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Reporter

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Name Dropper

Thames didn't quote the student who said, "To be the best, you have to be taught by the best." Also noticeably missing were the "Southern Miss! To the top!" fiascos. I will have to say that the pitiful manner in which graduation is conducted these days is shameful. Students don't stand for p...

Green Hornet

Information found on the IHL webpage: BOARD WILL CONSIDER FUNDING PRIORITIES, EVALUATION PROCESS 5/12/2005 (JACKSON ) - In its regular monthly meeting next week, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) is expected to consid...

Lois Lane

http://www.wayneconews.com/news.php?story=story04.txt

SOAR Loser

I was entering my grades tonight and I got an error message that has my head swimming: "error 1101: grade distribution outside of acceptable norms" I had given a normal curve of grades from A to F. Has anybody else gotten this message??

Straw Boss

The following consists of excerpts from one of the "stickys" that appears on recent departures at the top of the message board. The issues raised are important and may have been missed by those of you who sometimes forget to look for new posts on the "stickys": USM Product Date: 4 hr, 12 min....

standard bearer

Looking Forward to the Best Parts of Today's Event(s) "Let's all thank members of our distinguished IHL Board who are visiting with us today. They are seated in the back. Let's show our appreciation. Their support means so much to us." "Students, as one of my former students...

Blue Horseshoe

Has anyone heard when the students and faculty will be told in which rooms Summer classes will be held? Someone may like to know to be able to prepare for the conditions in the rooms.

porkypie

I heard an e-mail went out yesterday indicating that Warren Paving would be doing more big jobs around campus all summer. Can someone post that here?

babbs

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...

The way we were

Draw your own conclusions: Forbes' 'Biloxi Blues' has us seeing red ...

Robert Campbell

I've posted an update on Liberty and Power about last Friday's closed session of the Board and Thames' efforts to save his presidency with his $14,000 brochure. I'm slightly more optimistic than I was a week ago, though I would like to see a stronger margin against Thames on the Board than the 7-5 tha...

Walt

"USM: A Work in Progress." This was the featured publication at last week's IHL meeting in Jackson. The meeting was partly used by the Klumb-Ross-Colbert gang as an effort to get SFT back on solid ground, perhaps extended another year or more. Of course, with no word from the Boar...

babbs

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...

Lurker

Promotion letters from the President's office are out. Should be interesting to learn how the chips fall. Hopefully we won't have any unfortunate denials like last year.

info

THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI Marketing and Public Relations NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Tisdale May 9, 2005 (601) 266-4499 Contac...

Billy McBoing Boing

Is it true that the 2006 USM spring break doesn't coincide with the area's public schools spring breaks?

Idea Maker

I say we publish a new brochure called "A University in Decline." It can document all the bad things that have happened since SFT came aboard since he said the purpose of his was to document the positives. Gosh, I wonder whose would end up longer!

Anonymouse

Letter to the CL editor 5-12-05 re Raines scholarship

Curious prof

The University of Texas has undertaken a study to determine says to help students reduce the time it takes to earn a bachelor's degree. At the UT-Austin campus, 42% of the students graduate within four years. At UT the percentage of students earning an undergraduate degree within six years is ...

Desperate Recruiter

A number of off- campus forces seem to believe that the problems at USM are caused by the faculty. They seem to believe that if the current faculty would leave the problems would evaporate. What they don't seem to understand is that the USM faculty is pretty much like any other university faculty. If yo...

NeitherOfTheAbove

This came from a post on a private listserv. I thought it relevant. I removed the names of the posters, and separated the posts with >>>>>>>>>>> It is broken up into two posts because of its length. -----------------------------------...

Elections Moderator

Please participate.

joe strummer

I just completed my first year in a tenure track appointment at USM and in the brouhaha attendant upon last Fall's SACS probation, and the general craziness here, I contacted the department chair at a small college in my home state--where I first went to co...

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Cecil Ingram

There is an updated babbs posting about departures this year. I am convinced those numbers will take a big jump over the summer, as last-minute decisions to move are made. If you take the babbs count as "expected" losses, how many "unexpected" losses will the university incur? My guess is 10-20 losse...

Cox-Purvis Report

The word is out now that USM basketball coach Larry Eustachy placed a call to both Oxford and Starkville offering a 2-for-1 deal between USM and either Ole Miss or State. Under his proposal, USM would travel to either Oxford or Starkville for two games, and Ole Miss or State would return one trip...

Oak Grove Students

Have you voted for the bond issue? The polls are open for another half hour.

already gone

Thanks to the "hot link" I was able to read the HA article on the new brochure, complete with a really disturbing quote by Joe Paul, who must be the latest apologist for Thames misinformation: Myron Henry's contention: "Fall enrollment counting is not as accurate as three-term credit hour count...

