Now They’re Occupying Penn

“Whartonites are trained, everyone else is educated”

Ouch!

wait… why are they INSIDE huntsman? I thought you need a penncard to get in…..

Not during regular hours you don’t.

Eric Cantor is a complete coward. Sure.

But still, we live in a DEMOCRACY, where BOTH sides have the right to be heard. The crowd, supposedly espousing views of “direct democracy” actually made this a one-sided conversation, which is VERY undemocratic.

Also, as a Penn student, I’m really disgusted with the Penn administration. This is a private institution and I don’t think that students should be deprived of the opportunity to listen to an argument from an influential politician, however much that argument may be flawed, just because Penn is all weak-kneed about free speech.
Honestly, why let the protesters onto Locust? Why let them into the Hall? Make it Penn-card only due to high-demand?

Penn should be looking out for its students, staff, and faculty … not for how its perceived by a bunch of people who wished they were alive to go to Woodstock…

The only person who made this one sided is the guy who didn’t show up to his scheduled speech. Doesn’t sound like the university purposely deprived it’s students of anything. Why let protestors on to Locust? – because they are practicing their right in a Democracy. Penn is private, but Locust is a public street, last I recall. The only thing you got right is your very first sentence. Eric Cantor is a coward.

Yo Adriane? (anyone catch the Rocky reference)

Locust is now actually private property. According to a Penn Free Speech Monitor at the protest, they did it “because otherwise the protesters were going to have to apply for a permit to protest on Walnut street.”

Also, they couldn’t stop them from getting into Huntsman because “they entered through a retail facility open to the public.”

This is bullshit.

Wow, an institution of higher learning supporting protestors right to protest? I’m shocked and disgusted.

My parents aren’t paying $50,000/year to let commoners penetrate the Penn bubble. I should be allowed to Facebook my friends about Keeping up with the Kardashians from my Huntsman GSR (and occasionally pay some asian kid for MGMT notes) without having to hear the awful drone of unemployed deadbeats.

Fuck everyone challenging the status quo. The government has been supporting big business through insane tax loopholes and subsidies for years and it really doesn’t matter that those businesses exploit their working-class workers. The titans of industry have spent blood, sweat and tears working their way to the top (paper cut on the undergrad Wharton application, adderall side-effects during those ECON cram sessions, getting rejected from 54/55 OCR positions) and thus they deserve the insane compensation they get.

It’s crazy that some people think that after relentlessly supporting Wall Street and mega-corporations, the government would ask for SOMETHING back to provide basic services for the un/underemployed whose labor keeps our limos clean, bottles of champagne flowing, and streets safe. Get another job, motherfuckers, get another job. We (in Wharton) deserve what we get and the rest of you suckers deserve what you get.

It’s not Penn’s job to allow liberal protestors (only Eric Cantor, Karl Rove and that short-lived Penn Tea Party group should be allowed to discuss politics on campus) into their buildings. Furthermore, it’s not our fault that everyone else at Penn decided to go into something dumb like Education or Nursing where they’ll struggle to earn a living wage for the rest of their lives. Penn should shut down these protests before they even begin and make everyone despair in the privacy of their own studio apartments. We don’t want to hear about it, it might sour our late-night downtown.

Gross… lmao

@Gross. Genius sarcasm. Thank you.

@Gross: You nailed it. Thank you.

hi!!!