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interesting thread from EagleTalk about enrollment
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question for webmaster!!!!!!
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Can you place a clock on the main page of this site that counts backwards from 2 years?
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May 19, 2005
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Loss of state funding
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This question is inspired by something mentioned on another thread. I wonder why other posters think that public funding for U.S. universities has declined so much and apparently so irreversibly in the last decade or so. I realize the simple answer (money needed for other things), bu...
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May 19, 2005
by Reads on Beaches
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Lame-Duckitude Duly Noted on L and P
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I've posted a bulletin on Liberty and Power about lame-duckitude for Shelby Thames.
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/12011.html
It's time for everyone to rejoice for a little while. The work needed to minimize the damage and neutralize what's left of the crew will come soon en...
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Bad Employment Practices
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This thread is to collect or to set up a list of bad employment practices at the Universities. Would like to see others add to this list. I'm an ex staffer and never plan to set foot on campus again. First issue because of the treatment you get if your not the directors favorite pet.&n...
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May 19, 2005
by Out of Here
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IHL News
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Board to review university funding proposalhttp://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050519/NEWS01/505190384/1002/NEWS01
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May 19, 2005
by Down the tubes
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Marcus Raines - Do felons get financial aid?
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Seems like I remember having to check mark a box on my FAFSA stating that I'm not a felon.
Will Marcus Raines get financial aid at USM? Are athletic scholarship recipients held to the same standards as others who receive financial aid?
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May 19, 2005
by Repeat Offender
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USM in color
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I am a JSU grad working in a business on Broadway Drive. When I was in school [early 1990's] USM had about 15% African American students. Now I hear that they have well over 30% from the African American population [moving close to 40% by now]. I have some questi...
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Big baseball weekend....
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USM's 9-12 loss last night in the Big Easy to New Orleans damaged the RPI ranking a good bit. USM fell from #25 to #33 over night. The last home stand (starting tomorrow) is very big. Houston, this weekend's opponent, is coming off a recent victory over national power Rice. T...
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Don't care what the issue, Grimes is...
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Grimes was born way over his head when he accepted anything more than a normal research position. He has NO charisma, he has NO charm, he has NO abilities to lead us out of the messes, he has NO insight into what is going on... he just does his Howdy-Doody head shake and moves along like things will all be ok...
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May 19, 2005
by First Fallacy
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Carnegie Stupidity
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This has been brought up before, but I took the prerogative and looked for myself.
After researching a little, I found what it means to be classified as a Carnegie Doctoral/Research Extensive univeristy, and I encourage any other alumni who are noneducators to look at it (www.carnegiefoundatio...
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May 18, 2005
by Mine and Yours
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Total Losses --- even more categories
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Losses by Unit, May 2002-present
Academic Advising: Betty Blackledge; Vicki Flanagan; Judy McQueen
Accounting: Marvin Albin; James Crockett; Jerry King
Art: Harold Van Houten
Athletics: Bud Childers; Matt Clark; Terry Cooksey; Shelton Gandy; James Green; Troy Howell; Chris Klenak...
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Suggestion to Web Master
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Dear Web Master (whoever you are):
First of all, many thanks for maintaining this board! In the coming-out party, everyone will need to shake your hand (while being careful not to damage your typing fingers).
Secondly, it occurs to me that in order to keep more topics on the first pa...
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May 18, 2005
by Your word is good
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Total Losses Updated
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Losses by Academic Unit, May 2002-present
Accounting: Marvin Albin; James Crockett; Jerry King
Art: Harold Van Houten
Biology: Stephen Ross; Raymond Wayne Scheetz
Chemistry: David Creed; Anselm Griffin; Emory Howell; Kenneth McMurtrey
Child & Family Studies: Muriel Azria-E...
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May 18, 2005
by Miles Long
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S.H.& Raines5/18/05
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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/sports/colleges/university_of_southern_mississippi/11672310.htm
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Total Losses Update
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Losses by Unit, May 2002-present
Accounting: Marvin Albin; James Crockett; Jerry King
Art: Harold Van Houten
Biology: Stephen Ross; Raymond Wayne Scheetz
Chemistry: David Creed; Newton Fawcett; Anselm Griffin; Emory Howell; Kenneth McMurtrey
Child & Family Studies: Muriel A...
