In the spirit of State Patty’s Day, Campus Crusade for Christ members Jon Tornetta and David Adewumi will host a house crawl — minus the alcohol.
The tour, which will involve members of CRU, Navigators and other campus organizations, will kick off at 1 p.m. Saturday and is open to anyone who wants to participate.
To join the house crawl, Adewumi (senior-Spanish) said students should purchase a T-shirt in the HUB-Robeson Center on Friday at Old State Clothing or online for $9 at psustreetlove.weebly.com. They will then be considered participants in the tour, he said.
“It’s not anti-State Patty’s Day,” Tornetta (junior-science business) said. “What this is about is if you want to celebrate in a safe environment, you can come to this event and participate. Some may be turned off because we won’t have alcohol, but we think it will be a great event.”
Though Adewumi and Tornetta could not release details about the activities during the event, they said the money raised from the event would benefit a group of CRU members who will be travelling to Haiti with the Penn State CRU Heart for Haiti trip during spring break.
Adewumi said the members are going to provide relief work, and the trip to Haiti is expensive.
Tornetta said more details about the tour will be provided at the event on Saturday.
“We are keeping it hush-hush for a reason,” Tornetta said. “It’s going to be a big surprise.”
CRU will host one of the stops on the tour, planned by CRU Community Leader Frank Chang. He said this is the first year this tour has been done.
Chang (sophomore-political science and economics) said the motivation behind the event was so students could celebrate State Patty’s Day without drinking.
“The message is that we wanted students to have an alternative way to celebrate other than to go out to places where they are forced to drink,” Chang said. “We want students to have a safe environment where they feel protected and have an alcohol-free option for the weekend.”
CRU Treasurer Caitlin Young agreed with Chang, stressing the alternative nature of the event.
“We are taking the whole State Patty’s Day apartment tour and making it about love,” Young (junior-accounting) said. “It’s more about love instead of drinking.”