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Says here that the president of a religion-based university has been fired as part of an ongoing scandal. A scandal centering on whether reports of sexual assaults involving students were properly handled by the school's administration.

But, no, it's not anything to do with Brigham Young University.

[— BYU students who reported sex assaults say they faced presumption of guilt — Erin Alberty | The Salt Lake Tribune]

It's much more ironic than that.

— Baylor not commenting on reports of President Kenneth Starr's firing — Cindy Boren | The Washington Post

"Baylor declined to respond to reports Tuesday that President and Chancellor Kenneth Starr, best known for his investigation of the Clinton administration, has been fired by the Board of Regents in the wake of a sexual assault scandal involving the school and its football team.

"The possible dismissal was first reported by Chip Brown of Scout's HornsDigest.com and later by Geoff Ketchum of Orangebloods.com and KCEN's Nikki Laurenzo. ...

" ... On Starr's watch, the school is accused of failing to respond to rapes or sexual assaults reported by at least six women students from 2009-2016. Although the problem of sexual assault at the university goes beyond the football team, at least eight former Baylor football players have been accused of violence against women over the last eight years and Coach Art Briles and Athletic Director Ian McCaw have received increasing criticism. The regents, according to Brown, believe Starr bears more responsibility in the matter than Briles. ..."

The great irony, obviously, is that, if this is what happened, Starr is being fired for not properly investigating a sex scandal when, all those years ago, investigating a sex scandal was all he seemed to be interested in.

Maybe because Bill Clinton never played football.

Maybe it has something to do with this, from a story that only broke earlier today:

— Kenneth Starr, Who Tried to Bury Bill Clinton, Now Only Praises Him — The New York Times

"An unlikely voice recently bemoaned the decline of civility in presidential politics, warned that 'deep anger' was fueling an 'almost radical populism' and sang the praises of former President Bill Clinton — particularly his 'redemptive' years of philanthropic work since leaving the White House.

"The voice was that of Kenneth W. Starr, the former Whitewater independent counsel, whose Javert-like pursuit of Mr. Clinton in the 1990s helped bring a new intensity to partisan warfare and led to the impeachment of a president for only the second time in the nation's history. ...

" ... For some time, Mr. Starr, a Christian who is now [?] the president and chancellor of Baylor University, a private Baptist school in Waco, Tex., has sought to put his years as a political combatant behind him. After the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, some of his associates expressed regret that so much of the Clinton administration's efforts had been spent fighting those battles rather than addressing the growing threat posed by Osama bin Laden. And in 2010, Mr. Starr told Fox News that he regretted that his investigation of Mr. Clinton had taken so long and that it 'brought great pain to a lot of people.'..."

Of course, the allegations at Baylor involve rape. The case Starr looked into involved a totally consensual, if utterly tacky, relationship between Clinton and a former White House intern. An intern who would have been able to walk away in utter anonymity, rather than living the rest of her life as a punch line in an off-color joke, if it hadn't been for Starr's prosecutorial zeal.

Ironic, perhaps. But not as discordant as it might appear. It seems that in one case Starr was attacking the man involved and in the other case he was, allegedly, defending the men involved. In neither case did he care, apparently, about the women involved.

Related:

— Tell the Tribune: Have you experienced a sexual assault while attending a Utah college? — The Salt Lake Tribune |Utah Public Radio

— Trump's flip-flop on whether the Bill Clinton sex scandals are important — Glenn Kessler | The Washington Post

— Sexual assault isn't just a college problem — it's a problem for all young women — Libby Nelson | Vox

" ... The statistic on the prevalence of college sexual assault cited by the White House and activists, that 1 in 5 women will be sexually assaulted by graduation, is flawed. It's based on a 2007 survey of just two campuses whose author argues it shouldn't be generalized to the broader population.

"Still, it could be generally accurate. ..."