Gay-Rights Activists Attack Rutgers Response to Coach Slurs

Rutgers University is facing a growing backlash from gay-rights advocates across the U.S., threatening to keep New Jersey’s flagship school in crisis.

Steven Goldstein, a Rutgers administrator and gay-rights activist, offered last week to help President Robert Barchi and two other administrators handle the crisis over coach Mike Rice’s abuse of basketball players that included homophobic slurs. Goldstein said he never heard back.