall Street campaign. The Occupy the Info Sessions protests consisted of directing pointed questions at the recruiters throughout the events’ Q-and-A periods. Both demonstrations concluded with a "mic check," in which one occupier known as the "point person" stood up and addressed the recruiters and audience with a prepared speech attacking the supposed malpractices of the represented firms.
The remaining protestors followed their lead, repeating each line of the speech to create a call-and-response effect throughout the room. “Our goal is to open up a discussion at the University level,” said Luciana Chamorro ’12, who attended Occupy Princeton’s first General Assembly held on Nov. 17. At the J.P. Editorial: Occupy Princeton. Princeton has a reputation for political apathy that is perhaps unique among our peer universities.
While elsewhere our fellow college students spend much of their time politically engaged with the wider world, we pass our years within our Orange Bubble, part of a campus culture that largely insulates us from involvement with the political issues that grip the nation. Recently, as part of a movement sweeping college campuses across the country, a group of Princetonians founded a local chapter of Occupy Wall Street, called Occupy Princeton.
We applaud a shift away from the apathy that currently reigns on campus, and — regardless of our views on Occupy Princeton’s political goals — we are hopeful that its presence may help contribute to that shift. An increase in the political engagement of students would be beneficial for two reasons. Occupy… Princeton? « ——The Avodah Institute's —– Faith & Work Blog. December 13, 2011 by avodahinstitute A few weeks ago, I blogged about an interview I had with the BBC about Occupy London and Occupy St.
Paul’s Cathedral. Who’d have thought I’d now be blogging about Occupy in my own back yard?! Yes, my own back yard. Occupy Princeton » In the Nation's Service and in the Service of All Nations. @OccupyPton sur Twitter. Occupy Princeton on USTREAM: www.occupyprinceton.net. Politique. Masquer cette pub ?
Ustream © Search. Youtube: Occupy Princeton. Chris Hedges Occupy Princeton. Chris Hedges#1 at Princeton University Dec. 13, 2011 (Excerpt #1) Chris Hedges#2 at Princeton University Dec. 13, 2011 (Excerpt #2) Chris Hedges#3 at Princeton University Dec. 13, 2011 (Excerpt #3) Chris Hedges#4 at Princeton University Dec. 13, 2011 (Excerpt #4) Tariq Ali at Princeton University: Jan. 20th, 2012. OccupyPrinceton. GeneralAssembly4a. GeneralAssembly4b. (pdf)open-letter -to-princeton -community. JP Morgan-Chase Mic-Checked at Princeton University. Goldman Sachs Anti-Recruitment Session at Princeton University. JP-Morgan Mic-Check Speech: Footnoted » Occupy Princeton. Mike check! Princeton’s motto is: In the nation’s service and service of all nations JP Morgan, your actions violate our motto Your predatory lending practices(1) helped crash our economy We bailed out your executives’ bonuses(2) You evict struggling homeowners(3)(4) while taking their tax money(5) You support mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia(6) Which destroys our ecological future.(7) In light of these actions, we protest the campus culture that whitewashes the crooked dealings of Wall Street as a prestigious career path.(8) We are here today as a voice for the 99% shut out by a system that punishes them just for being born without privilege.
What we need is not a university for the 1%, but a university “In the Nation’s Service, and in the Service of All Nations.” (1) “One memory particularly troubles Theckston. He says that some account executives earned a commission seven times higher from subprime loans, rather than prime mortgages. Princeton Students Disrupt A JP Morgan Recruiting Session With A Devastating Chant. Michael Lewis has a column in Bloomberg today called Princeton Brews Trouble For Us 1 Percenters.
The satirical article refers to the following video posted earlier this month by Occupy Princeton. In this brilliant prank, around 20 students masquerading as job applicants disrupted a JP Morgan recruiting session. One student in a suit stood up and shouted "Mic Check" and the other Occupiers repeated after him. Then he led the Occupiers in a recitation of this script: "Princeton's motto is: In the nation's service and service of all nationsJP Morgan-Chase, your actions violate our mottoYour predatory lending practices helped crash our economyWe've bailed out your executives' bonusesYou've evicted struggling homeowners while taking their tax moneyYou support mountaintop removal mining in Appalachiawhich destroys our ecological futureIn light of these actions,we protest the campus culturethat whitewashes the crooked dealings of Wall Streetas a prestigious career path. Been There Done That: Occupy Princeton Takes On Big Bank Campus Recruiters.
Late last week, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs both held recruiting sessions at Princeton University.
Both Q-and-A sessions were then ambushed by the familiar “mic check!” Yep, Occupy Princeton took over both info sessions in an event quite reminiscent of NYU4OWS’ takeover of John Sexton’s Town Hall last month. As with our own on-campus occupation, the students “filed into the information sessions under the pretense of prospective applicants and interested students, dressed in business attire, providing their names and emails on sign-in sheets, picking up pamphlets and chatting with recruiters who approached them.” Oft-repeated claims that have long since lost their shock value were shouted at the recruiters: “your lending practices helped crash our economy,” “we protest the campus culture that whitewashes the crooked dealings of Wall Street as a prestigious career path.”
The Goldman recruiters simply smirked and checked their watches in response. Occupy Princeton Hijacked a Goldman Sachs Recruiting Event - Business. Finance recruitment stays strong despite Occupy movement. Late October begins the traditional season of well-tailored suits, resumes and PowerPoint presentations as prestigious finance institutions like J.P.
Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs — all of which held networking events on campus last week — launch their sweeping undergraduate recruiting efforts in the Ivy League. “A little part of me cried,” said one sophomore who attended a Goldman Sachs recruiting event and asked to remain anonymous. “I don’t think people come to Princeton wanting to be an investment banker.” While most students agree that there is “nothing inherently bad” about the finance industry, controversy surrounding financial careers has soared recently, with public discussion about the industry becoming increasingly antagonistic in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City, and many students at peer academic institutions aligning with the anti-corporate sentiments that emerged out of the 2008 bank bailouts.
Goldman Says Class Dismissed as ‘Occupy Harvard’ Mars Recruiting Sessions. Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
Occupy Wall Street Reaches Princeton University. Emile Wamsteker/Bloomberg NewsPrinceton University Princeton University, the alma mater of financial bigwigs like Carl C.
Icahn, is not typically thought of as a hotbed of anticorporate ardor. In “Liar’s Poker,” Michael Lewis (Princeton class of 1982) described the on-campus recruiting frenzy during which undergraduates fought tooth and nail for jobs at the most prestigious Wall Street firms. Esther Wertwijn ging op zoek naar de drijfveren van Occupy Princeton. Occupy hield in 2011 lang stand.
De winterkou en ingrijpen van de verschillende overheden maakten een voorlopig einde aan de actieplannen van de wereldwijde beweging. Esther Wertwijn (Esther__W) sur Twitter. @OccupyPrinceton fake.