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In an earlier thread I told you I would publish the names of e-mail accounts monitored by A. Dvorak and SFT during the debacle, this is not a complete list but here it is:
Michale Forster
Rebecca Woodrick
Clyde Ginn
Cynthia Moore
Susan Sanders
Myron Henry
William Scarborough
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Doty "Suspends" USMGC MIS Program
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Story confirmed that Doty "suspended" the Coast's MIS Program without discussing the decision with either the UG Programs Director on the Coast OR the Department Chair. This plan puts an untenured assistant professor's position at risk (1 of 2). The Hattiesburg program is rumored t...
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Business Associates
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I got a marketing piece in the mail today from a local realtor. This is a company I've done business with for several years, and they've always been great to work with. They've helped family members buy several houses, and they've been looking for a new house for me with the intention of them selling my p...
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Thank you and Goodbye
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Hello all:
The past several weeks have seen this board deteriorate into a forum that hurts, rather than helps, faculty and the AAUP. Today I showed my naivete by responding to an anonymous poster's attack in kind. This is a losing proposition and a strategic&nbs...
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SEC Takes Day 1 over USM
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Eagles Men's Tennis blanked by Auburn, 0-7. Corky's boys spanked by Alabama, 3-13. Tomorrow Gay McNutt's Lady Eagles softball team plays a double header against Ole Miss.
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Open Letter to USM Faculty and Staff
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14 March 2006
Dear USM Faculty and Staff:
This day, and this letter, have been a long time coming. Since the installation of Shelby F. Thames as President of Southern Miss in May of 2002, the campus there in Hattiesburg has been engulfed by crises and controversy. Thro...
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Open Letter to the Citizens of Hattiesburg
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14 March 2006
Dear Citizens of Hattiesburg:
I know that since the installation of Shelby F. Thames as President of The University of Southern Mississippi in May of 2002 there has been turmoil and unrest on the Hattiesburg campus. In addition to these troubles, Hurricane Katrina caused m...
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The public view about 2-2
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Yes, this has been discussed previously on this board. Faculty loads, how hard we work, what we really do.
But, guys and gals, the general public does not get it. Folks lobbying to work six to seven hours a week in a classroom does not strike a good chord with the masses. The public does not understan...
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Solution for Psych, at least for one vacant line
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I was just told that Dean Doty is using a vacant line for accreditation-related and other forms of travel. And this is all on top of the budget line he gets for travel, which is not small. It's almost used up for this year, but you should argue for it for next year.
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How'd the PEC go today with the NCATE visit coming up in 2 weeks?
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Great meeting (sarcasm alert). Pierce and Thames (daughter Dana) head up this Council's undoing. The teacher ed program's demise is right around the corner.
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Mar 14, 2006
by Heading to the Glue Factory
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N.I.T.
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I have only seen the NCAA brackets; did USM make the N.I.T. tournament?
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Mar 13, 2006
by For whom the bell tolls
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Sad Prof
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Have you been invited to many going away parties in the last three years? I’m getting depressed attending these happy/sad occasions where good friends of 20 years are given a send off to their next position, usually in heaven compared to here. It reminds me of the Jazz Funerals in New Orl...
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Good Bye Parties
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Welcome Home!
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I have been told that Denise Von Hermann stepped down as associate dean of COAL. Welcome home Denise!
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Mar 13, 2006
by stinky cheese man
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George Orwell
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A quote from Mr. Orwell, perhaps he was referring to USM faculty : " One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe thing like that : No ordinary man could be such a fool. "
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Serious thoughts from chez de Guerre
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Mademoiselle de Guerre has taken to her chaise with a small cup of tea and a cool cloth on her forehead. When Mlle. will accept a cup of tea, I always know she is in a bad way. She has asked me to post a few comments on today's unpleasantness. I will attempt to do my best.
Mlle. de Guerre reminds everyone t...
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by L'Institutrice
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Does Doty Exist? Exclusive Video
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Doing good for the community
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I read with great interest the article in yesterday's paper about Martha Tatum and her extensive contributions to this community. Obviously, she is remembered with great warmth and affection.
