Fourth football player suing Northwestern over hazing scandal
Former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates is represented by attorney Ben Crump.
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Former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates is represented by attorney Ben Crump.
A fourth football player is filing a lawsuit against Northwestern University on Monday amid the ongoing hazing scandal. This time, legal action is being taken by a former quarterback over allegations of hazing and sexual abuse.
All three lawsuits accuse the school, former head coach Pat Fitzgerald, and other officials of not preventing hazing, intervening in the tradition, or protecting students from acts that were illegal and often sexual in nature.
Hayden Richardson says Northwestern turned a blind eye to her complaints of sexual harassment. As the fallout from the football team's hazing allegations continues, Richardson says she is upset - but not surprised - to hear allegations that the school did not do enough to protect its athletes. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey reports.
As a Northwestern cheerleader, Hayden Richardson says the athletic department and others at the university school turned a blind eye to her complaints of sexual harassment. CBS 2 Investigator Megan Hickey talked with Richardson on Thursday.
"No teammate I knew liked hazing. We were all victims, no matter what our role was at the time, but the culture was so strong that we felt we had to go with it to survive," former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates said.
More former Northwestern University football players are saying they were victims of hazing and abuse while playing for the Wildcats as attorneys prepare additional lawsuits against the school. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said he's working with at least 15 young men and women who were athletes at Northwestern and have said they dealt with abuse at the school.
More former Northwestern University football players are saying they were victims of hazing and abuse while playing for the Wildcats as attorneys prepare additional lawsuits against the school.
More former Northwestern University football players are saying they were victims of hazing and abuse while playing for the Wildcats as attorneys prepare additional lawsuits against the school.
Northwestern also fired its head baseball coach, Jim Foster, after an investigation alleging he created a toxic culture during his first and only season with the school.
Assist at least eight football players are taking legal action in a hazing scandal that he alleges included physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. CBS 2's Marissa Perlman reports.
CBS 2's Matt Zahn talks with CBS Sports college football writer Tom Fornelli about where the Northwestern Football program goes from here in the wake of the hazing scandal.
It’s been a difficult few weeks for the Northwestern University Athletic Department after the school fired its longtime football coach Pat Fitzgerald on Monday, and on Thursday, head baseball coach Jim Foster was also out of a job.
Existing players may not be far behind as the dust only begins to settle on what the future of a Fitzgerald-free program will look like.
The ripple effects of Pat Fitzgerald's firing as head coach of the Northwestern football team continued on Wednesday due to a hazing scandal. Read more
Northwestern professor Susan Pearson and five other faculty members co-authored a memo to university president Michael Schill and athletic director Dr. Derrick Gragg.
CBS 2 tried to get Northwestern University's president and athletic director to do an on-camera interview to no avail.
Both the praise and criticism have been loud over Northwestern University's handling of a hazing scandal within its football program, including the firing of longtime head coach Pat Fitzgerald.
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A former Northwestern football player is speaking out about the environment on the field and in the locker room in the wake of the firing of head coach Pat Fitzgerald after an investigation into hazing allegations within the program. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar was in Evanston trying to get more answers from Northwestern officials.
A former Northwestern football player is speaking out about the environment on the field and in the locker room in the wake of the firing of head coach Pat Fitzgerald after an investigation into hazing allegations within the program.
The university's president had said he may have erred in only suspending Fitzgerald for two weeks after an investigation into the hazing allegations.
Fitzgerald, once a star linebacker for the Northwestern Wildcats, had led the team for 17 seasons.
Northwestern University has fired its head football coach Pat Fitzgerald amid claims of hazing in the Wildcats program made at the end of the 2022 season, the school announced Monday. University President Michael Schill made the announcement in a letter saying he informed Fitzgerald he was being relieved of his duties.
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