Two Gettysburg Faculty Swimmers Suspended for Racist Incident
Two swimmers at Gettysburg Faculty have been suspended by the college for an incident by which a racial slur was scratched onto the physique of a pupil.
The information was first reported by and confirmed to The Hanover Night Solar and The Gettysburgian, the faculty’s pupil newspaper, on Wednesday. The 2 college students have been suspended from the staff pending an investigation. Names of the scholars weren’t launched.
The Faculty launched an announcement on the incident:
“The Faculty has obtained a deeply regarding report of a racial slur being scratched onto a pupil utilizing a plastic or ceramic software. It is a critical report, which is being actively assessed via the coed conduct course of. At this level, the scholars concerned should not collaborating in swim staff actions pending the end result of the coed conduct course of. Given privateness legal guidelines and the continuing nature of the coed conduct course of, we’re unable to share additional particulars.”
Gettysburg is a Division III faculty in Pennsylvania. It competes within the Centennial Convention. The boys’s and girls’s swim groups are below the path of Greg Brown, who’s starting his sixth yr in cost.