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For gay Baylor University student, graduation day comes with a price WACO (AP) — A Baylor University student who organized an off-campus gay rights rally graduated Saturday, but he says he doubts he would have received his diploma if he had not admitted violating the Baptist school's conduct code. Darrin Adams, 22, found out last month that Baylor was charging him with misconduct for organizing the March rally in downtown Waco. A letter from an administrator said the event was "part of an advocacy group that promotes understandings of sexuality that are contrary" to biblical teachings, Baptist beliefs and Baylor's...

Baylor faculty members split over Sloan no-confidence vote WACO (AP) — As embattled Baylor University President Robert Sloan prepared to welcome incoming freshmen to the world's largest Baptist university on Thursday, dueling groups of professors clashed over a faculty leader's call for a no-confidence vote on Sloan. Even before basketball player Patrick Dennehy's slaying put the Central Texas university under an intense spotlight, Sloan had clashed with many faculty members over a reform plan that the official alumni magazine characterized as a "struggle for the heart and soul of Baylor." In the wake of Dennehy's death, revelations of major NCAA...