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Two Harvard students linked to shooting

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, May 27, 2009

A Harvard University senior was ordered to leave campus and told she could not graduate this month because of her suspected role in the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Justin Cosby in a Harvard dorm last week, according to news reports.

Chanequa N. Campbell — a friend of Harvard senior Brittany J. Smith, the girlfriend of shooting suspect Jabrai Jordan Copney — says that the university is singling her out because of her race.

"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,"...

#1 By yale 11 11:26p.m. on May 27, 2009

this doesn't make sense...was Chanequa Campbell or Brittany Smith the senior forced to leave campus?

#2 By Yale 4:06p.m. on May 28, 2009

Chanequa...not that complicated, article says she's being singled out

#3 By Matt 11:47p.m. on May 29, 2009

See http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/23/police_say_harvard_killing_was_drug_rip/?page=2 for more info.

#4 By yale 11 9:26a.m. on May 30, 2009

OK, but it is pretty confusing when you say "the university is singling her out" and later quote with a "she said," and finally introduce four names in two paragraphs without really making the relationships between each of them clear...

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