Commentary: Northwestern sports enable a toxic culture of sexual violence
by Hayden Richardson, Chicago Tribune
Jul 18, 2023
3 minutes
When I read about the allegations of rampant sexual violence in the Northwestern University football program, I was horrified. But sadly, I wasn’t surprised. As a cheerleader, I, too, was a victim of sexual abuse and harassment at Northwestern University, and school officials did nothing to stop it.
From 2018 to 2019, I was groped by drunken fans and alumni in public at football games. At university donor events, older men touched me inappropriately, picked
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