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carswell

http://www.usmpride.com/ I think everyone will find this week's issue very interesting. It has excerpts from a deposition of Tim Ryan and more. Follow the links, they tell the story.

Back to Meltdown

Lady Eagles lose to Marshall, 53-66. Finish with losing regular season record of 13-14. Begin C-USA Tourney play in 4/5 days. Eagles baseball team winning big in second series game against Birmingham Southern. About 2 innings remain.

info

http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060226/OPINION03/602260334/1014/OPINION

info

http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060226/SOUTHERNMISS/602260355/1050

Grateful town man

A special thanks on this rainy weekend to the many wonderful faculty members at USM. Without your hard work,research and scholarship,it couldn't be done.

truth4usm/AH

...and none of them are at the University of Southern Mississippi! Go vote, if you are so inclined. No Quarter, Truth

Just Coasting

Organic Chemistry & Polymer Science: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2000-04 Ranked by average citations per paper, among the top 100 federally funded U.S. universities that published at least 100 papers in Thomson Scientific-indexed journals of organic chemistry & polymer scien...

Cossack

There is a nice article about Jasper Johnson in today's Clarion Ledger. While Japser has nothing to say about what happened at USM, the reporter did in various ways. Coach Eustacy did not come off well in the article, and neither did USM. Jasper is a bit large to be compared to Cinderella, it certainly i...

Professor Goodgrade

http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/02/2006022401c/careers.html

Larry Brown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBYPaNc57Ik&search=autistic%20basketball%

Invictus

John Prine's Risk Manager wrote: Dr. Invictus: See my earlier post re Prine and KK's liner notes. I don't quite understand where you're going here. When you say "it resembles beat poetry perhaps more than anything Kristofferson ever wrote," are you referri...

Reporter

On Friday Feb. 17th Homer Coffman, Chief Information Officer, presented a powerpoint to the Faculty Senate. The powerpoint is now available on the senate web site http://www.usm.edu/fsenate/ or can be access directly at http://www.usm.edu/fsenate/misc/Itech_2_06.ppt

Eagle Lost

Gianinni's Kingdom Included in the compilation is wins and losses in football, soccer and volleyball which have all completed their competition. Also included are mens and womens basketball results, along with results from softball, baseball and men's/women's tennis, throug...

manova

I have a non-USM question related to faculty searches. In my department, we have an individual who has a 2 yr/non-tenure track position. We have permission from the provost's office to make this a tenure track position. Here is my question. The provost of...

Eagle Lost

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060219/SOUTHERNMISS/602190309/1050

Talkcalculate

http://www.usm.edu/ncate/spa_reports.htm

info

The Independent is now on the web at http://www.onlineindependent.com/.

Reporter

State Supreme Court rejects attempt to clear Kennardhttp://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/NEWS01/60223008

Reporter

State Board of Education drops writing requirementhttp://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/OPINION01/602220317/1014/OPINION

To the barricades

Harvard president Lawrence Summers has resigned. He was forced out by an angry faculty. The greivances at Harvard were miniscule compared to those at USM. I call on the academic community to take to the streets,literally. No mealy mouth Faculty Senate.No quasi impotent AAUP. The time has come.

babbs

USM Departures, August 2005 thru July 2006 Charles Cartee, Professor of Finance (retirement) Charlotte Jackson, CoB Undergraduate Programs (local school system) Jim Miller, Professor of Computer Science (situation unknown) Total Leaving: 3 Total Retiring: 1

007

May 2007 is upon us. What will we do? What impact can we have? This board has really taken a down turn. We need to look at the future. We can have some influnce on our destiny. How can we get the detractors and trolls from using our board for their own purposes? We need change....and we need it n...

Angeline

Printz Column

Hurricane Hattie

Last year we discussed hurricane preparedness and then we discovered a few things (such as, forget three days' worth, try three weeks'worth of stuff, or, if thirty feet of water comes through your house, it doesn't matter how many batteries you had.) It's not too early to talk about what di...

Birdman

The softball team beat #6 ranked Alabama. Go ahead and spin it.

RB

And we wonder why Hattiesburg can't seem to get over the hump: Link How long will it be before the white folks who live in Hattiesburg turn loose of the reins? Most h...

StillAnEagle

I have visited this board for about a year now. I have read all of the posts about the fall of USM and I agree that it is not the same institution it was a few years ago. It is disturbing and depressing for me as an alumnus. My questions to those on this board are: What can and/o...

Outside Observer

I'm not making a comment one way or the other with this. I just stumbled across it...is anyone familiar with this web site? http://www.studentsreview.com/MS/USM.html

Reporter

Tech park to aid area futurehttp://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/NEWS01/602210304/1002""Recruiting research headquarters will be as valuable as recruiting the manufacturing plant," Area Development Partnership Presiden...

