I spoke to one of the Greek Life staff at Penn state once, and he said that one of the problems with the Dance Marahon there is that it has taken on a life of its own.
ITs the single biggest thing that Greeks do on that campus and dominates everyone's programming.
There is a lot of self imposed and peer pressure to raise the most amount of money (they compete) and to beat last years numbers.
Some of the Greek's there have wished that the Marathon wasn't quite such a big deal.
But congratulations to them