From the Harvard Crimson:
HUPD Closes Law School’s Black Tape Investigation
Unable to identify a perpetrator, HUPD shutters black tape investigation
By CLAIRE E. PARKER, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER 3 days agoHarvard University Police Department has not identified the perpetrator responsible for the November vandalism of black Law School professors’ portraits and shuttered its investigation into the incident, ending more than a month of interviews and forensic examinations.
On November 19, Law School students and faculty arrived in Wasserstein Hall to find pieces of black tape placed over the portraits of several black Law professors. The incident, quickly denounced by students and Law School administrators as racist, prompted HUPD to investigate it as a hate crime.
Are we supposed to believe there were no fingerprints or DNA evidence left from the interaction of sticky tape and glass picture frames? Sounds like Harvard University wasn’t trying terribly hard to solve this mystery. Maybe the fact that black activists that same night in that same place were defacing the HLS seal with the same black tape might have something to do with Harvard’s lack of zeal in uncovering the perp.
I guess even all the brainpower at Harvard can’t solve some conundrums.
By the way, whatever happened to the Black Autumn on American college campuses?
Winter?
