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Green Hornet

Truth/AH Keep an eye on IVAN http://www.noaa.gov/ Keep safe............

Malapropism

Miss Information reports from one of the local shelters that she and the other ladies of the Missionary Society will be busy through the weekend tending to displaced families in need. Invictus has not checked in this morning but there are reports from the Whether Channel that folks finding re...

foot soldier

After Ivan has gone, and folks get power, please check in. Those of us who are far away will worry if we don't hear from you in the next couple of days (even the ones of you that we argue with!). If it is very bad, and large numbers of folks are without power, will those of you who have it, please report on the si...

Miles Long

Ken DeLay (from CNN): On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, called on CBS News to say where it got the memos. "I understand that people want to protect their sources, but we're dealing with the alleged forgery of government documents to influence a presidential race during war,...

Fire Shelby

My best to all USM folks in Hattiesburg and on the Coast--and to all those commuters who reside in all areas of the southern part of the state. It's going to get rough in the Hub area...I hope you have all stocked up on water and essentials, and ride this thing out OK. Best wishes, FS

Longhorn Eagle

By Laura Heinauer AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, September 14, 2004 They say everything's bigger in Texas. Ohio may beg to differ. Preliminary enrollment figures released Tuesday by the University of Texas suggest that the Austin campus can no longer claim to have the larg...

We're #1

If there's any way we're #1 we'll find it: Header about USM in today's HA: School No. 1 in duplicated enrollment USM quote in today's HA: "We educate more Mississippians than any other institution." Quote from wise USM undergraduate in toda...

Angeline

http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/Southern-Mississippi-Hosting-Call-Center-Conference-36564.html

Green Hornet

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_astorm9+shtml/130858.shtml?

Avid Reader

Why isn't the Student Printz being posted online?

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/updates/8670.html

Dr. E. L. Kersten

The Boss Day Blackout. BOSSES. They make more money than you do. They have better benefits packages. They enjoy greater job security than you could ever hope to know. And just in case you hadn't been paying attention, they also have a holiday coming up one month from...

See More

This week's issue geocities.com/seemore004

Dumb as The Rock

http://sports.excite.com/news/09132004/v7561.html

Noel Polk

Newgirl

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040913/SPORTS030104/409130372&SearchID=73183727672493

Invictus

Poll...

educator

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12897840&BRD=1377&PAG=461&dept_id=172922&rfi=6

Green Hornet

Sorry for the late post, my spies only just got back to me. Information has been passed to me that CONGRATS are inorder to the Student Printz who WON student organization of the year at this evenings Presidents and Advisors Dinner. From what I hear, SFT was there and he didn't look v...

Mr. Wonderful

Dedicated USM supporters, Last evening's telephone conference of the Citation de la Semaine selection committee was a somber one indeed following the confirmation of Professor Polk's departure to Starkville. We were all still rocking and reeling from th...

Just wondering . . .

Does anyone know if Profs. Glamser and Stringer will continue to be paid by USM for two years now that they are at top-tier schools? If so, this is even more well-deserved egg on the face of SFT. (Needless to say, I am hoping this is the case.)

Miss Information

[Editors Note: Before deliberations even began, Miss Information became insistent that we have a "red letter edition" just like the Good Book at the Ladies Missionary Society meetings. It's possible that she had had a little "preview" of the dewberry brandy before they arrived, but Invictus show...

palindrome

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In Yo' Face

USM just beat Nebraska!

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040821/southernmissnews/1088128.html

educator

Glad to see USM beat Nebraska. Hope Houston doesn't fare as well this evening however! http://www.soonersports.com/

what's going on?

i hear dean pood fired noel polk. is there anything to this?

Antivost

I read in the HA this morning that the provost's search committee is to provide the three top candidate's name to Shelboo, without ranking them. Obviously the little man wants the freedom to pick his guy without having to justify skipping over those more qualified. SMTTB!

grimeser

Effective immediately, and with approval from the President, I am transferring Intuitional Research from the Provost's Office to the President's Office. Specifically, IR will report to the Assistant to the President for Accreditation, Planning, and Articulation. The reason for t...

babbs

USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005 Noel Polk, Professor of English (Mississippi State University) name unknown, EAA/EEOC Staff (down-sized, situation pending) Becky Woodrick, Director of AA/EEOC (down-sized; situation pending) Total Leaving: 3 Total Retiring:

babbs

USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005 Noel Polk, Professor of English (Mississippi State University) Hitomi Wince, EAA/EEOC Staff (down-sized, situation pending) Becky Woodrick, Director of AA/EEOC (down-sized; situation pending) Total Leaving: 3 Total Retiring:

Third Ring

From the USM Employment Page: --------------------------------------- Job # 04E0219 - Legal Counsel to the President (Part Time 70%) Location: President's Office Salary: Commensurate with education and experience Post Start Date: 8/31/04; &n...

