The University of Pennsylvania business students that taunted Occupy Wall Street protestors in Philadelphia last month may have to explain their behavior when it comes time to interview for jobs.
OWS protesters descended on Wharton October 21. Their picket signs were met with some of the Ivy League students chanting “Get a job! Get a job!”
The students’ jeers were broadcast in a number of YouTube videos, including one with the title “99 Percent Mocked by Wharton Business Students.” One student stood on a balcony above the protesters holding a sign that read “Get in our bracket,” as seen in a photo from the campus paper The Daily Pennsylvanian. (Click through the gallery of photos from the protest to find it.)
Wharton is highly prized for its finance programs. Sixty-one percent of the school’s undergraduates and 50 percent of MBAs entered the finance and accounting industries in 2010. The school routinely sends new recruits to Citigroup, investment management firm BlackRock and bond fund manager PIMCO.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement has gained momentum, a number of top finance executives have expressed compassion for the protestors — namely, the CEOs of Citigroup, BlackRock and PIMCO.
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