Will Harvard Continue to Lead the Charge? - Part 35

From the Harvard Crimson: Yoav Segev, a recent Harvard Business School graduate, filed a federal lawsuit against Harvard and the Harvard University Police Department [last] Thursday, accusing the University of failing to protect him from an antisemitic assault on campus and obstructing the investigation that followed... Two students — Harvard Law School graduate Ibrahim I. Bharmal and Harvard Divinity School graduate Elom K. Tettey-Tamaklo — were charged with assault and battery in connection with the incident, but Segev argued that Harvard took no meaningful disciplinary action.

Instead, he argued that Harvard celebrated the two student-employees: Tettey-Tamaklo, who was a residential proctor in a freshman dorm at the time of the confrontation, graduated from HDS in May as a class marshal, while Bharmal, then a teaching fellow at HLS, was awarded a $65,000 fellowship from the Harvard Law Review in April. (Class marshals are voted in by the graduating class, and the HLR is independent of the University).

The two were ordered by a Boston judge in April to attend anger management training, a course on negotiation, and perform community service. But Segev argued [last] Thursday that Harvard still had an obligation to investigate and discipline the students under its own policies. He contended that when he attempted to pursue disciplinary action through Harvard’s internal process, administrators stonewalled the process, “inventing a facially absurd” policy that prevented Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal from being disciplined while there was an ongoing criminal investigation.

According to the Thursday filing, Harvard told Segev he could not file a complaint unless he did so “publicly and non-anonymously” — which he opted not to do so shortly after the event, a choice he said he made for safety reasons. When he then attempted to file a non-anonymous complaint more than a year later, the University rejected it as “untimely,” claiming the investigation had already been completed... Tettey-Tamaklo was removed from his proctor position within weeks of the October 2023 protest...

Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/19/segev-sues-harvard/.