Warren Faces New Allegations on Ancestry Elizabeth Warren's Senate campaign in Massachusetts had hoped the controversy over her ancestry would die down after a poll this week indicated that voters thought it was insignificant. But on Friday the controversy came roaring back, starting with an article in The Boston Globe containing new allegations that she may have misrepresented her background in filings to the federal government. Seizing on the Globe story, Senator Scott P. Brown, the Republican that Ms. Warren is challenging, used some of his strongest language to date in the month-old drama to accuse her of giving false information to Harvard, where she teaches; he also called on Harvard to correct the record. The Globe article, based on documents, said, "Either Warren or a Harvard administrator classified her repeatedly as Native American in papers prepared for the government in a way that apparently did not adhere to federal diversity guidelines." Harvard said in a statement that it did adhere to the government's regulations and guidelines. Ms. Warren has said that based on family lore, she is part Native American, though she has offered no documentation to support her claim. Harvard defines Native American as someone who has "origins in any of the original peoples of North America and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition," the Globe said. It is not a definition Warren appears to fit. Mr. Brown issued a statement Friday morning saying, "She falsely described herself as a minority, and some of the schools where she worked relied on that information to misrepresent the diversity of their faculty." This was the first time Mr. Brown had accused her of "falsely" describing herself as a minority. Ms. Warren has insisted that her mother and grandmother told her many times that they were descended from Cherokee and Delaware tribes. Mr. Brown also called on Drew Faust, president of Harvard, "to immediately correct the record with the relevant federal agencies and uphold Harvard's 400-year-old tradition of abiding by the truth." The Globe story seemed to enmesh Ms. Warren further in an issue she has tried to ignore while the Brown campaign has done everything to fan it. Her campaign had hoped it would go away after a Suffolk University/7 News poll released Wednesday found that while 72 percent of likely voters had heard of the controversy, 69 percent of them found it insignificant. But during a public appearance on Thursday, reporters pressed Ms. Warren about the matter, which even some Democratic strategists have said she has dealt with poorly. Ms. Warren refused to answer several questions and tried to turn the tables on Mr. Brown and his ties to Wall Street. "Scott Brown wants to hammer on my family, and I think what matters to the people of Massachusetts is how they've been hurt by his votes," she said. Video of the exchange was all over the Internet. Critics say that Ms. Warren, who appears to be thoroughly Caucasian, has unfairly represented herself on paper as a Native American in order to advance her academic career at a time when law schools were under fire for failing to hire diverse faculties. Her supporters say the Brown campaign is creating smoke where there is no fire. Officials at the law schools where she has taught have said they hired Ms. Warren on her merits as an outstanding teacher. Later Friday morning, Mr. Brown assured the issue would receive maximum exposure by speaking in front of cameras outside of a ceremonial event at Faneuil Hall. While the Globe article did not conclude with certainty that Ms. Warren had provided the information to Harvard, Mr. Brown told reporters that "by her own self-reporting" and "as a result of her actions," Harvard had misrepresented Ms. Warren's status to the federal government. Some of the questions asked of Mr. Brown reflected the complexities of the issue, which may partly explain why voters told pollsters that it was not significant. Asked, for example, what the harm was in what had occurred, Mr. Brown shifted the problem to Harvard, saying, "Harvard has a long, over-400-year history of dealing in facts and truth, and if they're misrepresenting something for many, many years that in fact is not true, and it's based on false information, they have an affirmative obligation - and I think a moral duty - to actually correct the record." Asked by another reporter to specify the "most damning" aspect of the matter, Mr. Brown said that public officials "are held to a different standard" and that Ms. Warren had not released her academic records. "It comes down to just telling the truth," he said. If she falsely reported and Harvard relied on that, then they need to correct the record. It's pretty simple. At another point, he added: "Harvard relied on those representations, they made representations to the federal government, and as a result of that they reported certain things, representing diversity that in fact wasn't there, potentially took advantage of opportunities that would have been made available to them due to that diversity and it's wrong and so Harvard needs to correct the record so it doesn't happen again." He also accused Ms. Warren of "stonewalling" and said he was "deeply offended that Professor Warren would say somehow I'm attacking her family." One reporter noted to Mr. Brown that polls showed voters did not care about the ancestry issue, to which Mr. Brown responded: "You're going to see polling all over the place. It's going to be a close race and as a result of that I'll continue to talk about the things that matter.