Thanks to a commenter named Steve on an earlier post about THON being featured on NBC’s Today Show, we’ve been able to locate the segment. I was a little disappointed that it didn’t air last week, but the piece does a pretty good job explaining THON and showing how awesome it is.
The New York Times’ Freakonomics blog had a nice post about THON today. Stephen Dubner framed THON as a philanthropic success story in a dismal economy. There was legitimate concern that the fund-raising total would fall off significantly this year. But it didn’t: for the fifth consecutive year, the THON (as it’s known) broke the […]
The Daily Collegian introduced a new product to its online store in the past week. The paper is now selling poster prints of front pages from special events, like Obama’s election and THON. The prints cost $10 plus tax and shipping. Eventually, the Collegian hopes to allow readers to purchase a front page print from […]
With half of the nation’s hospitals running losses, the Penn State Hershey Medical Center’s recent announcement of plans for an enlightened ER came as a surprise. But, on second glance, we realized the economic strain being endured by the nation’s hospitals is the very impetus for Hershey Med’s plans. Dr. Chris DeFlitch spoke with WITF […]
A long time ago, in Onward State’s infancy, we wrote a post comparing the recently created “Class of 2013” Facebook groups. There were only two at the time, Penn State University Park – Class of 2013 and Penn State: Class of 2013! A search done today for “Penn State Class of 2013” yields many, many […]