Wall Street Protests Inspire Ire Over Bank Recruiting

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truth-out.org/wall-street-protests-inspire-ire-over-bank-recruiting/1321036163

As protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement continue to camp out in lower Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, students at some of the nation’s top colleges are also taking up the banner of antibank activism, beginning with their schools’ on-campus recruiting programs.

The Stanford Daily published an op-ed piece on Tuesday entitled “Stop the Wall Street Recruitment.” In the piece, two Stanford seniors, Teryn Norris and Eli Pollak, argue that the “extensive influence” Wall Street banks have on campus, including aggressive recruiting programs and access to top undergraduates, is undeserved.

“Three years after the financial industry nearly caused a second Great Depression, our nation’s top universities remain the primary training and recruiting grounds for these same reckless institutions,” the students wrote. “This is antithetical to the civic mission and responsibility of higher education, and it is time for the academic community to seriously address this problem.”

Also on Tuesday, an op-ed in The Harvard Crimson entitled “Boycott Wall Street” encouraged Harvard undergraduates to consider careers in more creative fields, such as engineering and journalism.

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