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.