Post by pavel on Apr 7, 2016 17:08:14 GMT -6
When confronted by one of his harshest critics, Baylor President Ken Starr — a man who admittedly struggles to fight his own temper — didn’t blow me off but rather gave me a hug.
He did not avoid the questions but instead encouraged more of them. The embattled president of the largest Baptist school in the world said on Thursday morning: “I am in favor of transparency. Stand up, take your medicine if you made a mistake.
“As [former New York Mayor] Fiorello LaGuardia once colorfully said, ‘When I make a mistake, it’s a beaut.’ So if we made mistakes, let’s live up to them, let’s own them and then correct the situation.”
These are Starr’s first public comments since the Baylor rape scandal broke in August.
This is all he had to do from the beginning and, while nothing can change the past, some public discourse would have created the perception of compassion rather than the appearance of a callous and unsympathetic administration. The latter is not a complete portrayal of the many people in charge at Baylor.
Read more here: www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article70552992.html
He did not avoid the questions but instead encouraged more of them. The embattled president of the largest Baptist school in the world said on Thursday morning: “I am in favor of transparency. Stand up, take your medicine if you made a mistake.
“As [former New York Mayor] Fiorello LaGuardia once colorfully said, ‘When I make a mistake, it’s a beaut.’ So if we made mistakes, let’s live up to them, let’s own them and then correct the situation.”
These are Starr’s first public comments since the Baylor rape scandal broke in August.
This is all he had to do from the beginning and, while nothing can change the past, some public discourse would have created the perception of compassion rather than the appearance of a callous and unsympathetic administration. The latter is not a complete portrayal of the many people in charge at Baylor.
Read more here: www.star-telegram.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/mac-engel/article70552992.html