Globe on graduates discovering public service

By neilv on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 7:51am

All it takes to get more students interested in public service, rather than public looting, is to remove investment banking as a career option. Or something like that, the Globe says. Great photo.

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Photojournalism

By neilv on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 8:00am.

The photo is a good example of telling a story through an image, IMHO.

I wish the Globe would offer higher resolution, because at this size, important details of the eyes in this image are getting corrupted by artifacts of JPEG and downscaling.

(Too bad this probably wasn't totally candid; agitation from the photog might have affected their expressions.)

Translating success-person-speak

By neilv on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 8:18am.

A bit of context is useful for interpreting some of the quotes...

A subject who got into a school like the big-H, was predisposed to going into investment banking, had that yanked out from under them, and was willing to be quoted by a reporter... I will bet you dollars to donuts that they are going to put a positive spin on it, whether they mean it or not.

They are generally savvy about the circles in which they operate, there is a commonly held belief that they are there by merit (anyone who gets a raw deal is by definition less meritorious), and there is decorum and image to preserve. I really didn't need to hear the quotes to know what they said, unless they are pushed completely over the edge, which it sounds like they're not.

Elitist, lazy, or both? (The Globe, I mean)

By david_yamada on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 12:11pm.

Good grief, the Globe's fully-staffed, recession-proof Harvard Bureau is at it again: Students a la Crimson find the investment banking route is now tough going, so they apply for high-profile, short-term public service gigs that will help to dress up any resume or grad school application, regardless of whether the private, public, or non-profit sector beckons next.

The overwhelming majority of these newly-minted devotees of recession-induced idealism have little to fear about their futures, at least compared to most young folks confronting this horrible economy. Instead, how about looking at the job market faced by graduates of UMass-Boston, Suffolk, Lesley, and other local schools? Of course, that article might require a little more work than this call-it-in piece.

Public looting? You mean

By NotWhitey on Sat, 03/14/2009 - 2:14pm.

Public looting? You mean working for the government, no? Marian Walsh didn't need no stinkin' Harvard degree for that.