Greetings Penn State alumni, students, parents, and fans,<\/p>\n
We are members of a grassroots Penn State alumni group that is mobilizing the PSU community through Facebook and Twitter to take a stand against sexual abuse and raise funds for RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization (rainn.org). Our goal is to raise over $500,000 – one dollar for each of the 557,000 alumni.<\/p>\n
By doing so, we hope to show the world what being a ‘Proud Penn Stater’ is really all about, and how Penn State is much, much bigger than the alleged actions of a few people. Our hearts go out to the victims, and now our actions will as well.<\/p>\n
After having so closely identified with all things Penn State over the past 15 years, the recent events have shaken our beliefs \u2013 and those of other alumni – to the core. We feel absolutely horrible for the victims and their families and want to channel all the energy, emotion and embarrassment that Penn Staters have for this topic into something good.<\/p>\n
We’d love for everyone to get involved and contribute in any way possible. Please visit our website at http:\/\/www.proudtobeapennstater.com and http:\/\/rainn.org\/proudpsuforrainn<\/p>\n
For the Glory,<\/p>\n
– Jerry Needel (@JNeed ’98), Jaime Needel (@JaimeNeedel ’98), Bob Troia (@BobTroia ’95), Larena Lettow (’98), and many more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greetings Penn State alumni, students, parents, and fans,<\/p>\n
We are members of a grassroots Penn State alumni group that is mobilizing the PSU community through Facebook and Twitter to take a stand against sexual abuse and raise funds for RAINN, the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization (rainn.org). Our goal is to raise over $500,000 – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/227345_10150570389735517_899935516_17976464_5633968_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psu-ftlauderdale.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}