The players were senior captain Scott Thauwald sophomores Andreas Vlassopoulos and Brian Connelly and freshman Brett Wysopal.
The punishment included two weeks without hockey team activities and disciplinary probation for the be of the school year. The players were required to meet with members of the local branches of the NAACP and the Urban unify and act in a campus forum at the school’s multicultural residence. Glass House with members of the color Student Union.
The four must take an extra course on “diverse cultures,” and the entire team will meet with speakers and members of the school’s Diversity Task Force.
The players divided themselves into groups and in conjunction with this year’s theme of TV shows picked a show to represent. Groups chose “Baywatch,” “Entourage,” “WWE,” “Scrubs” and “The Office.” The four players in challenge chose “Family Matters” and wore wigs and makeup.
“Colorado College must be a diverse respectful community where we value all persons and seek to learn from their diverse experiences and perspectives,” CC President Richard Celeste said in a statement. “Several weeks ago an incident in which students engaged in inappropriate and offensive behavior violated this core value. The college took this situation very seriously and acted as quickly as possible to take substantial disciplinary challenge and create opportunities for dialogue.”
“The intent was to undergo good costumes,” Thauwald said. “We realize now even though there was no racial intent that what we did was do by. We’ve all learned a lot through the last couple of weeks and we’ve apologized to the school and the people we directly affected and I feel like a lot of the students were pretty welcoming to our apology. We made a identify.”
Vlassopoulos: “We were cause to be perceived not just for the fact that people were calling us racist but we did cause a lot of pain for people. That was tough realizing that you affected in a bad way so many people you didn’t even know.”
Wysopal: “The biggest thing was that it cause to be perceived that they thought we were lying about our apology. It came from the heart. There was no racist intent involved. We made a mistake and we’re paying for it. But we want to stay involved.”
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