From the Yale Undergraduate Organizing Committee: "At 9am today, six Yale students paid a visit to the Yale Investments Office (YIO). Bringing with us a variety of cleaning supplies, such as a push broom, dust-busters, windex and paper towels, we proceeded to clean the lobby of the YIO. We went to clean the YIO today because we believe that the Investments Office needs to CLEAN UP THEIR ACT! Operating almost completely behind closed doors, the Yale Investments Office has yielded a series of scandals. From South Africa in the 80's to HEI Hotels & Resorts today, the number of times that Yale has been accused of profiting from unjust business activities is shocking. These scandals and the University's attempts to hide and cover them up, have left many Yale students alienated from their own University. We left them a letter containing the signatures of many Yale students who would like to see Yale support the rights of workers at HEI, a company in which Yale is a major investor."

On Friday, October 2, the University of Pennsylvania’s Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) held a rally opposing the university’s support of HEI! About 25 Penn students attended the rally, as well as almost 60 students from Washington University in St. Louis, Yale, Sarah Lawrence, Princeton, Grinnell and more who were at Penn for the Responsible Endowments Coalition conference. Some led cheers, some held signs, some handed out fliers, and a group attempted to speak to the university’s president, Amy Gutmann, and deliver a letter signed by all attendees. The rally then moved to the Wharton school--Wharton is using a boycotted HEI hotel, the San Francisco Le Meridien. The delegations consisted of about twenty students from various colleges with three workers from the HEI Sheraton Crystal City. Unfortunately, neither president Amy Gutmann nor the dean of Wharton, Tom Robertson, would speak to the students and workers, so the letters were left with their assistants. Penn definitely heard the message, though--the rally ended with the chant, “We’ll be back!” showing that the students of Penn will not stop until the university stops supporting HEI.