Three new lawsuits have been filed alleging a pattern of sexual hazing on the Northwestern football team, a scandal that has ballooned in scope since it first surfaced last summer.
Portrait of Nathan Fox, a former Northwestern football player, in downtown Chicago on May 8, 2024. Fox is suing the school with allegations of widespread sexualized hazing. A horde of older teammates was outside his dorm room, he said, screaming and sounding a siren and pounding the wall so hard it actually shook.
Reached by email on Wednesday, a spokesman for Northwestern said they do not comment on pending litigation. As the lawsuits have piled up, they have painted an increasingly detailed picture of hazing that was systemic, coordinated, and sometimes bizarre. In the years to come, he said, he and his teammates would be subjected to “running” and more; it became clear, he said, that the hazing was so normal within the Wildcat squad as to be completely unremarkable. Staffers worked well within earshot of the upperclassmen’s loud demands for naked rope swings or nude quarterback-center exchanges, he said; Fox even recalls telling one coach all the details of what happened to him his freshman year.
“Instead of doing the right thing and reporting the abuse or taking steps to stop it, those who knew either ignored it or retaliated against those who came forward in the most inhumane ways you could imagine,” the statement reads.Before leaving for Kenosha, they allege, upperclassmen made new players watch a strange video in which a man recalls a childhood memory of an explicit sexual encounter with the character Shrek.
Another ex-player filing suit this week was the whistleblower who helped bring the scandal to light. The former player, identified only as “John Doe 22,” left a note reporting the abuse in the athletic center’s suggestion box in July 2022, after a particularly “intense and horrific” locker room incident, according to his lawsuit.
Portrait of Nathan Fox, a former Northwestern football player, in downtown Chicago on May 8, 2024. Fox is suing the school with allegations of widespread sexualized hazing.
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