Do you bend over to pick up a penny, or do you let it go as not worth the trouble? When the University shut off the fountain at Library Mall for the winter, hundreds of pennies were exposed. These pennies came from children who had been throwing pennies into the fountain all summer. This man was patiently picking them up, one by one. The State Street merchants have put out a poster urging people not to give money to panhandlers. Just throw your spare change into the fountain.