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Cox-Purvis Report

Here is a snippet from today's CL about 5 of the 9 players Larry Eustachy expects to sign this year: Among those expected to sign within the next few days: Point guard Travis Hall of Western Nebraska Community College. The 5-foot-10 Baton Rouge native averaged 13.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 4.5 as...

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Calling all former USM faculty members! · truth4usm/AH

We are looking for former (and soon-to-be-former) USM faculty members to participate in a group "letter to the editor" project. If you are interested, please email me at: truth@FireThames.com I will provide further details once you contact me. Please spread the word to other colleagues...

Angeline

G-d what a staff. While departments flounder with not enough staff persons and not enough faculty, the Dean's office is apparently rolling in the dough. THE STAFF DEAN Elliott A. Pood, Ph.D. Elliott.Pood@usm.edu (601) 266-4315 Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 210 ...

around the corner

Several cars arrived throughout the day at the Doty's house (I live in view) yesterday. There were lots of hugs -- the scene when someone's leaving. I guess we may hear soon about the UNF sitiation.

memorial wall

Losses by Academic Unit, August 2003-present Accounting: Marvin Albin Art: Harold Van Houten Biology: Stephen Ross; Raymond Wayne Scheetz Chemistry: David Creed; Kenneth McMurtrey Child & Family Studies: Judy Kinney; Thomas Webb CISE: Sheila Alber; Douglas Feldmann; Perr...

Seagullable

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/editorial/letters/11379395.htm

Charles Noblin

This morning I ran across this Richmond Times Dispatch article that makes specific reference to Professor Philip Kolin of USM's Department of English. I thought message board posters, and members of the English Department in particular, might be interested in seeing it: New Broadway...

pirate

The following memo is dated April 7, 2005 and comes from the University Budget Office addressed to SFT, Provost, and Deans individually. RE: Preparation of the 2006 E&G Budget "The University Budget Office hopes to receive final figures regarding FY 2006 state appropriations soon....

Despairing

So, after months of alternating hope and despair this question keeps coming to my mind? Where in the world is Aubrey K. Lucas? We all can understand why he didn't speak out about reorganization. As much as he might have disapproved of the way it was handled, he would have thought that USM was no...

Black Cat

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0412-25.htm

Whoever

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/business/11371049.htm.

Cox-Purvis Report

Tomorrow is signing day in college basketball, and LE says he expects to sign 9 players during this year's signing period (a huge number!). In his first two years, he will have signed a complete roster's worth of players. Maybe one or 2 of these 9 will have been to Hattiesburg before, but w...

Reporter

http://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/12/425b43079335a

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) Doug Chambers, Assistant Professor of History (situation pending) Theodor...

Paranoid Popeye

I have several IP addresses and the same spyware advertisement pops up every time I get on this website from my different IPs - is anyone else experiencing this?

Reporter

Editorial April 11, 2005 Jackson Statehttp://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050411/OPINION01/504110309/1008/OPINION

Constituencies R Us

In all of the talk about various constituencies for the IHL Board to use to evaluate presidents, one that certain members of the IHL wants to put a lot of stock in is a category they refer to as non-career faculty --- "faculty" in non tenure track/adjunct/visiting teaching positions at various univer...

local lawyer

I was told at a meeting this weekend what the new plan to save Shelby entails. His IHL board supporters are hoping that Crofts buries himself, and they are going to give him enough room to do it. His plan to evaluate the presidents got criticized by presidents of MUW, MVSU, and DSU in the Cla...

Angeline

http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050411/OPINION04/504110319/1014/OPINION

Invictus

Texas politics will never be the same... Read all about it at http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/walk.html

Universitas Quondam Et Futurus

I've just heard about a national study that may have some relevance here. It concerns children's need to belong to an "authoritative" vs. "authoritarian" community, but since the report claims that this need is hard-wired and universal, the need surely persists into adulthood. In other...

Party, me Hearties

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/living/11357013.htm.

Mr. Wonderful

A moment ago our trustworthy scribe handed over the coffee-stained but sealed envelope containing the selection committee's ballots for the April 10 Citation de la Semaine award. There was unanimous agreement that this week's presentation should go to ...

Reporter

The most interesting part of the Faculty Senate meeting was the announcement that earlier this week Interim Commissioner Crofts met with the USM faculty leaders, consisting of the officers of Faculty Senate, Academic Council and Graduate Council. Before going into executive session, Dr. Becke...

