TEXAS
The Dallas Morning News
By Sue Ambrose and David Tarrant | Staff Writers
Published May 5, 2016
Praying, singing and carrying candles, hundreds of students gathered in front of the president’s house at Baylor University on a chilly night in February. Their goals: to vent anger over the Baptist school’s handling of a string of sexual assaults and to demand the attention of its leader, Ken Starr.
But Starr wasn’t there to hear them.
He did not attend the vigil. He has said little in public about the problem.
And as the sex-assault scandal has grown to encompass at least eight alleged attacks involving football players, two of whom have been convicted in criminal court here, his oddly timed written statements have grown more legalistic.
Even at this conservative and sports-mad college, students say they are frustrated by the muted response of the Baylor administration, which the 69-year-old Starr has led for the past six years.
“They should be stepping up more,” said Audrey Hamlin, 20, a sophomore from outside Austin who recently joined a student group on campus sexual violence. “They should completely back up the victims, and that should be evident in their actions.”
If Starr wanted to set an example of the Christian values the school professes to follow, she said, “he’d be saying a lot more than he is.”
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