10-07-2019, 07:00 AM
Quote:Abrahm DeVine ’19, one of the few openly gay swimmers competing at an elite level, made national headlines when he said he was kicked off the Stanford men’s swimming team because he is gay.
“Plain and simple: there are surface level reasons I was kicked off the Stanford swim team, but I can tell you with certainty that it comes down to the fact that I am gay,” he wrote in a Monday Instagram post.
But while he stands by his Instagram statement, DeVine also told The Daily that his expulsion came after he drank at a Team USA swim meet instead of showing up to support his teammates who were competing, a violation of the National Team’s Honor Code.
“I think that I wrote this entire Instagram post where every sentence is very important, but the only one that people are really focusing on is me calling out Stanford, and that makes my message sound very aggressive and that I’m out for blood, when in reality that is not what I wanted at all,” DeVine said. “I’m here to just say this is a systemic issue.”
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/10/06...m-culture/
Eric
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