Sexual Harassment

University of South Carolina President Bob Caslen recently announced steps to better handle sexual assault and harassment claims on campus. His announcement comes just days after a newspaper report detailed accounts from 10 women claiming that the school failed to appropriately respond to their allegations of sexual assault and abuse. An investigation published March 12…

In December 2020, two former University of South Carolina instructors filed lawsuits against USC, alleging they were sexually harassed by a tenured professor named David Voros. Voros faced accusations of sexual harassment in 2018, from a different party. According to FITS News, “The lawsuit accuses the university of systemically protecting Voros after numerous complaints of…

A former cheerleader from Northwestern University has filed a lawsuit against the school, claiming its athletic department trafficked cheerleaders to entice fans and donors, and refused to launch a formal investigation when she complained. Further, because the Title IX office at the university relegated the complainant to witness status, she was barred from any information…