On July 10, Northwestern fired longtime head football coach Pat Fitzgerald amid revelations that he had overseen a culture that allowed for extensive hazing and sexual abuse. Three days later, the school fired baseball coach Jim Foster, citing a culture of bullying on the team he led for only one season. The firing of Fitzgerald came days after the university president, Michael Schill, had initially suspended him following an independent investigation of the football program.
Salvi's firm is currently representing three football players who have sued the Northwestern University athletics department due to the football team's alleged culture of hazing and sexual abuse. The lawsuits describe a wide range of behaviors common on the team that included forcing student-athletes, usually freshmen, to engage in several activities while naked.
The four lawsuits filed by Salvi, Schostok & Pritchard are not the only complaints filed against Northwestern. Ben Crump, a prominent attorney who has represented several high-profile litigants, including the family of George Floyd, has also filed a lawsuit against Northwestern and said Monday that he expects to file as many as 30 individual lawsuits against the school for hazing in the sports programs.
"I have to wonder why we would think that [the culture changed] in light of [Schill's] handling of the Fitzgerald matter [and] why it was a suspension to start with," Salvi said."That sounds like it was from the same playbook, sweep it under the rug, hope it goes away, and we don't have to address the problem. But now there's a reckoning because the truth is coming to light.
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