Robert Campbell

I've tried to round up the week's news about USM on Liberty and Power. http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/11268.html Most of the entry is about Richard Crofts and his consultations with stakeholders, but I've also mentioned the Gunther report and Ken Malone's refusal to appear i...

Miss Information

Dear Friends, Heavens to Betsy, the committee was literally drowning in paperwork during this Humdinger of a week! So much so that we were seeing red while Hand Truck Harry was bringing in more of the same nom-inations. A 6th Grade Logician was enlisted by the committee to he...

Outside Observer

"...what makes a leader great is not the way she regards herself what what Wall Street thinks of her, but what the people who work for her think." Leigh L. Thompson (2004) Making the team: A guide for managers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, p. 232.

Vote-O-Matic

he Ad Hoc Emergency Committee for Sobriquet Superiority has locked down this week's candidates for the coveted Nom d'Aplomb Award. You may vote for your favorite aliases by going to the Vote-O-Matic™ & rating any or all of the nom-inations on a scale of zero to five, where (as usual) zero &...

Football Fan

Today's mail had my season football ticket renewal application. Now I have to wait for the IHL to decide if SFT will get 4 more years. If he stays, I get Saints tickets this year. If they don't renew his contract, I renew my tickets. The worse case scenario is if they put off a de...

Biscuit

Dean Doty just arrived back in Hattiesburg from his interview trip to UNF. Most of the CoB faculty/staff were there, along with several hundred students and external supporters. Confetti and banners awaited his arrival -- one read "Doty Don't Go!" and the crowd chanted and cheered hi...

qwerty

I've been catching up on my New Yorker reading, and I came upon this article by James Surowiecki, their economics correspondent, on failed CEOs like Bernie Ebbers and Richard Scrushy who turned from "local heroes" to "local zeroes." This quote is most relevant for USM and our leadershi...

info

http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050409/OPINION01/504090370/1008/OPINION

A barrel of laughs

www.httiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050409/NEWS01/504090302

Anne Wallace

A colleague has been asking for current IHL board member addresses--individual addresses, that is. Although there's a list pinned to this board, it is from before the new members took office this past spring. I'm probably being a dunce, but can't find such addresses through the IHL website (an...

Welcome Wagon

Faculty and Staff: Please welcome Dr. Cherylynn (Cheri) Becker as our new Tourism Management chair and associate professor. She comes to us from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Dr. Becker will be splitting her time on the Gulf Park campus and the Hatt...

huh

http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/news/funny/beautiful_m...

info

http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050408/NEWS01/504080335/1002

Robert Campbell

Since the Thames regime has taken a week off from massively boneheaded behavior, I picked up a topic that I was hoping to address a month ago--the February 22 story in the New York Times about Hybrid Plastics. http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/11206.html It was interesti...

BSU Officer

The BSU is still working on our report on Dr. Williams resignation as chair of the department. Some of us have shared our concerns with Student Printz and we were told to bring our results by at the end of August. If there is something to what we found they will allow us to print an editorial c...

Mader Watch

Not to get everyone's hopes up, but I heard a rumor tonight that Mader is leaving. She has accepted the position of PR director at Wesley Hospital. Can anyone confirm this?

qwerty

This sounds like a big deal to me. Does anyone on the board know about this competition. I'm just not familiar with it. Three USM student writers win awards at competition

Reporter

From F.S. Listserv: Tentative Agenda The University of Southern Mississippi Faculty Senate Meeting April 8, 2005 Union Hall of Honors 2:00 p.m. 1.0 Call to Order 2.0 Approval of November 12, 2004, Jan...

Spin Doctor

92 day month currently proposed...

Newgirl

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040629/southernmissnews/743710.html

Tax Advisor

Under the table payments may provide short terms gains and long term problems.

Edward R. Murrow

Just in from Jacksonville, Florida: Doty's visit started off well today, but took a turn for the worse this evening at dinner, where he was rumored to make an off-color remark about a UNF fundraiser's wife in front of a UNF Business Advisory Committee member.

Reporter

http://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/07/4254b15fa83f3

gatoreagle

UNF Dean Salary: $205,000-$225,000

talisman

BSU students still continue to voice some concern over the Williams resignation at a small meeting yesterday. I was told by one that they have spoken with about 50% of the faculty in the college, and no one is willing to go on record about it. There are two faculty that seem to know alot abou...

