Baylor to address sexual assaults with Big 12

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DALLAS — Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said Baylor officials are scheduled to meet with the league’s board of directors Tuesday to present their plans to address the sexual assault scandal that rocked the university this summer.

Bowlsby, speaking Monday at the opening of Big 12 media days, said Baylor officials have declined to release the full Pepper Hamilton report to the conference. He said Big 12 officials have had access to only a summary of the report and “findings of fact” that Baylor officials released to media and the public in late May.

“Our board has asked for a full accounting from Baylor University relative to the sexual assaults and their university’s response to that situation,” Bowlsby said. “I think it’s fair to say that they’re deeply concerned about the associational elements of this. … From a purely athletic standpoint, we also have to be satisfied that there haven’t been Big 12 rules broken and there haven’t been NCAA rules violated. That is the essence of our process, and it’s very early in the process right now.”

On June 22, the Big 12 issued a public statement demanding specifics of Baylor’s sexual assault investigations, including the full Pepper Hamilton report, and made a point of noting that this was the second time the conference had to ask. The first request was a letter to then-president Kenneth Starr on May 24, two days before the university publicly released the law firm’s report summary and announced the fates of Starr, athletic director Ian McCaw and football coach Art Briles.

This time, Baylor responded. There was an in-person meeting June 23 between Bowlsby and Baylor officials, including interim president David Garland and board of regents chairman Ronald Murff. They gave …

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