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November 22, 2009

PSU students support THON

The Penn State Wilkes-Barre THON Committee recently held a Penny Wars competition to raise money for the Penn State Dance Marathon (THON), offering students a chance to sabotage each other and have one of their friends take a pie in the face.

For one week, cans were set up in the Student Commons, one for each campus club’s president, and students had the chance to “vote” on the club president they would like to see hit with a pie by placing money in their cans.

In Penny Wars, each penny was worth one point while any other coin or bill is worth negative points, according to the denomination of the coin or bill.

At the end of the week, the points were tallied and, with a score of -85 points, Lazy Artists President Jim Joyce got a chance to throw a pie in the face of Mark Calore, Student Government Association President, who lost the competition with a score of -13093 points.

According to Shelby Murren, Penn State Wilkes-Barre’s THON Chair, a total of $266.50 was raised through the Penny Wars competition.

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