At Channel 3000, investigative reporter Adam Schrager reports on a federal lawsuit that former Coach Timothy Fader has filed against UW-Whitewater officials, in their individual capacities. (I had promised readers that I would continue to follow this story, and will continue to do so as the case unfolds.)
Both current Athletic Director Amy Edmonds and former Chancellor Richard Telfer are named defendants:
The lawsuit asserts that Fader was not renewed as the school’s wrestling coach in the summer of 2014 because he immediately reported an alleged sexual assault committed by one of his recruits directly to Whitewater police and not to his supervisors on campus, per university policy. After that, Fader alleges an official at a college in Minnesota called Edmonds for a job reference but was told that she could not “tell him the whole story,” creating “even more mystery and (implying) additional but unreported misconduct on Fader’s part,” according to the lawsuit.
Fader also makes the claim that there are no records of an earlier sexual assault he had reported to university officials. UW-Whitewater is facing two Title IX complaints filed with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Education in the last two years. Title IX legislation was passed by Congress in 1972 to prohibit discrimination by gender in federally-funded education programs.
See, additionally, prior posts about Coach Fader and UW-Whitewater officials’ conduct.
More to come.
Below is an embedded copy of the federal complaint:
There was bound to be more. I’ve been on campus for years. There are really two communication tracks: inside and what everyone outside hears. Inside there’s considerable worry, uncertainty, especially among tenured faculty. Outside it’s a projected image of perfection. It’s not sustainable. It was never realistic.