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May 18, 2005
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Ward Churchill and Shelby Thames
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FWIW, I posted a blog entry on Ward Churchill, and there are a couple of comparisons to ol' Shelboo.
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May 17, 2005
by Paint by numbers
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Black and White
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I appreciate the kind treatment by most of you in response to my question about the "no confidence" vote. I get the feeling, however, that a couple of you were ready to jump me before I explained that my quest was for accurate information and nothing more.
Many of you seem ready to challe...
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May 17, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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Mayors Race VII
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Exit pollers have been at work all day trying to sample and project the USM faculty vote in the Republican primary. So far only two of the great minds have been found in the GOP column;hardly enough for a valid sample. Very few of the scholars were able to break away from their research to vo...
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2002-03 Departures
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USM Departures, May 2002 thru July 2003
Elizabeth Anglin, Instructor of Foreign Languages (retired)
Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Associate Professor of English (private sector)
Gloria Beal, Assistant Professor of CISE (retirement)
Dennis Behm, Professor of Music (retirement)
Ada Belt...
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HA: gaming courses poll and story
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http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/frontpage
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Mr. G's grades now available from Soar
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Baseball: 70.31% (2004)
Women's Tennis: 65.22%
Men's Tennis: 59.09%
Football: 58.33%
Women's Golf: 58.33%
Men's Golf: 50.00%
Men's Basketball: 39.29%
Soccer: 32.35%
Women's Basketball: 32.14%
Volleyball: 25.93%
Conduct: cut ribbon on Nitchampburg; tu...
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May 17, 2005
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Eagles Sweep, RPIs, "We Miss Lu"....
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Congratulations to the USM baseball team for sweeping USF in their last home series of the year. The Eagles are closing in on 40 wins now, with a road trip to UNO and a road series with Houston to close out the season. The Houston series is this coming weekend.
Still tracking the Eagles' R...
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May 17, 2005
by In the Know
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A report from the de Guerre home
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I received a concerned telephone call from Mlle. de Guerre's housekeeper, Agnes. (Never fear, Agnes does not use a computer.) She was hearing loud noises from Mlle's boudoir and asked me to come over at once. (Why do we even pretend I get days off?)
Upon arriving, I went hurriedly up to the boudoir...
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May 17, 2005
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CPR Awards I (2005)
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Coach of the Year: Corky Palmer, Baseball; Randy Rowley, Women's Tennis (honorable mention). Palmer building up nice postseason runs. Rowley successfully rebuilding a once near-dead women's tennis program.
Athlete of the Year: Michael Boley, Football; Brad Willcut, B...
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question for finance types
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How can USM have just completed a $100,000,000 capital campaign, yet have an endowment of just $35,000,000? Please fill us in.
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May 16, 2005
by Eye of the beholder
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Total Losses, 2002-Present
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Losses by Academic Unit, May 2002-present
Accounting: Marvin Albin; James Crockett; Jerry King
Art: Harold Van Houten
Biology: Stephen Ross; Raymond Wayne Scheetz
Chemistry: David Creed; Anselm Griffin; Emory Howell; Kenneth McMurtrey
Child & Family Studies: Muriel Azria-E...
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2004-05 Departures
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USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005
Sheila Alber, Associate Professor of CISE (The Ohio State University)
Charles Bolton, Professor and Chair of History (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Deborah Carr, USMCC Counselor (situation pending)
Theodore Christ, Assist...
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Polarity
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To polarize: to separate into diametrically opposed, often antagonistic, groups, viewpoints, etc. (Webster's New World Dictionary, second college edition)
I hear that the board is split on SFT right down the middle and they "raise their voices" a bit when they discuss him. Some s...
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2002-03 Departures
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USM Departures, May 2002 thru July 2003
Elizabeth Anglin, Instructor of Foreign Languages (retired)
Evelyn Ashton-Jones, Associate Professor of English (private sector)
Gloria Beal, Assistant Professor of CISE (retirement)
Dennis Behm, Professor of Music (retirement)
Ada Belt...
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FYI Grades on Soar
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Students can now access grades on SOAR.
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May 16, 2005
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And now . . . for the rest of the story
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Discussions of the newly published USM Propaganda Brochure (aka "A Work in Progress") have focused on misleading and factually inaccurate statements. However, an even larger problem is the absence of the many negative develolopments associated with the current administration.
