Baylor University continues to make headlines for all the wrong reasons. And the storyline likely won't shift until regents drop their stubborn resistance to releasing a written report about the school's handling of sexual assault cases.

Until the board budges, the demands for information will only grow louder and the many fragmented offshoots of the scandal will only lead to more questions.

Bears for Leadership Reform, made up of powerful alums and donors, challenged regents Monday to agree to conduct yet another investigation and release a tally of university costs related to Title IX deficiencies. For our money, we'd like to start by seeing the already completed Pepper Hamilton report.

The leadership reform group's scathing barrage of criticism toward the board of trustees is just one of several recent Baylor-related developments that raise more questions than answers.

ESPN reported late last month that two women who reported being gang-raped by multiple football players in 2012 reached a financial settlement with Baylor. These are among the four gang-rape reports that the school previously said involved football players.

The ink was hardly dry on those documents when Liberty University, the world's largest Christian college, announced its new athletic director is none other than the man who resigned in disgrace from the same job at Baylor. Liberty President Jerry Falwell Jr. said Ian McCaw received the seal of approval from several Baylor regents.

Not surprisingly, outrage ensued both inside and outside the Lynchburg, Va., campus.

Flirting with a similarly disastrous hire, University of Houston regents chair Tilman Fertitta initially had nothing but good things to say about fired Baylor football coach Art Briles as his school looks to fill its own head coaching job.

After a deafening day of "what are you thinking?" Fertitta backtracked, but not before saying, "There's a lot of administrator and ex-administrators and board of regents from Baylor that say that Art Briles was a scapegoat at Baylor."

How do folks such as Fertitta and Falwell make straight-faced arguments that McCaw and Briles simply got a bad rap from their previous employer? Because in the absence of a detailed written report, everyone with a motive can write their own narrative.

We're warily encouraged that a few Baylor regents have recently indicated that the board is looking at releasing more information from the report. Perhaps that will include answering the two questions that we posed to them Nov. 10. (See accompanying box for more detail.)

But the real solution is to release the full report. It's what this newspaper has sought for months, as has the Baylor Line Foundation, The Baptist Standard and many others.

Only then will justice begin to be served for survivors of sexual assault at Baylor. And will parents be able to have confidence that their children are safe on the Waco campus.

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Waiting for answers

Baylor board of regents chair Ron Murff and colleagues James Gray, David Harper and Dennis Wiles met with us Nov. 3 and vowed to continue answering our questions. We have not yet received a response to these Nov. 10 queries:

1. Baylor released a detailed timeline regarding one football-related gang rape report. Please provide details of the other incidents referenced by regents, which they said involved 17 women and 19 football players, including four gang rapes.

2. What is the status of our Nov. 3 request to you for the release of all communication between senior vice president and chief operating officer Reagan Ramsower and former Title IX coordinator Patty Crawford?