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Miles Long

The IHL's web page, http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/index.asp, no longer has the press release about the retreat in Alabama. It's not on the 'news' page either. Roy, you can't 'delete' history and make it not so. We remember. Perhaps one should call the IHL offices and ask why the press releas...

HA: New College Board members tour state · truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040824/localnews/1109061.html

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040824/opinion/1109147.html

Miles Long

A question or so. Suppose SFT, through some miracle, vacates the office of president. What then? With Klumb ruling the board, is there any chance that they could hire someone competent? If someone competent is hired, could he (or she) repair all of the bad will? Could he get the facu...

Clarion-Ledger reader

Kudos to Steve Shepard for this brief letter to the editor in this morning's (Aug. 24) Clarion-Ledger: Snap finger, save university budgets Thank you, Steve.

Anne Wallace

On Friday morning, Rebecca Woodrick, the University's Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Officer, was told that her new contract would be for five months only (last month is December 2004). The reason given was that the administration plans to "reorganize" and that they do not expect that ther...

Swan Song

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040822/COL0504/40822009/1173/SPORTS

Angeline

Received the following report from a new faculty member who endured SFT's speech last week during orientation: SFT came across as something less than an intellectual; he empahsized repeatedly the need for economic development and grant writing; he used the phrase "world class university...

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Student Services R US

Verified: There are currently 36 sections of 099 classes for fall. They are all full and contain almost 400 students. There are 11 sections of English 099 alone, but some may be cancelled due to teacher shortage. USM is now offering at least 6 sections of 099 reading classe...

ram

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040823/opinion/1102555.html

Angeline

No where does it list that Pileum has an expertise in higher education, but they sure messed things up here at USM. "Consulting": changing names, moving people around, and inventing unnecessary procedures so you don't have to http://www.pointeinnovation.ms/pilium_fall_04.html

Christopher Cross

Please let your faculty and staff know about this important event, Golden Eagle Revelry - September 1, 2004 From Lisa Mader, Director of Marketing and Public Relations: On September 1, 2004, all faculty and staff are asked to come enjoy Golden Eagle...

truth4usm/AH

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040823/NEWS01/408230353/1002All Mississippi State University employees working as of Jan. 1 who had a current annual performance appraisal of "satisfactory" or better received merit raises effective J...

buggy

1. Students are asking where all the new places to eat are. They are even near ready yet. 2. In my first class, more thanhalf bought the text at $94 from the the USM store, while the others got it at Campus Book Mart for around $70. Most in the former category reported being "stuck" with USM...

SHADARACK

DEAR TRUTH: I have monitored the board for some time now and have a good question. But first, please excuse my spelling or grammar. In my opinion we made a mistake in how we went after Shelboo. We needed to take the General out first! However, we only took out the front line the un...

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040822/opinion/index.html

Reporter

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040822/COL0601/408220371/1201

Choctaw

IHL, stop the interferring and let USM get on with the business of education and scholarship which their faculty is so well equipped to do. Other Mississippi schools, private and public, are moving forward. You sat around and watched while this horrendous situation at USM unfolded. Please do somet...

Miss Information

Miss Information is obligated to be the official pitch-piper for the Ladies Missionary Society Quartet at the all-day gospel sing & antimacassar toss, which begins shortly. So for once the Nom d'Aplomb committee will actually beat Mr. Wonderful's posse to posting this week's award winners....

Mr. Wonderful

1. The Citation de le Semaine selection committe will be functioning without a full deck next week because Groupie #1 will be "on holiday" during much of that period. She picked up that term during her extensive European travels and she previously used it on-the-job when her imm...

Sad

Follow the money. That was my advice way back last spring. What does the Board owe Shelby? Did any board members gain financially? What is the monetary connection among Angie, Shelby, and Pileum? What is the financial connection between Shelby and the "cit...

Reporter

From The Sun Herald "Sound Off": Do business at home • Perhaps Roy Klumb needs to understand what doing business in Mississippi means for Mississippi. What happened to all the promotions about shop Mississippi? Doesn't he understand that it helps the economy here in Mississippi? And why wou...

Capitol Eagle

USM ranks poorly on college survey U.S. News and World Report lists the University of Southern Mississippi among fourth-tier universities in its annual America’s Best Colleges report. The national news magazine tapped Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities and the Univer...

Reporter

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040822/opinion/1093710.html

Caught in the Middle

1. Never trust anyone who is not mobile - This is why they become administrators; if they could do research, they'd be doin' it. The good ones will actually do their jobs---as for Doty, this means raising money, hiring and retaining quality faculty. Well you do the math. 2. Neve...