Reuters

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060223/pl_nm/rights_abortion_dc

Mitch

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/education/21professors.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

e-messenger

http://www.usmpride.com/

Angeline

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/02/22/allen

Angeline

He's a finalist for the Provost position at Central Missouri State: http://www.cmsu.edu/x82941.xml

Faculty member fired? · Concerned

Has anyone heard anything about a USM faculty member being fired for sexual harassment?

Reporter

New development concerns residents http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/NEWS01/602220328/1002

info

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/13930322.htm

Already Gone 2

I was just wondering if anyone knew of developments in the CFO search. As a reminder the position will be vacated this Friday (Feb. 24). While the Dean positions may or may not experience transition in the weeks to come, this critical position will. In case some of you don't get i...

CoEPing Well

Since you're tired of CoB threads, here's one for you to work on, CoEPers.

Turn your head and CoH

Since you're tired of CoB threads, here's one for you to work on, CoHers.

Barcolounger

New Cigarette Tax Another non-starter of an economic program.

St. Pete Eagle

http://files.acad.usf.edu/facprogdev/searches/COBA-Forsythe-Schedule.pdf

Is this a joke?

__________________________________________________________

Reporter

Faculty Senate opposes proposed FCC actionshttp://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/21/43fac2316de7d"Sophomore polymer science major Steven Levin took the meeting as an opportunity to tell the senate directly that he oppo...

Reporter

http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=24082&subForumID=36767&a...

USM Sympathizer

Does anyone happen to know the percentage of service courses (e.g. basic introductory courses or sophomore-level courses that are part of the core curriculum) that are taught by graduate students or adjuncts at USM? My own university will be coming up for reaaccreditation before long, and...

Watching and waiting

Check out the story about the Radio Shack executive in the news. It's in the business section of my paper.

proud mary

I heard today (from a long-time colleague) that the online evals had a little problem. Apparently the response rate was not as high as was hoped. The administration was concerned that low response rates would doom the online program, so responses were replicated (duplicated) within a given sectio...

Friend of truth

A couple of your HBurg friends can't email you at the address they have. Please write to them with the correct addy. Thx

pendejo

With the elimination of GA awards in the college of business, there will be less and less of a need for in-house classroom instruction for that program. The whole enchilada will now have to be offered online in order to keep numbers at doable levels. I think the e.t. knows that as well, and...

