CAMPUS BRIEFS: Monday, October 27, 1997

Rescheduled 'Meet the Quakers' goes well The event was originally scheduled to follow the September 20 football game against Dartmouth, but football administrators made a controversial "last-minute" decision to postpone the event after 22 of the team's 77 players were injured in the game. Friday night's program contained all the festivities scheduled for the first Meet the Quakers event, including a tour of the team's training room and locker room, as well as an autograph and photo session with 20 members of the varsity football team and several Penn cheerleaders. "It's a good turnout, and everyone seems to be having fun," Director of Football Operations Jerome James said. Several of the children at Friday's event had also been at the original Meet the Quakers event and said they were were happy to be back. "I just really want to meet them," said 8-year-old Max Wheeling, clutching a football he brought to have signed. Wheeling wrote a letter to The Daily Pennsylvanian in September expressing his disappointment when the first Meet the Quakers event was canceled. He did get his football signed this time around and stressed that the football team "was really nice to me." Other participants reported similarly positive experiences. Young Nafice Fields, for example, won the chance to flip the coin for possession at Saturday's varsity football game against Brown after winning a pop quiz testing the kids' knowledge of what they had learned about the team. All of the participants at the event received free tickets to Saturday's game, and many returned to cheer as their new favorite players crushed Brown, 31-10. -- Becca Iverson