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040909/opinion/1206337.html

Emma

Do they exist? How have others been terminated? Is it addressed in the revolving Faculty Handbooks?? I know how a couple of faculty members got terminated - they showed me the paperwork. Shouldn't it follow some type of due process??? Pathetic procedures do not make a great universi...

USM in bondage

Academically USM is toward the very bottom of the 4th tier and yet it wants to fritter away funds like this (from today's HA)? "Southern Miss wants approval to add a 1 percent tax to hotel bills and restaurant tabs for improvements to Reed Green Coliseum, M.M. Roberts Stadium, the base...

foot soldier

As requested on the password thread, I am putting my money where my mouth is and starting a new limerick thread. When Lisa sends out the publicity, She's guilty of flagrant duplicity. She lies, and what’s more From tier three to tier four. We’ve fallen with Shelby’s complicity.

friend of FCC staffer

A good friend of mine is a staffer at the FCC. He got a copy of the transcript of a phone call Shelby placed to the USNWR people to gather info on USM's fall from grace. Here it is: USNWR Staffer: Hello, USNWR, America's Best College Division, how may I help you? SFT: Yes, ..uh, this is She...

Anon

Please create a hot link to the latest LOVE Letter from Shelboo: http://www.usm.edu/president/

Angeline

Just informed by my chair that the library may be unable to buy ANY books for any department this year due to budget cuts, increasing costs of journals, and complete lack of commitment from the Administration. Remember it was Shelby who said/asked: "I haven't used the library in over 15 years,...

media circus

please post here.

Lost in Tiernation

Dazed and confused, the ex-USM faculty member suddenly finds himself at a Tier 1 university. It's like one of those time-travel movies where the 18th-century count finds himself walking the streets of New York, or a movie in which Jane takes a disoriented Tarzan back to civilization. For the...

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040903/localnews/1173643.html

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040908/southernmissnews/1199443.html

Lisa Mader

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In a cost-cutting move, the University of Southern Mississippi will reduce its staff by shutting down the physical plant. "We believe this reorganization will make us more efficient and effective," Southern Miss spokeswoman Lisa Mader said Friday. "Our faculty m...

Curious

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040907/COL0509/409070350/1173/SPORTS

Newgirl

Hattiesburg American Column filled with half-truths LETTERS Carl Nicholson's recent column ("Great things are happening at Southern Miss," May 30), plays with the truth. USM was not "featured" in U.S. News & World Report, but was the subject of a paid ad. Excellence in teaching and r...

Palindrome

http://www.ur.msstate.edu/news/stories/2004/enrollment04.asp

babbs

USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005 Noel Polk, Professor of English (Mississippi State University) Becky Woodrick, Director of AA/EEOC (down-sized; situation pending) Total Leaving: 2 Total Retiring:

FatManWalking

In the recent issue of US News and World Report rankings of USM the percentage for "Average Alumni Giving Rate" was listed as "Not Available." USM was ranked in Tier 4. I noticed that all the Tier 1 and Tier 2 and Tier 3 schools answered this part of the survey. Although this section was worth o...

Concerned

I just heard that Kim Herzinger is leaving USM. Has this been discussed or announced here, and has it been confirmed? I hope it isn't true. At the present rate of "decay", there'll be no English faculty remaining by the end of the 2004-05 academic year.

