What connects THON 2013 Overall, Will Martin, with celebrities like Eddie Redmayne, Robert Pattinson, and Justin Bieber? The love and affection of Seventeen Magazine's love editor Devin Tomb, a 2010 Penn State graduate.
The theme for this year's homecoming has been announced. It was revealed this afternoon at THON by Homecoming Executive Director Bobby Walter, that the homecoming 2013 theme will be "Generations Evolve, Tradition Remains!"
Continuing along the forbidden halls of backstage BJC, we stumbled across some Harry Potter things. Actually, I lied -- it was a lot of Harry Potter things. Large tapestries with scenes from Hogwarts, Diagon Alley, and platform 9 ¾ adorned the walls and pretty much every visible thing you could imagine. The “murals” were made by several committee volunteers, created by projecting the images on the paper, tracing the outline, then filling in everything with paint. It wasn’t just murals either -- they even build a custom Hogwarts-themed concession stand.
Pistol Peg (and the Beer Kegs) are a six-piece band from Altoona, PA led by siblings Mark and Jill Simanski. They may only cover modern country music, but they maintain a rock n’ roll persona throughout their first THON appearance with heavy guitar licks and heart-thumping drums.
Fresh off a week-long media tour defending the recently-released Paterno Report, Jay Paterno dropped by the Bryce Jordan Center and delivered a poweful speech to this year's 710 dancers who've been sleepless since Friday afternoon.
When you last left us, we had just discovered the elusive THON salon, the original goal of our adventure. Little did we know, we had just scratched the surface of what was really going on behind the scenes of THON. We left the salon in search of some good photo ops, so we continued onto the floor crowded with increasingly delirious dancers.