Tell Penn State to Stop Advertising Addictive Online Gambling Products to Its Students!
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Monica Kiely
2 years ago
Shame on you Penn State! You are putting money above the mental health of your students by pushing a new addiction on them. Get your priorities straightened out. Your mission is to educate your students and prepare them for the future. Instead, you are engaged in a shameless profit making scheme that preys upon vulnerable young people.
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Esther lauchle
2 years ago
As an alum and PSU retiree, I am very appalled that PSU would promote gambling. If PSU wants to be a top university, they need to be promoting education not gambling.
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Kirk Heller
2 years ago
Penn State needs to get back on the right path. Over the last 12 years, I’ve watched the organization stumble into a pale of its former self. For the glory of Old State indeed…
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Daniel Materna
2 years ago
The Penn State leadership in Old Main assured the community.... of nothing! They ignored us and they will most likely continue to do so. Why? Because they can!
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Priscilla Walker Shea
2 years ago
PSU did not take a stand against a casino in the area and now is promoting gambling at PSU events. You ought to be ashamed of your selves. You can't teach responsibility but you can be an example of it.
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Loretta M Jeffreys
2 years ago
The great business on the hill has given up all pretense of being a center of learning and it is clearly just a marketer for whoever greases its wheels!
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Aaron Browka
2 years ago
Stoppredatorygambling.org
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Bob Hohn
2 years ago
P$U trustees were not willing to take a stand against or at least comment negatively on the proposed Nittany Mall casino, so it should be no surprise that they condone the promotion of gambling products at football games.
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Mary Jane Stout
2 years ago
I cannot believe our state related University would advertise gambling! I hope Penn State’s administration will adopt a more responsible policy.
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Jon M
2 years ago
"May no act of ours bring shame"
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Elisabeth Dripps
2 years ago
2000 Alumna
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Nathan Tack
2 years ago
It would be in Penn State's best interests to encourage its students to develop a strong work ethic. Encouraging gambling works against this goal.
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Andrew Shaffer
· petition starter
2 years ago
My 9-year-old son loves Penn State football and he was sitting right next to me when I took the pictures featured on this petition. I took these pictures because I was concerned that Penn State was advertising addictive online smartphone gambling to 18-year-olds. After the game, my son expressed concern to me that the University was normalizing gambling among his peers!
Penn State is hurting itself as well as its students by promoting online gambling to its students and young fans. What loving parent won't think twice about sending their child to Penn State if they know they can't trust the University administration not to market highly addictive products to their child for the sake of plugging a hole in the University's budget?
Shame on you Penn State! You are putting money above the mental health of your students by pushing a new addiction on them. Get your priorities straightened out. Your mission is to educate your students and prepare them for the future. Instead, you are engaged in a shameless profit making scheme that preys upon vulnerable young people.
As an alum and PSU retiree, I am very appalled that PSU would promote gambling. If PSU wants to be a top university, they need to be promoting education not gambling.
Penn State needs to get back on the right path. Over the last 12 years, I’ve watched the organization stumble into a pale of its former self. For the glory of Old State indeed…
The Penn State leadership in Old Main assured the community.... of nothing! They ignored us and they will most likely continue to do so. Why? Because they can!
PSU did not take a stand against a casino in the area and now is promoting gambling at PSU events. You ought to be ashamed of your selves. You can't teach responsibility but you can be an example of it.
The great business on the hill has given up all pretense of being a center of learning and it is clearly just a marketer for whoever greases its wheels!
Stoppredatorygambling.org
P$U trustees were not willing to take a stand against or at least comment negatively on the proposed Nittany Mall casino, so it should be no surprise that they condone the promotion of gambling products at football games.
I cannot believe our state related University would advertise gambling! I hope Penn State’s administration will adopt a more responsible policy.
"May no act of ours bring shame"
2000 Alumna
It would be in Penn State's best interests to encourage its students to develop a strong work ethic. Encouraging gambling works against this goal.
My 9-year-old son loves Penn State football and he was sitting right next to me when I took the pictures featured on this petition. I took these pictures because I was concerned that Penn State was advertising addictive online smartphone gambling to 18-year-olds. After the game, my son expressed concern to me that the University was normalizing gambling among his peers! Penn State is hurting itself as well as its students by promoting online gambling to its students and young fans. What loving parent won't think twice about sending their child to Penn State if they know they can't trust the University administration not to market highly addictive products to their child for the sake of plugging a hole in the University's budget?