Student in carving of racial slur on teammate's chest no longer enrolled at Gettysburg College
An unidentified Gettysburg College student accused of carving a racial epithet on the chest of a teammate is no longer enrolled at the Pennsylvania liberal arts college, the school said over the weekend.
An unidentified Gettysburg College student accused of carving a racial epithet on the chest of a teammate is no longer enrolled at the Pennsylvania liberal arts college, the school said over the weekend.
“We can report now that the individual who scratched a slur onto another person is no longer enrolled at the College,” the private college said Sunday in a joint statement with the family of the victim, announcing its investigation of the on-campus incident, which happened at a gathering of men's swim team members on Sept. 6.
The incident was first reported Wednesday by the student publication The Gettysburgian. A spokesperson for the college confirmed it, saying the accused and the victim were suspended from the swim team pending the outcome of an investigation.
The next day, college President Bob Iuliano decried the racist incident a letter to the campus community.
"There is no place on this campus for words or actions that demean, degrade, or marginalize based on one’s identity and history," Iuliano wrote.The victim's family said in a statement The Gettysburgian published Friday that the incident happened at an informal gathering of swim team members on campus, where the no-longer-enrolled student is alleged to have used a box cutter to carve the N-word into the victim's chest.
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