It's a big day here at Onward State HQ. Not only do we need to help Evan come to terms with his newfound celebrity, but we also have a cool new feature to introduce!
Early this past summer, we reported that a Pennsylvania House resolution had been introduced by Rep. Kerry Benninghoff (R-Centre & Mifflin) to denote September 3, 2011 as “Coach Paterno Day.” At the time, Benninghoff said that he had been hoping for months to find a time for Paterno to visit the state legislature and be honored in person. Apparently, Coach Paterno's schedule just never lined up with that of our local politicians.
If you see newly-sashed student leaders walking around campus today, worry not -- you'll be looking at potential campus royalty. The Penn State Homecoming Student and University Courts will be announced late today after all ten student members for the Student Court and the eight faculty and staff on the University Court are informed surprised somewhere on campus.
Penn State's legendary Coach Joe Paterno, who needs no introduction on these pages, was nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom for the second time in as many years by a bipartisan collection of legislators, including Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-PA5), and more than a dozen others. Check out the details after the jump.
This past weekend on the lawn of the Business Building, the first-ever Kick Off the Fall Tailgate was held to introduce freshmen students to a number of student organizations, and their unifying value: sportsmanship. According to the event organizers, the tailgate was just the first in a year of event programming and other initiatives based around that same theme.
An event to get freshmen ready for the big games Saturday night will include free food, entertainment and prizes. The tailgate will kick off (see what I did there) at 4:30 pm on Saturday on the Business Building lawn. Not a freshman? No worries... throw on a lanyard and no one will know the difference.