It made me ponder something we hear from the pro-Thames camp, that "Dr. Thames has done so much for USM a...
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See More #82
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See More #82
geocities.com/seemore004
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Selection Sunday and more....
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People are pouring into the M-Club to watch the last of the Conference Tourney championships and get a good seat for the March Madness selections. People are nervous, but enjoying the good food catered by Sweet Pepper's Deli. Coach Eustachy is signing autographs and showing everyone...
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And out in the rest of the world . . .
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While we were having our own excitement on the board, out in the scientific world this truly was an exciting weekend.
-- Cassini thinks it found water on a moon of Saturn, water pretty close to the surface
-- Mars orbiter makes a perfect orbit insertion. (Y'all speed it up, I want to live to see t...
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Fruitbasket turnover
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This appears on the 2005-2006 Departures thread affixed to the top of the message board: "Add: William Kuskin, Chair and Assoc. Prof. of English, to Univ. of Colorado at Boulder as Assoc. Prof."
What gives over there? How many chairs has English had during the past three or four years?
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What gives in English?
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This weekend
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Geeze!! What happened on this board over the weekend?! I go away for a couple of days and Mitch is offering to resign as AAUP Pres, and leave the board...Mlle. de Guere is warning Gentlemen Callers...What the heck did I miss???
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New property
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This is in the minutes for the IHL
USM – Approved the purchase of property located at 596 North 25th Avenue in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
The purchase price of $48,600 is less than the average of two appraisals. University funds will be used
for the purchase.
does anyone kn...
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As The Worm Turns: The Soap Opera
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Come with us on an excursion, my friends, back to 2004:
Name: foot soldier Date: Jun 22, 2004 Views: 542
RE: daily rumor mill #31 (CEP special)
Here's some of the letter (though it doesn't reflect the whole thing, which I suggest you read. "As cha...
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Follow-up for USM Sympathizer
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Symp, I found this quotation from last year which you posted. How is the training coming along? Have you graduated? I think we need your expertise!
I've been undergoing intensive training at the NSTPC (Next Stupid Thing Preparation Center), where enrollees try to imagine -- and prepare for...
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24 USM Departures, 2005-2006
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USM Departures, August 2005 thru July 2006
Charles Cartee, Professor of Finance (retirement)
Mathew Cox, Director of Admissions (Millsaps College)
Mark Danley, McCain Library Curator for Manuscripts/Archives (situation unknown)
Elizabeth Drummond, Assistant Professor of His...
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USM Departures, August 2005 thru July 2006
Charles Cartee, Professor of Finance (retirement)
Mathew Cox, Director of Admissions (Millsaps College)
Mark Danley, McCain Library Curator for Manuscripts/Archives (situation unknown)
Elizabeth Drummond, Assistant Professor of His...
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cant tell if it is biography or fiction
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I may have missed this discussion on the board, but this made for fun reading tonight out of the minute of the IHL
Page 1 of 2
R E S O L U T I O N
WHEREAS, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning recognizes
the outstanding dedication and achievements of Mr. James Roy Klumb, as a...
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Mar 11, 2006
by Movie rights
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And now for something completely different
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Dear Everybody,
I've been finding the last 24 hours of postings quite out of character for people and noms I've known. I actually checked the moon phases to see if we were in full moon. (Yes, I know that the evidence for "lunacy" at this time of the month is anecdotal, but things had gotten rather biz...
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COEP DEAN
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Is anyone else as outraged as I am that Pierce is being virtually ignored in the newest debacle of this College??? Where's his responsibility with protecting his faculty, Dana or no Dana. Is his reward from the IHL going to be the Delta State position? When will he be available for...
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Piercing it Together
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Katrina and this board
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Last night I went back and read all the posts from just before Katrina through about Sept. 6 or so. I had looked at them when I got computing back in Sept. but at that time just wasn't able to take it all in.
It was very moving. Many thanks to David Johnson, truth, Mitch, HEST, Anne Wallace and others for...
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WEBMASTER DELETE
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Please delete the posts by Dust My Broom and my responses to DMB. We will start that conversation over.
