College freshman Zuolu Liu and her father, who is a Drexel employee, transport her belongings into Liu's dorm room in the Quadrangle on Monday afternoon. Most freshmen moved in earlier this week to arrive in time for New Student Orientation, which begins today.

Authorities are still investigating the shooting of a bicycle-theft suspect by a Penn Police officer earlier this summer. The officer shot and wounded Brahim Johnson, 25, during an attempted bike theft at about 4:45 p.m. July 4. Officials at Penn's Division of Public Safety said the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office is still investigating the incident but could not comment further, citing the ongoing inquiry.

This summer, Philadelphia lost its chance to host the summer Olympics. On July 26, the United States Olympic Committee eliminated the City of Brotherly Love, along with Houston, from its list of potential U.S. cities for the 2016 Summer Games, leaving just Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco in the running for America's nomination.

College senior E. Martyn Griffen has taken further measures against two Penn individuals who he says beat and branded him in an alleged hazing incident last fall. Griffen filed a private complaint that now has the two facing criminal charges from the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.

Along with the usual parade of dorm furniture and school supplies, the Class of 2010 will also bring a stronger international flavor than any of its predecessors when they officially begin moving onto campus today. The newest 2,386 members of the Penn family bring with them 280 students hailing from abroad -- in addition to 11 students from Puerto Rico and one from the Virgin Islands.

A Penn organization that checks accuracy in political advertising has been singled out as one of the 25 most indispensable Web sites by Time.com. Factcheck.org -made famous when Dick Cheney referenced it during the 2004 vice-presidential debate - is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center.

Rudy Fuller no longer has a freshman-heavy team, but he knows that success will not just fall into a team's lap - even an experienced one. Last year, Fuller's men's soccer team played with 11 freshmen. Despite some promising output, especially from leading scorers Mike Klein and Alex Grendi, the season ended on a bitter note.

Al Bagnoli is about to begin his 15th season as Penn's head football coach. In his first 14 years, the Quakers have gone no more than three seasons in a row without winning an Ivy League title. And Penn's last championship came in 2003, so another year without a title would match his longest drought.

After ten months in Beirut, Lebanon, College senior Sara Barclay saw her study-abroad experience come to a sudden and surreal end aboard an evacuation helicopter on July 23. "It was really a strange, bizarre thing to see Lebanon in this state," Barclay said.

Most new freshmen know it's a bad idea to use their new roommates' stuff without asking. But this year, the Class of 2010 is reading a whole book about property laws. As part of New Student Orientation, freshmen will discuss Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, this year's Penn Reading Project book, as author and Penn alumnus Lawrence Lessig debates intellectual property issues with a Penn Law professor.

Abdi Farah is a College sophomore from Owings Mills, Md. His e-mail address is abdi@sas.upenn.edu.

They oversee thousands of students. They manage millions of dollars. They run the show here at Penn. But many undergraduates can't even name them. These are the people whose choices affect every member of the Penn community.   It has been three years since Amy Gutmann shed the robe of Princeton University's provost to serve as Penn's president.

When watching Invincible, the viewer is treated to a bird's-eye-view panoramic of the now extinct Veterans' Stadium. But as the camera passes over the top of the concrete giant, an astute viewer will notice that the field is not the artificial turf of the Vet but rather the Sprinturf of Penn's Franklin Field.

Alexandria, Va. -- Wharton professor emeritus Scott Ward remains in custody after federal agents discovered videos allegedly showing him engaging in sex acts with teenage boys. Ward, who will no longer be teaching at Penn, was charged with importation of child pornography after being searched as he returned to the United States from a trip to Brazil on Sunday.

After just two seasons coaching Penn, women's squash coach Jack Wyant has been named coach of the U.S. Junior Women's Squash Team. The team will compete in the world championships in Hong Kong next year, but meanwhile, Wyant will continue coaching the Quakers.

Before you request that transfer application to Stanford or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, you might want to listen to what the experts have to say about Penn's drop in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. Their overall message: It's just not that big of a deal.

When Fran Dunphy ended his 17-year-long tenure as the coach of the Penn basketball program, he set off a chain reaction of personnel shifts that touched colleges around the country: Temple, Brown, Northwestern, even Central Connecticut State. But the one man who may have made the biggest adjustment over the past several months was Glen Miller, the man with whom athletic director Steve Bilsky chose to start the new era of Penn basketball.