导出博客文章A group of Baylor?alumni and major donors -- including Drayton McLane, for whom
the schools football stadium is named -- is scheduled to launch a nonprofit
organization that will demand an overhaul of the universitys board of regents as
well as full details of the schools sexual assault investigation.Bears for
Leadership Reform is going to be demanding transparency and accountability,
spokeswoman Julie Hillrichs said.They believe the only way we can do this is to
have true reform of the board. They want a seat at the table when the board
selects its next president, and then they want a best-in-class Title IX program
on that campus, she said, referring to the federal gender-equity law that
requires schools investigate reports of sexual violence.The group formed in part
because of recent public comments made by select members of the universitys
board of regents, who were reported to have said, among other things, that
former football coach Art Briles did not properly report an alleged gang rape
and that 17 women have reported sexual or physical assaults involving 19
players, including four gang rapes, since 2011.Although several of the
organizers, including McLane, a billionaire businessman and former owner of the
Houston Astros, have been among the most vocal critics of Briles firing,
Hillrichs said this group is not advocating bringing him back.I cannot stress
enough its not about football, and were not even going to talk about Art Briles,
Hillrichs said. This is about women who have been sexually assaulted on this
campus. We need to have total accountability and transparency.She said the group
will use its funds to build a broad coalition of students, faculty, domestic
violence organizations and community leaders to put an enormous amount of
pressure on that university to be transparent and accountable. As of Monday
morning, almost 2,000 people had liked the organizations Facebook page.Last
week, Baylor launched a new website designed to provide more information about
how the university has addressed sexual assaults. It included a message from
Interim President David Garland that read, in part: I have directed the
university to be more transparent wherever possible about the sexual assault
crisis that has severely impacted our campus, our alumni and the entire Baylor
family.Members of the board of regents and administrators have declined multiple
interview requests from ESPN over the past several weeks, and have referred
questions to their public relations firm.A spokesman for Baylor issued this
response to the Bears for Leadership Reform demands on Sunday:In their October
meeting the Baylor Board of Regents committed to pursuing a policy of
transparency and openness to provide the entire Baylor family with the
information they need to heal and move forward. The facts released over the past
two weeks have been evidence of that commitment. This policy will continue and
additional information will be placed on the website
www.baylor.edu/thefacts.He
also wrote that the presidential search committee is made up of faculty, staff,
students, alumni and parents, and that an online form is available for anyone
who wants to provide input and propose potential candidates.McLane is listed as
one of the members of the search committee.Hillrichs said Bears for Leadership
Reform is demanding the release of documentation related to the findings by the
law firm Pepper Hamilton, which in a summary released in May stated that the
school was in violation of Title IX and the football program had no culture of
accountability for misconduct.The new group also wants to see the board be more
open about its meeting agendas and meeting minutes, Hillrichs said. She said
Bears for Leadership Reform has about 20 directors and at least 100 other
advisers; about $350,000 has already been donated.One of the founders, Gale
Galloway, made a public offer last month of $10,000 to anyone who could find the
true reason for the firings of Briles and two other athletic department
employees.Galloway -- a former Bears football player, former chairman of the
board of regents, retired CEO of several companies, and a large donor to the
university -- said the regents made Briles the poster child for the schools much
larger sexual assault scandal in order to protect the regents own self
interests.In an interview with Outside the Lines last week, former Title IX
Director Patty Crawford said that she was aware of about 400 cases of sexual
violence during her two years on campus, although regents have said in other
media interviews the number is closer to 125 incidents from 2011 to 2015. Both
the regents and Crawford have said that about 10 percent of those involved
athletes; athletes make up 4 percent of the male population at Baylor.The total,
in terms of athletes, they were all found responsible. I think every athlete was
found responsible, Crawford said. And even though the numbers were small in
