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The university has been grappling with hazing for well more than a century, from cases involving athletic teams and Greek life to class warfare between sophomores and incoming freshmen.

Lynch will start investigating athletics at Northwestern, weeks after a Daily Northwestern story resulted in Pat Fitzgerald's firing.

Loretta Lynch will start investigating athletics at Northwestern, weeks after a Daily Northwestern story resulted in Pat Fitzgerald's firing.

The lawsuits continue amid a hazing scandal within the football program that broke in July 2023.

Warren Miles Long, a former running back, and John Doe 2 join a growing list of former student-athletes coming forward with lawsuits detailing similar allegations.

On Monday former Oak Park and River Forest High School star quarterback Lloyd Yates became the first former Northwestern University football player to put his name to a lawsuit against Northwestern alleging that he and many other Northwestern football players were victims of repeated acts of sexualized and degrading hazing by teammates on the Northwestern football team.Yates’s attorneys filed a lawsuit against Evanston-based Northwestern Monday in Cook County Circuit Court charging the univers...

The lawsuit is the first of what’s expected to be a series of filings on behalf of Northwestern players – and potentially may extend to players who attended colleges across the country plagued by cultures of hazing.

'Extreme Sexual Hazing' Northwestern Lawsuit Coming 'Soon': Lawyer - Evanston, IL - Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says former players were part of a toxic environment where the hazing was normalized.