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 ...
NY ping
SU loonie ping.
Over-priveleged, spoiled little brats.
Hope they have some self-esteem, because no one is going to give it to them.
One COULD just take the first two words from the headline and be accurate for almost any given situation.
Kind of like this:
http://s3.hubimg.com/u/2449502_f260.jpg
Dimon shouldn’t go. Those dumbasses probably couldn’t understand what he’s talking about anyway. Not enough grunts, moans and groans in the speech.
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Dimon should advise SU of his intention not to attend, and of his intention to no longer provide any grants whatsoever to SU. Money talks. Let these jerks find out that money does not grow on trees.
I am definitely not going to take either side.
JP Morgan Chase are Obamanauts
For the last 25 years most students graduate college with a mindset Stalin would be proud of. Is it any wonder that the country is on a rocket ride to Socialism or worse?
Not the ones I know.
This link gives you some information about why the students are objecting to him.
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/page_one_protest_story_will_go.html
The other issue is that the students on the committee who reviewed the short list of speakers for commencement don’t recall seeing his name on it initially. They passed over selections like Tony Blair. To the students, it looks too much like he bought the invitation because of the financial contributions. The other issue is that they don’t really want to hear from someone who they are indebted to financially for their student loans.
When I can get hold of my SU contact student, I’ll see who else was on the short list.
Obot or not, Dimon is clearly one of the smartest men in the United States, and he now sits in the chair of one of the wisest men that ever lived. These students should sit down, shut up and listen.
They should listen as he regales them with stories of how political pull gets you big bailouts and invited to all the really good parties?
“JP Morgan Chase are Obamanauts”
bears repeating
Four years of college and they do not have a clue. What a waste of money.
Why is a public university giving the most to a presidential candidate?
I dunno. Its counting all the employees I guess.
They would have loved to have Whoopi Goldberg.
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