Bravo to Alex Barnard ’09 for his eloquent explanation of why we need and have an Occupy movement (Perspective, March 7). He is quite right that our society has been much harmed by laws that encourage irresponsible risk-taking in the banking sector (laws passed because of this sector’s undue influence on government policy), and that institutions of higher learning should think seriously about what it means to endorse institutions that pursue profit at the expense of the public good — an endorsement that by implication includes an endorsement of these practices themselves.
