Nut - only PA residents are eligible to receive assistance from the Four Diamonds Fund, not "people all over the country", as some of your brethren misrepresent. If someone from NJ wants to donate under those conditions, that is their prerogative, and there is nothing wrong with that. Just don't misrepresent who the recipients of the funds are, that is fraud.
Penn State Students Soliciting Donations in Rahway!!!
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That was my main point. Cancer research anywhere benefits everywhere but sometimes the donation may go to local facilities or local patients/families. There are plenty of NJ facilities and patients/families that can use the help. I much rather have dollars benefit NJ
You are obviously a major a$$hole! If this was a drive for cancer research, therefore benefiting everyone in every state and the entire world I would have zero issues with this. But I doubt that is the case. The benefit will most likely go primarily to Pennsylvania facilities and patients/families. If that is indeed the case I would prefer to keep my money in NJ to benefit NJ facilities and families/patients. Let PA residents support their own.
While I don';t believe they should be doing this in NJ it has been going on for years. I still don't understand why Rutgers does not organize something similar and can the same weekends. If Rutgers organizes properly they will have all the permits from all the towns before the PSU students can get them.
If we do not like PSU canning in NJ we do not need to give but it is not like Rutgers is countering with another worthy cause.
If we do not like PSU canning in NJ we do not need to give but it is not like Rutgers is countering with another worthy cause.
Valid point but the difference is NJ and PA both have facilities and patients/families that would benefit from donations and therefore each state should focus on addressing it with their respective state. With hurricane Sandy some states were not affected, therefore donations from those states are not taking from Peter to feed Paul.
A 19-year-old Pennsylvania State University student was killed Sunday afternoon and six other students were injured in a one-car accident on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Chester County.
The accident occurred at 1:49 p.m., when the students were returning from a trip to solicit donations for a nationally known student-run philanthropy commonly referred to as Thon
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/b...nt_killed__6_injured_in_car_accident.html?c=r
The accident occurred at 1:49 p.m., when the students were returning from a trip to solicit donations for a nationally known student-run philanthropy commonly referred to as Thon
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/b...nt_killed__6_injured_in_car_accident.html?c=r
Because unlike RU/ Penn State is trying to actually achieve "The state of Penn State" in NJ. TTFP is not stupid they know the visibility in NJ adds up at recruiting time.
This is always the most embarrassing thread of the year. Just give the kids a couple of bucks and move on. If it only helps kids in PA, who cares? It still helps cancer kids. I wish you guys would give this much attention to the RU dance marathon.
Terrible about the girl killed.
The only thing surprising about the report of canning in Rahway is I did not know they went to neighborhoods that were relatively, apologies to my friends from Rahway, downscale. In the past, and this year, I saw them in Madison, Summit and Westfield. Never saw them in places like Elizabeth or Plainfield.
The only thing surprising about the report of canning in Rahway is I did not know they went to neighborhoods that were relatively, apologies to my friends from Rahway, downscale. In the past, and this year, I saw them in Madison, Summit and Westfield. Never saw them in places like Elizabeth or Plainfield.
Thon has 3 designated canning weekends. The preference is one each in Sept, Oct & November. Last year they did Oct, Nov & December but prefer to do it before the weather changes. Usually done on a football bye week or away game, this year was a challenge due to 5 straight home games. So the Thon Director consulted with the Athletic Director and chose this game as one that would be easier to sell to students to miss.
The coin collecting adds up. The total effort raised $13 million last year.
I don't think you're allowed to post facts in this forum. Do NOT post any financial information that can directly prove your argument. Instead, you should use bold type and ad hominem attacks to get your point across.
Strange, not a lot of response from the "others" after you posted that PDF. I wonder why...?
I'm pretty sure their being in NJ has zero to do with football recruiting and is completely based on trying to raise money for their charity.
Thats part of it. But as one poster pointed out driving over four hours to raise money for charity? There is a larger goal at work here and that is to have Penn State visible in NJ. That is why JoePa wanted to get RU into the B1G.
They can in NJ for the same reason Willie Sutton robbed banks.
I drove through a big chunk of rural Central PA game weekend avoiding the interstate. Pretty country, but if they were canning in Danville, Lewisburg and Mifflinburg they'd get a few coins and maybe a discount coupon from the Weis supermarket. In Summit, Westfield and Madison they are going to get folding money from kind hearted stupes that don't realize they are funding out of state research and a few Pennsy sick kids.