"Long climb and fast fall for Harvard student" by Tracy Jan and Keith O'Brien, Globe Staff | June 2, 2009
NEW YORK - With but a couple of weeks until her graduation from Harvard, Campbell's old world invaded her new one. A suspected drug dealer was shot inside the doorway of her quiet dormitory and died the next day. A suspect, believed by authorities to be a thief from Harlem looking to steal $1,000 cash and a pound of marijuana, was charged with murder. And Campbell was barred from Thursday's graduation as the district attorney linked two Harvard women to the suspect and the victim, saying, "The common denominator between those four people is drugs."
Like other Harvard students, she landed prestigious internships, working at
But Campbell was not any other student. She was unable to shake the "hood culture," according to a black Harvard student and friend of Campbell's. In 2005, according to a source familiar with Campbell's record who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation into the killing, Harvard disciplinary officials investigated Campbell in the theft and forgery of a check for $300. She was not disciplined, the source said.
And according to students, Campbell became close friends with Brittany Smith, the Harvard student from Harlem whose boyfriend, Jabrai Jordan Copney, has been arrested and charged in connection with the killing of Justin Cosby of Cambridge.
"Anyone who comes from this neighborhood knows all about drugs and the dangers of drugs, so why would you be associating with that?" said Donald Dobson, who was a counselor at Campbell's Bedford-Stuyvesant elementary school but does not remember her. "It's like packing up a portion of the neighborhood and taking it with you, instead of leaving it behind and moving on."
Ask an NBA player.
What needs to happen now, some black leaders say, is a larger conversation about how Harvard can help these students fit in....
Oh, the DRUG ISSUE isn't such a BIG DEAL when it comes to RICHERS, 'eh?
Wanna know the answer, leaders?
DECRIMINALIZE DRUGS!
Read: The Ron Paul Platform: Personal Freedom
AmeriKa: Land of the Free?
But no, they won't go for that, the controlled opposition fraudsters!
Don't expect any sympathy from me then!
"Harvard set to bar 2d from graduation; Other senior linked to killing also disciplined" by Tracy Jan, Globe Staff | June 3, 2009
Brittany Smith, an aspiring lawyer from Harlem and one of two Harvard seniors linked to last month's killing in a Harvard dormitory, will not receive her diploma tomorrow, according to three officials familiar with her status.
So she could get her drug-dealing, robbing, murdering boyfriend off?
Smith is the second Harvard woman barred from graduation following the homicide, which authorities described as a botched drug robbery. A suspected drug dealer from Cambridge was shot inside Kirkland House and later died.
Smith's longtime boyfriend, Jabrai Jordan Copney, was arrested and charged in the crime. Her friend, Chanequa Campbell, has publicly criticized Harvard for barring her from graduation. But Smith has been quiet, and neither she nor her lawyer could be reached yesterday....
Copney and two other New York men had allegedly come to Harvard to rob Cosby of a pound of marijuana and $1,000 in cash, which were found by Cosby's side after he collapsed outside the dorm. The other two men have not been caught....
They got one the other day.
Leone said the men were able to enter the locked dorm because one of the women provided her electronic-access card. Campbell, who lived in Kirkland House, has repeatedly denied doing so, telling the Globe in a previous interview that she was taking a final and working the day of the shooting and had her key card with her at all times.
Copney and the two men hid the gun in Smith's dorm, Lowell House, police have said. The weapon was found in a friend's room that Smith frequently used to store her belongings, said a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation. Copney had visited frequently from New York and stayed with Smith for weeks at a time, friends have said....
Harvard honored Smith with a university public service award last year. She had spent much of her free time in Harlem and had planned to return there after graduation to be a community organizer, the friend said. Smith had also expressed interest in attending law school.
--more--"Organizing a drug ring, 'eh? With the law credentials to fight in court!
WTF is Harvard churning out theses days?
Little globalist controllers to send back home, huh?
