Kenneth Starr to Resign as Chancellor at Baylor
Source: NYTImes
Kenneth W. Starr announced Wednesday that he would resign as chancellor of Baylor University, effective immediately, saying it was a matter of conscience. Mr. Starrs decision came less than a week after he was stripped of the more operationally powerful position of president of the university in the wake of a scandal in which Baylor acknowledged that it had mishandled accusations of sexual assault against several football players.
I have to and I willingly do accept responsibility, Mr. Starr told Outside the Lines, the ESPN program in which he announced his decision.
The captain goes down with the ship, he added.
But he also doubled down on a statement he released last week in which he said that he was unaware of the beginning of what was later described as a widespread problem until last August, when a former football player was convicted of sexual assault.
While Mr. Starr is stepping down as chancellor, a role that a Baylor Regent described last week as one focused primarily on raising money as well as religious liberty, he planned to retain his post as a tenured professor at Baylors law school.
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redstateblues
(10,565 posts)Nice to see his career go down in flames even though it took too long for my taste.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)although who would take his courses,is beyond me.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)wonder if someone will hire him to hound Hillary now? He has plenty of experience.
Mira
(22,380 posts)"The day something really awful happens to Ken Starr I will go back to church".
Maybe the time has come
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)He needs a special prosecutor and the threat of jail time. Maybe then.
Mira
(22,380 posts)the deal was also that I would get to chose the church, and that could get really interesting.........
Beacool
(30,253 posts)That's not only what happened to the Clintons, but to several of their staffers too. The total amount owed in legal bills came to around $14M. After leaving the WH, Bill had two main goals: 1) Making sure that Hillary and Chelsea were left financially set; 2) Paying their legal bills and those of their staffers. He was able to accomplish both.
Gomez163
(2,039 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)One of the victims sent him an email w subject line "I was raped at Baylor", yet he claims he didn't know. He also calls rape "interpersonal violence". He knew that briles recruited a bsu footballer who had a history of rape at bsu. What a scum bag
scscholar
(2,902 posts)I know Penn State didn't despite decades of protecting a child rapist, so we know how colleges put money ahead of students.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)should also step down.
rocktivity
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Why is this type of behavior so prevalent among sports jocks, particularly football players? There have been quite a few cases reported about high school and college football players who sexually abused school girls. Some were drugged and passed around while others video taped what was done to them. In the case of one high school team in particular, the school and town protected the abusers. In most cases the girls were either called liars or "slut" shamed.
Is it a surplus of testosterone, the thought that they can get away with it because they are in the football team?
What does it say about the adults? The coaches, the school administrators, the parents? In some cases all of them covered the players' misdeeds. I don't get it. If I had a son who drugged, groped or raped some young woman; he would be better off if the cops got him before I did.
rwsanders
(2,606 posts)when those show covered news that discussed that issue.
If I remember correctly, it comes down to a few factors: aggression is encouraged, mistakes are covered, and they live in the bubble of celebrity worship that has come to define our country.
If it helps pin down a timeline, this was after a college player pushed his college athlete girlfriend's head into a metal locker door.
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Don't any of these people have daughters? How would they like it if someone did that to them?
Terribly depressing.....
RobinA
(9,894 posts)the herd factor. In sports you've got a group of young males, rewarded for aggression, traveling the landscape together. Usually with a beer in hand. People will get hurt.
romanic
(2,841 posts)Monica is laughing her ass off.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)"unaware of the beginning of what was later described as a widespread problem until last August, when a former football player was convicted of sexual assault."
He didn't know when to football player was arrested and prosecuted? Seriously?
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