Robert Evans

I just received notice about the forthcoming annual meeting of the John Donne Society, which will take place this coming year at LSU. I believe that this means that for the first time since the Society was founded two decades ago, the conference will NOT occur at the Gulf Coast campus of USM, whi...

truth4usm/AH

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040820/NEWS01/408200339/1002Whitten said she's seen board members quoted expressing a dissenting view. "That's what I don't t...

Trollus Detectus in Extremis

What has happened to the wonderful cabal of Trolls who (until recently) would so bravely risk humiliation and discredit by posting their vacuous ruminations on this honorable message board? Is it possible that the emergence of the now-infamous Troll-O-Matic (that wonderful troll-grading ma...

reporter

WDAM just ran a story about an IHL retreat being held in Point Clear, AL, home of Roy Klumb. Robin Robinson complained that the $18,000 cost of the retreat should have been spend in MS, like it is every year. Klumb responded, calling Robinson's remark petty. Quote from Roy Klumb (close...

LVN

The Roy Klumb remarks sparked an interesting debate amongst my near & dear. Is it really "low class" to refer to oneself in the third person, as Mr. Klumb is wont to do? I invoked the Miss Manners defense -- it can be done with a slight edge, in the interest of defining a persona. ("Mr. Klumb's latest remar...

Angeline

http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2004/08/19/news/news08.txt

Ideabot

Based on what Harold Doty wrote to Marc Depree about a coauthorship and its consequences (see thread below), I suggest everyone put Doty as a coauthor on their next manuscript. Let's see what he does.

ram

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/editorial/9437302.htm

late

I understand SFT will be on Paul Gallo radio show Friday 8/20. The show is 0600 to 0900, dont know what time he is slotted. 97.3 FM?? This is normally a call in show with questions

Angeline

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040819/opinion/index.html

J.C. Chasez

Check out the link in the body of the letter. It's great. http://www.usm.edu/president/

Jameela Lares

As many of you know, my main speciality is John Milton (1608-1674), the author of Paradise Lost, a writer of genius, and a thinker on liberty whose impact on American democracy would be hard to over-calculate. As I gear up for the next semester, I’ve placed the following text by the side of my off...

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040818/localnews/1071597.html

Night Chalker's #1 fan

Wherefore art thou, Night Chalker? Didst thou graduate? Please respondez vous, mon amour!

State Auditor Candidate

Does Jay Grimes get the Provost house on the Coast, the apartment in Hattiesburg monetary allowance that Tim Hudson had, Tim Hudson's car allowance plus his own car allowance, and the keys to the castle in France? This question deserves an answer. Don't worry folks, when I win the election i...

Reporter

Jay Grimes was chosen as Interim Provost today. Joe Paul will chair a national search team for a new Provost. Here's some of the committee: Tom Fraschillo, Jon Carr, Charles McCormick, Pete Fos, Joe Whitehead, Stan Kuczaj, Desmond Fletcher, Carolyn Reeves-Kazelskis, Walt...

Questionable

The word is that 3 people will join TH in TX. However, sparks are flying due to some of the absurd requests for special perks!

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040817/opinion/1064541.html

truth4usm/AH

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040817/localnews/1064324.html

truth4usm/AH

Anyone know when the next PUC meeting will be (that is, if there is another one)? Anyone care to make bets on the PUC continuing into the new school year?

Interim Adjunct Risk Manager

Report from Ashland Community and Technical College (continued): Near the end of my visit to Ashland Community and Technical College where Angie Dvorak was president and held tenure, I had the opportunity to speak with a current faculty member there. In the interests of maintaining her priva...

Questionable

Right now support for renovation of the Rock is about 32%. Also, someone is pushing that 25 cents from all athletic ticket sales will go to expand the Polymer Science building. THIS must be "hog wash."

gurunuburg

1. Still no word on the Provost situation. Wouldn't think USM would head into a new academic year without one, but who knows? We'll seen soon (we think). 2. More excerpts from our 099 acquaitance about life at one: "....the transition to open admissions can be a little unsettling, all...

Questionable

Any word on JB's contract situation. As I understand it SFT's will not be renewed.

