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STAY CONNECTED >> Dia in Pictures : Be sure to check out our slideshow of Diadeloso online. Baylor MAN OF LA MANCHA pg. 5 LariatWE’RE THERE WHEN YOU CAN’T BE APRIL 14, 2016 THURSDAY BAYLORLARIAT.COM Sexual assault claims resurface Oakman jailed on charge of sexual assault LIESJE POWERS her clothing and forcing Sta Writer her onto the bed before sexually assaulting her at his Police arrested former apartment. Baylor football player e woman le a er Shawn Oakman Wednesday the assault, but le behind a ernoon on charges of underwear and an earring, sexual assault. according to the report. She Oakman, 24, met with then went to the hospital, detectives at the Waco Police received treatment for Department and was served injuries and was given a Tribune News Service with two search warrants sexual assault examination. FACING SCRUTINY ESPN’s “Outside the Line” reports that Baylor University is being accused of mishandling for his cellphone and DNA Waco police searched his sexual assault claims after a student reported being sexually assaulted in 2013 by former tight end Tre’Von samples. He was duplex the same Armstead and former practice squad player Myke Chatman. then arrested day for evidence and taken to of the woman’s the McLennan belongings that ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ reports Baylor County Jail, may have been according to le behind. mishandling of 2013 sexual assault case a Waco Police e police Department were looking press release. for clothing, Information JESSICA HUBBLE Tonya Lewis, assistant director of He stated he could hear oorboards earrings, blood, regarding his Sta Writer media communications at Baylor. squeaking upstairs, the report said. semen, bodily bail has not been “ is safeguard also helps assure According to the police report, Oakman uids, hair, skin released. Baylor University is accused of other students that their right to he walked through the house cells, DNA, bed Tonya Lewis, assistant mishandling sexual assault claims con dentiality will be protected. and checked the bedrooms, and sheets and other items, director of media against two football players from e decision to report to the received a response from a male according to the police communications, issued two years ago in ESPN’s second university or other authorities is saying, “We all right.” When the a davit for the search a statement on behalf of “Outside the Lines” report, which a brave and personal choice and woman came downstairs, her shirt warrant. Two comforters, Baylor. was published Wednesday. occurs on the student’s timetable. was inside out and she was out of a tted sheet and at sheet “We are aware of the Former tight end Tre’Von Once a complaint is led, the Title breath, teary eyed and said the were seized from the arrest of Shawn Oakman, a Armstead and former practice IX process conducts a prompt males were leaving. property. graduate of Baylor University squad player Myke Chatman were and equitable e police report said According to the a davit, and a former member of accused of sexually assaulting investigation that the woman went back Oakman admitted to having the football team. We will a Baylor student a er a police and resolves the upstairs and the roommate consensual sex with the continue to cooperate with report was led in 2013 by the complaint fairly.” followed her and saw a “tall woman. the Waco Police Department woman. Universities are required According to black male.” e male went Oakman is an NFL to provide any information by Title IX to address allegations the Waco police back into a room and shut dra prospect and was one that could be helpful to of sexual violence involving report on April 18, the door behind him. of Baylor’s top defensive the ongoing investigation,” students immediately. According 2013, the woman According to the police players. He was suspended Lewis wrote. to “Outside the Lines,” Baylor did was adamant report, another roommate for the Southern Methodist e investigation, led by not investigate the allegations until that nothing had of the woman walked in University game last season Waco Police Detective Sam Sept. 11, 2015. happened and that and heard “a large bang” for rule violations. During Key, began last week when In January, Baylor was accused she had not been and “ sts hitting noises.” this time Oakman had a Baylor student reported of mishandling several sexual sexually harassed. ey also heard the woman two warrants issued for that she had been assaulted assault cases in a separate “Outside e o cer on the Armstead saying, “No, no please stop.” running a stop sign and by Oakman a er leaving the Lines” report and in March the scene was advised e roommates then went failing to appear in court. Scru y Murphy’s on Speight university had a Title IX lawsuit to make call notes and inform into the garage to hide and called He graduated from the Avenue in the early morning led against them. Baylor University of the situation. 