Gettysburg College student athlete no longer enrolled after racial incident [Video]

A student athlete is no longer enrolled at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania after they allegedly etched a racial slur onto the chest of a teammate, school officials say.Several students were attending an informal gathering of the swim team at an on-campus residence on Sept. 6 when one of them used a box cutter to scratch a racial slur on another student’s chest, according to statements made by the college and the family who says their son was the victim.”The reprehensible act was committed by a fellow student-athlete, someone he considered his friend, someone whom he trusted,” the family said in an anonymous statement published last week by the college’s student newspaper, The Gettysburgian.It’s unclear whether the swimmer was expelled or faced other disciplinary action from the college. Jamie Yates, a spokeswoman for the college, told CNN she could only describe the student’s status as “no longer enrolled” due to student …