The Penn State Dance Marathon is teaming up with another Major League Baseball team this summer in order raise money once again for the world's largest student-run philanthropy. On June 3rd, the Pittsburgh Pirates will be sponsoring "Penn State Night to Benefit THON" at PNC Park. That night, the Pirates will be taking on the Philadelphia Phillies who hosted their own THON night last year. A portion of the proceeds coming from $20 lower-level tickets or $12 upper-level tickets will be donated.
He doesn't seem to know more than one song, but this sexy sax man has guts-- that's for sure. Here he roams the University Park campus serenading students with the saxaphone riff from George Michael's break-up classic Careless Whisper. Check out the video after the jump.
If you're like most Penn State students, you spent your first week of summer break catching up with old friends, visiting with family, and trying to forget how badly you messed up your Spanish final.
20-year-old David Darr, however, seems to have had a different agenda for his return home. What that agenda was remains unclear. Check out what we know after the jump.
The Penn State Board of Trustees voted this afternoon to discontinue the Science, Technology, and Society program, a cost-saving measure recommended by the Core Council this winter. The program will be discontinued effective June 30, 2012.
Championed by professor emeritus Rustum Roy about forty years ago, the program was one of the first of its kind and unique in its operation.
The STS minor will be discontinued, as will a number of courses housed in the program. Two other minors managed by the program -- the Bioethics and Medical Humanities minor and the Disability Studies minor -- will be relocated to the College of the Liberal Arts.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will convene in the Nittany Lion Inn later this morning. Onward State and our partner StateCollege.com will be providing live coverage from the meeting.
Penn State announced this morning that Linda Patterson Miller was named the 2011-12 Penn State laureate, succeeding current laureate Robin Becker. Miller, a professor of English at Penn State Abington, is the fourth laureate and the first to come from a campus other than University Park.