A map holds pushpins marking the hometowns of international students now at Penn. The Class of 2010 is notable for having a larger portion of students from abroad than previous classes had.

The third time's the charm - at least that's officials are hoping in regards to the retail space at 3716 Spruce St.

Though Penn's move eastward dominated much of the conversation about campus expansion over the summer, several projects closer to Penn's core have also been under way. Construction continued through the muggy Philadelphia summer, and students are returning to a newly completed building and a rapidly changing campus.

The fate of free digital music on campus still hangs in limbo as Penn students begin arriving for the new semester. Campus leaders promise that students will soon have access to free, legal music - and students are eager to get it. Ruckus - a music and movie subscription program that will soon be available for all Penn students - is slated to begin operation for all students this fall.

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.

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.

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.

Hordes of students are coming back to party during New Student Orientation, and Allegro Pizza's new owner wants his restaurant ready for them. "I want it set up like my other store!" owner Dimitrios Dimopoulos yelled into his cell phone Monday, negotiating with the phone company.

Wharton junior Jack Hotz will be returning to school a lot richer this year - thanks to a gigantic fish. Hotz caught an 82-lb. white marlin in the White Marlin Open in early August, winning the top prize of $1.5 million. Hotz was fishing in the Ocean City, Md.

The recent murder of Penn Law School alumnus Robert Wone has elicited sorrowful memories of him from Law School faculty while puzzling those investigating the killing. Three friends found Wone - who graduated from the Law School with honors in 1999 - in their Washington, D.

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.

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.

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.

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.