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Brooklyn Harvard Senior Hurt Over Campus Ban, No Graduation

2009_05_ccamp.jpg The Harvard senior who was barred from graduating next month and banned from campus—due to an alleged connection with the fatal shooting of a drug dealer at the school— has spoken out. According to the Post, sources say Chanequa Campbell helped swipe murder victim Justin Cosby into the dorm to sell drugs, but Campbell denies knowing him. She admits to knowing suspect shooter Jabrai Jordan Copney of New York—but only through Copney's girlfriend, Harvard senior Brittany Smith (who is allowed to graduate next month). Campbell, a Packer College Institute graduate who earned many scholarships, tells the Post, "I'm hurt and I'm confused. For me not to be graduating is frustrating. Harvard is doing this to me because I'm black, I'm poor and I'm from Brooklyn...I'm feeling I'm being scapegoated and I can't defend myself." 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... What [Harvard has] done to Chanequa is equivalent to having your house foreclosed and losing your job on the same day."

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  • brain

    she forgot to play the female card

  • inoyourider

    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.

  • ides_of_march

    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.

  • JanetG

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

  • TrayYoung

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

  • aveB4life

    sho nuff, you tell em' traytray

  • TrayYoung

    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

  • GREGORYABUTLER

    "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!

  • Clarice City

    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.

  • Snakefist Von Thunderplug

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

    Tough break, sucka. There's always Grambling.

  • GREGORYABUTLER

    David Duke called - he wants his white sheets back!

  • nyorker555

    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.

  • jpeditor

    "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...

  • lastlaugh

    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?!??

  • rasputinsghost

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

  • FranklinBluth

    what kind of facts are those?

  • Clarice City

    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.

  • longacre

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

  • thefacts

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

  • aveB4life

    i think cornell west did

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