
THON Executive Director Katie Malley wrote a letter to the THON community explaining the decision to suspend the next canning weekend, originally scheduled for Oct. 23-25.

Penn State's primetime clash at Ohio State on Oct. 17 will air nationally on ABC. The 8:00 p.m. matchup, against the current 4-1 Nittany Lions and 5-0, No. 1 Buckeyes, was slated for either ESPN, ESPN2, or ABC when it was first announced earlier this year.

Ohio State will wear all-black alternate jerseys against Penn State on October 17.

Penn State recently joined a coalition that seeks to make the college admissions process less daunting for prospective students by having applications available to students as early as their freshman year of high school.

Russell Gold, author of the 2015-16 Penn State Reads book, “The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World” will speak for Penn State on Oct. 12 and downtown on Oct. 13.

13 field goals were missed by NFL (read: professional) kickers in the fourth week of the NFL season, before the Sunday and Monday night games. If only there was an undrafted free agent kicker out there who could cure the NFL's kicking woes. Oh wait.