By 3:00 p.m., the airport terminal was filled with hundreds of protestors, including several Penn students, chanting, "No wall, no registry, f**k white supremacy,” and “No hate, no fear immigrants are welcome here.”

The statement did not mention President Donald Trump by name, in keeping with Penn's pattern of declining to acknowledge their most famous alumnus even as he has assumed the nation's highest office. 

In his speech, Vice President Mike Pence pledged to defund national organizations that sponsor abortions, such as Planned Parenthood, and vowed that Trump would appoint a pro-life nominee to fill the vacancy left by late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.

“None of us have six degrees of separation anymore from the criminal justice system,” Marie Gottschalk said. “It’s metastasizing into our wider democracy and questioning the legitimacy of democracy in the United States.”

"This is not a dictatorship. This is a democracy. We will take avail of every opportunity we have to protect our citizens and protect our people who are living in our city,” the first-term mayor said, according to 6abc.

"This is the most unpredictable and ominous climate for the City of Philadelphia I have seen in my 17 years in office," Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke said in the press release.

Many protestors held signs denouncing the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Bob Deleon, who carried a poster that read 'Obamacare saved my father', said that the affordability of health insurance under Obamacare helped his father get the care he needed when he had a heart attack in 2015. 

The draft of the order demands a 30-day halt on immigration from several countries that have already been labelled as linked to terrorism under various laws, including Iraq, Iran, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia. 

“This is not a dictatorship,” Kenney said, according to 6abc. “This is a democracy. We will take avail of every opportunity we have to protect our citizens and protect our people who are living in our city.”

“We need to come together to undo the isolation of the Trump campaign,” College freshman Lilly Balla said. “You can’t ignore 3 million people.”

As the first Penn graduate elected as the President sets up shop in the Oval Office, the brief career at the University of the only other Penn-affiliated President, William Henry Harrison, resurfaces.

“It was hysterical to see him on CNN and all the news networks, because there’s your friend running for president,” Tony Altimore said. 

Danish journalist and author Flemming Rose argued that the only valid limitations on free speech are restrictions on speech that incites violence. Other than that form, he said all speech should be tolerated.

Students for Fair Admissions, which opposes affirmative action in college admissions, is contending in court that Harvard's admissions policies are disadvantageous for Asian American applicants.

Two Harvard University officials were targeted last week in a blog post on "VDARE," a white nationalist website promoting strict anti-immigration laws.

Not far from the Penn graduate taking the oath of highest office, inside the Capitol Building, was another Penn alumna. Behind the scenes, this recent grad was involved in the inauguration in another capacity: she helped to plan it.

As of Jan. 23, he was omitted from the University Archives and Records Center's list of alumni heads of state or government. Trump's name was added on Jan. 24, after The Daily Pennsylvanian Opinion Board reached out to him about the issue.