As a Baylor University regent, prominent Texas lobbyist Neal “Buddy” Jones described female students whom he suspected of drinking alcohol at parties as “perverted little tarts,” the “vilest and most despicable girls” and a “group of very bad apples,” according to emails he sent in 2009.
The emails, first reported by the Waco Tribune-Herald, were attached to a filing in one of several ongoing Title IX lawsuits against the private Baptist university.
“It is insidious and inbred,” Jones wrote of the students’ behavior, according to emails sent to a faculty adviser.
Jones, who spent a decade as a Baylor regent, including two years as board chairman, suggested to the Baylor administrator that one of the women be expelled.