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Message for Truth/AH (Preview) Truth/AH Keep an eye on IVAN http://www.noaa.gov/ Keep safe............	Green Hornet	2	362	Sep 16, 2004 by Green Hornet
	Nom d'Aplomb Cancelled for week by Ivan (Preview) Miss Information reports from one of the local shelters that she and the other ladies of the Missionary Society will be busy through the weekend tending to displaced families in need. Invictus has not checked in this morning but there are reports from the Whether Channel that folks finding re...	Malapropism	2	268	Sep 16, 2004 by Invictus
	Post-Ivan check-in thread (Preview) After Ivan has gone, and folks get power, please check in. Those of us who are far away will worry if we don't hear from you in the next couple of days (even the ones of you that we argue with!). If it is very bad, and large numbers of folks are without power, will those of you who have it, please report on the si...	foot soldier	10	552	Sep 16, 2004 by Invictus
	Ever see SFT and Ken DeLay together? (Preview) Ken DeLay (from CNN): On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, called on CBS News to say where it got the memos. "I understand that people want to protect their sources, but we're dealing with the alleged forgery of government documents to influence a presidential race during war,...	Miles Long	1	423	Sep 15, 2004 by Miles Long
	be safe today (Preview) My best to all USM folks in Hattiesburg and on the Coast--and to all those commuters who reside in all areas of the southern part of the state. It's going to get rough in the Hub area...I hope you have all stocked up on water and essentials, and ride this thing out OK. Best wishes, FS	Fire Shelby	8	449	Sep 15, 2004 by USM Sympathizer
	What a strange idea? (Preview) By Laura Heinauer AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Tuesday, September 14, 2004 They say everything's bigger in Texas. Ohio may beg to differ. Preliminary enrollment figures released Tuesday by the University of Texas suggest that the Austin campus can no longer claim to have the larg...	Longhorn Eagle	2	501	Sep 15, 2004 by Emma
	USM #1 as usual (Preview) If there's any way we're #1 we'll find it: Header about USM in today's HA: School No. 1 in duplicated enrollment USM quote in today's HA: "We educate more Mississippians than any other institution." Quote from wise USM undergraduate in toda...	We're #1	19	616	Sep 15, 2004 by stinky cheese man
	USM sponsoring call center conference (Preview) http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/Southern-Mississippi-Hosting-Call-Center-Conference-36564.html	Angeline	9	514	Sep 15, 2004 by Mal
	IVAN Could hit Gulf Coast ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_astorm9+shtml/130858.shtml?	Green Hornet	38	1298	Sep 14, 2004 by Green Hornet
	Student Printz Online (Preview) Why isn't the Student Printz being posted online?	Avid Reader	3	318	Sep 14, 2004 by Googler
	HA: David Wheeler named Eng. Dept. chair (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/updates/8670.html	truth4usm/AH	26	786	Sep 14, 2004 by Been There
	October 16th is National Boss Day (Preview) The Boss Day Blackout. BOSSES. They make more money than you do. They have better benefits packages. They enjoy greater job security than you could ever hope to know. And just in case you hadn't been paying attention, they also have a holiday coming up one month from...	Dr. E. L. Kersten	0	275	Sep 14, 2004 by Dr. E. L. Kersten
	See More #29 (Preview) This week's issue geocities.com/seemore004	See More	14	524	Sep 13, 2004 by foot soldier
	Ivan, SoMiss, & Cal (Preview) http://sports.excite.com/news/09132004/v7561.html	Dumb as The Rock	4	531	Sep 13, 2004 by stinky cheese man
	Letter to Dean Pood (Preview)	Noel Polk	16	899	Sep 13, 2004 by Lurker
	Bower (Preview) http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040913/SPORTS030104/409130372&SearchID=73183727672493	Newgirl	1	318	Sep 13, 2004 by hot link
	Who do you rather see on TV? (Preview) Poll...	Invictus	9	550	Sep 13, 2004 by LVN
	From Brookhaven paper (Preview) http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12897840&BRD=1377&PAG=461&dept_id=172922&rfi=6	educator	22	812	Sep 12, 2004 by Invictus
	Student Printz wins Student Org Award (Preview) Sorry for the late post, my spies only just got back to me. Information has been passed to me that CONGRATS are inorder to the Student Printz who WON student organization of the year at this evenings Presidents and Advisors Dinner. From what I hear, SFT was there and he didn't look v...	Green Hornet	10	513	Sep 12, 2004 by stephen judd
	Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine Award: 9-12 (Preview) Dedicated USM supporters, Last evening's telephone conference of the Citation de la Semaine selection committee was a somber one indeed following the confirmation of Professor Polk's departure to Starkville. We were all still rocking and reeling from th...	Mr. Wonderful	1	223	Sep 12, 2004 by In Yo' Face!
	Just wondering . . . (Preview) Does anyone know if Profs. Glamser and Stringer will continue to be paid by USM for two years now that they are at top-tier schools? If so, this is even more well-deserved egg on the face of SFT. (Needless to say, I am hoping this is the case.)	Just wondering . . .	6	430	Sep 12, 2004 by stephen judd
	Nom d'Aplomb - September 12 (Preview) [Editors Note: Before deliberations even began, Miss Information became insistent that we have a "red letter edition" just like the Good Book at the Ladies Missionary Society meetings. It's possible that she had had a little "preview" of the dewberry brandy before they arrived, but Invictus show...	Miss Information	3	280	Sep 12, 2004 by Invictus
	HA article about English/Polk ( 1 2 ) (Preview) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------	palindrome	39	2804	Sep 11, 2004 by Odds
	Go Jeff (Preview) USM just beat Nebraska!	In Yo' Face	13	487	Sep 11, 2004 by Karma Queen
	HA: Mader can't find US News survey sent to USM (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040821/southernmissnews/1088128.html	truth4usm/AH	29	1522	Sep 11, 2004 by Robert Campbell
	Big 12 vs. Conference USA (Preview) Glad to see USM beat Nebraska. Hope Houston doesn't fare as well this evening however! http://www.soonersports.com/	educator	0	268	Sep 11, 2004 by educator
	NOEL POLK fired??? ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) i hear dean pood fired noel polk. is there anything to this?	what's going on?	83	1817	Sep 11, 2004 by foot soldier
	Provost Search (Preview) I read in the HA this morning that the provost's search committee is to provide the three top candidate's name to Shelboo, without ranking them. Obviously the little man wants the freedom to pick his guy without having to justify skipping over those more qualified. SMTTB!	Antivost	2	294	Sep 11, 2004 by you're hired
	CHECK OUT THIS FROM JAY GRIMES (Preview) Effective immediately, and with approval from the President, I am transferring Intuitional Research from the Provost's Office to the President's Office. Specifically, IR will report to the Assistant to the President for Accreditation, Planning, and Articulation. The reason for t...	grimeser	9	637	Sep 10, 2004 by LVN
	USM departures 9/10/2004 (Preview) USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005 Noel Polk, Professor of English (Mississippi State University) name unknown, EAA/EEOC Staff (down-sized, situation pending) Becky Woodrick, Director of AA/EEOC (down-sized; situation pending) Total Leaving: 3 Total Retiring:	babbs	1	373	Sep 10, 2004 by Pudding
	USM departures 9/9/2004 (Preview) USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005 Noel Polk, Professor of English (Mississippi State University) Hitomi Wince, EAA/EEOC Staff (down-sized, situation pending) Becky Woodrick, Director of AA/EEOC (down-sized; situation pending) Total Leaving: 3 Total Retiring:	babbs	7	511	Sep 9, 2004 by Incognegro
	Help Wanted Ad - Legal Counsel to President (Preview) From the USM Employment Page: --------------------------------------- Job # 04E0219 - Legal Counsel to the President (Part Time 70%) Location: President's Office Salary: Commensurate with education and experience Post Start Date: 8/31/04; &n...	Third Ring	2	367	Sep 9, 2004 by Invictus
	HA letter to ed: USM has 'international' faculty! (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040909/opinion/1206337.html	truth4usm/AH	5	619	Sep 9, 2004 by Polyonymous
	Proper Termination Procedures at USM (Preview) Do they exist? How have others been terminated? Is it addressed in the revolving Faculty Handbooks?? I know how a couple of faculty members got terminated - they showed me the paperwork. Shouldn't it follow some type of due process??? Pathetic procedures do not make a great universi...	Emma	1	311	Sep 9, 2004 by ewe
	Bond Issue (Preview) Academically USM is toward the very bottom of the 4th tier and yet it wants to fritter away funds like this (from today's HA)? "Southern Miss wants approval to add a 1 percent tax to hotel bills and restaurant tabs for improvements to Reed Green Coliseum, M.M. Roberts Stadium, the base...	USM in bondage	3	373	Sep 9, 2004 by Robert Campbell
