A story in the Post-Gazette, Penn State Creamery is as good as it gets answers why Penn State’s Creamery ice cream is not sold off campus:

Opening ice cream stores elsewhere would force the Creamery — the largest university creamery in the nation — to compete with graduates of its own course.

And that would clash with Penn State’s identity as a public university, Mr. Palchak said. As he sees it, Penn State ice cream is public property. Short Course participants are not sworn to secrecy; in fact, Penn State readily hands out the Creamery formula and has even adapted it for home use.

That’s good reasoning. I sure could go for some creamery ice cream today though. I thought I’d be getting some in a few weeks, but plans changed.

H/T The Penn Stater