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President's Update
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A Message from the President
October 1, 2004
Dear Colleagues,
It has been several weeks since I have written a letter to you. It feels as if we have been moving about 100 miles per hour, and I don't foresee a decrease in speed coming anytime soon. I must admit though, I like to be busy. Throug...
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See More #32
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This week's issue
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Oct 5, 2004
by USM Sympathizer
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HA: Good news re: USM Center for Writers
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20041004/localnews/1354860.html
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Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine: October 3
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Groupie #1 mistakenly reported that I missed last week's Citation de la Semaine selection process because I would not leave a Blackjack table. Blackjack table, indeed. That was an Oyster Shucking table. I was attending the Great North American Oyster Shucking 'n Broiling Cookoff Charity B...
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Oct 4, 2004
by Polyonymous
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3 hrs. and 45 minutes to get to the football game?
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From today's HA:
University officials will close administrative offices at noon Thursday and dismiss classes at 2:15 p.m. and labs at 4 p.m. to allow faculty, staff and students time to go to the game against the University on. Kickoff is at 6 p.m.
Just how long does it take to get ready to attend a f...
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Slow Poke
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Oct 4, 2004
by The Shadow
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HA Afternoon News Update - 10/4
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Now online:
"A jury was selected in Forrest County Circuit Court today to hear the nine-year-old civil lawsuit filed against the University of Southern Mississippi by Anne Jordan who claimed she was wrongly fired from her job as director of the Lamar County Community Partnership in 1994."
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Lawsuits on Parade
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Oct 4, 2004
by Lawsuits on Parade
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A poem
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At least one academic blogger is paying attention to the situation at USM.
See Margaret Soltan's University Diaries at
http://margaretsoltan.phenominet.com/
...and scroll down to the entry for September 26, past the material that she quoted from Liberty and Power.
Robert Ca...
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Oct 4, 2004
by Margaret Soltan
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Nom d'Aplomb Award, October 3
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Once again, the antimacassar tossers gathered with their snifters ready for a noisy meeting only to discover that Select Shun Committee adequately described their deliberations. There have been times in the past when the committee had to find a Copier to duplicate the nomination lists, but not so...
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Losing Steam
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Alas...I fear the movement is losing steam. In a google search, the USM AAUP message board now appears in 4th place...it used to be in first. Gurenburg (sp?) is gone...risk managers and their assistants are missing...the Night Chalker I fear was captured months ago by USM Night Stalke...
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Oct 2, 2004
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PC Agenda
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Posters on the "Losing Steam" thread were asking questions about the PUC and activities on campus. The tentative agenda for the next PC meeting is below.
Item 2a is in connection to concerns raised last meeting, by Myron Henry and others, about the proposed Affirmative Action reorganization u...
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Merit raises all faculty: ATTENTION
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The process for determining merit raises in the College of Liberal Arts is now revealed. This is the process:
The dean elected to evaluate on his own all 160 plus faculty members in his college in 3 categories: teaching, research, service. He elected to assess ONLY the productivity from the year 20...
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Oct 2, 2004
by resurrection
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AAUP-USM website: expired?
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I attempted to enter the AAUP-USM website from the clickable link at the top left of the message board, and also through a google search. Neither attempts were successful The site was listed as "expired." This is the site I attempted to access: www.aaup-usm.org Have I missed something? Has th...
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Person of Interest
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Oct 2, 2004
by The Shadow
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The Student Printz-MIA???
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I was in the HUB (Student Union) today and was looking for the Thursday edition of the Student Printz. This was my first trip to the HUB this week and I missed picking up a Tuesday edition as well.
I did not see ANY Student Printz to be read??????????? Has something happened that I am unaware of? Is the...
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Green Hornet
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Oct 1, 2004
by Printz Lover
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Role Models?
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Lead article in today's (10/1) Chronicle of Higher Education:
Federal Report Accuses U. of Phoenix of Illegal Pressure Tactics in Order to Pump Up Enrollment
"The fast-growing University of Phoenix fosters a high-pressure sales culture that rewards recruiters who put the most "asses in cla...
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Chronicler
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Oct 1, 2004
by Chronicler
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Proverbs for these times
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As I said more briefly in another post, those of us in the trenches have been silent because we are brutally busy trying to keep up with our teaching, research, and service. Nevertheless, our teaching is not divorced from our lives. One of my teaching responsibilities is Literary Study of the B...
