Baylor rape scandal involves recruiting hostess program. These things still exist?
The latest lawsuit against Baylor University alleging rampant rape committed by football players with impunity has again cast attention on college hostess clubs, groups of women often selected for appearance and personality to greet prized high school football recruits when they visit campus.
More than a decade after the NCAA changed its rules to discourage the once-common groups, now viewed on many campuses as archaic, they continue to feature prominently in sexual-assault and recruiting scandals in college sports. In the lawsuit filed Friday against Baylor, in which plaintiff Elizabeth Doe claims she was gang-raped by two football players in April 2013, Doe says she joined the football hostess program Baylor Bruins when she arrived at the Baptist universitys Waco, Tex., campus in the fall of 2012.
Doe joined the Bruins, formerly known as the Baylor Belles, hoping to make friends, the complaint stated, because she couldnt afford the cost of joining a traditional sorority on campus.
Baylor athletics administrators publicly abided by NCAA rules and guidelines that strictly limit contact between athletes and hosts, according to the lawsuit. But when recruits visited, the complaint stated, the Bruins were unofficially
expected to make sure the recruits have a good time.
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