Ex-Northwestern cheerleader who filed suit alleging sexual exploitation calls school’s hazing response ‘a lot of empty platitudes’
University President Michael Schill in a statement last month acknowledged that hazing on the football team has “included forced participation, nudity and sexualized acts of a degrading nature, in clear violation of Northwestern policies and values.”last week, Schill called hazing “unacceptable,” and apologized to student athletes and “all others who have been affected.”
Schill’s piece included measures the university is taking to combat hazing, including “intensive anti-hazing training for all teams and coaches.” The university has also hiredto conduct a broad review of the university’s processes to detect and respond to potential misconduct in its athletics programs.
Cheerleading also helped pay for her education: Participation on the team earned her a scholarship of $5,500 in 2019 and just over $4,000 in 2020. “At every home game, the cheerleaders were instructed to saunter around the tailgating lots as if they were Victoria’s Secret models on a runway, unsupervised, in their skimpy cheerleading uniforms,” the complaint states. “They were expressly told to split up and flirtatiously mingle with extremely intoxicated fans alone and were not provided any security.”
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