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Many moons ago, when I was a grad student at the University of Pennsylvania, the campus newspaper ran a story that Penn had agreed to merge with the state university system. Penn State would become the University of Pennsylvania at State College and Penn would become the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia. It was several paragraphs in before I realized it was a joke. I'm not normally that gullible, but in this case, there had been a lot of controversy at the time about exactly how much funding Penn was going to receive from the state. Furthermore, it was about the third week in March. I was new on campus, so I didn't know that it was traditional to have the "April Fool's" issue of the paper close to, but not actually on, April 1, to avoid being too predictable.
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