Goldman Sachs Will Recruit At Harvard When Goldman Sachs Feels Welcome

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Several weeks back, emboldened with a thesaurus and having decided they'd had enough, the Harvard Crimson staff ran an impassioned editorial urging Occupy Wall Street protestors on campus to leave Goldman Sachs, and those hoping to gain employment with the firm, alone. It'd been a "group of Occupy Harvard Protesters who attempted to disrupt a Goldman Sachs recruiting event" that set them off and no longer could they hold their tongues. The newspaper took occupiers to task for "presenting a facile and trivializing interpretation of the root causes of the economic catastrophe and debases our national conversation on the issue," for failing to comprehend that Goldman Sachs is going to hire employees regardless-- and, god damn, it, they ought to be Harvard students--, and for just generally embarrassing themselves by "pitching a simplistic conception of the financial crisis and targeting fellow students [which] is not the way to have a successful movement." Moving forward, the Crimsonians cautioned, "Occupy ought to refrain from such ill-conceived protests in the future." But the die had already been cast.

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...A session on Brown’s campus in Providence, Rhode Island, was scuttled hours before it was to begin, the Brown Daily Herald reported Dec. 5...A Dec. 8 Goldman Sachs recruiting visit to the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based university was canceled “due to proximity to the Reading Period and commencement of exams,” according to an e-mail obtained by Bloomberg News.

Right. Well when reading period is over, GS will still have Sandra Korn to contend with.

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. Careers in financial and consulting firms are frequently presented as the best or only option, said Korn, a sophomore majoring in history of science and gender studies who participated in the Nov. 28 protest. “It’s kind of frustrating for students who think this is not the most ethical profession,” Korn, 19, said in a telephone interview. “When some people are making money by taking risks with other people’s lives and livelihoods, that’s detrimental to society.”

Anyway, don't feel too bad, kids, Morgan Stanley is still open for business.

Morgan Stanley experienced some “peripheral” protest activity at an event at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, last month, said Jeanmarie McFadden, a spokeswoman for the firm. “We have not changed our recruitment activities and we have not seen any impact on attendance,” she said.

Goldman, however, will need to be wooed. Start with another editorial and don't be stingy on the compliments vis-à-vis asses you could bounce a quarter off and we'll go from there.

Occupy Harvard Mars Recruiting by Goldman [Bloomberg]

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