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	IHL news page 'revised' (Preview) The IHL's web page, http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/index.asp, no longer has the press release about the retreat in Alabama. It's not on the 'news' page either. Roy, you can't 'delete' history and make it not so. We remember. Perhaps one should call the IHL offices and ask why the press releas...	Miles Long	2	349	Aug 24, 2004 by Invictus
	HA: New College Board members tour state (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040824/localnews/1109061.html	truth4usm/AH	0	243	Aug 24, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	HA: Concrete letter re: Klumb's Folly (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040824/opinion/1109147.html	truth4usm/AH	0	270	Aug 24, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	What if Shelboo is gone? (Preview) A question or so. Suppose SFT, through some miracle, vacates the office of president. What then? With Klumb ruling the board, is there any chance that they could hire someone competent? If someone competent is hired, could he (or she) repair all of the bad will? Could he get the facu...	Miles Long	1	337	Aug 24, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	Steve Shepard's CL letter (Preview) Kudos to Steve Shepard for this brief letter to the editor in this morning's (Aug. 24) Clarion-Ledger: Snap finger, save university budgets Thank you, Steve.	Clarion-Ledger reader	4	370	Aug 24, 2004 by ConcreteThinker.
	Woodrick given 5-month contract ( 1 2 ) (Preview) On Friday morning, Rebecca Woodrick, the University's Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Officer, was told that her new contract would be for five months only (last month is December 2004). The reason given was that the administration plans to "reorganize" and that they do not expect that ther...	Anne Wallace	32	1557	Aug 24, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	Bower (Preview) http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040822/COL0504/40822009/1173/SPORTS	Swan Song	17	787	Aug 24, 2004 by stephen judd
	New faculty orientation (Preview) Received the following report from a new faculty member who endured SFT's speech last week during orientation: SFT came across as something less than an intellectual; he empahsized repeatedly the need for economic development and grant writing; he used the phrase "world class university...	Angeline	16	618	Aug 23, 2004 by Reporter
	See More #26 (Preview) This week's issue geocities.com/seemore004	See More	3	397	Aug 23, 2004 by Already gone
	099 Courses ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) Verified: There are currently 36 sections of 099 classes for fall. They are all full and contain almost 400 students. There are 11 sections of English 099 alone, but some may be cancelled due to teacher shortage. USM is now offering at least 6 sections of 099 reading classe...	Student Services R US	74	1113	Aug 23, 2004 by Googler
	Letters to HA re R Klumb (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040823/opinion/1102555.html	ram	4	397	Aug 23, 2004 by The Mr. Wonderful Organization
	Pileum profiled in MS business magazine (Preview) No where does it list that Pileum has an expertise in higher education, but they sure messed things up here at USM. "Consulting": changing names, moving people around, and inventing unnecessary procedures so you don't have to http://www.pointeinnovation.ms/pilium_fall_04.html	Angeline	6	398	Aug 23, 2004 by Plastic Surgery
	Yeeehaaaww!! (Preview) Please let your faculty and staff know about this important event, Golden Eagle Revelry - September 1, 2004 From Lisa Mader, Director of Marketing and Public Relations: On September 1, 2004, all faculty and staff are asked to come enjoy Golden Eagle...	Christopher Cross	19	958	Aug 23, 2004 by Austin Eagle
	CL: Pay raises for faculty IHL board goal (Preview) http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040823/NEWS01/408230353/1002All Mississippi State University employees working as of Jan. 1 who had a current annual performance appraisal of "satisfactory" or better received merit raises effective J...	truth4usm/AH	0	252	Aug 23, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	1st day issues..... (Preview) 1. Students are asking where all the new places to eat are. They are even near ready yet. 2. In my first class, more thanhalf bought the text at $94 from the the USM store, while the others got it at Campus Book Mart for around $70. Most in the former category reported being "stuck" with USM...	buggy	0	345	Aug 23, 2004 by buggy
	A QUESTION FOR TRUTH4USM (Preview) DEAR TRUTH: I have monitored the board for some time now and have a good question. But first, please excuse my spelling or grammar. In my opinion we made a mistake in how we went after Shelboo. We needed to take the General out first! However, we only took out the front line the un...	SHADARACK	18	784	Aug 23, 2004 by Swan Song
