Northwestern University was hit with a new lawsuit on Monday. A fourth former football player has now filed accusations of college negligence, providing the most detailed information yet about vague allegations against NU’s football program.
Submitted Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of Lloyd Yates The lawsuit against the former Wildcats quarterback and wide receiver includes new details about allegations of harassment within the football team. And that includes allegations against the coaching staff, who allege they knew about Hazing and were themselves affected by it.
Yates’ lawsuit alleges that the players “served” as assistant coaches “on multiple occasions.” According to the complaint, “running” is an incident in which a group of non-consensual persons are forcibly pinned down while the non-consenting person “rocks back and forth without the teammate’s consent and rubs his/her genitals against the genitals, face and buttocks of a teammate.”
“During a training session in the fall of 2015 or spring of 2016, the strength and conditioning coach was ‘operated’ by a member of the football team on the field, in front of the entire team and coaching staff,” the complaint alleges.
“We were all victims. Let’s be clear,” Yates said. Said at a press conference on Monday. “It was culture that you had to find your place in it, no matter what role you took, even if you were in the smoke, even if you were on the side of the perpetrator.”
The Northwestern University hate scandal has expanded to a new lawsuit by female volleyball player and former Northwestern quarterback Lloyd Yates. https://t.co/P5xA8Q5Ivk
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A former Northwestern University volleyball program player also filed a lawsuit in Illinois on Monday, accusing the university and athletic department of negligence in obscuring Spring 2021 claims.
The player has filed an anonymous lawsuit claiming he was injured during a sprint as part of coach Shane Davis’ sanctioned “punishment,” according to ESPN. report. The woman also alleges that Davis “enabled a culture of racism, bullying, harassment, harassment and retaliation” in NU’s volleyball program. Davis is named as a defendant in the lawsuit, along with two of the university’s most recent presidents and three of its most recent sports directors.
“Jane Doe’s complaint outlines the institutional failures of Northwestern University beyond its volleyball and football programs, revealing a corrupt athletic department,” her attorney, Parker Stiner, said in a statement to ESPN.
on monday letter “We are committed to supporting student-athletes and rebuilding the damage done to our athletic programs,” President Michael Schill said to the Northwestern University campus community. (Related article: Rodney Thomas II’s father charged with shooting bald eagle)
“That effort will include building processes and safeguards to ensure that what happened in football never happens again in Northwestern,” Sill wrote. “That effort also includes celebrating, advocating and caring for both students and staff unjustly implicated in the widespread assault.”
