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Penn State Mentioned in Onion

If I feel pride when Penn State makes the news, does that mean I feel fake pride when we make the fake news?

Penn State was featured in an Onion brief published today.

Penn State students were devastated Monday to learn that their commencement speaker will be “some dork scientist” who discovered DNA, authored the groundbreaking book The Double Helix, helped establish the Human Genome Project, and is not late-night talk-show host Stephen Colbert.

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Creator of @OnwardState. Big fan of sweaters.

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