Anonymouse

I just noticed that we're charging new students and transfer students $75 to attend the Summer Preview (orientation). Have we always done that? I didn't know students had to pay to be oriented......

Cox-Purvis Report

The Cox-Purvis Report got a moment of Coach Croom's time this evening, and will report a brief interview with him in a future issue. Meanwhile, a portion of the MSU coaching staff made its way to the 'burg tonight to address local Bully alumni. The maroon and white were out in full force to...

truth4usm/AH

Shared Governance at TAMU This is how they do it at Tier 1 schools... Truth

Dr. Stangelove

Has anybody noticed that the most outspoken boosters of the current USM administration are State and Ole Miss boosters? I believe Roy Klumb and Scott Ross are big Bulldog boosers, while Stacy Davidson is said to be in regular attendance at Rebel football games. Is this a case of "Big Two Hegemony" or i...

Cavorters Anonymous

"We, the public, do not give you carte blanc to be insubordinate or use the time we are paying for to lobby for your personal causes. For those who cannot support President Thames we ask to please leave. We feel that the university will be much better off without you and you will be happier in a less outcom...

Reads on Beaches

Is there a way to stop the "tracking cookies" that seem to be accompanying this website? I ran Ad-Ware SE from LavaSoft (free) this morning and cleaned out the tracking cookies, then visited this site, ran the program, and had 8 tracking cookies after visiting.

Third Witch

Somebody make a link please. HA has a lead in to (I hope) a longer and better article tomorrow.

reliable source

I have been informed by a reliable source that today is Lisa Mader's last day. She will be starting at Wesley on May 2. Another one bites the dust.

chaz

I spoke with Dr. Max Arinder, director of the joint PEER committee in December when the SACS news broke. He stated since IHL has direct oversight of USM, it would be best to first seek redress from the IHL. Further, if I felt that IHL was not being responsible in it's handling of the situation, I should wr...

Cox-Purvis Report

Congrats to the Lady Eagle softball team for closing out the series against East Carolina, 2-1. The Eagles now head to Tampa for C-USA tourney as the #6 seed, where they will again face East Carolina (#3 seed). The Lady Pirates have won over 50 games so far this year, while Coach McNutt con...

Sagacious

Bond issue wins approval Unofficial returns Tuesday night from the Lamar County school bond issue referendum show voters approved the $43 million proposal. With 43 of 43 boxes counted, 7,920 voters, or 64.76 percent, were in favor of the bond issue while 4,310, or 35.24 percent, were oppo...

Yang

Hard copies of "A Work in Progress" were available for inspection. It was stated/reported that about $14,000 has so far been spent producing the document. Word is that the PUC membership is evolving into a pro-SFT group. Today's meeting was over by 8:00am.

Reporter

From Faculty Senate Listserv: "Good Morning Faculty Senate Colleagues: We are back early from the President's Council meeting today, so on behalf of Anne and myself, I thought I would pen a short report. First, this is Anne's last PC meeting, and it is fortunate that she was there to "lighte...

Community ties

Sometime back I saw that the old Coca Cola building in downtown Hatiesburg was up for sale. If I recall correctly, it was even on eBay. In view of USM's acquisition of the old Albertson's property (at Cloverleaf Mall) and the old Hattiesburg High School (downtown), the thought occurred to me th...

taxidermist

If Malone is successful in lynching Kevin Walters, will the head still be in good enough shape to be mounted on Toy's wall?

President Kennedy

The latest issue of the Independent has a nice story on WCC's School of Education. It has almost tripled in size over last 10 years, and they just built a new building (Smith Hall) to house the school. The article went on to detail other good things at WCC. " ... WCC can make a difference...

Ethics Professor

Here are some guidlines for those who view these board postings. FIRST: If any comment reflects negatively on Shelby Thames,it is most definitely true.SECOND: if any posting reflects positively on Thames is certainly false. There is no in between and anyone who suggests that...

Amy Young

Today I picked up my repaired bike and on the way home I passed the Dvorak and Hanbury law firm. However, the sign only had Hanbury listed. Does anyone know what is going on there? Nothing important, I'm just curious. Amy Young

Clarence Darrow

Just heard through the grapevine that the couple accused of the murder of a Hattiesburg local -- and then boxing up the body and carting it to Missouri might well plea bargain to involuntary manslaughter. The sentence would be a two year scholarship to play for the football versi...