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	More USM badness Exposed (Preview) http://www.usmpride.com/ I think everyone will find this week's issue very interesting. It has excerpts from a deposition of Tim Ryan and more. Follow the links, they tell the story.	carswell	25	1340	Feb 26, 2006 by Fortune 500 Teller
	Lady Eagles trampled at Marshall (Preview) Lady Eagles lose to Marshall, 53-66. Finish with losing regular season record of 13-14. Begin C-USA Tourney play in 4/5 days. Eagles baseball team winning big in second series game against Birmingham Southern. About 2 innings remain.	Back to Meltdown	1	273	Feb 26, 2006 by Westchester
	HA, 2/26/06: Softball complex is not finished (Preview) http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060226/OPINION03/602260334/1014/OPINION	info	2	312	Feb 26, 2006 by ntraining
	HA, 2/26/06: You want luxuries? They aren't cheap (Preview) http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060226/SOUTHERNMISS/602260355/1050	info	0	314	Feb 26, 2006 by info
	thanks (Preview) A special thanks on this rainy weekend to the many wonderful faculty members at USM. Without your hard work,research and scholarship,it couldn't be done.	Grateful town man	1	439	Feb 26, 2006 by appreciative faculty
	Most Dangerous Professors in America (Preview) ...and none of them are at the University of Southern Mississippi! Go vote, if you are so inclined. No Quarter, Truth	truth4usm/AH	7	627	Feb 25, 2006 by Rodney
	Organic Chemistry & Polymer Science: ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Organic Chemistry & Polymer Science: High-Impact U.S. Universities, 2000-04 Ranked by average citations per paper, among the top 100 federally funded U.S. universities that published at least 100 papers in Thomson Scientific-indexed journals of organic chemistry & polymer scien...	Just Coasting	40	2501	Feb 25, 2006 by Ripper
	Jasper Johnson (Preview) There is a nice article about Jasper Johnson in today's Clarion Ledger. While Japser has nothing to say about what happened at USM, the reporter did in various ways. Coach Eustacy did not come off well in the article, and neither did USM. Jasper is a bit large to be compared to Cinderella, it certainly i...	Cossack	3	568	Feb 25, 2006 by 4th tier sports
	Teaching to the Evaluation (Preview) http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2006/02/2006022401c/careers.html	Professor Goodgrade	1	340	Feb 25, 2006 by Professor Easy
	Playing The Game The Right Way (Preview) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBYPaNc57Ik&search=autistic%20basketball%	Larry Brown	3	352	Feb 25, 2006 by Air Ball
	John, Kris & Bobby Z (Preview) John Prine's Risk Manager wrote: Dr. Invictus: See my earlier post re Prine and KK's liner notes. I don't quite understand where you're going here. When you say "it resembles beat poetry perhaps more than anything Kristofferson ever wrote," are you referri...	Invictus	0	322	Feb 24, 2006 by Invictus
	iTech (Preview) On Friday Feb. 17th Homer Coffman, Chief Information Officer, presented a powerpoint to the Faculty Senate. The powerpoint is now available on the senate web site http://www.usm.edu/fsenate/ or can be access directly at http://www.usm.edu/fsenate/misc/Itech_2_06.ppt	Reporter	3	718	Feb 24, 2006 by new faculty
	The G-Man's Kingdom, 2005-06 (Preview) Gianinni's Kingdom Included in the compilation is wins and losses in football, soccer and volleyball which have all completed their competition. Also included are mens and womens basketball results, along with results from softball, baseball and men's/women's tennis, throug...	Eagle Lost	1	312	Feb 24, 2006 by Better Boy
	faculty search question (Preview) I have a non-USM question related to faculty searches. In my department, we have an individual who has a 2 yr/non-tenure track position. We have permission from the provost's office to make this a tenure track position. Here is my question. The provost of...	manova	7	419	Feb 24, 2006 by Cossack
	Van Arnold strikes again --- Mr G puff piece (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060219/SOUTHERNMISS/602190309/1050	Eagle Lost	21	761	Feb 24, 2006 by Mr Stinky
	New Program at USM? (Preview) http://www.usm.edu/ncate/spa_reports.htm	Talkcalculate	1	400	Feb 24, 2006 by Swan SongII
	Independent online (Preview) The Independent is now on the web at http://www.onlineindependent.com/.	info	17	900	Feb 24, 2006 by Little old lady
	H.A.--State Supreme Court rejects attempt to clear Kennard (Preview) State Supreme Court rejects attempt to clear Kennardhttp://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/NEWS01/60223008	Reporter	2	350	Feb 24, 2006 by Justice for All
	H.A.--Opinion:State Board of Education drops writing requirement (Preview) State Board of Education drops writing requirementhttp://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/OPINION01/602220317/1014/OPINION	Reporter	4	402	Feb 24, 2006 by Student
	Summers Out (Preview) Harvard president Lawrence Summers has resigned. He was forced out by an angry faculty. The greivances at Harvard were miniscule compared to those at USM. I call on the academic community to take to the streets,literally. No mealy mouth Faculty Senate.No quasi impotent AAUP. The time has come.	To the barricades	12	647	Feb 24, 2006 by Gnome Watcher
	3 USM Departures, 2005-2006 (Preview) USM Departures, August 2005 thru July 2006 Charles Cartee, Professor of Finance (retirement) Charlotte Jackson, CoB Undergraduate Programs (local school system) Jim Miller, Professor of Computer Science (situation unknown) Total Leaving: 3 Total Retiring: 1	babbs	10	1576	Feb 23, 2006 by getting lonely
	Let's Get Serious...now! (Preview) May 2007 is upon us. What will we do? What impact can we have? This board has really taken a down turn. We need to look at the future. We can have some influnce on our destiny. How can we get the detractors and trolls from using our board for their own purposes? We need change....and we need it n...	007	8	560	Feb 23, 2006 by Cossack
	Printz riffs on Thames re: Summers' resignation (Preview) Printz Column	Angeline	1	520	Feb 23, 2006 by truth4usm/AH
