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SPOTLIGHT ON DIVERSITY:
Paralympian Murphy featured in New Nike commercial
Rohan Murphy's legs were amputated at the age of 4, but he is far from disabled. The Penn State student-athlete, now a graduate student, was a Nittany Lion wrestler -- the only double bilateral amputee to do so at the Division I level -- and has found success as a powerlifter, earning the bronze medal at the International Paralympics Powerlifting Championships in South Korea in 2006.
Murphy's athleticism and can-do attitude are now being featured in a new Nike commercial themed "No Excuses," which debuted Friday (Feb. 1) at http://www.usparalympics.org Watch Rohan's Nike commercial here at GoPSUsports.com by clicking on the link to the left.
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The Athletics Council for Diversity and Inclusion:
Celebrating Diversity... Building Teams
DIVERSITY DEFINED
Diversity pertains to characteristics that encompass a variety of factors such as: race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, and learning styles among others.
OUR MISSION
Intercollegiate Athletics is dedicated to conceiving and promoting initiatives that facilitate the principles of diversity and inclusion. The highest priority will be to establish a climate of mutual respect and support of individual differences where persons of dissimilar color, creed, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical/mental ability, and ethnicity (among others) can maximize their full potential and function as a cohesive group, free of prejudice, discrimination, and harassment.
OUR OVERRIDDING GOALS
- To recruit and retain a diverse staff that supports the various needs of our student-athlete population, within the university and surrounding community.
- To sponsor numerous and varied varsity, intramural, club, and recreational programs that satisfy student interests and afford maximum participation by students and staff.
- To initiate and support workshops, hiring practices, and operating procedures that focus not only on efficiency of intercollegiate athletic programming but focus on sustaining an inclusive environment.
