Babson report raises questions about post-election incident at Wellesley
When two Babson College students drove their pickup in a victory lap around Wellesley College the day after Donald Trump got elected, they were admonished by Babson administrators, denounced by Wellesley students, and hung out to dry on social media.
Students wrote that the men spit at Wellesley students, yelled racial and homophobic slurs, and purposefully stopped their truck in front of Harambee House, a gathering place for black students at the private women’s college.
But much of that narrative is now being called into question. An internal Babson investigation of the incident by campus police and administrators found no evidence the men hurled slurs, spat, or stopped at the house for any reason other than that it sits on cul-de-sac where they could turn around.A lawyer for one of the two Babson students says the conclusions suggest that college administrators, in the haze of Trump’s victory, may have jumped too quickly to condemn the students.
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