The president and the athletics director of Texas A&M University apologized last week for an anti-gay comment by a football player at a pep rally the week before.
Ray M. Bowen, the president, and Wally Groff had said nothing at the rally. They issued statements after some students and professors expressed outrage over the remarks by Dan Campbell, a senior who plays tight end.
Mr. Campbell made the speech before about 40,000 students, staff members, and alumni at the Aggie Bonfire, a tradition that leads up to the football game against the University of Texas at Austin. After expressing hatred for archrival Texas, he said he was proud to attend a university where “men like women and women like men.”
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