Baylor regents received a “comprehensive briefing” from Pepper Hamilton at their quarterly meeting earlier this month. It is unclear whether the law firm is still working on its report for Baylor.

Harris, who started the petition, said it is unfair to criticize Starr while the public doesn’t know what Pepper Hamilton has found.

‘More answers’

“What the Baylor community has clearly shown is that we want more answers,” Harris said. “Everybody’s upset and everybody wants the same thing. We want our community and our campus to be safe. But why pin all that on President Starr, who has clearly done everything he can so far to make our campus safe?”

Mundhenk, however, said Baylor needs “large, sweeping changes, and Starr getting fired is just the beginning of that.”

But Harris said he thinks Baylor needs Starr now, more than ever, to lead the university.