	It's not too early . . . (Preview) Last year we discussed hurricane preparedness and then we discovered a few things (such as, forget three days' worth, try three weeks'worth of stuff, or, if thirty feet of water comes through your house, it doesn't matter how many batteries you had.) It's not too early to talk about what di...	Hurricane Hattie	19	1143	Feb 23, 2006 by Cossack
	Lady Eagles win (Preview) The softball team beat #6 ranked Alabama. Go ahead and spin it.	Birdman	3	299	Feb 23, 2006 by Little Birdy
	Politics As Usual In Hattiesburg (Preview) And we wonder why Hattiesburg can't seem to get over the hump: Link How long will it be before the white folks who live in Hattiesburg turn loose of the reins? Most h...	RB	2	415	Feb 23, 2006 by Tax yourself out of debt
	Serious Questions (Preview) I have visited this board for about a year now. I have read all of the posts about the fall of USM and I agree that it is not the same institution it was a few years ago. It is disturbing and depressing for me as an alumnus. My questions to those on this board are: What can and/o...	StillAnEagle	0	329	Feb 23, 2006 by StillAnEagle
	Students Review USM (Preview) I'm not making a comment one way or the other with this. I just stumbled across it...is anyone familiar with this web site? http://www.studentsreview.com/MS/USM.html	Outside Observer	26	896	Feb 23, 2006 by StillAnEagle
	H.A.--Tech park to aid area future (Preview) Tech park to aid area futurehttp://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060221/NEWS01/602210304/1002""Recruiting research headquarters will be as valuable as recruiting the manufacturing plant," Area Development Partnership Presiden...	Reporter	17	653	Feb 23, 2006 by Native Texan Eagle
	South Dakota becomes first state to ban abortion (Preview) http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060223/pl_nm/rights_abortion_dc	Reuters	0	250	Feb 22, 2006 by Reuters
	We are not alone (Preview) http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/education/21professors.html?_r=1&oref=slogin	Mitch	17	778	Feb 22, 2006 by Outside Observer
	new USM website --- check it out! ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://www.usmpride.com/	e-messenger	36	1990	Feb 22, 2006 by Kiker
	Football Gone - Academics Saved (Preview) http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/02/22/allen	Angeline	7	451	Feb 22, 2006 by Cossack
	Pood News (Preview) He's a finalist for the Provost position at Central Missouri State: http://www.cmsu.edu/x82941.xml	Angeline	14	1174	Feb 22, 2006 by red hot
	Faculty member fired? (Preview) Has anyone heard anything about a USM faculty member being fired for sexual harassment?	Concerned	5	597	Feb 22, 2006 by Invictus
	H.A.--New development concerns residents (Preview) New development concerns residents http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/NEWS01/602220328/1002	Reporter	0	291	Feb 22, 2006 by Reporter
	SH, 2/22/06: USM tech park gets $20M (Preview) http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/business/13930322.htm	info	2	335	Feb 22, 2006 by info
	CFO (Preview) I was just wondering if anyone knew of developments in the CFO search. As a reminder the position will be vacated this Friday (Feb. 24). While the Dean positions may or may not experience transition in the weeks to come, this critical position will. In case some of you don't get i...	Already Gone 2	1	456	Feb 22, 2006 by Don't call me Shirley
	Things are rosy in the CoEP! (Preview) Since you're tired of CoB threads, here's one for you to work on, CoEPers.	CoEPing Well	2	458	Feb 22, 2006 by Peter, Paul, and Nary (a dime)
	Things are rosy in the CoH! (Preview) Since you're tired of CoB threads, here's one for you to work on, CoHers.	Turn your head and CoH	3	490	Feb 22, 2006 by What a difference a year makes!
	More Ignorance from Amy Tuck (Preview) New Cigarette Tax Another non-starter of an economic program.	Barcolounger	0	326	Feb 22, 2006 by Barcolounger
	USF still bringing in Business Dean Candidates (Preview) http://files.acad.usf.edu/facprogdev/searches/COBA-Forsythe-Schedule.pdf	St. Pete Eagle	1	402	Feb 22, 2006 by flauta
	Multi-tasker needed (Preview) __________________________________________________________	Is this a joke?	7	421	Feb 21, 2006 by LVN
	Printz--Faculty Senate opposes proposed FCC actions (Preview) Faculty Senate opposes proposed FCC actionshttp://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/21/43fac2316de7d"Sophomore polymer science major Steven Levin took the meeting as an opportunity to tell the senate directly that he oppo...	Reporter	1	331	Feb 21, 2006 by kick
	H.A.--In Brief: USM Faculty oppose wire tapping law ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=24082&subForumID=36767&a...	Reporter	40	1036	Feb 21, 2006 by Aunt Josephine
	Courses taught by TAs and adjuncts (Preview) Does anyone happen to know the percentage of service courses (e.g. basic introductory courses or sophomore-level courses that are part of the core curriculum) that are taught by graduate students or adjuncts at USM? My own university will be coming up for reaaccreditation before long, and...	USM Sympathizer	1	414	Feb 21, 2006 by USM Sympathizer
	Resumes are us (Preview) Check out the story about the Radio Shack executive in the news. It's in the business section of my paper.	Watching and waiting	2	404	Feb 21, 2006 by Picky, picky
	unsettling rumor about online student evals (Preview) I heard today (from a long-time colleague) that the online evals had a little problem. Apparently the response rate was not as high as was hoped. The administration was concerned that low response rates would doom the online program, so responses were replicated (duplicated) within a given sectio...	proud mary	2	549	Feb 21, 2006 by flaming red
	Message for Truth aka Andrea (Preview) A couple of your HBurg friends can't email you at the address they have. Please write to them with the correct addy. Thx	Friend of truth	3	544	Feb 21, 2006 by truth4usm/AH
	MBA program all online (Preview) With the elimination of GA awards in the college of business, there will be less and less of a need for in-house classroom instruction for that program. The whole enchilada will now have to be offered online in order to keep numbers at doable levels. I think the e.t. knows that as well, and...	pendejo	4	434	Feb 20, 2006 by doodad
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