By Sebastien Angel Staff Writer angelsd@sas.upenn.edu Penn basketball head coach Glen Miller said yesterday that David Whitehurst has yet to contact him this season, and suggested that the former guard does not figure into his vision for the program. "It doesn't mean we won't have a conversation down the road, but I don't know what David's thinking," the coach said.

Doctors may need to find another source of funding for their golfing trips. The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations - a Swiss-based organization that represents international pharmaceutical companies - enacted a new code last week that will help officials monitor drug representatives who, for years, have often offered elaborate gifts in an attempt to influence physicians' drug purchases.

While reading Don Quixote in Spanish might be educational, the future of foreign-language classes may rest in activities more akin to eating tapas while discussing the Euro. A report from the Modern Language Association - a New York-based organization that offers educational suggestions to humanities departments in institutions across the country - will recommend that foreign-language curricula at national universities cover a wider breadth of cultural topics, said MLA Executive Director Rosemary Feal.

After two mistrials in the hearings of murder suspect Irina Malinovskaya, prosecutors are preparing for round three. The prosecution will try Malinovskaya for a third time this April, Delaware Attorney General spokeswoman Janice Fitzsimons said.

In a city widely known for an unethical approach to politics, a Philadelphia watchdog group is doing its best to make sure the next mayor provides a change. The Committee of Seventy released a 28-point ethics agenda last week, asking each of the six potential Democratic candidates to sign off on the document.

The internal transfer process should be more difficult to stop students from using other programs to get into Wharton.

With league play about to descend upon the Ancient Eight, contests over winter break gave one final look at Penn's conference rivals before the "real" season begins. A bit stingy. To get a sense of how the Princeton defense has been playing recently, one fact from this week says it all: Rice's Morris Almond entered Jadwin Gymnasium on Saturday as the most prolific scorer in the nation, averaging a Division I-best 31.

Wharton alumnus John Patience has donated $1 million to the Wharton School, Wharton officials announced yesterday. The money will be used to establish the John Patience Endowed Fellowship Fund. The Fund - which will exist in perpetuity - will be given to one MBA student every year and will provide financial aid for that student.

Authorities arrested Penn Economics professor Rafael Robb yesterday afternoon in connection to the murder of his wife. He has been arraigned and is currently being held in jail without bail.

Despite calls for change, Penn isn't alone in its favor of early admissions. Amid continued debate among colleges and universities over the program's merits, Yale University announced last week that it will not be ending its early-action program. In an interview with Yale Alumni Magazine, President Richard Levin said the school will be keeping its early-action program because it believes that the best way to make schools more accessible is to improve financial-aid packages.

Law students across the country are turning heads for an allegedly widespread dependency on alcohol and drugs. According to the Association of American Law Schools, high-stress, cutthroat competition and heavy workloads are leading law students to engage in heavy alcohol and drug use, participate in Internet gambling and suffer from clinical depression.

Penn Economics professor Rafael Robb has been named the prime suspect in the murder of his wife, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor announced last week at a press conference.

Former Penn professor Tracy McIntosh has filed a petition to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to appeal a Superior Court decision that he be resentenced for his sexual-assualt conviction. McIntosh's lawyer, Thomas Bergstrom, said McIntosh filed the appeal on Dec.

Authorities issued a warrant this afternoon for the arrest of Penn Economics professor Rafael Robb, and the Associated Press reports that he is currently being held in jail without bail. Robb, 56, has been charged with the first- and third-degree murder of his wife, Ellen Robb, and with possessing instruments of crime, according to a press release from the office of Montgomery County district attorney Bruce Castor.

When a family member suffers from dementia, it's often better to hold onto the past.

Students should know what's happening next on the 3900 block.

Across from the Button sculpture on College Green, a simple white placard bears a somber message: "In Loving Memory of Lena Ali Hera. She died in Al Rashiddia on 7 Apr. 2003, age 5. Tank Attack." The signpost is one of some 500 that will dot the Green for the next week as part of a symbolic graveyard that Penn anti-war groups have installed to draw attention to the large number of Iraq War civilian deaths.