After a summer of controversy at the school, a sea of parents and loved ones cheering on incoming students at the university’s March Through the Arch annual rite of passage.
“on behalf of the university to those athletes and all others affected” and has pledged that hazing will not be tolerated at Northwestern.
“We trust them. We’re giving our kids to them,” said Holliday, who like so many family members wore a purple Northwestern shirt for the start-of-the-academic-year festivities. “So we hope that not only Northwestern, after this is all settled, will be a better place and safer place for our kids, but that all institutions across the country will do the same.”
The message was in stark contrast to the claims of many former Northwestern athletes — representing an array of sports including volleyball, lacrosse, softball, baseball and football — who have recently filed lawsuits against the university.“I was conditioned to think this stuff is normal, and this was what goes on in college football, this is what goes on in these locker rooms,” one former Northwestern football player told the Tribune in July.
When freshman Clayton Zipperian learned of the hazing allegations, he said it was “disappointing to learn that that sort of thing was so prominent in the athletic department.”“Because it would have been doable, relatively, for them to sort of sweep it under the rug,” he said.in response to hazing on the football team, which the university president described in a statement as “systemic dating back many years.
“It was something that was in the news and we were like, ‘Oh, that’s not great press for Northwestern,’” he said. “But beyond that, there was no real concern about him coming here.”
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