One Heart Exec Board
Get to know the One Heart Exec board and find out how to get involved.
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Blue Out 2014 Facebook Event
RSVP for the 2014 Blue Out on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/events/373497699474561/.
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The Story Behind the Blue Ribbons
Want to know more about how the blue ribbons became part of our Penn State culture? Read The Story Behind the Blue Ribbons, now up on the Huffington Post.
read more2013 Blue Out Shirts
Event t-shirts (designed by Grant Brown) have gone on sale at the Penn State Bookstore and Family Clothesline. To purchase the shirt online, click on either of the store names below: Family Clothesline Penn State Bookstore
read moreBlue Out Sunglasses
The official Blue Out sunglasses are available at State Shades! These Blue Out shades support the #OnePromise theme and 20% of all sales will go to our partner, the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape. The sunglasses are available from the State Shades store.
read moreBlue Out Saturdays
The Altoona Curve and Prevent Child Abuse Pennsylvania are teaming up to extend our tradition with Blue Out Saturdays. The team, PCA PA, and affiliated local agencies will raise awareness and funds in the effort to prevent children from being abused. “Curve, PA Blue Out Saturdays” will be conducted during all eleven Saturday home games at Peoples Natural Gas Field in Altoona. Among the awareness efforts, the Curve will wear specially-designed blue jerseys for Saturday home games. In addition, the Curve’s front office staff...
read moreHuffington Post Feature
I wrote about the importance of the Freeh Report’s recommendations and an explanation of the Blue Out’s efforts that was published in the Huffington Post last Friday. It’s available here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/laura-march/penn-state-blue-out_b_1669355.html
read moreArticle in Centre Daily Times
Blue-out organizers revive aid efforts, plan September event, a new article detailing this year’s Blue Out, was published last Saturday in the Centre Daily Times newspaper.
read moreNew Collegian Column
The Daily Collegian just published a wonderful staff column by Adam Bittner: ‘Blue Out’ game should have deeper meaning What better way to show the world our community isn’t running scared from this tragedy, but owning it? What better way to show Sandusky’s victims how many thousands of people stand behind them? What better way to encourage the silent victims of these crimes to come forward, tell their stories, and bring about justice for predators across the...
read moreReasoning for a Yearly Blue Out
The Penn State Daily Collegian posted a fantastic op-ed detailing the reasoning for a yearly Blue Out. Please give it a read! http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2012/07/11/blue_out_game_should_have_deeper_meaning.aspx
read moreOnward State Post
Onward State posted a terrific piece on this year’s Blue Out! Check it out here: http://onwardstate.com/2012/07/09/blue-out-to-become-new-football-tradition/
read moreOnward State Elite 8
Onward State has set up a bracket/rating system of the best moments in Penn State football. From their site: A new era of Penn State Football will begin under Bill O’Brien this fall, but before it does, we decided to take a look back at some of the memorable moments over the final decade of the Joe Paterno era. Onward State has set up a bracket of the top 16 moments of the past ten years. You’ve voted, and now we have an Elite Eight. Last year’s Blue Out made it to the top 8! Please help us continue to the final four — vote...
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