Posted on 04/23/2010 12:06:41 PM PDT by metmom
He may be a hero on Wall Street but the JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon is seriously uncool in the eyes of students. There's revolt in the air at Syracuse University in upstate New York where Dimon is due to give a graduation address next month.
Disgruntled students complain that the university's invitation to Dimon amounts to an attempt to use their commencement ceremony (graduation to us Brits) as a tool to rebuild the public image of the disgraced banking industry. And they point out that while JP Morgan coins in record profits, the credit crunch has left many students struggling to get loans to pay their way through college.
"We want to have a vigil for everyone who had to drop out and everyone across America who is suffering from what JP Morgan represents," Adrienne Garcia, one of the protestors, told the Daily Orange, a campus newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
‘”The Daily Orange” reported that, besides Dimon, Maya Angelou, Tina Fey and Bill Gates were some of the names on that list.’
Other names on the short list were Tony Blair and Michelle Obama.
While many of the students interviewed are acting like whiny crybabies, talking to some students who go there who know more gives you a better idea of what most students are objecting to.
I can understand not wanting to listen to someone to whom I owe money on my graduation day.
Ok, I hope so. I would want a public University that gets money from the feds giving the money back. It would just look bad.
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