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Harvard Student Claims Racism Plays Into Ban From Campus

by MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer , May 28, 2009

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A Harvard University senior who lives in the dorm where a Cambridge, Mass.,  resident was fatally shot this month says school officials ordered her out of the building and told her she could not graduate, claiming she was singled out because of her race.

 

Chanequa Campbell is a friend of the suspect's girlfriend, another Harvard student, but has no connection to the suspect or victim, her attorney, Jeffrey Karp, told the Associated Press.

 

She was ordered off campus this past Friday with little notice and without being told why, Karp said. She was allowed to gather only a few personal belongings from her room after receiving a no-trespassing order, he said.

 

“There is no citation to the student code, no citation to any law, no citation to any facts,”' he said.

 

Harvard spokesman Robert Mitchell said in a statement that the school does not comment on an individual student's status.

 

Campbell, a sociology major, lived in the dorm where 21-year-old Justin Cosby was killed May 18 in what authorities say was a drug-related robbery attempt. Jabrai Jordan Copney, a 20-year-old songwriter from New York City, has been charged with Cosby’s murder.

 

Prosecutors say Copney gained access to Kirkland House with an electronic card key given to him by a student. That key did not come from Campbell, Karp said. She was at an exam and work the day of the shooting and lives in a part of the dorm far from the scene, he added.

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