What does th...
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Alumni e-news letter
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MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.southernmissalumni.com" claiming to be MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.southernmissalumni.com" claiming to be http://www.usm.edu/president to view the latest update.
Anyone else get this notic...
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May 16, 2005
by Far away alum
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Lady Eagles, Lamar County, Raines and more
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The Lady Eagles softball team is making some noise in the C-USA tourney. This morning they took down #3 seed East Carolina. They lost the nightcap agains DePaul. Overall, it was a good day for the Lady Eagles (29-31).
In baseball, USM's RPI improved another place over night (to...
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May 16, 2005
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Song lyrics that hit me....
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Jo Dee Messina's song "My Give a Damn's Busted" hit me this morning - it echo's my feelings about Shelbo....
You can say you've got issues
You can say you're a victim
It's all the faculty's fault, I mean after all you didn't pick em
Maybe somebody else has got time to listen
My give a damn's bu...
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May 16, 2005
by Lady Kick
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Coast Commencement 2005
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Some of you surely remember the poorly planned graduation on the coast last year? The forecasted and actual downpour with no contingency plans for rain? The shuffling of students and parents from room to room?
One year later....the COO/Provost duo flounder again.
No deluge to co...
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USM vs Texas A&M
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(http://www.wayneconews.com/news.php?story=story04.txt) in"We've also outsourced our bookstore services to Barnes and Nob...
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The Independent 5/15/05
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Today's Independent has the article: "Thames Future is Still Dangling"
Excerpt:
“Commissioner Richard Crofts made his report to the College Board on the status of the President of the University of Southern Mississippi this week, members of the Board spent more than three hours in spirited d...
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May 16, 2005
by Independent Thinking
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Summer Hiatus
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Colleagues, as we enter the hiatus between the spring semester and the summer session, I suggest we “recharge” our batteries for the months ahead. We know not what the next IHL meeting or future IHL meetings will bring (while we hope, against all the odds).
Good luck to those...
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Hussein Story Eerily Familiar
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/20...
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"Journalism Saves Lives?"
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Listening to the news this evening I couldn't help remembering the statement made on this board last week. It was something like "History Profs don't save lives". Well apparently we have evidence good journalism can. The news reported that Newsweek retracted its article ab...
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Two great faculty members leaving
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Dr. Mallory, former Chair of the CJ Department, is going to Ole Miss and Dr. Bolton, Chair of the History Department, is going to UNC in Greensboro. They are leaving due to frustration with the administration.
They will both be missed greatly.
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May 15, 2005
by Go Spartans
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2004-05 Departures List
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USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005
Sheila Alber, Associate Professor of CISE (The Ohio State University)
Charles Bolton, Professor and Chair of History (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Deborah Carr, USMCC Counselor (situation pending)
Theodore Christ, Assist...
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A New Resolve
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For a long time I've worked really hard to be helpful and nice to people, especially to new people who come to this board. Well, except for losing it last night when I threw a plate at "Correction" (a metaphorical plate, of course.) "Correction" was most civil in responding, and graciously swept up the...
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AAUP next year
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Who will be the AAUP's officers next year? (Forgive me if this information was posted elsewhere; I couldn't find it if it was)
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Question about Cox-Purvis Report
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This is an open board and I'm all for that. Don't have to read anything I don't want to. Still, it seems like the CPR provokes a lot of trolling. It might be good to know whether the posters think having the report is worth the hassle.
If Truth is willing, would she be okay with us emailing her with our op...
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SH on Coast Commencement
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http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/11650468.htm
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May 15, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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SFT In The Dark????
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There has been much discussion about the propensity of SFT to vastly overstate the quality of activities at USM, to inflate the numbers, to make comparisons that are obviously erroneous, and put out other misinformation. While he has demonstrated a propensity to be a blowhard, the volume of errone...
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93% No Confidence?
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Could someone explain to me how a "no confidence" vote of, what was it 36 to 2, calculates to 93% of the faculty? I figure that 36 votes represents no more than maybe 3 to 5% of the faculty. Where is the flaw in my logic?
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When I closed my office door tonight, I knew that when I opened it the next morning I'd start packing. As happy as I am about where I'm going, tears came into my eyes: the last time, the last full day of work.
As I walked to my car I saw graduates, their friends and families, hurrying toward the Coliseum...
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