$3,547,715.48 for kids with cancer

[PSUSigKap]

penn state's dance marathon raised $3,547,715.48 for kids with cancer this year!!!! 48 hours of no sitting and no sleeping. it was a total success!!!!

[dakareng]

WOW! That is an amazing amount of money. Thank you to all the hardworking PSU students!

[KillarneyRose]

Well Done, PSU Greeks!!!

[sigtau305]

that's very cool. congrats to all who was involved in the marathon.

[Not a Mezzo]

Amazing! Both the amount of money and the amount of time! (Our dance marathon is typically only 24 hours, which is crazy enough!)

What a fabulous job! Congratulations to everyone involved!

[Kevin]

That's a huge amount of money! Amazing what people can do with hard work and a good cause.

What exactly did y'all do to raise this kind of money? I think the rest of us could learn a lot.

[blueGBI]

I was there!! I was on Rules and Regs and I was on duty for 17 hrs and I spent at least 5-10 more in the stands. Dance Marathon is soo very awesome and its worth seeing the happy faces of the kids and the parents. I was super tired today (I was there for the last 5 hours, were you Jennifer?) and I slept from 9 pm Sunday til 1:30 pm today but its so worth it. For more info, go to http://www.thon.org/

I can't wait til next year!

"THE TIME IS NOW, THON UNITE
WE WILL WIN THIS CANCER FIGHT!
WE ARE PENN STATE, ALWAYS BELIEVING!!!"

[Tom Earp]

Now if the 4 th estate, (MEDIA) woudl really pick up on that and show that Greeks arent just a bunch of Asses and Snobby Bitches!

Of course, that is not news worthy out side of the Greek World!

[PSUSigKap]

i only got like 10 hours of sleep the whole weekend. my roommate was a dancer and so were many of my friends. i was on the floor and in the stands as much as possible. as for how we do it, we go canning 4 times a year, solicit from friends and family and corporate donations/sponsorships. we didn't raise much as last year but the four years i've been here we've raised a little more than 14 million dollars. THON is the largest student run philanthropy in the country. and its soooooooooooo much fun!!!!!

[kddani]

Actually, it did get decent news coverage. I didn't see the print edition, but it's the featured picture and story on the Post Gazette website: Link to article

[hoosier]

Are they still involved?

[HollisterDXiChi]

Yeah major Kudos

[pirate00]

Holy s#@!% That is amazing! This is the kind of news I love to hear.

[LionTamer]

Actually, the Penn State IFC started it as a way to re-build the image of fraternities; Tri-Delt and KDR started the concept of power fund-raising (raising $1,633 out of the $10,000 total that year).

Nice history here

Congratulations to all who participated - PSUSigKap and BlueGBI.

I was thinking about you guys this weekend - I heard Kool & the Gang's "Celebration", which was the theme song one of the years I was involved (which really dates me), and was so hoping that you guys would raise a lot of money. You do Penn State proud. I'm really disappointed at the amount of press this gets - I think $3.5 million deserves a little more network/CNN/MSNBC coverage, but that's the downside to being 3 1/2 hours from anywhere, I guess....

BTW, who topped the fund raising?

[PSUSigKap]

ATO and ZTA for the ninth year in a row. they had over $200,000.