The White House T-shirt created by the Penn State Marketing Association (PSMA) for the Ohio State game will no longer be sold after students and alumni complained that its design does not reflect Penn State's values.

The T-shirt featured the Nittany Lion handing a tissue to Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor with "The Nutcracker: a Terrelle Cryer Story" printed underneath.

"It was seen as an attack on Pryor, but that's not by any means what we meant," said Dan Sturman, PSMA's chief executive officer. "We were just trying to rally support."

The $10 T-shirt was scheduled to be on sale this Friday at the HUB-Robeson Center but will no longer be sold.

"After some feedback and rethinking the design, they are going to be pulled and we are going to get rid of the shirts entirely," Sturman (senior-marketing) said. The group is currently tracking down all of the shirts given to PSMA's general managers.

PSMA has sold alternate White House shirts for the past three years. This year's design was submitted by Jinder Bhogal (sophomore-business administration).

Sturman said Bhogal expressed "a little unease" about pulling the shirts because his design had originally received enthusiastic backing, but the designer ultimately agreed with the decision to remove the shirt.

Sturman said it is too late to come up with another design.

"I'm sorry for all of those who felt it was taken in that view, that it was an attack on [Pryor] or Ohio State -- because it really wasn't," he said.

Sturman was set to release a statement Wednesday night to all media outlets that ran a story about the T-shirt sale originally. The Daily Collegian had not received the statement by press time Wednesday.

Student reaction to the T-shirt being pulled from sales was mixed.

"I feel like it's kind of bad sportsmanship," Sylvia Ranjeva (sophomore-engineering sciences) said of the shirt. "It's important to keep rivalry true to the actual dynamic of the game rather than attack people's character."

Juliann Igo said she wouldn't buy the shirt herself but said everyone has a right to sell his or her merchandise.

"I don't think rivalry against Pryor is mean-spirited," Igo (sophomore-public relations) said. "It's all part of college football."