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Oct 1, 2004
by View from a Distance
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What happened to GURUNBERG
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Has gurunberg been comprised????...whisked away in the night???...the board is COMPLETELY boring without gurunberg and his/her minion's insights...
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Where'sthemole
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Sep 30, 2004
by Herr Doktor Mengela
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Call Center Conference
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USM will host call center conference Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA ... Attending will be USM President Shelby Thames, Mississippi Development Authority director
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Food For Thought
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I thought you folks might be interested in the recommendations of a panel commissioned by the University of Texas concerning revamping their undergrad core curriculuum.
From the Austin American Statesman, 09/29/04--
"The University of Texas (presently) fails to equip its undergraduate s...
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Austin Eagle
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Sep 30, 2004
by Austin Eagle
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See More #31
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This week's issue
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Somebody thinks the liberal arts are important
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The NY Times reports today that New York Univerisity is beefing up its Liberal Arts programs in an effort to " make the liberal arts more of the intellectual core of the university, rather than one more school in a confederation of schools."
The story can be accessed here. Its free but you have to re...
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Libertyand Power on alleged faculty complicity
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I've just put up a response to Charles Nuckolls at Liberty and Power.
I think his charge that Shelby Thames remains in power because of faculty complicity is way off-base, and I try to explain why.
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/7615.html
A big hat-tip to already gone, wh...
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Bond Issue
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I received the following message from Bob Pierce encouraging me to vote in favor of the bond issue. My response to him follows the message. I hope all Hattiesburg voters and alumni will express their opposition to the bond issue based on the demolition done during the past year by Shelboo!
Dear Fe...
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more from cbedding
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Professor Marc DePree
Cost Accounting 320
Case: Installing an Academic Program in France
Cost Benefit Analysis – A copy of the following Payment Request was collected in an exercise of the Mississippi Open Records Act.
“PAYMENT REQUEST
Invoice #: POINT1...
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Open Door Policy
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http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/09/28/41590f74f1f50
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Swan Song
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Sep 28, 2004
by Swan Song
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Liberty and Power entry worth commenting on
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My colleague Charles Nuckolls, of the University of Alabama, has put a brief and very pessimistic entry about USM on Liberty and Power:
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/7571.html
This is the third time (if memory serves) that Charles has blamed Thames' continued hold on power on Frank Glam...
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Sep 28, 2004
by already gone
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negative story just on WDAM
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WDAM just reported on a student who withdrew from USM and enrolled at Belhaven, complaining that he/she was forced to read a book for an english class that was laced with sex, etc. He/she also reported that his/her foreign language teacher consistently used profanity in class. They in...
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Messenger
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Sep 27, 2004
by Parchman's Presidential Cell Block
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USM Job Openings in Chronicle
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http://chronicle.com/jobs/id.php?id=302221&pg=e
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Sep 27, 2004
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Thames: "We took your CarryOver?"
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In a meeting today with Department Chairs and various Deans, etc., President Thames was apparently completely surprised to hear that departments had their carryover monies wiped out recently (was that one source of the raises????)
At first one person mentioned it as having happened at one depa...
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What's That?
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Sep 27, 2004
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USM just eliminated the Monday-Wednesday class ...
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option. Word swirling all over campus about it now. Students no longer have the option of taking 75 minute classes on Mondays and Wednesdays. These courses will revert back to 50 minute courses, and a Friday session will be added.
Word on this is just getting to the stude...
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The Bachelor
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Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semain: 9-26
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It’s a long story, but Mr. Wonderful is “unavailable” today. The last time I saw him he was at a casino blackjack table. He was winning big and I could not convince him to leave. He said, and I quote, “Luna, you take care of the awards and I’ll take care of business.” So mercy me, here I am IN CHARGE! It...
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Mr. Wonderful's #1 Groupie
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Sep 26, 2004
by Luna (#1 Groupie)
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Nom d'Aplomb Award, September 13-26
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With the passing of two weeks since the last Nom d'Aplomb award during which time we were mostly Out of Touch, the committee was left with a great deal of time to ponder the One More Question of What's in a Name so that we could choose the most deserving Poster Child. With the assistance of Occam to slice th...
