Students hoping to remember songs from Interfraternity/Panhellenic Council Dance Marathon weekends will soon be able to do so on their iPods.

"iTunes is allowing Thon to create a play list of favorite Thon songs," Megan Kendrick, overall public relations chairwoman, said. "It's a great advertising method to get people aware [of Thon]."

The songs that will be on the playlist -- known also as an iMix -- have been requested by students. They include songs that Thon's disc jockey, Larry Moore, will play during this year's Thon weekend and ones that have been played in years past.

Interested students can purchase the play list through Apple's iTunes store.

The play list, including songs like "Angels Among Us" by Bon Jovi and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole will be available soon, but hospitality captain Steve Edling (junior-chemical engineering) said there is not a set date. Edling has been compiling the list of songs for the play list.

"A lot of the songs [requested] were played during the last four hours of Thon [last year]," Edling said, adding that the songs remind people of the Thon spirit.

Edling said so far there have been 30 to 40 requests for songs.

Brian Ghigiarelli, overall technology chairman for Thon, said though interested iTunes users must pay to download the songs, the money does not currently go to Thon.

"It's not a promotional piece, but perhaps something we'll look into next year," he said.

The idea originated last year, when a playlist was available on iTunes for the first time. Interested patrons paid for the playlist last year and will do so again this year.

"We recommended to Thon that they do something in the neighborhood of 15 to 20 songs so the purchase of the whole list was [about] $20," Tom Morton, senior account executive at Apple, said.

Anthony Pacitti (sophomore-information sciences and technology) requested two songs, both by Rascal Flatts, when the e-mail message was sent out through the Thon listserv to captains about two weeks ago. Pacitti, a family relations director for Penn State Abington, said the songs motivate him to do whatever he can for Abington's Thon child to make her smile. "[The songs] make you think a little more about why you're there," he said.

Popular Thon songs used to be available for purchase on a CD, which would hold about 10 songs, Kendrick said. As iPods became more popular, and CDs became more obsolete, it was decided that an iTunes play list was a good way to keep up with technological changes, Kendrick said. Students can request songs by e-mailing Megan Kendrick at public.relations@thon.org.