THON.org got a new, much needed look yesterday. The new website provides users with a much more friendly interface -- a refreshing update from the old, often confusing site. There are still some remnants from the old site, including essentially the same content, but the site has several noticeable improvements.
Despite everything that has happened over the last year, job recruitments for Penn State students is looking better -- not worse -- than it did last fall. Penn State's Career Services announced that the 2012 Fall Career Days will most likely see a nine percent increase in company turnout from last year's career fair, jumping from 500 to 545 potential employers in attendance.
The Bryce Jordan Center announced this morning that the Zac Brown Band will return to Penn State on October 10th with openers Blackberry Smoke and Levi Lowrey.
The Altoona Mirror is reporting that "Sweet Caroline" will not be included in the musical play list for Penn State games this season.
Pulling styles from many spectrum of rock, jazz and classical; Flashback Forward weaves together a diverse troupe of musical pasts into a mulch-faceted musical product that plays off inspiration from bands such as U2, Muse, Coldplay, The Who, Michael Buble, State Radio and John Mayer. But The Passenger isn't simply a re-issuing of the band's scattered styles and influences, a clear lineage of cut-out-the-fat straight rock-your-face-off attitude runs like a freight trains through their album. Learn more about Flashback Forward's debut EP and where you can see the band perform live after the jump.