Brooklyn Harvard Senior Hurt Over Campus Ban, No Graduation

she forgot to play the female card

F all that- she swiped the kid in, she's partially responsible for his actions and entirely responsible for his actions being conducted on campus.

"One of the two girls was acting as a distributor" and she let him in.

You effed up sweetie. Own up and move on.

I love it how the same people who are in favor of "affirmative action" are the first ones to have a hissy-fit when anyone points out a black person as being an an example of "affirmative action." Seems they can't make up their minds if it's a good thing or not.

She let a bad person in the building? That's it?

and for all you witty racist out there .. enlighten yourselves

sho nuff, you tell em' traytray

Chanequa I feel for you .. making it as far as you did isnt easy. But being black period is a struggle which we constantly need to be aware of. To make it to the elite stage as well as maintaining in the hood comes with a certain focus and awareness .. african americans havent and probaly wont ever get our due .. based on our contributions .. "dont ever get too comfortiable" T.Young Bedstuy RIP to all

"Harvard is doing this to me because I'm black, I'm poor and I'm from Brooklyn"

Chanequa Campbell, you hit the nail on the head!

Lots of WHITE Harvard students get high, and facilitate drug dealing - but they would never be subject to such a severe punishment!

Except it usually doesn't involve a murder. A young man getting shot to death is a little more than just a piddly drug deal in a dorm.

Chanequa's friends, Koolaidria Watkins and Watermelondrea Jackson, could not be reached for comment.

Tough break, sucka. There's always Grambling.

David Duke called - he wants his white sheets back!

There was a murder (serious stuff) in which she allowed the 2 guys with the guns into her dorm. Harvard is completely right to ban her from campus until further notice. Harvard isnt expelling her until they have more info: Their actions regarding the safety of that campus make complete sense.

"Harvard is doing this to me because I'm black, I'm poor and I'm from Brooklyn"

"Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said in a 2001 speech that a judge’s gender and ethnicity does, and should, influence his or her decision-making on the bench.”

Welcome to our affirmative–action world...

Two things:

1. I agree that it's kind of fucked that Harvard bans her when she was not criminally charged. It begs the question: If it had been a white person who had the connection with the suspect, would he/she have faced those repercussions. This issue speaks to the notion that society can, at times, be harsher to people based on their race and I know, from experience that if a person of color, such as myself, were to commit some heinous crime, there would most likely be some sort of backlash against my ethnic group, and backlash to a greater extent than would be faced by my white peers.

However, the language this girl used makes her look like she's using the race card a lot more.

2. Chanequa, REALLY? UGH a part of me dies when someone has a stereotypically black name, especially in situations like this. WHYYYYYYY?!??

Jesus, the lady is allowed to be named Chanequa if she wants to. Does anybody complain about names being "too white"?

what kind of facts are those?

Harvard is doing this to me because I'm black, I'm poor and I'm from Brooklyn

Barack Obama: black, single mom, Harvard Law School '91, president.

But Obama was from Chicago via Kansas and Hawaii when he applied to HLS... NOT from Brooklyn. Harvard hates Brooklyn, clearly.

You have a point. Can anyone name one person from Brooklyn who graduated from Harvard?

i think cornell west did

Alan Dershowitz didn't go there, but teaches there. He is a Brooklyn native. Something, right?

I have a female friend I met through my husband, who went to college with her. Class of '04 and HLS class of '07. She is black and and she grew up in Brooklyn. Harvard has students from all types of backgrounds. However, it's true that the college is very differnt from the graduate schools in their measure of diversity. Many, many more legacy cases in the college. So, there are surely fewer Brooklyn natives in the college, unless you're talking about Brooklyn Heights or Park Slope.

...went to college with her

err..him.

That's so cool - a bona fide Harvard gangsta chick. Hang in there Chanequa - I see a movie deal down the road...

There was already a Method Man/Redman movie about this called How High.

FAIL.

Is the Rev. Al on vacation or something?

Al Sharpton made her say it.

Watch for Fatso to travel to Cambridge to exploit this.

He might have to buy two seats on the Fung Wah wah waaaaaah!!!

hahaha, genius!

" Harvard is doing this to me because I'm black, I'm poor and I'm from Brooklyn"

Which is exactly how you got there in the first place. And, frankly dear, Harvard has the largest and oldest endowment of any school in the country. The don't give a flying fuck if you're poor. In fact, if you're poor, all the better. As for the Brooklyn part, that alone will boost your application when the board considers reigonal diversity. Black? Do you know how many black students graduate from Harvard every year that aren't being investigated for connections to a murder or drug sales? Yeah. A lot. For the sake of you fellow students, shut up.

"I've been practicing law for almost 17 years and have rarely come across someone as highly educated and articulate as Chanequa."

Clearly that's not true. She's not particularly highly educated, with a high school diploma and now just completing a BA. Even every lawyer he works with is more highly educated than she is.

We really know nothing about this case. As far as I know, Harvard hasn't expelled her -- it has simply banned her from campus while investigating a possible link to drug dealing and murder. That seems reasonable on its face -- it may turn out that there's no link and that she was just in the wrong spot at the wrong time. But given the magnitude of the crime, it makes sense to be cautious until the investigation is complete.

So we don't really know anything -- except, of course, that her speculation about Harvard embarking on a racist plot against people from Brooklyn is...unlikely.

Her lawyer adds that Harvard hasn't given a reason for banning his client from campus, "I've been practicing law for almost 17 years and have rarely come across someone as highly educated and articulate as Chanequa."

I thought you weren't allowed to use that word when speaking about a person of color.

If you can answer this ketchin you can get your diploma and you can graduate: What am three plus two?

Give Chanequa a chance!

