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32. Good question. I went to Penn, and was never confronted with the issue

Wed Apr 1, 2026, 06:19 AM

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Sure, there were Jewish students and (I assume) faculty, but it just didn't seem to matter a whole hell of a lot at the time. There were organizations catering to various religious sects, but I don't recall having taken any notice. The main coffee house where the campus folk musicians gathered was in the basement of the Christian Association. It might just as well have been in the basement of the Wiccan Association for all the people knew. There were substantial numbers of Turkish and Iranian students (this was 1970-1975, so pre-Ayatollah domination), and none of the women wore head coverings. The University itself probably had records of the home countries of the students, as they did of the non-foreign students, but so what? In one of the grad dorms, they had paired an Israeli student as the roommate of a Palestinian student, and they were best of friends.

I haven't been back there since, but I can't imagine that either the students or the faculty wish to be involved in any kind of outside required distinction. No one goes to Penn looking fight someone else's proxy wars.

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