A lawsuit filed Tuesday by six former female students at the University of Tennessee alleged top campus officials fostered a campus culture that enabled sexual assault and harassment by male student athletes and then allowed those athletes to either transfer or graduate with no discipline.
Chief among the officials highlighted in the lawsuit is Dave Hart, the university's athletics director since 2011.
Hart has been at the center of controversies that accused him mishandling of sexual assault allegations and of sexism for more than a decade dating back to his time at Florida State University.