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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA • FOUNDED 1885

PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2024

VOL. CXL

NO. 27

John Thune

Elon Musk

Jay Clayton

U.S. senator, incoming U.S. Senate majority leader

1997 College and Wharton graduate, nominee for Department of Government Efficiency

1988 Engineering graduate, 1993 Penn Carey Law graduate, under consideration for U.S. Treasury secretary

“[I]t is time for immediate action — including law enforcement action where warranted — to protect [Jewish] students and ensure that they can attend school in safety.”

“I think college is basically for fun and to prove that you can do your chores, but they’re not for learning.”

“Look, if the only thing that happens here is Liz Magill and Claudine Gay get fired and what’s going on on college campuses continues, it’s a total waste.”

Elise Stefanik

Donald Trump

JD Vance

U.S. representative, nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations

1968 Wharton gradute, former president, and president-elect

U.S. senator, vice president-elect

“These universities are in for a reckoning for decades to come that will shatter their ivory towers.”

“We’re going to take away their endowments, and they will pay us billions and billions of dollars for the terror they have unleashed.”

“If any of us want to do the things that we want to do for our country ... we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.”

Matt Gaetz

Mike Johnson

Dave McCormick

Nominee for U.S. attorney general

U.S. representative, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Republican Senate candidate from Pennsylvania

“The possibility that China may be using ‘anonymous donations’ in order to impact presidential politics should alarm all Americans.”

“Nearly every [House] committee here has a role to play in these efforts to stop the madness that has ensued.”

“Combat the rise of liberal extremism ... by making federal funding for U.S. universities contingent on stamping out antisemitism.”

Penn alumni, adversaries ascend to power President-elect Donald Trump will take office alongside a Republican trifecta keen on scrutinizing the University THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN STAFF

DESIGN BY MAKAYLA WU

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Penn Museum uncovers remains of MOVE bombing victims The statement confirmed that the remains matched the records of Delisha Africa, and that the findings have been communicated to the family VIDYA PANDIARAJU Senior Reporter

CHENYAO LIU | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Hundreds of “Missing Cow” posters — which have been criticized for appearing to mock posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas — were found on campus on Nov. 16, 2023.

Penn suspends Wharton fraternity for hanging posters alleged to mock kidnapped Israelis A University spokesperson described the posters as “crude” and “deplorable,” adding that Penn was working to identify the individuals responsible for them BEN BINDAY News Editor

Penn has suspended its chapter of the Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity until fall 2025 after an investigation into its involvement in hanging “Missing Cow” posters alleged to mock kidnapped Israelis. In a statement to The Daily Pennsylvanian, DSP Executive Director Jeremy Levine wrote that DSP was suspended until at least fall 2025 “as a result of violations of the Delta Sigma Pi Risk Management Policy.” A recent report by the United States House Committee on

Education and the Workforce, which included some of Penn’s disciplinary records, wrote that the suspension of a Wharton fraternity came after an investigation into the “Missing Cow” posters. The records indicated that the posters had been hung as a part of an “‘initiation-week’ ‘prank’ by newly-recruited members.” See DSP, page 7

The Penn Museum announced on Wednesday that they have located additional human remains connected to the MOVE bombing. On Nov. 13, Penn museum published a statement — titled “Towards a Respectful Resolution” — where they said an “ongoing comprehensive inventory of [the museum’s] biological anthropology section” led to the discovery. The statement confirmed that the remains matched the records of Delisha Africa, and noted that the findings have been communicated to her family. “As we promised the Africa Family and our community in 2021, we have acted with speed and transparency in returning the remains, and we will continue to do so with all human remains in our care,” the statement said. In 1985, the Philadelphia city government bombed a home on Osage Avenue that housed MOVE, a Black liberation advocacy group. The bombing killed 11 people — including five children aged seven to 13 — and destroyed 61 homes in the neighborhood, leaving 250 local residents without a home. The remains included a pelvic bone and a femur that were previously in the custody of now-retired Anthropology professor Alan Mann, who received the remains from the city of Philadelphia in the 1990s after he was asked for assistance in identifying them. Mann studied the remains in collaboration with Anthropology professor and Penn Museum Physical Anthropology Curator Janet Monge before taking them to Princeton University for additional research. They were transferred back and forth between Penn and Princeton for over 35 years. At a press conference in 2023, Ramona Africa, the sole living adult survivor from the MOVE bombing, said that the Penn Museum has “abused those remains, they have refused to give us those remains, the bones.” In 2021, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that a forensic anthropologist hired by the MOVE Philadelphia Special Investigation Committee identified some remains as belonging to a 12-year-old victim known as Delisha, and

a 14-year-old victim known as Tree. The whereabouts of the remains were unclear at the time, but Penn Museum Director Christopher Woods told The New York Times that the remains were sent to Mann in April 2021. As of 2023, the location and status of the remains of Delisha Africa had not been confirmed to the public. Ramona Africa said at the 2023 press conference that she cannot trust the Penn Museum. Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, a local community activist who also spoke at the event, presented claims of new evidence of the museum’s possession of the additional remains of two victims of the MOVE bombing. The evidence came from photos of an online photo-sharing site from a public event that was hosted in 2014. Princeton course series titled “Real Bones: Adventures in Forensic Anthropology,” in which Monge and an undergraduate student examined the remains and attempted to determine the age of the bones, also previously provided evidence of the remains.

CHENYAO LIU | SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

The Penn Museum on Nov. 8.

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