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Nov | Dec 2026
Vol. 125, No. 2
Features
High Price, Low Price, Your Price, My Price
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owens C’06 is leading the charge to protect Americans from the depredations of “surveillance pricing.” Wharton marketing professor Z. John Zhang thinks a ban would hurt the very people it means to help. Fresh off testifying at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the issue, the alumna and professor go toe-to-toe debating what Congress should do next.
By Trey Popp
Within Our Bodies: A Third Waterway
The discovery of a circulatory system called the interstitium that operates “in between” the lymphatic and cardiovascular systems has profound implications for the diagnosis and treatment of many conditions—and may forge new links between Western, Eastern, and other traditional medicines.
By Mary Ann Meyers
Present at the Creation
Creation Entertainment cofounder and CEO Gary Berman W’77 went where no one had gone before in the expanding universe of pop culture fan conventions.
By Jonathan Takiff
Departments
From the Editor | Who’s buying?
Letters | On faculty books, Penn Hillel, and higher ed’s “trust issues.”
Views
Alumni Voices | “The birds know what to do and when to do it.”
Elsewhere | Small acts of construction in a breaking world.
Salvo | Fight until the death.
Expert Opinion | The sociology of side effects.
Gazetteer
Campus | University architect and alum Mark Kocent on Quad renovations.
Heard on Campus | How Franklin (and Washington) saved the Constitution.
Gifts | $50 million to Penn Medicine, $22.5 million for SAS.
Convocation | Class of 2030 welcomed, with Odyssey references and more.
Faculty | Albarracín succeeds long-serving Jamieson at APPC.
Student Resources | Career Services marks 100 years.
Sports | Isaiah Carroll anchors a stellar crop of men’s hoops newcomers; new Hall of Fame class.
Arts
Calendar
Visual Art | Alicia Fowler W’09’s long-exposure prints of old city trees.
Exhibition | Revolutionary-era art at the Arthur Ross Gallery. At Liberty.
Music | The Tonics’ journey from Main Line kitchens to internet sensation.
Briefly Noted
Alumni
John “Hench” Murray C’66 GEd’67 has broadcast Penn football for 45 years.
Tony Sorrentino GCP’05 heads the Fairmount Park Conservancy.
Sundas Hashmi C’05 EAS’05 is living in the moment after brain surgery.
Notes
Obituaries
Old Penn | The once-controversial Covenant, restored.