Word on the Street Man

The mid primary season is really heating up.The Republicans are throwing accusations right and left.One recent development:the Faculty Council on Political Correctness (FCPC) met in plenary session and gave a resounding endorsement to Mayor Dupree.The great minds later passed a vote of no con...

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	Interesting EagleTalk Thread (Preview) http://southernmiss.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1355&mid=52711864&sid=&tid=52711864&style=1	Reporter	6	613	May 14, 2005 by already gone
	Thames Drops Graduation Standbys (Preview) Thames didn't quote the student who said, "To be the best, you have to be taught by the best." Also noticeably missing were the "Southern Miss! To the top!" fiascos. I will have to say that the pitiful manner in which graduation is conducted these days is shameful. Students don't stand for p...	Name Dropper	26	825	May 14, 2005 by LVN
	IHL May 19th Agenda ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Information found on the IHL webpage: BOARD WILL CONSIDER FUNDING PRIORITIES, EVALUATION PROCESS 5/12/2005 (JACKSON ) - In its regular monthly meeting next week, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) is expected to consid...	Green Hornet	40	970	May 14, 2005 by David Johnson
	Area Paper's article ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://www.wayneconews.com/news.php?story=story04.txt	Lois Lane	50	1166	May 14, 2005 by LVN
	Question about grade entry ( 1 2 ) (Preview) I was entering my grades tonight and I got an error message that has my head swimming: "error 1101: grade distribution outside of acceptable norms" I had given a normal curve of grades from A to F. Has anybody else gotten this message??	SOAR Loser	36	938	May 14, 2005 by Applause Meter
	Shape up or ship out ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) The following consists of excerpts from one of the "stickys" that appears on recent departures at the top of the message board. The issues raised are important and may have been missed by those of you who sometimes forget to look for new posts on the "stickys": USM Product Date: 4 hr, 12 min....	Straw Boss	66	1202	May 13, 2005 by Shell Shocked
	Graduation morning yell practice.... (Preview) Looking Forward to the Best Parts of Today's Event(s) "Let's all thank members of our distinguished IHL Board who are visiting with us today. They are seated in the back. Let's show our appreciation. Their support means so much to us." "Students, as one of my former students...	standard bearer	5	380	May 13, 2005 by Mortar Boredom
	Summer Room Assignments (Preview) Has anyone heard when the students and faculty will be told in which rooms Summer classes will be held? Someone may like to know to be able to prepare for the conditions in the rooms.	Blue Horseshoe	11	438	May 13, 2005 by phantom
	More Warren Paving Trough Feeding... (Preview) I heard an e-mail went out yesterday indicating that Warren Paving would be doing more big jobs around campus all summer. Can someone post that here?	porkypie	29	744	May 13, 2005 by Thread
	2004-05 Departures List (Preview) 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...	babbs	0	201	May 13, 2005 by babbs
	All is not well in River City (Preview) Draw your own conclusions: Forbes' 'Biloxi Blues' has us seeing red ...	The way we were	0	376	May 13, 2005 by The way we were
	L and P update: Klumb Fails, Thames Thrashes (Preview) I've posted an update on Liberty and Power about last Friday's closed session of the Board and Thames' efforts to save his presidency with his $14,000 brochure. I'm slightly more optimistic than I was a week ago, though I would like to see a stronger margin against Thames on the Board than the 7-5 tha...	Robert Campbell	6	377	May 13, 2005 by Best Practices
	Klumb's goal last week.... ( 1 2 ) (Preview) "USM: A Work in Progress." This was the featured publication at last week's IHL meeting in Jackson. The meeting was partly used by the Klumb-Ross-Colbert gang as an effort to get SFT back on solid ground, perhaps extended another year or more. Of course, with no word from the Boar...	Walt	35	1255	May 12, 2005 by Table Setting
	2004-05 Departures Update ( 1 2 ) (Preview) 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...	babbs	41	1755	May 12, 2005 by Bloody Glove
	Promotion letters are out (Preview) Promotion letters from the President's office are out. Should be interesting to learn how the chips fall. Hopefully we won't have any unfortunate denials like last year.	Lurker	2	436	May 12, 2005 by word on the street
	Quinlivan wins again (Preview) THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI Marketing and Public Relations NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: David Tisdale May 9, 2005 (601) 266-4499 Contac...	info	19	760	May 12, 2005 by info
	Spring break 2006 (Preview) Is it true that the 2006 USM spring break doesn't coincide with the area's public schools spring breaks?	Billy McBoing Boing	27	735	May 12, 2005 by what?
