f ometimes it hosts Penn State
basketball games, and sometimes it
hosts Bruce Springsteen. But for one
A S weekend a year, the Bryce Jordan
Center is transformed.
For 46 hours , the best show in town is free.
The world's largest student-run philanthropy
isn’t about the fundraising total or the lyrics to the
line dance. It's about the fight against pediatric
cancer. It's about Four Diamonds Fund families
and their journeys, their stories.
For 46 hours, their struggles become Penn State’s
reason to dance.
Forget the February cold. In here. grown men
$7,838,
054.36
sport fuzzy pink hats and children with squirt
guns dart between dancers, bouncing beach balls
under a hanging diamond, The Bryce Jordan
Center is a carnival.
For 46 hours, the outside world is better left
outside.
Here, dancers celebrate life. They draw strength
from the boy who pledges to kick cancer's butt, and
they carry on the fight of the girl who tried but lost
her battle. In here, they laugh as much as they cry.
they cheer as hard as they listen and they dance as
long as they can stand.
For 46 hours, love belongs here.
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