While Thon dancers may not have a sense of the exact time of day, they can tell when an hour has passed just by looking to the stage on the floor of Rec Hall.

The line dance is performed nearly every hour throughout the weekend by Interfraternity Council/Panhellenic Dance Marathon captains as a way to lift dancers' spirits.

Morale Captain Jess Donnelly, who spent much of the early hours of Thon teaching the crowd the steps to the line dance, said the captains have been practicing the dance about two times a week, between two and four hours each day.

Donnelly, also known as "Captain Bootylicious," said that the committee had heard that many people found last year's line dance difficult to learn and was determined to make it easier this year.

"This year we wanted to simplify things but still make it fun," she said.

She had spoken to several dancers early this morning who gave the line dance positive reviews, while others were having trouble with some of the steps. This was to be expected, she said, adding that it is difficult to learn any kind of dance after very little practice.

Last semester, the committee members brainstormed ideas relating to Thon, Penn State, movies and television shows, and what Donnelly called "random stuff." At the beginning of this semester, the moralers went on a retreat and put these words to the already selected music to create the line dance that made it's debut last night.

"We tried to find rhyming words, things that are more current," she said. "We try to get a mix of all of them."

From Rachel's pregancy on the television show Friends to the newest restaurants to open in State College to the lines at the White Building, this year's line dance mentions a wide range of events from pop culture and specific to Penn State.