On Aug. 20, Penn State President Eric J. Barron and several student leaders gathered to mask up the Nittany Lion Shrine, reinforcing the University’s “Mask Up or Pack Up” campaign that emphasizes the importance of each community member doing their part to limit the spread of COVID-19
The Lion Shrine’s new look was created thanks to the help of School of Theatre assistant professor Charlene Gross and draper Amanda Ferg. Between March and June, Ferg and Gross helped to provide the University community with more that 2,500 cloth masks – so the request to make one for the ‘Symbol of Our Best’ was hardly out of the ordinary.