	HA Poll: Does USM deserve to be 4th tier? (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040822/opinion/index.html	truth4usm/AH	0	255	Aug 23, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	CL vs Klumb (Preview) http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040822/COL0601/408220371/1201	Reporter	5	539	Aug 22, 2004 by Pisces and Quarry Commission
	Routine events blown out of proportion at USM (Preview) IHL, stop the interferring and let USM get on with the business of education and scholarship which their faculty is so well equipped to do. Other Mississippi schools, private and public, are moving forward. You sat around and watched while this horrendous situation at USM unfolded. Please do somet...	Choctaw	0	354	Aug 22, 2004 by Choctaw
	Nom d'Aplomb Award, August 16 - 22 (Preview) Miss Information is obligated to be the official pitch-piper for the Ladies Missionary Society Quartet at the all-day gospel sing & antimacassar toss, which begins shortly. So for once the Nom d'Aplomb committee will actually beat Mr. Wonderful's posse to posting this week's award winners....	Miss Information	1	226	Aug 22, 2004 by Tear Drop
	Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine for 8-22 (Preview) 1. The Citation de le Semaine selection committe will be functioning without a full deck next week because Groupie #1 will be "on holiday" during much of that period. She picked up that term during her extensive European travels and she previously used it on-the-job when her imm...	Mr. Wonderful	2	221	Aug 22, 2004 by educator
	Follow the money--follow up to question for Truth (Preview) Follow the money. That was my advice way back last spring. What does the Board owe Shelby? Did any board members gain financially? What is the monetary connection among Angie, Shelby, and Pileum? What is the financial connection between Shelby and the "cit...	Sad	2	333	Aug 22, 2004 by Emma
	SH "Sound Off" (Preview) From The Sun Herald "Sound Off": Do business at home • Perhaps Roy Klumb needs to understand what doing business in Mississippi means for Mississippi. What happened to all the promotions about shop Mississippi? Doesn't he understand that it helps the economy here in Mississippi? And why wou...	Reporter	2	390	Aug 22, 2004 by Invictus
	Ranking is out complete w/ spin ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) USM ranks poorly on college survey U.S. News and World Report lists the University of Southern Mississippi among fourth-tier universities in its annual America’s Best Colleges report. The national news magazine tapped Harvard, Princeton and Yale universities and the Univer...	Capitol Eagle	71	1238	Aug 22, 2004 by Redneck, White Socks & Blue Ribbon Beer
	HA Lashes Klumb (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040822/opinion/1093710.html	Reporter	2	304	Aug 22, 2004 by Reporter
	CBED AXIOMS (Preview) 1. Never trust anyone who is not mobile - This is why they become administrators; if they could do research, they'd be doin' it. The good ones will actually do their jobs---as for Doty, this means raising money, hiring and retaining quality faculty. Well you do the math. 2. Neve...	Caught in the Middle	15	645	Aug 21, 2004 by foot soldier
	Donne conference gone from USM (Preview) I just received notice about the forthcoming annual meeting of the John Donne Society, which will take place this coming year at LSU. I believe that this means that for the first time since the Society was founded two decades ago, the conference will NOT occur at the Gulf Coast campus of USM, whi...	Robert Evans	15	623	Aug 21, 2004 by Austin Eagle
	CL: Leader's role eyed by IHL board (Preview) http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040820/NEWS01/408200339/1002Whitten said she's seen board members quoted expressing a dissenting view. "That's what I don't t...	truth4usm/AH	6	501	Aug 21, 2004 by Sauce for the Goose
	Send in the Trolls (Preview) What has happened to the wonderful cabal of Trolls who (until recently) would so bravely risk humiliation and discredit by posting their vacuous ruminations on this honorable message board? Is it possible that the emergence of the now-infamous Troll-O-Matic (that wonderful troll-grading ma...	Trollus Detectus in Extremis	3	391	Aug 20, 2004 by Fire Down Below
	IHL controversy just reported on WDAM ( 1 2 ) (Preview) WDAM just ran a story about an IHL retreat being held in Point Clear, AL, home of Roy Klumb. Robin Robinson complained that the $18,000 cost of the retreat should have been spend in MS, like it is every year. Klumb responded, calling Robinson's remark petty. Quote from Roy Klumb (close...	reporter	52	1177	Aug 20, 2004 by Miles Long
	Miss Manners says (Preview) The Roy Klumb remarks sparked an interesting debate amongst my near & dear. Is it really "low class" to refer to oneself in the third person, as Mr. Klumb is wont to do? I invoked the Miss Manners defense -- it can be done with a slight edge, in the interest of defining a persona. ("Mr. Klumb's latest remar...	LVN	5	519	Aug 20, 2004 by elliott