	A New Brochure (Preview) I say we publish a new brochure called "A University in Decline." It can document all the bad things that have happened since SFT came aboard since he said the purpose of his was to document the positives. Gosh, I wonder whose would end up longer!	Idea Maker	1	387	May 12, 2005 by kick
	CL Letter re Raines (Preview) Letter to the CL editor 5-12-05 re Raines scholarship	Anonymouse	11	509	May 12, 2005 by Investigator
	Graduation rates (Preview) The University of Texas has undertaken a study to determine says to help students reduce the time it takes to earn a bachelor's degree. At the UT-Austin campus, 42% of the students graduate within four years. At UT the percentage of students earning an undergraduate degree within six years is ...	Curious prof	3	270	May 12, 2005 by Invictus
	Wanted: Stepford Faculty (Preview) A number of off- campus forces seem to believe that the problems at USM are caused by the faculty. They seem to believe that if the current faculty would leave the problems would evaporate. What they don't seem to understand is that the USM faculty is pretty much like any other university faculty. If yo...	Desperate Recruiter	2	384	May 12, 2005 by LVN
	Difference Between Administrator and Faculty (Preview) This came from a post on a private listserv. I thought it relevant. I removed the names of the posters, and separated the posts with >>>>>>>>>>> It is broken up into two posts because of its length. -----------------------------------...	NeitherOfTheAbove	2	326	May 12, 2005 by wondering
	Cox-Purvis Poll (Preview) Please participate.	Elections Moderator	16	526	May 12, 2005 by polly
	should I stay or should I go? ( 1 2 ) (Preview) I just completed my first year in a tenure track appointment at USM and in the brouhaha attendant upon last Fall's SACS probation, and the general craziness here, I contacted the department chair at a small college in my home state--where I first went to co...	joe strummer	36	1249	May 12, 2005 by KIC
	test (Preview) test	test	2	259	May 12, 2005 by Helper
	test (Preview) test	test	0	186	May 12, 2005 by test
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	"Coach, Larry Eustachy's on the phone for you..." ( 1 2 ) (Preview) The word is out now that USM basketball coach Larry Eustachy placed a call to both Oxford and Starkville offering a 2-for-1 deal between USM and either Ole Miss or State. Under his proposal, USM would travel to either Oxford or Starkville for two games, and Ole Miss or State would return one trip...	Cox-Purvis Report	55	1284	May 11, 2005 by Emma
	Lamar County Bond Issue (Preview) Have you voted for the bond issue? The polls are open for another half hour.	Oak Grove Students	5	395	May 11, 2005 by "Grover"
	Enrollment Count in USM Brochure (Preview) Thanks to the "hot link" I was able to read the HA article on the new brochure, complete with a really disturbing quote by Joe Paul, who must be the latest apologist for Thames misinformation: Myron Henry's contention: "Fall enrollment counting is not as accurate as three-term credit hour count...	already gone	7	490	May 11, 2005 by Scam
	pay for preview? (Preview) I just noticed that we're charging new students and transfer students $75 to attend the Summer Preview (orientation). Have we always done that? I didn't know students had to pay to be oriented......	Anonymouse	19	687	May 11, 2005 by LVN
	"Croom's in the House......" (Preview) The Cox-Purvis Report got a moment of Coach Croom's time this evening, and will report a brief interview with him in a future issue. Meanwhile, a portion of the MSU coaching staff made its way to the 'burg tonight to address local Bully alumni. The maroon and white were out in full force to...	Cox-Purvis Report	17	579	May 11, 2005 by toast
	A look at shared governance, Texas A&M-style (Preview) Shared Governance at TAMU This is how they do it at Tier 1 schools... Truth	truth4usm/AH	10	554	May 11, 2005 by Run-on sentence half-full hopeful
	"Big Two Hegemony" (Preview) Has anybody noticed that the most outspoken boosters of the current USM administration are State and Ole Miss boosters? I believe Roy Klumb and Scott Ross are big Bulldog boosers, while Stacy Davidson is said to be in regular attendance at Rebel football games. Is this a case of "Big Two Hegemony" or i...	Dr. Stangelove	1	373	May 11, 2005 by Invictus
	Makes Good Use of Time (Preview) "We, the public, do not give you carte blanc to be insubordinate or use the time we are paying for to lobby for your personal causes. For those who cannot support President Thames we ask to please leave. We feel that the university will be much better off without you and you will be happier in a less outcom...	Cavorters Anonymous	10	546	May 11, 2005 by I did leave
	Tracking Cookies (Preview) Is there a way to stop the "tracking cookies" that seem to be accompanying this website? I ran Ad-Ware SE from LavaSoft (free) this morning and cleaned out the tracking cookies, then visited this site, ran the program, and had 8 tracking cookies after visiting.	Reads on Beaches	4	334	May 11, 2005 by LVN
