Harvard Students Walk Out of Ec 10 in Solidarity with 'Occupy'
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/2/manki…
I hate hate hate people like these. If these people don't want to be in a class taught by Professor Mankiw, I will gladly take their place.
Read the article.
In other news, there is a article defending the use of DOD and DARPA funds by the Harvard Physics Department. There are comments something along the lines of "we would never work on something that can be used by the US Military to kill people!".
YOU NOW HAVE TO DEFEND BEING ASSOCIATED WITH THE MILITARY!
OMG, what the fuck happened to this country? You have to feel guilty about giving our military technological superiority?
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/11/2/Depar…
Let me ask this one question: Is Harvard (and the wider Ivy League) loyal to America? When you have fucktarted policies that didn't let ROTC on campus?
haha
Unbelievable. This is really starting to get out of hand.
Don't these kids realize that by showing zero tolerance for listening to a different point of view, they are furthering the public perception of ignorance and childishness many people already hold about the movement?
Not to mention that academicians primarily lean to the left, as shown by the many college professors (famous economics/finance professors, at that) who have spoken out in support of the movement. If this is truly a conservative course, it is without a doubt in the minority.
Nor to mention that the choice to take this class is fully voluntary.
Nor to mention the fact that college is supposed to be a place where you expose yourself to opposing viewpoints, not a place where you expect every professor to share your ideals. I would not have graduated if I walked out of every class where the professor did not share my political views.
Add 'censor academic courses of study and ban academicians and researchers from expressing opinions that oppose that of the OWS movement' to the list of demands.
Check this out:
Jobs are available, but the OWS guys are too above 'that' to work...
And maybe even more disturbing:
http://www.fastcompany.com/1792349/cisco-report-half-of-young-professio…
WTF?
I would really, REALLY encourage the 70 walkouts to read "Reckless Endangerment". This book breaks down the housing bubble to its very core. A LOT of people--conservatives, liberals, government, business--were to blame for the 2008 financial collapse, but the core reason for the collapse was 20 years in the making with its genesis in a Walter Mondale political aide who took over Fannie Mae.
The financial collapse has a ton of nuance to it. It isn't "capitalism" that caused it. It isn't "big government" that caused the collapse. In its simplest form, it was big government crony capitalism with a strong mix of good intentions and greed that caused the 2008 clusterf*ck. What's disturbing is that these are 70 HARVARD students--these epic jackasses are represented as the best and brightest of our generation. These mouth-breathing, intellectually shallow, subhuman pukes are taking the place at Harvard of a perfectly good asian or upper class white male (that part is tongue-in-cheek. Relax).
Greg Mankiw is partially responsible for me going into investment banking. These kids are missing out.
The funny thing is that these same econ majors will be applying to FO positions their junior/senior year when they realize how much debt they will be graduating with.
And it would be funny if it weren't so f*cked up that these little pukes will take those FO jobs from others because of the school next to their name.
They don't deserve to be at Harvard.
they should also walk out of andrei shleifer's financial econ classes as well
Damn I wish I had worked harder in HS. I wouldnt be in this shithole of a college.
It was here too last weekend. There were a bunch of people yelling in the quads. However, we aren't known as being as a very politically active school. I think all of the top schools are being hit (hell a lot of campuses in general)
I honestly don't think there's any dialogue on this issue whatsoever between camps or just in general. I am taking a class on the financial crisis and it's incredible just how nuanced it was (as Vtech said). There's no straight answer to these problems, simple diatribes do nothing but incite resentment and further fuming from everyone. We need people to come out with real explanations and solutions, not 20 second attacks based on the flavor of the day.
Why the hell hasn't someone written a real book on this issue (a well respected economist), I'm tired of the blogs / 20 second snapshots of such an important and misunderstood topic.
Harvard kids aren't graduating with any debt at all lol
That's why you see a huge shift in job desirability and the types of kids who end up with i-banking / S&T jobs... 5-10 years ago you'd see tons of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale kids going to Wall Street. Today? I'd say 50% of incoming BB classes are coming from Wharton, Cornell, Georgetown, UVA, Michigan, and NYU Stern. Some of these kids are pretty smart, sure, but they're the traditional upper middle class types who go on to become lawyers, doctors, and bankers.
On the other hand, kids from Harvard, Stanford, and MIT have the luxury of indulging in more engaging intellectual opportunities. Work in Fiji for a summer? Sure. Boycott econ? Why not! They don't WANT to work on Wall Street anymore--not when you have the option of working for Google, coming in to the 'plex 30 hrs / wk, getting your personal startup sponsored, having great perks, stock options, and making 90k to boot! Someone posted a link above about Generation Y wanting more "psychic" benefits--hate to break it to you, but it's becoming the new normal, and the most successful companies are the ones who are willing to offer these non-conventional "perks."
By making blanket statements like the OP, you're being just as wanton as OWS with your rhetoric. Anyone up for a genuine discussion?
http://www.youtube.com/embed/cDgxHDgvos8
Did this faggot just say "oh emm gee" @ 0:46?
What.The.Fuck!!
I sure am glad I have guns, ammo and access to land.
Haha. No, he said, "Oh indeed."
Did I read that right? He shouldn't be teaching the course because he was a bush economic advisor and they were the cause of the housing crisis? Or that he should be fielding all their questions in a class of 700? Or that Harvard students will no longer use their degrees for personal gain? I thought you had to be intelligent to go to harvard.
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