911. e woman came downstairs university in December. of April 3. “Due to the deeply personal According to the Waco Police and collapsed, saying, “I told them He previously played for He asked her to walk and sensitive nature of individual report, a roommate of the woman to leave but they wouldn’t.” One Penn State University, where home with him a er meeting cases and federal law, we do not came home and said he heard roommate then picked her up and he was dismissed for trying at the bar, according to publicly address speci c cases, the woman scream his name “as carried her to the garage. to steal food from a campus the a davit. Oakman is even when a student shares if something were wrong.” e According to “Outside the store. accused of forcibly removing publicly details or reports of his roommate began calling for the or her own experience,” said woman and received no response. ESPN >> Page 4 >>WHAT’S INSIDE opinion Starr, panel discuss Scalia replacement ERIC VINING e panel, hosted by the Reporter American Constitution Society Editorial: The pay gap and consisting of Starr and Baylor between the U.S. soccer law professors Rory Ryan, Brian Since the passing of Supreme teams is unacceptable. pg. 2 Serr and David Guinn, took time Court Justice Antonin Scalia on to address both Scalia himself and Feb. 13, politicians and the media the vacancy’s implications on the alike have speculated on how the court. sports U.S. should respond to his sudden Starr, a former judge on the U.S. and untimely passing. Court of Appeals for the District Tyler Stayer: How the club Baylor President and Charlene Lee | Photo Editor of Columbia and U.S. Solicitor tennis player suddenly fi nds Chancellor Ken Starr and faculty General under President George himself on the varsity team. JUDGE REPLACEMENT Baylor law students gather on members of the Baylor Law School Wednesday to hear panel members discuss the recent Supreme H.W. Bush, was a close friend of pg. 6 aimed to answer this question for Court vacancy. Baylor University President and Chancellor Ken undergraduate and law students Starr, professor of law Biran Serr, professor of local government Wednesday a ernoon during a and constitutional law David Guinn and professor of law Rory Ryan SCALIA >> Page 4 four-member panel session. were on the panel. Vol.116 No. 96 © 2016 Baylor University Thursday, April 14, 2016 2 The Baylor Lariat opinionbaylorlariat.com GOT SOMETHING TO SAY? We want to hear it. Send us your thoughts: [email protected] EDITORIAL US women’s soccer unjustly underpaid e gender pay gap: a phenomenon some $72,000 a year to play a minimum of 20 games, say doesn’t exist. However, the recent lawsuit and can receive a bonus of only $1,350 for each led by the US women’s national soccer team is one they win. Unlike the men, they only receive shedding new light on an old controversy. the bonus if they win the game and they get On March 29, ve women from the national nothing if they tie. team– Carli Lloyd, Alex Morgan, Megan If the women happen to win all their Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo games, the most a player would make from the – led a wage-discrimination action against federation would be $99,000 for that year, while the U.S. Soccer Federation for being paid the men’s team can lose all their games for that substantially less than the comparable U.S. season and players would still earn $100,000. men’s national soccer team. Men who win all their games can earn as much Members of the women’s team earned about as $260,000 in a season. one-fourth of what male soccer players earned Furthermore, a er playing 20 games, a in 2015, despite winning their World Cup and female player will not earn any additional bringing in $20 million more in revenue than compensation while a man could earn bonuses the men’s team did. e women who led anywhere from $5,000 to $17,625 for additional this lawsuit are seeking equality and to make games played. progress toward closing the pay gap. And these numbers represent just Even though the U.S. Soccer Federation discrepancies in the earnings from the U.S. only pays men if they are called to the national Soccer Federation and doesn’t include bonuses team while women are salaried employees, the from the World Cups. discrepancies in bonuses received by the two e only time the men and women are paid teams should not di er to the degree they do.