PSU’s Thon puts students to the testSTATE COLLEGE — It’s time for another grueling test of stamina at Penn State University.It’s “Thon” weekend.The annual 46-hour dance marathon best known as “Thon” runs from late Friday to Sunday afternoon at the Bryce Jordan Center in State College.More than 700 dancers take part, helped by thousands of other students in support roles. The dancers can neither sleep nor sit.The event’s official name is the Penn State Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, and it’s billed as the world’s largest student-run philanthropy.Money raised benefits pediatric cancer patients and their families at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.Child cancer survivors and their families also take part.Over $13 million was raised last year, bringing the total take since 1977 to more than $125 million.

Wolf’s top policy aide leaves administrationHARRISBURG — A prominent adviser to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf is leaving the administration and moving to Massachusetts, where his wife is a medical school administrator.Wolf announced Friday that Policy and Planning Secretary John Hanger will be replaced by Sarah Galbally, who has been Hanger’s deputy.Hanger, a lawyer, served with Wolf in then-Gov. Ed Rendell’s Cabinet. Hanger was environmental protection secretary and Wolf was revenue secretary.He backed Wolf after dropping out of the Democratic gubernatorial primary race in March 2014.Hanger’s wife of 36 years is vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.In a statement, Hanger says commuting from Massachusetts has proved impossible.Hanger has served as a member of the Public Utility Commission and founded PennFuture, a Harrisburg-based environmental advocacy group.