News & Notes: Harvard students try to interrupt recruiting event

Around 25 students broke off from a “Rally to Defend Freedom of Speech” — organized by Occupy Harvard, Occupy Boston and other local students — to visit the recruiting session hosted by Harvard’s Office of Career Services (OCS), The Harvard Crimson reported.

Protesters stood outside the OCS office for several minutes yelling, “Goldman Sachs, you can’t hide. We can see your greedy side.”

According to The Crimson, Harvard University Police Department officers denied the students entrance into the building on the grounds that the event had already begun.

Protesters asked the officers why they had not been allowed to enter when they witnessed fellow students going into the building.

“What [OCS Director Robin E. Mount] told me was that she didn’t want me to disrupt the event,” Occupy Harvard organizer Sandra Korn ’14 told The Crimson. “She said, ‘No, you’re not wearing the right clothes, you don’t have a resume with you.’ And I said, ‘If I come back wearing the right clothes with a resume with me, will you let me in?’ And she said no and turned [away from me].”

Afterward, Mount told the protesters that while she respected their right to free speech, she also respected “the other students’ right to look for a job if they want it.”