'Three Guilford College football players face assault and ethnic intimidation charges following an on-campus attack on three Palestinian students, authorities said.

...[Three students] were beaten with fists, feet and brass knuckles in an attack early Saturday involving at least 15 members of the school's football team, according to court documents. The attackers called the Palestinians "terrorists" and used racial slurs during the attack.

School officials believe a total of about 12 people were physically involved in the altercation ...


The attack is believed to have happened early Saturday morning... Authorities have charged [three students]... with ethnic intimidation and assault and battery, the News & Record of Greensboro reported Tuesday. They were released Monday on $2,000 bond. The men were listed on the school's Web site as members of the football team.

... Guilford [is] a school in Greensboro [North Carolina] founded by Quakers....

"It was the most horrific experience of my life," [one student] told the News & Record on Tuesday. "This was a horrible, unprovoked hate crime."

[He] said he was diagnosed with a concussion and had trouble walking on his own for several days after the attack...'