There are generally certain songs that get played a lot. If they’ve got references to staying up all night, dancing, saving the world, or diamonds, you’ll be hearing them quite often this weekend.
Tomorrow afternoon, 707 Penn Staters will take to the floor of the Bryce Jordan Center and prepare to stand for 46 hours. Here are the stories of three more dancers who will be representing their respective organizations this weekend. Introducing...
While THON follows the same basic formula every year, there are many aspects that change every year based on numerous factors. With all of the different variables throughout the weekend, we have decided to bring back prop bets for the event after a one-year hiatus.
With THON only 2 days away, volunteers are in overdrive working out the final details of THON weekend and hoping to raise more funds to add to the total that will be revealed during the culmination of a years worth of work. In order to give the THON community some motivation in the final stretch, we reached out to some Four Diamonds families to ask them what THON means to them. Here are their responses:
The Interfraternity Council has suspended Delta Kappa Epsilon for an undisclosed amount of time, causing the fraternity to lose its THON dancers. The fraternity is no longer listed on the clubs.psu.edu website and cannot hold official functions. Onward State could not confirm the reason behind the suspension, but IFC President Dan Combs confirmed the fraternity's situation.
Morale has been a staple of the Penn State Dance Marathon for years and was the first official committee of the world's largest student-run philanthropy. Known for keeping dancers motivated and energized while they stand on their feet for 46 hours, moralers are responsible for keeping the energy up, maintaining dancer safety, and being huge fans of the color yellow. With THON a short three days away, we asked ourselves, "What if we had a moraler for everyday life?"