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School Colors
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What are the "official" names of the black & gold colors that we use? As in the actual shades of paint that are used?
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Eustachy vs. Green: The First 2 Years
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Larry Eustachy, 15-38 (8-17 and 7-21)
Year 1 Div IA Wins: Southeastern Louisiana, McNeese State, Centenary, Alcorn State, LSU, South Alabama, Tulane, TCU. Year 2 Div IA Wins: Lamar, New Orleans, Tennessee State, Tulane, Central Florida, East Carolina, Tulsa.
Year 1 Div IA Loss...
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The Eustachy File
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As a supporter of the Eagles basketball team, I remain uncertain about whether Larry Eustachy is a good coach. I recently commissioned a report on the coach from someone well known in the college basketball world. I just received this e-mail from him and thought it might be useful to sha...
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2years
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Since 2 years have gone by since the departures of Glamser and Stringer, wasn't that the time limit for them to not talk about Shelby?
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USM Departures, August 2005 thru July 2006
Charles Cartee, Professor of Finance (retirement)
Mathew Cox, Director of Admissions (Millsaps College)
Mark Danley, McCain Library Curator for Manuscripts/Archives (situation unknown)
Elizabeth Drummond, Assistant Professor of His...
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Are there really 16 people on the message board tonight?
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Okay, out yourselves! Who else is spending their Friday night on the message board besides me?
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The G Man's Kingdom
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Giannini's Kingdom
Included in the compilation is wins and losses in football, soccer, volleyball, and men's/women's basketball, which have all completed their competition. Also included are results from softball, baseball and men's/women's tennis, through 3...
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Typical "Liberal" Faculty
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Bush was correct on levee warnings
By Frank Glamserhttp://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060309/OPINION/603090326/1009
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Chronicle Article
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Yesterday's Chronicle has an interesting issue that Mississippi should take note of. Apparently the idea of efficiency becomes important when a state loses its revenue base.
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IHL March meeting agenda
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(IHL's latest sketchy meeting agenda. Each month there's less detail than the month before.)
http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/newsstory.asp?ID=384
BOARD TO HONOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH EDUCATORS, FORMER TRUSTEES
3/10/2006 (Jackson, Miss. ) -
The Board of Trustees o...
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Dana Thames' raise
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We need to discuss this. It is a constant preoccupation. We need enlightenment. What are the nepotism implications here?
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and it begins again. . .
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Faculty Teaching Load Policy
Draft #3
3/6/05
Purpose
The purpose of this policy is to establish guidelines for faculty teaching loads for tenure, tenure track, and instructor level positions and faculty holding administrative appointments.
Policy
• Faculty teaching assignm...
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by Amy Young
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Good Adm. Leader I.D. Project
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There is constant criticism leveled on this board toward administrators at all levels in our institution. One would believe that there are no admilnistrators at our institution that could be labeled as "good."
In an effort to do something positive, two of my colleagues and I are asking the post...
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H.A. Breaking News--Case against USM settled
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Case against USM settled http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060307/NEWS03/60307005
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Pierce out as Dean?
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The story going around in some circles is that Dean Pierce was told around Christmas Break that he might be removed as Dean some time this Summer. Hence, the complete melting away of his spinal chord. They have since removed the hammer away from him, for now.
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WEATHER NOTE
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For those out of state: the Hattiesburg area is expecting very severe weather this afternoon and evening, with the risk of losing power. In fact, some area schools will be closing early.
Just letting you guys know in case the board goes very quiet; I'm already have trouble with it, so will be shutt...
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Mayor DuPree
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I hope the university community will join me in backing Mayor Johnny DuPree. He was reelected by an overwhelming margin,yet a hostile cabal of three white city councilmen refuses to back his city appointments leaving the mayor with no choice but to refuse to submit them to the council for conf...
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CoB faculty exodus update
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The remaining econ faculty declined an offer yesterday. More will likely come out about this one soon. Expect anywhere from 2 to 4 more economists to leave soon. Also, a finance faculty is sitting on an offer and may go. No word on who the USM "applicant" (from...
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Mar 9, 2006
by Southern Justice
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