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Pennsylvania college scraps plan for gender-neutral mascot, will keep Ben Franklin after all
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‘Our campus and alumni community expressed an affection for Ben Franklin and John Marshall,’ campus spokesperson says Franklin & Marshall College has decided to keep its namesake mascots, Benjamin Franklin and John Marshall, in response to strong feedback from the campus and alumni, a spokesperson c
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Background: Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath active as a physicist, philosopher, statesman and inventor who was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first postmaster general.3
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