Tag Archive: Ivy League

  1. Is Emma Watson going to Columbia?

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    Updated Saturday 10:33 a.m. A blogger has discovered a listing for a Charlotte E. Watson in the Columbia University directory and suggests that it is an alias for Emma Watson, whose full name is Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson.

    (Or maybe it’s just the listing for the actual Charlotte Watson who attends Columbia, as a commenter on the Columbia blog Bwog has pointed out.)

    Of course, there have also been reports linking Watson to Yale (here, here and here, with the second report debunked here), Harvard (here), Brown (here) and Cambridge (here). So your guess is as good as ours.

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  3. Second arrest made in connection to Harvard killing

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    A second suspect has been arrested in connection to the fatal shooting that occurred in a Harvard dorm last month. 

    Blayn Jiggetts, 19, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was taken into custody in New York City late Tuesday night and charged with first degree murder in the slaying of 21-year-old Justin Cosby, according to The Associated Press. Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20, was arrested last month and is being held without bail after pleading not guilty.

    So far, no Harvard affiliates have been charged in connection with the killing but two seniors — one of whom was Copney’s girlfriend — were ordered off campus by the university and denied diplomas at graduation.

  4. Two Harvard students linked to shooting

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    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,” she told The Boston Globe.

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  5. Arrest made in Harvard shooting

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    Police have arrested 20 year-old New York City resident Jabrai Jordan Copney for the murder of Justin Cosby that occurred in the basement of Harvard’s Kirkland House, according to The Boston Globe. Copney, who is not a Harvard student, turned himself into police Thursday night. In a statement, prosecutors said they believed Cosby and Copney knew each other and that other people were involved in the confrontation as well.

    The Harvard Crimson reported Thursday that Cosby may have been selling marijuana to students at the college. Police are investigating if that is the reason that he was in Kirkland House.

  7. Man shot in Harvard undergraduate residence

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    Updated 10:21 p.m. An unidentified man was shot in one of Harvard’s undergraduate residences around 5 p.m. today, the authorities said.

    Police believe the shooting — which occurred in Kirkland House — was in isolated incident and that the suspects have fled the area, Harvard officials said in a message posted to the university’s Web site. The victim, whose identity has not been released, was hospitalized in stable condition, The Harvard Crimson reported. After the shooting, Harvard officials asked all affiliates to stay indoors, but the university has now said members of the community are free to resume their normal activity.

    It was not immediately clear whether the victim was a Harvard student, although The Crimson quoted a student as saying the victim appeared to be a “college-aged” black male.

    Kirkland House Master Tom Conley described the incident to the newspaper as “in most likelihood a targeted shooting.” He could not confirm whether the victim was a Harvard student but told The Crimson that the victim was not a resident of Kirkland, one of Harvard’s 12 undergraduate houses.

    Most Harvard undergraduates are still on campus as final exams do not end until Friday.

    The shooting comes just a few weeks after a fatal shooting at Wesleyan University drew national headlines.

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  8. Economy causing town-gown strife? Not here, Morand says

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    As the economy worsens, so are the relationships between many universities and their communities, a front-page article in The New York Times reported today.

    But in a post on his Facebook page about the Times article, Associate Vice President for New Haven and State Affairs Michael Morand ’87 DIV ’93 begged to differ — at least in the Elm City.

    “NOT in New Haven, though!” Morand wrote in his Twitter-like response to the article, which carried the headline “Slump Revives Town-Gown Divide Across U.S.”

    “Hometown & Yale University working as closely & cooperatively as ever,” Morand added.

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  9. Cornell prof: I wasn’t the Wesleyan shooter!

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    One of the above men is an accused killer. The other is an associate professor of sociology at Cornell University. Both are named Stephen Morgan.  And for a while yesterday, it was unclear which of them the public was supposed to be afraid of.

    Somehow, a photograph of Professor Stephen Morgan (left) — not gun-toting 29-year-old Stephen Morgan (right) — wound up broadcast on national television yesterday, described as an image of the suspect who at the time was the subject of a manhunt at Wesleyan University following the slaying of a student on Wednesday.

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