Baylor’s ex-president, now law professor; Ken Starr, effectively allowed a rape culture to operate under his watch, and now he’s trying to explain it.
It sounds about as ridiculous as you’d expect:
A couple key points from this interview:
When KWTX anchor Julie Hays asks Starr directly about the email in question, he immediately becomes visibly uncomfortable and gives a very vague answer, stating he “honestly may have seen it”.
What kind of answer is that? Honestly may have? This is a clear attempt to dodge the question, out of legal concern or pure guilt. Whatever the case, Starr can’t expect people to believe an email in his inbox, with a subject line reading “I WAS RAPED AT BAYLOR” could possibly go unnoticed…can he?
Another huge issue is the mid-interview coaching Starr gets from Marrie Spaeth, seemingly his advisor(1:34 mark). Why would the University’s President (at the time), need to be coached to lie?, which is exactly what this was. The fact Spaeth literally forces the interviewer to re-ask the question so her coached answer can be on Starr’s record is just as weird.
This whole situation is a huge black-eye on Baylor University, as well as the practices at many colleges throughout this country. Students were placed in harm’s way, and left with no recourse after being violated; multiple times.
Ken Starr was made aware SOMETHING was terribly wrong, long before the world was let in on Baylor’s terrible rape culture. Nothing, at least of any significance, was done. That alone places him at fault, and as more comes out; things are looking worse and worse for him.
Starr shouldn’t be speaking representing Baylor, which he is, as long as he’s employed there. While he’s so busy demanding ‘transparency’ of his administrators throughout this investigation, he should try showing some himself.
