What are the student at UPenn called?

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<p>Is there a special name for students at UPenn? What is it?</p>

<p>oops. it should be "students" in the title.</p>

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<p>Quakers. (Fighting) Quakers.</p>

<p>Usually “Penn Students” works just fine as well.</p>

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<p>Thanks for answering the question, FightingQuaker!
but why are they called Quakers?</p>

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<p>Comes from the state’s roots as a quaker colony.</p>

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<p>haha…are there many actual quakers on campus?</p>

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<p>I always say Pennsters.</p>

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<p>the seas kids are penngineers</p>

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<p>Fighting Quakers?? That’s actually pretty bizarre, given the Quakers’ proclivity for peaceful resolution of conflicts. Are they really called FIGHTING QUAKERS???</p>

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<p>hence the use of the word “fighting” to distinguish between the typical Quaker pacifist & the unusually pugnacious one lol</p>

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<p>Given Penn’s religious diversity, I would not be surprised at all to find an actual Quaker on campus. </p>

<p>I don’t know about other regions, but where I came from all the high schools sports teams were known as the “Fighting [insert mascot name here, hopefully not a religious identity]”. Hence, I become a Fighting Quaker on March 31, 2009.</p>

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<p>PENNgineers do it all over Towne.</p>