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Rutgers Gay-Slur Debacle Shows Sports Can Soil College Ambitions

Noted: Biddy Martin, former chancellor at the University of Wisconsin and now president at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts, said she faced a crisis soon after joining the Madison, Wisconsin-based school over alleged hazing by marching band members. Like Barchi, she relied on advice of those who reported to her, banning the band from a nationally televised night game against Ohio State.