After ridding itself of the nuisance of Steven Salaita, the anti-Israel academic who just landed a professorship in Lebanon after it rejected him, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign isn’t getting any relief from bad headlines.
Former women’s basketball players are accusing current and former coaching staff and trustees of creating an environment that was “racially hostile” to them, filing a $10 million federal discrimination lawsuit, Lee News Service reports:
Among other things, the lawsuit alleges that [head coach Matt] Bollant and [former associate head coach Mike] Divilbiss segregated players by race, did not allow white players to room with black players on road trips, were more harsh in their discipline of black players than they were of white players and referred to predominantly black teams as “undisciplined and unintelligent” and referred to predominantly white teams as “disciplined and intelligent.”
The school’s investigation found no legal or rules violations, either the school’s or the NCAA’s, while an outside investigation’s findings haven’t been released, the news service said.
h/t Inside Higher Ed
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