The New York Times’ Freakonomics blog had a nice post about THON today. Stephen Dubner framed THON as a philanthropic success story in a dismal economy. There was legitimate concern that the fund-raising total would fall off significantly this year. But it didn’t: for the fifth consecutive year, the THON (as it’s known) broke the […]
While our THON is over, if you recall from a post OS had a few weeks ago, other schools have dance marathons. In fact, the second longest running one, next to ours, is held at Northwestern University. Held from March 6th to the 8th, aka next weekend (Shortened months are a bitch, right?), they have […]
THON got some recognition from Washington yesterday. Representative Glenn Thompson made a two-minute speech in the House of Representatives on Tuesday commending Penn State for THON. Thompson is a Republican representative for Pennsylvania’s fifth district. We Penn Staters’ have a saying; ‘WE ARE PENN STATE’, but Madam Speaker, as you can see, it goes without […]
UPDATE 3-6-09: You can look at our photo galleries from THON here. UPDATE 3-3-09: You can watch the video in our update story. I just received a text message from a couple friends about possible coverage of THON on the Today Show. Here is the message: FWD: THON is going to be featured TOMORROW MORNING […]
As Onward State is known for being on the cutting edge of event blogging, we have decided to get a head start on our peers and begin covering the events of THON 2010 as they happen at the Bryce Jordan Center. 8:59… Just got thrown out by security. Apparently our up-to-date blogging is “way too […]