Peter Roby
Peter Roby
Peter P. Robyis the current athletic director of Northeastern University. Roby was introduced as the ninth athletic director of the university in June 2007. In 2007 Roby was named as one of the 100 Most Influential Sports Educators...
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There are plenty of well-dressed people now going to prison for defrauding their shareholders, ... We have to be careful about making assumptions about folks simply on the way they look. That's a dangerous thing to do because it's how we start to create stereotypes.
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When you start to have success in athletics and get the adulation and praise that follows, that becomes quite an addiction. It gets you feeling better about yourself -- 'Maybe I am worthy.' That's why it may fuel that passion and drive to be great.
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What we would like to see is when a teammate walks into a locker room and wants to brag about his conquest the night before, that someone would have had their awareness raised around the issues of gender bounds to say, Hey, that's somebody's sister, that's somebody's daughter, that's somebody's friend that you might be talking about. That could easily be our loved one that we care about. And if we don't want our loved ones to be talked about in that way, let's not engage in that kind of conversation about somebody else's loved one.