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Baylor demotes Starr, fires coach amid scandal
cases, but two football
players have been
convicted of sexual as-
sault since 2014. In
the past year, there
have been multiple re-
ports of other alleged
assaults and women
who said the school
but his demotion at participating in student conduct re-
the school in Waco is a views of sexual assault complaints and
stunning fall for the even contributed to or accommodated a
whose “hostile” environment against the al-
dogged investigation leged victims.
« of President Bill Clin-
By Jim Vertuno
Associated Press
AUSTIN — Ken Starr, who zealous-
ly pursued charges against a sitting U.S.
president in a White House sex scandal,
was stripped of his job as president of
Baylor University on Thursday after a
scathing review found that under his
leadership, the school did little to re-
spond to accusations of sexual assault
involving members of its vaunted foot-
ball program.
The Board of Regents at the nation’s
largest Baptist university said Starr will
vacate the presidency on May 31 and
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stay on as chancellor and law school
professor, jobs that will not include any
“operational” duties for the school.
Baylor also fired football coach Art
Briles and placed athletic director Ian
McCaw on probation after an external
investigation found the actions of foot-
ball staff and athletics leadership “in
some instances, posed a risk to campus
safety and the integrity of the universi-
prosecutor
In one case, the actions of adminis-
ton’s relationship with trators “constituted retaliation against a
White House intern complainant for reporting sexual as-
Monica
Starr
Briles
Lewinsky sault,” the report said.
University leadership was also slow
to enact federally required student con-
The review by Philadelphia-based duct processes, and administrators
law firm Pepper Hamilton found that failed to identify and eliminate the
under Starr, school administrators dis- -
couraged students from reporting or See BAYLOR on 15A
did nothing to help.
‘We’re deeply sorrowful [for] these
events,” Baylor regents chairman Rich-
ard Willis said. We’re honestly just hor-
rified.”
eventually led to Clinton’s 1998 im-
peachment.
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The report didn’t identify specific
Starr gets to keep a title and a job,
Formal
complaints
continue
vs. Frontier
TODAY
IN DENTON
A grand old flag
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of thunderstorms
High: 84
Low: 69
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By Jenna Duncan
Staff Writer
jduncan@dentonrc.com
It’s been less than two months since
Frontier Communications took over
FiOs Internet, phone and television ser-
vices from Verizon, and users are still re-
porting problems.
Since April \ there have been 619
consumer complaints made to the Pub-
lic Utilities Commission in the state, and
more than 400 have been filed since
April 28, said Terry Hadley, director of
communication for PUC.
The commission regulates utilities
statewide, but only has authority over
the phone service that Frontier now pro-
vides, not Internet. PUC staff are now re-
viewing all of the complaints to deter-
mine what jurisdiction the body might
have, and which have to be reported to
the Federal Communications Commis-
sion.
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STATE
Robert Gates became
the Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica’s president facing
deep divisions within the
organization’s member-
ship over whether to let
gays serve openly in its
ranks. On Thursday,
Gates finished his two-
year term by arguing the
Boy Scouts had over-
come that challenge and
were ready to reverse
years of membership
declines.
Denton Rota-
ry Club mem-
bers, Randy
Robinson,
left, and Jim
Engelbrecht
find space to
set up a flag
near the Den-
ton County
Courthouse
on the Square
on Thursday.
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“We set up a project to review the
complaints and put any informational
filings with it, so we’ll be working on
that,” Hadley said. “[The complaints]
seem to have tapered off in the past
week, after they’ve been steady for about
two months now.”
Through a public relations profes-
sional, Rachel McGallian, vice president
for marketing in the southern region at
Frontier, said most complaints came
from service issues that weren’t part of
the switch.
“Frontier Communication’s first pri-
ority continues to be our customers.
While the PUC has received service
complaints, many are unrelated to the
conversion and a result of service disrup-
tions caused by either weather related
events or issues that arise while operat-
ing a complex network,” McGallian’s
emailed statement said. “At this time, all
service issues related to the conversion
have been substantially resolved and the
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Officials discuss DISD updates, safety
Republican Donald
Trump shrugged off
signs of discord within
his own campaign hours
after sewing up the
number of delegates
needed to clinch the
GOP nomination.
Deputy Superintendent Richard Valenta
introduced new faces.
Happy Carrico will be the principal at
Bell Elementary School when it opens in
the fall. She said she was returning to her
roots in the 380 Corridor, where her great-
grandparents operated a farm nearby.
“If we sell the farm for $ 5 million, I’ll be
the best volunteer ever,” she joked.
Beth Kelley will take over for Navo
Middle School Principal Mario Layne,
and Renee Koontz will become principal
of the district’s yet-to-be-named eighth
middle school, slated to open for the 2017-
2018 school year.
Braswell High School Principal Leslie
Guajardo said she has a few more teachers
and coaches to hire before the school’s offi-
cial opening in August.
‘We’re a handful of people away from
being fully staffed,” she said.
Carrico also has some more staffing to
do. In fact, she left the meeting early to
conduct interviews.
During the construction update, Bal-
four Beatty senior project manager Garry
Ryan said Bell Elementary is basically fin-
ished. All that’s left, he said, is to finish
landscaping and add some shelving.
Braswell will take a little longer. Ryan
said the major rain event last May put con-
struction behind schedule.
When students come for the first day of
school, the building will be partially
By Caitlyn Jones
Staff Writer
cjones @ dentonrc.com
City officials, school representatives
and community members came together
over breakfast tacos to hear about the
progress of Denton ISD schools along the
U.S. Highway 380 Corridor.
The group, collectively dubbed the 380
Task Force, is comprised of business own-
ers, parent volunteers and managers of
cities from Oak Point, Little Elm and Au-
brey. Thursday’s meeting was the first op-
portunity for the task force to meet some
of the district’s new principals and get a
final update on school construction.
To kick off the meeting at Raphael’s
Restaurant near Aubrey, Denton ISD
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More than 4,000 would-
be refugees were rescued at
sea Thursday in one of the
busiest days of the Medi-
terranean migrant crisis.
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Richmond named dean
of UNT College of Music
Making melodies
there are three very
large, very conspicuous
and very distinguished
music programs,” Rich-
mond said from his of-
fice in Lincoln. “One of
them is Indiana Univer-
sity, another is the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati and
one of them is in Denton at the University
of North Texas. These programs are
known for size, depth, breadth and their
excellence.”
Richmond took the reins of the Korff
School in 2003. He was an ambitious
dean, developing a strategic plan and
earning re-accreditation from the Nation-
al Association of Schools of Music and the
By Lucinda Breeding
Staff Writer
cbreeding@ dentonrc.com
The University of North Texas College
of Music has hired a new dean.
Dr. John Richmond, the director of the
Glenn Korff School of Music at the Uni-
versity of Nebraska-Iincoln, will begin his
tenure as the UNT music school dean on
Aug. 1. His UNT predecessor, James C.
Scott, stepped down from his post at the
end of 2015 to return to full-time teaching.
Professor Warren Henry has served as
the interim dean during the university’s
search.
Richmond said he and his wife, Jill, are
“thrilled” to be heading for Denton, and a
new job leading one of the top college mu-
sic programs in the country.
“In American public higher education,
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Strickland Middle School music teacher Justin Bell, right, helps one of
his students tune his saxophone during a recording session Thursday
at Panhandle Recording Studios in Denton. The school’s jazz band was
recording an album that will eventually be put on sale. This is the sec-
ond year the band has recorded an album.
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