Why did Rutgers University—which recently fired basketball coach Mike Rice over homophobic taunts—hire an athletic director, Julie Hermann, with a history of verbally and physically abusing college athletes? “I would call what’s happening at Rutgers a clown show, but I fear that would be a grave insult to clowns,” The Nation’s Dave Zirin says. Zirin joins MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts to discuss Hermann’s reputation, the opaqueness of her selection and what’s next for Rutgers’s athletic program.

—James Cersonsky

When will sexual assault in the military end? Read Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column.