	HA Late article on Propaganda Brochure (Preview) Somebody make a link please. HA has a lead in to (I hope) a longer and better article tomorrow.	Third Witch	9	619	May 11, 2005 by Angeline
	Lisa's last day ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) I have been informed by a reliable source that today is Lisa Mader's last day. She will be starting at Wesley on May 2. Another one bites the dust.	reliable source	85	2088	May 11, 2005 by USM Sympathizer
	PEER committee (Preview) I spoke with Dr. Max Arinder, director of the joint PEER committee in December when the SACS news broke. He stated since IHL has direct oversight of USM, it would be best to first seek redress from the IHL. Further, if I felt that IHL was not being responsible in it's handling of the situation, I should wr...	chaz	10	585	May 11, 2005 by Prying Eyes
	PostSeason Action, Bulldog invasion..... (Preview) Congrats to the Lady Eagle softball team for closing out the series against East Carolina, 2-1. The Eagles now head to Tampa for C-USA tourney as the #6 seed, where they will again face East Carolina (#3 seed). The Lady Pirates have won over 50 games so far this year, while Coach McNutt con...	Cox-Purvis Report	13	437	May 11, 2005 by Cox-Purvis Report
	Bond Issue Apparently Passes - Finally! (Preview) Bond issue wins approval Unofficial returns Tuesday night from the Lamar County school bond issue referendum show voters approved the $43 million proposal. With 43 of 43 boxes counted, 7,920 voters, or 64.76 percent, were in favor of the bond issue while 4,310, or 35.24 percent, were oppo...	Sagacious	2	293	May 10, 2005 by Happy Oak Grover
	Word from today's PUC (Preview) Hard copies of "A Work in Progress" were available for inspection. It was stated/reported that about $14,000 has so far been spent producing the document. Word is that the PUC membership is evolving into a pro-SFT group. Today's meeting was over by 8:00am.	Yang	7	478	May 10, 2005 by Third Witch
	Dr. Henry's PUC Report (Preview) From Faculty Senate Listserv: "Good Morning Faculty Senate Colleagues: We are back early from the President's Council meeting today, so on behalf of Anne and myself, I thought I would pen a short report. First, this is Anne's last PC meeting, and it is fortunate that she was there to "lighte...	Reporter	3	1767	May 10, 2005 by David Johnson
	Off- campus USM real estate (Preview) Sometime back I saw that the old Coca Cola building in downtown Hatiesburg was up for sale. If I recall correctly, it was even on eBay. In view of USM's acquisition of the old Albertson's property (at Cloverleaf Mall) and the old Hattiesburg High School (downtown), the thought occurred to me th...	Community ties	9	1142	May 10, 2005 by Singing in the Rain
	Technical Question (Preview) If Malone is successful in lynching Kevin Walters, will the head still be in good enough shape to be mounted on Toy's wall?	taxidermist	1	343	May 10, 2005 by Third Witch
	William Carey's School of Education... (Preview) The latest issue of the Independent has a nice story on WCC's School of Education. It has almost tripled in size over last 10 years, and they just built a new building (Smith Hall) to house the school. The article went on to detail other good things at WCC. " ... WCC can make a difference...	President Kennedy	0	276	May 10, 2005 by President Kennedy
	Message board comments ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview) Here are some guidlines for those who view these board postings. FIRST: If any comment reflects negatively on Shelby Thames,it is most definitely true.SECOND: if any posting reflects positively on Thames is certainly false. There is no in between and anyone who suggests that...	Ethics Professor	78	1286	May 10, 2005 by LVN
	local law firm ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Today I picked up my repaired bike and on the way home I passed the Dvorak and Hanbury law firm. However, the sign only had Hanbury listed. Does anyone know what is going on there? Nothing important, I'm just curious. Amy Young	Amy Young	44	1622	May 9, 2005 by interested
	Plea Bargain? (Preview) Just heard through the grapevine that the couple accused of the murder of a Hattiesburg local -- and then boxing up the body and carting it to Missouri might well plea bargain to involuntary manslaughter. The sentence would be a two year scholarship to play for the football versi...	Clarence Darrow	0	295	May 9, 2005 by Clarence Darrow
	Mayor's Race VI (Preview) The mid primary season is really heating up.The Republicans are throwing accusations right and left.One recent development:the Faculty Council on Political Correctness (FCPC) met in plenary session and gave a resounding endorsement to Mayor Dupree.The great minds later passed a vote of no con...	Word on the Street Man	1	312	May 9, 2005 by LVN
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