Big 12 demands Baylor come clean about sexual assault on campus
WACO, Texas -- On Wednesday, the Big 12 Conference -- one of the major conferences in college sports -- ordered an accounting of how Baylor University investigated sexual assault allegations at the school.
Last month, Ken Starr was forced to resign as president of Baylor after an investigation found administrators looked the other way in cases involving football players
At Baylor, the Baptist student code bans sex on campus, but many female students say what's tolerated is rape.
"I've experienced rape culture here on campus," a female Baylor student who says she was sexually assaulted told CBS News.
She is now part of a campus support group that counsels other victims. She said she knows about 20 women on campus who have been sexually assaulted.
Three unidentified female students sued Baylor this week, claiming they were raped, and the school did nothing. One suit called Baylor: "...a hunting ground for sexual predators."
That case involves an off-campus house, where a woman claims she was drugged and raped.
Lawyer Paula Elliott represents the woman.
"At one point the investigators sent her an email that said there were two other women that were sexually assaulted the same evening she was," she said.
Federal investigators are looking at 195 colleges and universities for improperly handing sex assaults on campus.
Brandon Vandenberg, a Vanderbilt football player, faces 15 years in prison for encouraging the gang-rape of his unconscious girlfriend. At Stanford, swimmer Brock Turner got six months for assaulting an unconscious woman.
At Baylor alone, at least eight football players have faced rape charges or accusations since 2009.
In a statement to CBS News, a university spokesman said: "We acknowledge our failures in the past...and our aim is to set the highest standards in this area."
Baylor's football team has been a winner. Even with all the assault charges, this week some powerful alumni were pushing to give the fired head coach his job back.
