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If you watched the Penn State-Iowa basketball game the other night you may have seen that one of the Nittany Lion players had the letters FTK shaved into the side of his head. The announcers never explained that the letters stand for the Penn State Dance Marathon slogan, For The Kids.
With the announcement late this afternoon that a record $12,374,034.46 had been raised this year, more than $100 million has now been brought in by Penn State students for the fight against childhood cancer since the start of the Dance Marathon in 1973. From Thon's Wikipedia page:
The money that is raised is donated to The Four Diamonds Fund, a charity devoted to defeating pediatric cancer through research and caring for patients at the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. More than 15,000 students get involved in the event each year, organizing it and raising funds with the rallying cry, "FOR THE KIDS!"
Penn State Proud? Heck yeah.
I've said it before but it's a shame there isn't one single event that captures the imagination and energies of the entire diverse Dartmouth community in this way.