	Thames: "I'm running USM as business" (Preview) http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2004/08/19/news/news08.txt	Angeline	15	696	Aug 20, 2004 by glum alum
	New Idea.... (Preview) Based on what Harold Doty wrote to Marc Depree about a coauthorship and its consequences (see thread below), I suggest everyone put Doty as a coauthor on their next manuscript. Let's see what he does.	Ideabot	27	1073	Aug 19, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	Print Media Agree Location Wrong (Preview) http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/news/editorial/9437302.htm	ram	5	389	Aug 19, 2004 by Lewis and Gilbert
	SFT on radio (Preview) I understand SFT will be on Paul Gallo radio show Friday 8/20. The show is 0600 to 0900, dont know what time he is slotted. 97.3 FM?? This is normally a call in show with questions	late	0	275	Aug 19, 2004 by late
	Vote Now: IHL should meet in MS? (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040819/opinion/index.html	Angeline	2	314	Aug 19, 2004 by Angeline
	latest president's letter (Preview) Check out the link in the body of the letter. It's great. http://www.usm.edu/president/	J.C. Chasez	6	445	Aug 19, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	John Milton speaks in favor of tenure (Preview) As many of you know, my main speciality is John Milton (1608-1674), the author of Paradise Lost, a writer of genius, and a thinker on liberty whose impact on American democracy would be hard to over-calculate. As I gear up for the next semester, I’ve placed the following text by the side of my off...	Jameela Lares	3	381	Aug 19, 2004 by Jameela Lares
	HA: Grimes sez: "Too much saltwater in my veins" ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040818/localnews/1071597.html	truth4usm/AH	36	1063	Aug 18, 2004 by USM Nurse Prof
	Night Chalker???? (Preview) Wherefore art thou, Night Chalker? Didst thou graduate? Please respondez vous, mon amour!	Night Chalker's #1 fan	1	380	Aug 18, 2004 by Outside Observer
	Questions for about Grimes..... (Preview) Does Jay Grimes get the Provost house on the Coast, the apartment in Hattiesburg monetary allowance that Tim Hudson had, Tim Hudson's car allowance plus his own car allowance, and the keys to the castle in France? This question deserves an answer. Don't worry folks, when I win the election i...	State Auditor Candidate	0	286	Aug 18, 2004 by State Auditor Candidate
	Grimes Chosen Interim Provost... (Preview) Jay Grimes was chosen as Interim Provost today. Joe Paul will chair a national search team for a new Provost. Here's some of the committee: Tom Fraschillo, Jon Carr, Charles McCormick, Pete Fos, Joe Whitehead, Stan Kuczaj, Desmond Fletcher, Carolyn Reeves-Kazelskis, Walt...	Reporter	26	864	Aug 17, 2004 by Mitch
	Report from Texas (Preview) The word is that 3 people will join TH in TX. However, sparks are flying due to some of the absurd requests for special perks!	Questionable	4	566	Aug 17, 2004 by truth4usm/AH
	HA: Editorial re: DNA lab at USM (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040817/opinion/1064541.html	truth4usm/AH	5	398	Aug 17, 2004 by A litigator
	HA: Carey enrollment up (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040817/localnews/1064324.html	truth4usm/AH	1	247	Aug 17, 2004 by petie
	Next PUC meeting? (Preview) Anyone know when the next PUC meeting will be (that is, if there is another one)? Anyone care to make bets on the PUC continuing into the new school year?	truth4usm/AH	3	507	Aug 17, 2004 by PUC Reporter
	Final Report from Ashland (Preview) Report from Ashland Community and Technical College (continued): Near the end of my visit to Ashland Community and Technical College where Angie Dvorak was president and held tenure, I had the opportunity to speak with a current faculty member there. In the interests of maintaining her priva...	Interim Adjunct Risk Manager	6	365	Aug 17, 2004 by Interim Adjunct Risk Manager
	The Rock! (Preview) Right now support for renovation of the Rock is about 32%. Also, someone is pushing that 25 cents from all athletic ticket sales will go to expand the Polymer Science building. THIS must be "hog wash."	Questionable	0	297	Aug 17, 2004 by Questionable
	daily rumor mill #84 (Preview) 1. Still no word on the Provost situation. Wouldn't think USM would head into a new academic year without one, but who knows? We'll seen soon (we think). 2. More excerpts from our 099 acquaitance about life at one: "....the transition to open admissions can be a little unsettling, all...	gurunuburg	5	596	Aug 17, 2004 by Robert Campbell
	JB'S CONTRACT (Preview) Any word on JB's contract situation. As I understand it SFT's will not be renewed.	Questionable	0	311	Aug 17, 2004 by Questionable
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