It seems like an incredible coincidence that this is announced a day after the Big 12 meetings. A day after Baylor was able to tell the Big 12 that all was well and they don’t need to worry.
“OCR opened the investigation after receiving a complaint from the former Baylor Title IX coordinator,” department spokesperson Dorie Nolt said in a statement. “Consistent with federal privacy statutes, OCR typically does not identify the specific parties, including complainants, involved in our civil rights cases. In this instance, the complainant has given permission for OCR to identify her and has spoken publicly about her complaint.”
This is where things get messy for Baylor. It’s one thing to pay off a number of victims; completely different when dealing with the government.
What a lengthy pile of bull excrement… Are they finally going to make public the report? NO… Are they finally going to hold accountable the perpetrators and their enablers? NO! If the investigation is limited to 2014 to present, the feds will have missed a big part of the scandal, (a habit they have fallen into lately) and allow the Rape U enablers to remain in their current positions.
Babs-lor, a worthy member of the POS that is the Cowardly 10…
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“Our process is that we investigate to determine whether we have concerns, whether we find a violation. If we do find a violation, we communicate that to the school, and we invite the school to tell us what it will do to address it going forward so we can insure that it won’t happen again, and will be in a period of monitoring,” Lhamon said. “If we can reach agreement for what they will do, they get to keep their funds and we monitor what they’ve said they will do and we ensure that they fully satisfy the law.”
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The sexual-violence scandal at Baylor University that cost its celebrated football coach his job involved 17 women who reported sexual or domestic assaults involving 19 players, including four alleged gang rapes, since 2011, according to Baylor regents.
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In at least one case, Baylor regents said, Mr. Briles knew about an alleged incident and didn’t alert police, the school’s judicial-affairs staff or the Title IX office in charge of coordinating the school’s response to sexual violence.
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Baylor regents said that when Mr. Briles was asked what he would have done differently, he broke down and wept. Many board members began to cry as well. “He couldn’t speak he was so upset, and all of us were,” Mr. Gray said. “Art said, ‘I delegated down, and I know I shouldn’t have. And I had a system where I was the last to know, and I should have been the first to know.’ ” Mr. Cannon said Mr. Briles quoted Scripture and expressed his regrets over the painful situation Baylor was in, but didn’t admit to wrongdoing.
On Eve Of 60 Minutes Sports Report, Baylor Starts Website Called “The Truth”
The “Articles of Interest” section says it will contain “media reports, published opinions, letters to the editor and other articles” the Baylor administration feels will “help shed light on our actions and decisions.” It is, in fact, a page with links to two articles: the Wall Street Journal’s report in which the regents attempted to show the blame landed on the correct parties (mainly Briles) by finally revealing a portion of what Pepper Hamilton told them; and an open letter published in the Dallas Morning News from Baylor regent Mark Lovvorn in which Lovvorn says that a dead decorated U.S. WWII veteran and former Baylor football player would agree with the board’s decision to fire Briles.
Asked about Baylor’s questions about her emotional state, Crawford said, “I think it’s really sad that the only way Baylor can try to discredit what I’ve said is to discredit my mental health. I think it’s sad, like, I’m not surprised – because what I’ve said is the truth. And it’s hard to discredit the truth.”
Though the program focused on assaults by football players, Crawford made clear the problem extended beyond that.
Asked how many reports of sexual assault or violence she received in the nearly two years she worked at Baylor, Crawford said, “Hundreds.”
Baylor explains why it kept Art Briles’ coaching staff
Baylor University’s interim president David Garland said it would have been “unfair” to take action against assistant football coaches in the wake of the sexual assault scandal at the school that included at least 19 football players and led to the dismissal of head coach Art Briles.
“We decided it would be unfair to remove those further down in the organization for the mistakes of their leaders,” Garland wrote in a letter posted on the school’s new web page called “The Truth.”
Former Baylor Title IX coordinator: Ian McCaw sought immunity for football players
“In September, I had four meetings in one week with Reagan Ramsower and human resources, and their response to me was we are bleeding money right now because of lawsuits and settlements with victims from the past. Or bleeding money with lawyers and consultants and we are done bleeding money and you aren’t going to get what you want the way you want it,” she said. “I said, in a week this policy is coming into play. You’re implementing it, but I don’t have the infrastructure to follow it.”
Baylor coaches, staff take to Twitter again to refute board
KWTX also learned that when the gang rape incident was presented by Pepper Hamilton to the Baylor Board of Regents, the board was not told that judicial affairs had already been informed about the incident, or that the coach who reported it to Briles approved of the way Briles responded.
Even now, Baylor remains divided over whether Art Briles’ was wronged
Segment of Baylor community clings to belief Art Briles was wronged, which only tarnishes university further
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I’m sure it was just a coincidence that Waco’s still-favorite sons wore black jerseys Saturday, despite the fact the school originally promoted a “greenout” versus Gary Patterson on June 26. And I’m certain sophomore receiver Chris Platt was just joking around when he tweeted Friday that “This black out means more than just the uniforms to us. #truthdontlie,” then backtracked like any well-trained Baylor apologist would.
But receivers coach Tate Wallis accosted her afterward, trying to convince her Briles had done nothing wrong and she shouldn’t even have visited. And she’s watched the other assistants tweet #TruthDontLie and other related hashtags to support Briles and antagonize those in the Baylor university administration who do want to address the scandal and implement changes.
Berry Tramel: Is it time for the Big 12 to boot out Baylor?
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It wouldn’t surprise me if a Big 12 legal team has scoured the conference bylaws, trying to discover a loophole by which Baylor could be removed from the conference. Kick out Baylor, bring in Houston.
Nonprofit organization to demand overhaul of Baylor board of regents
A group of Baylor alumni and major donors – including Drayton McLane, for whom the school’s football stadium is named – is scheduled to launch a nonprofit organization that will demand an overhaul of the university’s board of regents as well as full details of the school’s sexual assault investigation.
John E. Hoover: Time to punish Baylor football, Baylor U and Bears fans — and here’s how
http://thefranchiseok.com/john-e-hoover-time-punish-baylor-football-baylor-u-bears-fans-heres/
First, doing so would have a profound effect on the other nine members. It would create virtually irreparable scheduling difficulties for the rest of the membership and would also impact every other school’s already strained financial budgets — everyone counts on x-number of multi-million dollar paydays from home football games, as well as Baylor’s piece of the revenue-sharing pie that could cause television networks who carry games to become skittish about paying for game inventory that’s no longer there.
(All that said, a Houston-for-Baylor swap does have a certain appeal to it.)