This morning, a jury began its examination of Kermit Gosnell and what a prosecutor called his “house of horrors” less than a mile from Penn’s campus.

Vice presidential candidates in the Undergraduate Assembly Gabe Delaney, a College sophomore, and Christian Cortes, a Wharton sophomore, gathered to participate in the first debate of the election cycle, moderated by The Daily Pennsylvanian.

Mock, a transgender woman of color and “fierce activist” for transgender rights, gav the keynote speech for QPenn, Penn’s annual weeklong celebration of LGBTQA culture on Sunday night.

Education Week, which will last from March 18 to March 22, is hosting six different professors and administrators who will talk about one of six key aspects of the reaccreditation process that Penn is currently undergoing.

In a poll conducted over the course of the week from March 11 to 16, The Daily Pennsylvanian sought to measure students’ perceptions of the political efficacy of student government. The major questions of the survey included which issues students wanted to see addressed, how important student government was to their lives and whether students felt they could have their needs addressed by student government in a personal way.

Creative Ventures project at the Kelly Writers House recently awarded College seniors Josh Herren and Henry Steinberg $1,000 to put toward a body positive fashion festival.

The DP’s executive board decided on Friday that we will no longer publish advertisements from the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

The University prides itself on elevating groups that have faced discrimination, but it is penalizing Asian Americans for their success despite prejudice.

In February 2015, the infamous bar exam will change, but the Law School sees little reason to worry. The examiners of the Multistate Bar Examination are making fundamental alterations to the exam. They plan to add a new subject to the exam, Civil Procedures, and reduce the number of questions in other subjects to keep the total number at 200.

Over the past 40 plus years, SWRK 613 proved to be an academically rigorous and profoundly important course in preparing students to become competent social workers with diverse populations.

For the past three years, Penn students in the LGBT community have reached out to welcome prospective freshmen before they even arrive on campus.

The “virtual” world might conjure up images of avatars, fantasy worlds or “The Matrix.” For Wharton students, it means something completely different. The Virtual Lab, launched this semester, gives anyone with a Wharton account access to the Wharton lab — similar to accessing one of the computers in Huntsman Hall — from any network connection.

Snaps, shouts and applause resonated in Dunlop Auditorium Saturday night in appreciation of the Excelano Project’s show “Split No Lightning,” which took place this past Friday and Saturday. Excelano welcomed both old devotees and some new faces in the audience.

“Personally I have been through a lot of bad relationships, which is why I came to this conference,” said West Chester University student Sherita Rooney, who attended the Black Love Lives conference last Saturday. “I wanted to learn strategies that would help mend past relationships and would hopefully foster successful new ones.” This past weekend, writer, holistic healer, community activist and motivational speaker Nisa Ra hosted Black Love Lives in Houston Hall.

Instead of vacationing in Cancun or California over break, some groups of Penn students opted to help drug addicts on the street. Others embarked on various community service trips.

Mayor Michael Nutter signed an executive order earlier this month establishing the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant and Multi-Cultural Affairs. The new office will be tasked with “improving access to city services, engaging community-based organizations, developing economic resources and assisting with educational opportunities,”

Catholic students react to the election of new Pope Francis I.