Quaker Nation

Athletic Director M. Grace Calhoun has been making a lot of changes in her first year at the helm of Penn Athletics. On Tuesday, Calhoun — after long discussions with the Wharton marketing department — announced that the Quakers would be re-branding the athletic programs as the Penn Red and Blue and adopting a new tree-based mascot. “No, I don’t see any similarity to [Stanford’s athletic program],” Calhoun said when asked of her decision. When it came down to it, Penn athletics decided it needed more of a natural mascot.