CHICAGO -- Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said his law firm and other attorneys have received reports of hazing within Northwestern University's athletic program, impacting not only the Wildcats' football team but also baseball and softball teams.
Crump and Chicago attorney Steven Levin said they have not filed a lawsuit yet on behalf of any athletes but plan to do so shortly. They said they represent 15 people and have been in touch with dozens of former athletes, the majority of whom played football at the school.
Warren Miles Long, a running back on Northwestern's football team starting in 2013, said players were put into a culture where sexual violence and hazing were "rampant.