Investigators recommend Northwestern enhance hazing prevention training [Video]

FILE – Northwestern helmets sit on a table during an NCAA college football against Stanford in Evanston, Ill, Saturday, Sept. 5, 2015. A team of investigators led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch recommended Thursday, June 27, 2024, that Northwestern enhance its hazing prevention training in the wake of a scandal that rocked the school’s athletic department. (AP Photo/Matt Marton, File) (Matt Marton)

A team of investigators led by former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch recommended Northwestern enhance its hazing prevention training in the wake of a scandal that rocked the school’s athletic department.

Though the 47-page report by the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP released Thursday by Northwestern stated “the results of our review have been largely positive,” investigators found room for improvement when it came to preventing hazing during a nearly year-long review.

“Some people expressed an interest in more interactive and scenario-based anti-hazing trainings, while …