... but someone's gotta do it.
Here's an article I found in my school's newspaper.
Certain names have been changed to avoid potential lawsuits and damaging my chances to graduate.
We're not as bad as those film students who'd like to portray us.
I must admit that I think much of our business stereotype is created in part by our arch-nemesis in the realm of education, our opposites, the emotional to our rationale, the rhyme to our reason, the idealistic to our realism. Yes, that's you, film students.
When was the last time we saw a film where the ultimate evil was not an old Caucasian man with no heart and family, in a business suit that he looks like he's going to be buried in?
All business students must somehow feel the sting, being accused of being unethical, moralless bastards committing bestial atrocities against humanity. This article isn't even about criticism of our education, or failures of the system, but rather a direct criticism of business students as a whole, as if we, ourselves were born as the monsters that you described. This feels worse than mud being flung in the face, not just by outsiders, but by people within this community and university. Furthermore your abject ignorance in this matter is so blatant, that I'm surprise that even anyone from my business school would chuckle at this matter and toss your editorial aside.
Like most schools, our GPA matters very little to whether we can secure our next job. Yes, most employers do look at GPA, but they look beyond the academic credentials. They look for transferable skills, networking abilities, business experience, quick-thinking and decision-making skills. We have outside interests and hobbies, we connect with other non-business people in a variety of other ways, and we are not just motivated by that huge annual bonus at the end of the year. Business students aren't just judged on paper, by resume or by stereotype, but rather as a person.
Furthermore, to question our moral ambiguity is to question our upbringing and an insult to our parents. How much do you know of ethics? Adam Smith taught that the best outcome is when everyone acts in their best interest. Milton Friedman believed that the sole responsibility of a corporation is to make profits. I'm sorry for not subscribing to your belief in corporate socialism, but isn't that what you're advocating when you speak of commandeering the private assets of the investors to further the public's interest under the guise of ethics and social responsibility?
I'm sorry that we don't live up to your lofty pedestal of not cheating, lying and stealing. Business students cheat, lie and steal. But wait, don't arts students also cheat, lie and steal? What about science students? Don't they also plagiarise, misrepresent and falsify? But it is us, business students, who bear the greatest stigma, of being trialed, judged and sentenced in the courts of stereotyped minds based on ideal, infallible standards. Oh the irony of being deemed inhumane, yet being judged on human fallicies.
It is us who should feel betrayed by our own community, being denounced and thrown out to the dogs, at the words of a jealous and disgruntled, soon-to-be, McDonald's employee. Such vitrolic, biased and unfounded accusations based on an inferiority complex are a clear abuse of power as editor of my school's newspaper. Where're your ethics now, bitch?
Certain names have been changed to avoid potential lawsuits and damaging my chances to graduate.
Cheating Is A Dirty Business, Sternies
Oh Sternies,
It is painful to realize that those you trust and support are dirty, cheating whores.
But Sternies cheat rampantly. Though not everyone is guilty, the problem, like HPV, is endemic. And everyone in Stern knows it. With such emphasis placed on a GPA (which only reflects a student's academic achievements), knowing other students cheat forces the whole community to follow suit to stay in the game. If cheating hurts anyone, it hurts the student - oh, how it burns - and tarnishes the reputation Noob is so proud of, holding itself as one of's strongest and most credible colleges. Within the school, there is a lack of sincerity and passion. Instead, Sternies are driven to beef up that resume. Furthermore, the administration doesn't practice what it preaches - it's easy to teach business ethics, but enforcing them seems a bit out of Stern's league. If students can't act ethically in class, how can they be expected to act ethically in the business world?
THe only kind of diversity Stern celebrates is ethnic. A diversity of interests? A diversity of backgrounds? Those won't make you a Stern Scholar, and if you're not a Stern Scholar, say goodbye to leadership roles.
Stern students are educated to promote change in a business community where corporations exhibit no responsibility. With such a priority on educating students in ethics, social responsibility and teamwork, it's heart-breaking how many students have already thrown those lessons out the window. Teams in all kinds of classes must compromise with members who have only their individual interests in mind, not the team's. Social responsibility is stressed in the curriculum every year, but Stern students will cheat, lie and knock down anyone in their way without considering the effect on the community.
Some feel dirty and betrayed, as should the administration. What kid of relationship is it when those involved are forced to cheat? The word "healthy" doesn't come to mind. Valtrex does, though.
We're not as bad as those film students who'd like to portray us.
I must admit that I think much of our business stereotype is created in part by our arch-nemesis in the realm of education, our opposites, the emotional to our rationale, the rhyme to our reason, the idealistic to our realism. Yes, that's you, film students.
When was the last time we saw a film where the ultimate evil was not an old Caucasian man with no heart and family, in a business suit that he looks like he's going to be buried in?
All business students must somehow feel the sting, being accused of being unethical, moralless bastards committing bestial atrocities against humanity. This article isn't even about criticism of our education, or failures of the system, but rather a direct criticism of business students as a whole, as if we, ourselves were born as the monsters that you described. This feels worse than mud being flung in the face, not just by outsiders, but by people within this community and university. Furthermore your abject ignorance in this matter is so blatant, that I'm surprise that even anyone from my business school would chuckle at this matter and toss your editorial aside.
Like most schools, our GPA matters very little to whether we can secure our next job. Yes, most employers do look at GPA, but they look beyond the academic credentials. They look for transferable skills, networking abilities, business experience, quick-thinking and decision-making skills. We have outside interests and hobbies, we connect with other non-business people in a variety of other ways, and we are not just motivated by that huge annual bonus at the end of the year. Business students aren't just judged on paper, by resume or by stereotype, but rather as a person.
Furthermore, to question our moral ambiguity is to question our upbringing and an insult to our parents. How much do you know of ethics? Adam Smith taught that the best outcome is when everyone acts in their best interest. Milton Friedman believed that the sole responsibility of a corporation is to make profits. I'm sorry for not subscribing to your belief in corporate socialism, but isn't that what you're advocating when you speak of commandeering the private assets of the investors to further the public's interest under the guise of ethics and social responsibility?
I'm sorry that we don't live up to your lofty pedestal of not cheating, lying and stealing. Business students cheat, lie and steal. But wait, don't arts students also cheat, lie and steal? What about science students? Don't they also plagiarise, misrepresent and falsify? But it is us, business students, who bear the greatest stigma, of being trialed, judged and sentenced in the courts of stereotyped minds based on ideal, infallible standards. Oh the irony of being deemed inhumane, yet being judged on human fallicies.
It is us who should feel betrayed by our own community, being denounced and thrown out to the dogs, at the words of a jealous and disgruntled, soon-to-be, McDonald's employee. Such vitrolic, biased and unfounded accusations based on an inferiority complex are a clear abuse of power as editor of my school's newspaper. Where're your ethics now, bitch?
