Kenneth Starr to Resign as Chancellor at Baylor

[WhiteTara]

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. Starr’s 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 Baylor’s law school.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/sports/ncaafootball/kenneth-starr-is-said-to-resign-as-chancellor-at-baylor.html?_r=0

[redstateblues]

1. The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice

Nice to see his career go down in flames even though it took too long for my taste.

[WhiteTara]

2. Unfortunately, he will still be teaching "law"

although who would take his courses,is beyond me.

[rurallib]

3. “matter of conscience.” horse crap

wonder if someone will hire him to hound Hillary now? He has plenty of experience.

[Mira]

4. Once upon a time a good Democratic friend of mine said to me

"The day something really awful happens to Ken Starr I will go back to church".
Maybe the time has come

[WhiteTara]

7. I don't think it's bad enough for that!

He needs a special prosecutor and the threat of jail time. Maybe then.

[Mira]

10. I agree actually

the deal was also that I would get to chose the church, and that could get really interesting.........

[Beacool]

9. He needs to be left in debt, after having to pay huge legal bills.

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]

5. I WANT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR AND JAIL TIME.

[KamaAina]

6. Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye!

[Beacool]

8. Karma is a beotch.

[Doctor_J]

11. He was on otl today lying about his knowledge of the problem

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]

12. Will they do the right thing and get rid of football?

I know Penn State didn't despite decades of protecting a child rapist, so we know how colleges put money ahead of students.

[rocktivity]

13. Everyone in the chain of command from the coaches to the athletic director to Starr

should also step down.


rocktivity

[Beacool]

14. I have a question.

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]

16. Some where long ago I saw a news program (20/20, Prime Time Live, or Nightline)

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]

18. I find it appalling that this type of behavior is excused and covered up.

Don't any of these people have daughters? How would they like it if someone did that to them?

Terribly depressing.....

[RobinA]

19. Add To This

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]

15. Somewhere out there

Monica is laughing her ass off.

[olddad56]

17. what goes around, comes around.

[Sunlei]

20. so now Ken Star is promoted to "Professor of Rape" for Baylor University?

[TexasBushwhacker]

21. Didn't know until he was convicted?

"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?