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Miss Information
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Sep 26, 2004
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USM AAUP Page 'hijacked'?
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Just tried to open http://www.aaup-usm.org, and got a 'whois' search help page. Has the AAUP web page been 'hijacked,' or did somebody let the domain go un-renewed?
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Sep 25, 2004
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Liberty and Power entry on the rankings fiasco
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I've posted an entry on Liberty and Power on USM's fall in the US News and World Report rankings.
The link is
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/7553.html
I plan to follow up with shorter items about the alleged uniqueness of the Economic Development program and about Noel Polk's departur...
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Robert Campbell
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Sep 24, 2004
by USM Sympathizer
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Know anything about the Anne Jordan case?
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040920/localnews/1270751.html
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Is this the judge?
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I was stumbling around the web & fell across this photo, which I swear looks like El Presidenté decked out for an open hearing.
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Sep 22, 2004
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More from the Chronicle re: Noel Polk
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This is from the 9/24/04 edition of the Chronicle, written by our old friend, Thomas Bartlett (he covered the Stringer/Glamser crisis for the Chronicle). It is in a section entitled "Peer Review" on page A7 (for those of you with hardcopies):
LETTER RIP: First, Noel Polk quit. ...
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See More #30
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This week's issue
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Sep 22, 2004
by Going, going, gone
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HA Letter
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040920/opinion/1270808.html
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Article in Printz about Banners
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Any body read the front page of the Student Printz?
Seems residents of Weber Hall are requesting it's removal.
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Green Hornet
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Sep 22, 2004
by truth4usm/AH
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The Student Printz
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Why is it no longer online?? It has been a month since its last issue was online. This stinks!
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Sep 22, 2004
by thirsting for news
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Value of liberal education
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A glance at the current issue of "Peer Review":
Teaching the importance of a liberal education
Liberal education is undervalued, but graduate schools can help
change that, says Carol Geary Schneider, president of the
Association of American Colleges and Universities, which
publi...
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from the Chronicle
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Sep 21, 2004
by USM Sympathizer
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Thames Petition
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I periodically check in on the petition to see if there are any new names, and this morning saw a post to it that I think Truth needs to see and consider deleting if she can. It has a very negative message (toward the cause) which does not fit in, and the person doesn't sign their...
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Let Freedom Ring
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Sep 20, 2004
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3 Questions about USM's Grad B-School....
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1. Who was the B-School's grad programs director from about 2000-2003?
2. What are the admissions requirements like for the MBA program?
3. Where do USM's MBA students come from? (what undegrad inst.? etc.)
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The Independent does it again!
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“The Independent” dated September 16, 2004 has the following article on the front page:
“”SOUTHERN FUMBLES THE BALL”
Some excerpts from the article:
“This week, another national publication, Business Week magazine, listed its evaluation of Masters of Business Administration pr...
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Editorial on Public Education in Mississippi
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There was a good editorial on public education, including colleges and universities, in this morning's (September 18) Hattiesburg American. I'm surprised nobody has hotlinked it on the message board:
State must reformulate priorities
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Sep 19, 2004
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RSS Newsfeed & Mozilla Sidebar Revisited
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The scraper program that generates the RSS newsfeed for this message board has been revised to handle some changes that Activeboard made a while back in the HTML code behind these pages. The newsfeed is compatible with standard...
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Invictus' IT Director
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Sep 18, 2004
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Online Economic Development Degree -- Free! Now!
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Get your free online Economic Development Numerology degree.
(The name you enter is not logged & no attempt is made to figure out your IP address.)
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Invictus
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Sep 18, 2004
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SFT is not a wise man
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It just occurred to me that when the winds from IVAN come to Hattiesburg, that SFT may have a new problem. During the summer, Shelby was quoted as saying “God speaks to me and tells me what I’m doing is right” I don’t believe Shelby is a wise nor humble man before the LORD.  ...
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PC & Economic Development
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At the last PC meeting, it was mentioned during the discussion of USM's "credibility" that Mader’s PR used terms like "unique", "one of a kind", "comprehensive" and "world class" when discussing USM economic development program. As a result SFT said he would ask Ken Malone to address the next PC abo...
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FromPicayune paper
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http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2004/09/16/news/07pipe.txt
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