Last week, we asked for your input as we constructed the ultimate Penn State Senior Year Bucket List. Below are some of the best submissions we received, as well as some ideas of our own. Think you could do all of these things between now and the beginning of May?
Have you ever wondered what THON volunteers will possibly do with their lives after they cross the stage and accept their diplomas? One group of Penn Staters has taken their knowledge and passion for THON to create a new event that is still FTK.
A candlelight vigil will take place tonight honoring the second anniversary of Joe Paterno's death.
Board of Trustees candidate Ryan Bagwell began the "Sunshine Fund" to help finance his fight with Penn State in court over open records. As of yesterday, Bagwell said he is $5 away from reaching $13,000 in total contributions. After deducting credit card and PayPal fees, the fund’s net contributions total $12,641.
The next film dealing with Penn State and the State College community will hit center stage next week at Sundance Film Festival, a highly selective annual event that draws thousands of submissions to premiere over the course of ten days. The Tillman Story filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev directed Happy Valley, a nonfiction feature that will focus on "the Penn State University community that was rocked in 2011 by charges of sexual abuse involving former Nittany Lions assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky."
Bill O'Brien may have been the heart of Penn State football for the last two seasons, a driving force behind a movement that kept the program afloat in the wake of supposedly crippling sanctions. O'Brien will forever be remembered for what he did during his short stay in Happy Valley, but he isn't the only that comes to Penn State this offseason -- not when a Penn State legend like Larry Johnson decides to part ways with the Nittany Lions and becomes a Buckeye.