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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
Mon Jun 27, 2016, 09:12 AM Jun 2016

Sun Tzu: “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/opinion/ken-starrs-squalid-second-act.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

Ken Starr’s Squalid Second Act

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For his part, Mr. Starr appeared like the Cotton Mather of his time: a prurient, punishing Puritan — a reputation that was hard to shake. He taught at several law schools, and worked, to his credit, to overturn some death penalty cases. Less admirably, he represented campaigners trying to roll back same-sex marriage in California in 2008.

In 2010, he returned to his home state of Texas as president of Baylor University, and was subsequently also appointed chancellor. It seemed a good match: a conservative son of a Christian minister at an august private Baptist university. With strong policies against drinking and premarital sex, Baylor has an enthusiasm for Jesus matched only by its passion for football.

The problem was that in its determination to dominate the Big 12 of college football, Baylor was willing to cover for several players dogged by accusations of sexual violence. In one particularly egregious case, a star player named Sam Ukwuachu was accused of sexually assaulting a female Baylor soccer player in 2013. But ambitious football programs apparently take a lenient view of such infractions. snip
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