Harvard: Portraits of black law professors vandalized

[mwrguy]

The plague of college hate crimes spreads from Mizzou to Harvard.

A spokesman from the Harvard University Police department said it’s an “open and active investigation.”

Dean Martha Minow sent an e-mail to the law school community after learning of the vandalism.

“I am saddened and angered by this act,” she wrote.

Minow wrote that she was convening a meeting with law school students and staff at noon Thursday to discuss the incident.

Images of the tape on the portraits were shared on Twitter by Jonathan Wall, a third-year law student.

Wall said the images were sent to him from a classmate at the school early Thursday morning.

“I was shocked. I was shocked, and I was obviously disgusted. Especially because it seems to be in response to yesterday’s day of activism,” said Wall.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/11/19/harvard-police-investigating-after-tape-placed-over-portraits-black-law-professors/OaexgDJcyJPP3YyFh2ubeL/story.html#comments

[bravenak]

1. I am not suprised. Sad, but no shock.

[jberryhill]

2. Electrical tape is really popular at Harvard...

Odd, don't you think?

What's also interesting is that the thing about the Royalls and the Antiguan slaves was also featured in the first blog article about the tape.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

3. It's not completely out of the realm someone read the first blog and replied in similar fashion

In fact, it makes sense now.

[jberryhill]

4. Indeed it is not out of the realm of possibility

There are a large number of possibilities.

How shall we choose among competing hypotheses? Perhaps there are methods for doing that.