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Wow. An internal investigation, led by the campus sports rep. Expect great things!

You have to do the hard work of getting inside the culture of schools like Baylor and Louisville (the University of Louisville, a reliable scummy-sports-source on this blog, just recruited a guy — “domestic violence charge involving a gun” — even Texas Christian found too scary).

But it is hard work. Take Baylor. The larger culture of its hometown, Waco, heartland of homicidal Harley honeys, birthplace of branded breastaurant-bred Boss-Hoss boys, is mainly about open carry. That’s the burning social justice issue that fires up so many Baylor/Wacoites — now more than ever:

The day after a deadly confrontation between rival biker gangs in Waco, top Texas lawmakers defended a proposal to loosen the state’s handgun laws [to allow open carry].

What plenty of people in Waco and at Baylor seem to be, uh, shooting for is a campus/town where hotly recruited rapists and criminal biker gangs are placed in an open carry setting…

UD understands that this picture seems unfair to these Texans, whose self-image involves prayer for themselves and for the souls of recruited rapists who shall be redeemed in cleansing local waters. Same as these football programs. And so many others. It’s all about winning football games and redeeming souls.

So you’ve got Baylor’s famous president, Ken Starr, overseeing an internal investigation of his school’s rape-positive policies, and he’s already at a disadvantage, since his experience lies in investigating consensual sex (or, as a commenter at the Chronicle of Higher Education poetically puts it, “President Starr, you went after Bill Clinton for much less. What are you going to do about this ugly mess?”). And you’ve got all the hump-lovin’ folk of this great land, who understand the crucial synergy between sexual and on-field violence, as dramatized so succinctly here.

In this film’s most poignant moment, a father pleads: “Just give it to me straight Doc. Will my boy ever rape again?”

As long as schools like Baylor and Louisville exist, we can answer that question with a resounding Yes.

Margaret Soltan, August 23, 2015 8:17AM
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8 Responses to “Wow. An internal investigation, led by the campus sports rep. Expect great things!”

  1. theprofessor Says:

    Hmm. There were 6 murders in Waco (population 130,000) and 211 in Baltimore (population 622,000) in 2014. The residence of the Light-Bringer himself, Washington DC (population 659,000), saw 105 murders. The murder rate in Maryland in 2013 (latest year available) was 6.3/100,000; Texas was 4.3/100,000.

  2. dark of the stars Says:

    “criminal baker gangs”! Awesome. I wish I were a cartoonist.

  3. Margaret Soltan Says:

    dark: whoops. thanks. corrected. but i can’t get the image of criminal baker gangs out of my mind… i’ll do a google image search.

  4. Margaret Soltan Says:

    not much, but it’s a start:

    http://www.mrcarnivalfancydress.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/5/image/1200×1200/d807f66ee23ea51d66b303d8c08f9658/9/6/96738.jpg

  5. Margaret Soltan Says:

    Biker + Chef but – Criminal.

    http://cater.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/A.Snow-BIKER-CHEF-feastivities.jpg

  6. charlie Says:

    Have heard of those criminal baker gangs. If the brass knuckles don’t get yass, the creme brulees will…

  7. Pete Says:

    Typos deserve correction. Gross misrepresentation of the “larger culture” of a place, not so much.

  8. Margaret Soltan Says:

    I’m sure I’d be more nuanced about local conditions if I were a professional sports journalist.

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