  We consider the prospect of using the charm system as a laboratory for
probing new physics. The theoretical expectations for rare charm meson decays,
$D^0-bar D^0$ mixing, and charm quark asymmetries in $Z$ decays are examined in
the Standard Model. The effects of new physics from several classes of
non-standard dynamical models are summarized for these phenomena. {Presented at
{\it Lafex International School on High Energy Physics (LISHEP95)}, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, February 6-22, 1995}
