Baylor University President Ken Starr voiced strong opposition Thursday to a regional National Labor Relations Board ruling that scholarship football players at Northwestern University are technically school employees and thus entitled to collective bargaining rights. Starr, a former federal judge and prosecutor, said it would be very disruptive if college athletes were allowed to unionize. Starr, who as an independent prosecutor led a five-year investigation of President Bill Clinton in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky scandals in the 1990s, testified about the NLRB ruling at a hearing by the House Education and Workforce Committee. The committee's chairman, Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., said allowing college athletes to unionize would set a ''dangerous precedent for colleges and universities nationwide.'' He said there were problems in college athletics that need to be addressed, including making sure that athletes have good medical coverage, but that allowing them to unionize was the wrong way to go. More...