<p>D texted me a pic yesterday of the "Occupy Harvard" group. I mean....really?</p>
<p>She said you had to have a Harvard ID to walk through the Yard, and some gates that were normally open were closed. </p>
<p>I did notice quite a few North Face and Eddie Bauer tents in the pic, tho...</p>
<p>so who is occupying harvard - students or outsiders?</p>
<p>Since you have to have a Harvard ID to be there, I’m assuming it is “oppressed” students??? My younger daughter had a great idea for a protest sign…“Go away, nerds!” “99% of the knowledge is held by 1% of the population!”</p>
<p>This all started last week and it had quited down a little bit since the only “occupiers” in the Yard were Harvard students. Those tents you see in the pictures were donated by the union representing Harvard custodians, who are threatening a strike if their contract talks with Harvard are not resolved by Wed.</p>
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<p>The occupy protesters are not asserting that they themselves are “oppressed,” rather they are attempting to highlight what they perceive as Harvard’s insufficient concern for the “99%.” You don’t need to be directly affected by a policy to protest it, just as you didn’t have to be a vet to protest Vietnam, black to protest segregation, etc.</p>
<p>I could ramble for hours about what I think about Occupy Harvard and the campus’s response(s) to it, but I think it has brought out the best and worst in many of us.</p>
<p>I understand a small contingent of ‘occupiers’ walked out of a large econ lecture in protest. The irony being if one is an econ concentrator at Harvard, he or she has a great opportunity to become on of the people who influence economic policy in the future. Pity to miss out on the education in order to sit out in the yard.</p>