Word: ntshanga
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Dates: during 1994-1994
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Harvard later acknowledged Ntshanga's student status, and in a brief trial he was acquitted. Last spring, his attorney, former Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union president Harvey A. Silverglate, asked Vice President and General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall to conduct an investigation...
Administrators are divided over the controversy. Epps expresses support for Ntshanga's claims of racial harassment while Johnson and Ryan main tain that officers acted in a professional manner...
Alvin L. Bragg '95, who recently stepped down as president of the Black Student Association (BSA), criticizes what he calls the "illegal" arrest of Ntshanga...
...Ntshanga's arrest--Which will remain on his record despite his acquittal--has encouraged several Black students to publicize their negative experiences with Harvard police...
According to Bragg, the Ntshanga case was the most significant racial incident on campus since the BSA distributed the "On the Harvard Plantation" flyer in the spring of 1992. That document charged campus police with discrimination in four other specific cases. Then as with Ntshanga, Johnson denied the allegations...