	New Limerick thread (Preview) As requested on the password thread, I am putting my money where my mouth is and starting a new limerick thread. When Lisa sends out the publicity, She's guilty of flagrant duplicity. She lies, and what’s more From tier three to tier four. We’ve fallen with Shelby’s complicity.	foot soldier	20	1872	Sep 9, 2004 by Invictus
	transcript of SFT's phone call to USNWR (Preview) A good friend of mine is a staffer at the FCC. He got a copy of the transcript of a phone call Shelby placed to the USNWR people to gather info on USM's fall from grace. Here it is: USNWR Staffer: Hello, USNWR, America's Best College Division, how may I help you? SFT: Yes, ..uh, this is She...	friend of FCC staffer	16	604	Sep 9, 2004 by Retired prof
	Latest Love Letter 9/7/04 from Shelboo (Preview) Please create a hot link to the latest LOVE Letter from Shelboo: http://www.usm.edu/president/	Anon	24	763	Sep 8, 2004 by Dr. MaderMath Revisited
	Who needs books at a university?? (Preview) Just informed by my chair that the library may be unable to buy ANY books for any department this year due to budget cuts, increasing costs of journals, and complete lack of commitment from the Administration. Remember it was Shelby who said/asked: "I haven't used the library in over 15 years,...	Angeline	19	582	Sep 8, 2004 by little bo peep
	anyone see WDAM news tonight? (Preview) please post here.	media circus	5	515	Sep 8, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	Observations from Tier 1 (Preview) Dazed and confused, the ex-USM faculty member suddenly finds himself at a Tier 1 university. It's like one of those time-travel movies where the 18th-century count finds himself walking the streets of New York, or a movie in which Jane takes a disoriented Tarzan back to civilization. For the...	Lost in Tiernation	10	641	Sep 8, 2004 by One upmanship
	HA: Let the Blame Games begin! ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040903/localnews/1173643.html	truth4usm/AH	39	1337	Sep 8, 2004 by Miles Long
	HA: Giannini looking to move to Auburn? (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040908/southernmissnews/1199443.html	truth4usm/AH	0	275	Sep 8, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	Press Release (Preview) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE In a cost-cutting move, the University of Southern Mississippi will reduce its staff by shutting down the physical plant. "We believe this reorganization will make us more efficient and effective," Southern Miss spokeswoman Lisa Mader said Friday. "Our faculty m...	Lisa Mader	8	773	Sep 8, 2004 by Dr. Joseph Goebbels' Risk Manager
	Vandy engage in unethical football recruiting? (Preview) http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040907/COL0509/409070350/1173/SPORTS	Curious	4	342	Sep 8, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	HA Letter (Preview) Hattiesburg American Column filled with half-truths LETTERS Carl Nicholson's recent column ("Great things are happening at Southern Miss," May 30), plays with the truth. USM was not "featured" in U.S. News & World Report, but was the subject of a paid ad. Excellence in teaching and r...	Newgirl	8	685	Sep 8, 2004 by Kickback
	MSU enrolment numbers (Preview) http://www.ur.msstate.edu/news/stories/2004/enrollment04.asp	Palindrome	27	835	Sep 7, 2004 by stinky cheese man
	USM departures 9/6/2004 (Preview) USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005 Noel Polk, Professor of English (Mississippi State University) Becky Woodrick, Director of AA/EEOC (down-sized; situation pending) Total Leaving: 2 Total Retiring:	babbs	11	682	Sep 7, 2004 by Emma
	USNWR: Average Alumni Giving Rate (Preview) In the recent issue of US News and World Report rankings of USM the percentage for "Average Alumni Giving Rate" was listed as "Not Available." USM was ranked in Tier 4. I noticed that all the Tier 1 and Tier 2 and Tier 3 schools answered this part of the survey. Although this section was worth o...	FatManWalking	22	894	Sep 7, 2004 by ILO
	English Department Departure ? (Preview) I just heard that Kim Herzinger is leaving USM. Has this been discussed or announced here, and has it been confirmed? I hope it isn't true. At the present rate of "decay", there'll be no English faculty remaining by the end of the 2004-05 academic year.	Concerned	2	476	Sep 7, 2004 by Inquiring minds want to know
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