Just hours after a gunman shot down three in a courthouse in nearby Wilmington, Del., Vice President Joe Biden sat down for a roundtable discussion on gun control with local government and law enforcement leaders on Monday.

Sunday night, the Undergraduate Assembly considered a proposal to completely eliminate water bottles on Penn’s campus.

Some students at Penn plan to pursue international careers.

A Department of Defense white paper outlining the circumstances in which the U.S. government can order the killing of any member of Al Qaeda’s leadership abroad provoked a variety of reactions among several Penn faculty whose research interests relate to drone warfare.

The R&B-inspired a cappella group, The Inspiration, collaborated with the Excelano Project — Penn’s award-winning spoken word group — for the fifth year in their annual Valentine’s Day show, “Love Talk and Slow Jams.”

William Noel, the founding director of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at Van Pelt Library, inclines himself over a thirteenth-century Bible and unhooks the clasps that hold the pages together.

The deadline for registration at the Penn Alexander School has been moved up to Feb. 11 at 5 p.m. This year, the school district will be implementing a new lottery system for the school.

Since receiving $300,000 from the AT&T Aspire Local High School Impact Initiative for the Academic Support & Enrichment Program, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships has been hard at work to encourage ninth graders at Sayre and University City High Schools to improve their academic performance and graduate on time.

The Interfraternity Council, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and the Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiatives collaborated to reorganize the implementation of sanctions for unregistered parties.

The 10th annual Wharton China Conference discussed the country’s transition and change.

The five finalist teams of the Fourth Annual Fels Public Policy Challenge will compete on February 24th.

The Quakers continued to strive and gain consistency even with injuries plaguing the team. The absence of senior Dana Bonincontri meant that other team members had to step up.

Concert violinist and Juilliard and Yale graduate Igor Pikayzen told me in an interview that pop is more about “creating a sort of ambiance” than producing worthwhile art. Indeed, blasting “Ass ass ass” is a crude but clear message to girls at frat parties. However, nothing great was ever conceived as background music.

I enjoyed participating in Experimetrix speech labs and word rating exercises that introduced to me to fields like psycholinguistics and visual studies. A friend of mine learned a fake language for a linguistics study and came back saying that it was “awesome.”

PENNaach and other groups performed for PENNaach’s 15th annual show.

Traveling into the heart of the blizzard, the Quakers (10-9, 3-2 Ivy) split a pair of games this weekend, losing at Yale (7-13, 2-4) 65-56, before topping Brown (7-13, 1-5), 65-48.

The Quakers put on a show Saturday against Ivy League foes Harvard and Brown. The Crimson (4-5, 1-2 Ivy) drove the No. 22 Red and Blue (7-3, 2-1) to the edge in many bouts, but the latter avenged last year’s 23-19 loss by winning eight out of 10 bouts to secure a 24-6 victory at the Palestra.