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E-PrinceAround 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 ...
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God, fuck this noise. Something about this rubs me in entirely the wrong way. I feel like interrupting events and generally making a nuisance of yourself is a pretty childish and ineffective way of getting your point across. Even if I did agree with this movement, I would be put off by their tactics.
this occupy shit has finally come to princeton.
shut up and go back to class.
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Great piece, to the point and objective. Hopefully this sparks more conversation.
If the whole point of the occupy is to complain about the lack of jobs, why would Princeton students want to stop their peers from getting jobs? Sounds stupid to me.
The whole point of occupy wall street is much more than the lack of jobs. It is the about the unequal distribution of wealth, and more importantly the amount of power and leverage over society that this imbalance brings.
There's at least one good thing about these ibanking info session protests. Until recently, the Occupy Princeton movement seemed benign enough that even the Prince Edits Board was willing to praise it for shaking the campus out of its usual political apathy. But now that these protesters are actually disrupting events students want to attend, most people will probably write the movement off.
Glad it didn't take a stupid ECO 100 walkout like the one at Harvard to make that happen. Kudos, Occupy Princeton. (No offense, Brandon.)
*clarification - benign in the sense that a tumor is benign, not that something good is benign
...that you're attacking us with cancer metaphors?