If you'll excuse the racism, this is another sad case of black crab syndrome.

i thought you get your degree in college .. diploma huh

"I do believe I am being singled out," Campbell told The Boston Globe for a story Tuesday. "The honest answer to that is that I'm black and I'm poor and I'm from New York and I walk a certain way and I keep my clothes a certain way."

Gothamist has the highest rate of racist and douche bag posters than any other site I visit. Way to go!

sounds like a scientific investigation if i've ever heard one. i would hope that it is a preface to your never visiting again. later bitch!

Try reading the NY Post's comment section on the story...

I can't imagine there being comments more racist and ignorant on NY Post's site that what I am reading here. This is not limited to just this story, I see this on a wide variety of posts here...which makes me skip the comment section most of the time, because I still like to have faith in the decency of my fellow NY'ers.

I hope everything works out for her, so do many other posters.

For many of us, Gothamist is a happy place we go to during business hours that takes us away from these god-awful cubicles and jammed soda machines. Think Happy Gilmore.

And yet, here you are.

Then you don't get around much.

That should have been "charged with anything."

The problem with this case is that it IS "guilt by association" and Campbell wasn't even charged with .

...and meanwhile, the other current/recent Harvard student who plagiarized about seven novels in "writing" her own book, which was put out by a major publisher, and was exposed by her own school's newspaper, was allowed to stay on without any repercussions whatsoever.

Murder > Plagiarism

Except that she hasn't been charged with murder, hasn't been charged with being an accessory to murder, or any sort of official misconduct. If she had been, I'd agree with the school's actions. Right now it appears she was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Whereas the student who plagiarized was proven to have done so, had her book contract pulled, etc. And she was admitted to Harvard based partially on the merit of the work she stole. Apparently Harvard didn't think that was worth expulsion, though.

We'll never know the whole story. It sounds like she had a girlfriend at Harvard who has an idiot boyfriend from the hood, who then invited his friends over to Harvard one night. And they caused trouble including murder. I suspect she did not know _everything_ that was going on that evening. Harvard is right to ban her from campus given that someone was killed. Her accusation of racism will go nowhere given the serious crime committed.

"...I can't defend myself."

And yet she has a lawyer making statements for her. She sounds like a real winner.


Whatever did happen to that Columbia teacher, the one with the nooses who was plagiarizing?

Group of fat, white Harvard adminstrators in a secret meeting.

"We need to prevent this girl from graduating because she's black."

"Yeah! And because she's poor!"

"YEAH! And because she's....from BROOKLYN!"

"MUAHAHAHA"

I'm sorry, but Sleepy's comment made my entire week.

I think half of the Bronx just heard me laughing.

They'd better be careful. If t-shirts are to be believed, there's an army of skinny hipsters out there ready to "defend brooklyn".

I suspect the militiamen from Chanequa's neighborhood are better armed to defend Brooklyn than those guys.

The only reasons Chanequa is there to begin with is because she's " black, poor and from Brooklyn..."

You can take the asshole out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the asshole.

" But she's such a sweet girl, I can't imagine her doing such a thing. She's my pride and joy." Her mother Shaquanna Williams told the reporters. Her father Tyshawn Brown did not return our call. It appears Greenhaven does not have cell phone service.

If Harvard has proof of her involvement, then fine

If they have no proof then that is really fucked up. But, they're Harvard, they should be smart enough to require proof, right?

look it's a dumbass!

There does seem to be a question of process and consistency... but the cries of racism will overshadow that for sure.

Harvard practically licks the feet of any black candidate available and then throws dozens of scholarships at such students even for mediocre academic performance. A Madonna Constantine in the making here. YOU WERE INVOLVED IN DRUG DEALING ON CAMPUS. DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT ETHNIC STUDIES DIPLOMA.

Bernie,

In the REAL WORLD Harvard is filled with Caucasian mediocrities who are only there because they have family ties to the school and/or a mommy and daddy who can write a big check.

Somehow that's OK to you - but a handful of minority scholarships to help deserving Black students is "discrimination".

And in a way, it is - it discriminates against dumb but rich White kids, by displacing them with talented and smart but poor African American kids!

do you have any specific statistics to back up your speculation about the white student body at harvard?

Gregory, you paint in such beautiful, sweeping, simplistic strokes! so many shades of brown, yet only one of white.

Bernie,

In the REAL WORLD Harvard is filled with Caucasian mediocrities who are only there because they have family ties to the school and/or a mommy and daddy who can write a big check.

Somehow that's OK to you - but a handful of minority scholarships to help deserving Black students is "discrimination".

And in a way, it is - it discriminates against dumb but rich White kids, by displacing them with talented and smart but poor African American kids!

I went to Harvard, and your statement is about 83% bullshit.

YO! Is Chenaqua there? No. She's at Harvard not Graduating.

hahahah

I'm sorry, a Harvard grad should know better than pulling the race card.

She is complaining about the very thing that got her into Harvard to begin with.

Here we go again!

The myth that African Americans get some special benefits for being Black in this country!

Sorry - that's bullshit!

There's plenty of White Affirmative Action in America - and, by and large, the best jobs and best educations go to White folks, with plenty of undeserving caucasians getting on the gravy train because of their color.

And there's always a disciplinary double standard against African Americans - we always get the harshest punishments, far more severe than what White people would face in similar situations.

We're not talking about ALL black people or ALL white people. We're talking about THIS girl, Chanequa.

You don't think Harvard had probable cause for taking this course of action?

I suspect she's pulling the race card because she knows she effed up and that's her only hope.

That's exactly right, longacre. I'm sure we'll be hearing from Sharpton shortly.

Oh! Don't even get me started on the Lawyer's comments.