Starr won’t be Baylor chancellor, will teach

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Kenneth Starr is resigning as chancellor at Baylor in the wake of a huge shakeup at the university, but he will continue to teach in the law school, the former school president told ESPN’s Joe Schad on Wednesday.

Starr said in an interview with Outside the Lines that he was resigning effective immediately “as a matter of conscience.”

After independent review of Baylor’s response to sexual assault allegations, many of them against athletes, Starr had been removed as school president last week, but he was being transitioned into a full-time chancellor role and was allowed to continue to teach at the law school. His duties as chancellor were to include external fundraising and religious liberty; he was to have no operational duties at the university.

On Wednesday, Starr called for transparency at Baylor. He said that “as each day goes by that need becomes more and more pressing.”

“We need to put this horrible experience behind us,” Starr said. “We need to be honest.”

Starr added that he “didn’t know what was happening” regarding allegations of …

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