comparison, she said the culture of gang rape among the athletes stood out and
was worth examining further.But she said she also saw cultural issues that led
to sexual assaults among members of fraternities and sororities, other student
clubs, and even among faculty sexually harassing students and female
co-workers.Its important to show that there is more complexity to this, and I
didnt want the university making it this depiction of everything is perfect
except for these three people, she said, noting the removal of Briles, former
President Kenneth Starr and athletic director Ian McCaw.Crawford, who was named
the schools first full-time Title IX coordinator in 2014, said she was not
allowed to sit in on the presentation that the Pepper Hamilton law firm gave the
board of regents outlining the results of its investigation into the schools
Title IX compliance.A Baylor spokesman wrote in an email Sunday that, the Board
of Regents found failures across the University as reflected in both the
Findings of Facts and the Pepper Hamilton recommendations, which were released
in May. No Regent or administrator has ever suggested that this was solely a
football problem -- and the Universitys response has been much broader than a
narrow targeting of football and athletics.Galloway, and others involved in the
newly formed nonprofit, have said the failures belong squarely with the board of
regents, saying it was their responsibly to make sure the school was in
compliance with Title IX and to give Starr -- whom the regents removed as
president and who later resigned from Baylor altogether -- the administrative
support he needed to implement required policies.A Baylor spokesman wrote that
the board does not oversee day-to-day operations, and that it exists instead to
determine whether the university has the right resources to accomplish its goals
and mission.Sources have told Outside the Lines that some regents are not in
favor of the message that the board chairman and others have been sharing
publicly, but a confidentiality agreement -- and fear of being found personally
liable in connection with any of the four pending Title IX lawsuits -- prevents
them from speaking out.It is vital to remember that the Board was -- and is --
overwhelmingly supportive of the decisions taken in May, the implementation of
the Pepper Hamilton recommendations and the need for openness and transparency
going forward, the Baylor spokesman wrote, noting that Ron Murff, as chairman,
is the official spokesman and that other regents may participate in interviews
at his discretion.
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1993 filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming the team hid and even lied about the risks
of head injuries during that time period when there was no collective bargaining
agreement in place in the NFL. Jockey Jose Ortiz put a bow on a spectacular
Belmont Park spring/summer meeting, winning four races on Sundays closing-day
card, including the $125,000 Lynbrook Stakes on the first-time starter Miss
Freeze.Ortiz, 22, finished the 54-day meet as the leading rider with 78 winners,
21 more than his brother Irad Ortiz Jr., who did win the meets signature event,
the Belmont Stakes. Irad Ortiz won the last race on Sundays card to leapfrog
Manny Franco and finish as the second-leading rider with 57 wins.Jose Ortiz, who
also won the Aqueduct winter and spring meet titles, won two of the first three
races of the Belmont meet and never looked back. He had three four-win days and
one five-win day.Its great, the best riders are here I think, said Ortiz, who
also won two stakes at Delaware Park on Saturday. Im really happy. Today, I was
on 10 mounts -- actually nine after his mount in the last was a late scratch --
my agent [Jimmy Riccio Jr.] did a great job. I was on the right horses.Though
Miss Freeze had never run before, she certainly proved to be the right horse in
the Lynbrook. After getting bumped at the start, Miss Freeze rated in fourth
position. Around the turn, she dropped back to last as Ortiz said she was
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8 maiden race to run in the Lynbrook. He and owners Michael Imperio, Joe Bulger
and DJC Racing decided to go in a race with a shorter field.This was always an
idea, Cannizzo said. Shes a very special filly. The maiden had [10] horses and
we thought the stake would have six or seven. Id rather go in a smaller
field.Cannizzo said that Miss Freeze would likely be pointed to the Saratoga
Special on Aug. 13, or the $200,000 Seeking the Ante Stakes at Saratoga on Aug.
26.Ortiz was not the only rider to win four races on Sundays closing day card.
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Brown won his first Belmont spring/summer title with 38 wins, 13 more than Todd
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finished as the leading owner with 12 wins, one more than Chester and Mary
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