The furor over Jamie Dimon’s choice to deliver Syracuse University’s 2010 commencement address ended with a small, quiet display of civil disobedience.

Fewer than a dozen students silently removed their caps and gowns in protest while the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., the second-largest U.S. bank by assets, delivered parting advice to more than 5,000 graduates entering one of the worst job markets in U.S. history.
Students need to have the courage to speak the truth, “even when it’s unpopular,” said Dimon, 54. He told graduates to “do the right thing, not the easy thing” and not to become someone else’s “lapdog or sycophant.”
“Have the courage to put yourself on the line, strive for something meaningful, even to risk what would be an embarrassing failure,” Dimon said at the university’s Carrier Dome football stadium.
“Throughout my life, throughout this crisis in the past three years, I’ve seen many people embarrass themselves by failing to stand up, being mealy mouthed and acting like lemmings by simply going along with the pack.”
(Source: Bloomberg)