NU Hazing

8/18/2023  The Tribune article by Angie Leventis Lourgos, "At Northwestern Hazing IS Nothing New" delineates the nearly 150 year-old history of NU's hazing. 

Dates/events listed: 1876, 1894, 1921/23, 1937, 1951/3, 1967, 2002/3, 2006 and 2023 ongoing revelations involving several NU athletic departments .

NU's transparency issues in their athletic department reflect the lack of transparency in the NU zoning proposal process.

See below excerpts from the Chicago Sun Times article published on 8/29/2023:

Six days before the Wildcats’ opener at Rutgers, Braun explained — poorly — that he was taking the completely unusual step of barring players from interviews during a game week.

Ask Northwestern interim football coach David Braun what the best things are that he has instilled in the Wildcats, and he’ll tell you transparency and trust.

Transparency? Trust? Those are loaded words for a coach to be using these days in Evanston, where the football program and athletic department are trying to pick up the pieces after a hazing scandal that led to the dismissal of the king of all ’Cats, Pat Fitzgerald.

Braun’s boss, athletic director Derrick Gragg, and Gragg’s boss, president Michael Schill, have been anything but transparent, hiding from the media for weeks on end.