Michael Lewis: Princeton Brews Trouble for Us 1 Percenters

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Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- To: The Upper Ones, From: The Strategy Committee, Re: The Alarming Behavior of College Students

The committee has been reconvened in haste to respond to a disturbing new trend: the uprisings by students on elite college campuses.

Across the Ivy League the young people whom our Wall Street division once subjugated with ease are becoming troublesome. Our good friends at Goldman Sachs, to cite one example, have been forced to cancel their recruiting trips to Harvard and Brown. At Princeton, 30 students masquerading as job applicants entered a pair of Wall Street informational sessions, asked many obnoxious questions ("How do I get a job lobbying the U.S. government to protect Wall Street interests?&quot , rose and chanted a list of charges at bankers from JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, and, finally, posted videos of their outrageous behavior on YouTube.

The committee views this latter incident as a sure sign of trouble to come. The whole point of going to Princeton for the past several decades has been to get a job at Goldman Sachs or, failing that, JPMorgan. That Princeton students are now identifying their interests with the Lower 99 percenters is, in its way, as ominous as the return of the Jews to Jerusalem.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/28/bloomberg_articlesLWXKOQ1A74E9.DTL

[SixthSense]

1. Princeton is the odd man out

real elites go to Columbia, Yale, and Harvard

as has been the case for a very long time as this 1934 cartoon shows:



look familiar?

[Boston_Chemist]

2. I thought the odd man out has always been Cornell.

Tucked away in the woods, populated by suicidal, suffering undergrads. The safety Ivy, it has a reputation for having the toughest academic standards of the league.

As for politics, it is all a bunch of trust fund babies playing politics till they graduate. You want real leftists? Go to Madison or Berkeley. Stop paying attention to these children, who will graduate to become Management Consultants, or something equally insipid.

[murielm99]

5. Yes. Madison or Berkeley. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. I went to the link in your cartoon and liked the blog I found.

[proverbialwisdom]

6. Petraeus, Rumsfeld, Frist, Alito, Spitzer, Sotomayor, Kagan, M. Obama, Bill Bradley, Rbt Mueller.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Princeton_University_people

[SixthSense]

8. undergrads

look at where the sitting Justices went to law school - 100% Harvard and Yale.

All the universities in this country and the final word on the law of the land comes from an extremely narrow segment of society, one that excludes well over 99% of the people of the country.

You have a better chance of becoming President than a SC Justice, if you didn't graduate from one of those two law schools.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. "With the possible exception of Bank of America,there is no such thing as a leaderless organization"

...

[proverbialwisdom]

7. Fascinating, IMO. Thanks for the info.