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	Something Really Nasty Going on here.... (Preview) Here is a snippet from today's CL about 5 of the 9 players Larry Eustachy expects to sign this year: Among those expected to sign within the next few days: Point guard Travis Hall of Western Nebraska Community College. The 5-foot-10 Baton Rouge native averaged 13.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 4.5 as...	Cox-Purvis Report	4	629	Apr 14, 2005 by ABD
	See More #58 (Preview) This week's issue geocities.com/seemore004	See More	6	588	Apr 14, 2005 by too good
	Calling all former USM faculty members! (Preview) We are looking for former (and soon-to-be-former) USM faculty members to participate in a group "letter to the editor" project. If you are interested, please email me at: truth@FireThames.com I will provide further details once you contact me. Please spread the word to other colleagues...	truth4usm/AH	18	1158	Apr 13, 2005 by stephen judd
	CoAL Dean's Office Staff Inflation (Preview) G-d what a staff. While departments flounder with not enough staff persons and not enough faculty, the Dean's office is apparently rolling in the dough. THE STAFF DEAN Elliott A. Pood, Ph.D. Elliott.Pood@usm.edu (601) 266-4315 Liberal Arts Building (LAB) 210 ...	Angeline	18	1129	Apr 13, 2005 by stephen judd
	Doty farewells? (Preview) Several cars arrived throughout the day at the Doty's house (I live in view) yesterday. There were lots of hugs -- the scene when someone's leaving. I guess we may hear soon about the UNF sitiation.	around the corner	28	1844	Apr 13, 2005 by TtT
	Losses by Unit (4/8/2005) (Preview) Losses by Academic Unit, August 2003-present Accounting: Marvin Albin Art: Harold Van Houten Biology: Stephen Ross; Raymond Wayne Scheetz Chemistry: David Creed; Kenneth McMurtrey Child & Family Studies: Judy Kinney; Thomas Webb CISE: Sheila Alber; Douglas Feldmann; Perr...	memorial wall	17	1128	Apr 13, 2005 by kick sr.
	SH letter from Grimes (Preview) http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/editorial/letters/11379395.htm	Seagullable	2	570	Apr 13, 2005 by Every mouth has 2 sides
	USM English scholar quoted in Virginia newspaper (Preview) This morning I ran across this Richmond Times Dispatch article that makes specific reference to Professor Philip Kolin of USM's Department of English. I thought message board posters, and members of the English Department in particular, might be interested in seeing it: New Broadway...	Charles Noblin	13	818	Apr 13, 2005 by Horatio (I knew him well)
	Preparation of the 2006 Budget (Preview) The following memo is dated April 7, 2005 and comes from the University Budget Office addressed to SFT, Provost, and Deans individually. RE: Preparation of the 2006 E&G Budget "The University Budget Office hopes to receive final figures regarding FY 2006 state appropriations soon....	pirate	12	709	Apr 12, 2005 by Robert Campbell
	Where in the world is Aubrey Lucas? (Preview) So, after months of alternating hope and despair this question keeps coming to my mind? Where in the world is Aubrey K. Lucas? We all can understand why he didn't speak out about reorganization. As much as he might have disapproved of the way it was handled, he would have thought that USM was no...	Despairing	5	694	Apr 12, 2005 by Ray the guy
	Read about the Corporate University (Preview) http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0412-25.htm	Black Cat	1	414	Apr 12, 2005 by John Bunyan
	SH on SFT at Coast Meeting (Preview) http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/business/11371049.htm.	Whoever	0	382	Apr 12, 2005 by Whoever
	Basketball Signing day 24 hours away (Preview) Tomorrow is signing day in college basketball, and LE says he expects to sign 9 players during this year's signing period (a huge number!). In his first two years, he will have signed a complete roster's worth of players. Maybe one or 2 of these 9 will have been to Hattiesburg before, but w...	Cox-Purvis Report	0	252	Apr 12, 2005 by Cox-Purvis Report
	Printz 4/12/05 (Preview) http://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/12/425b43079335a	Reporter	8	513	Apr 12, 2005 by Miss Information
	USM departures (4/4/2005) (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) Doug Chambers, Assistant Professor of History (situation pending) Theodor...	babbs	14	1016	Apr 11, 2005 by Angela Cutrer
	Please Help (Preview) I have several IP addresses and the same spyware advertisement pops up every time I get on this website from my different IPs - is anyone else experiencing this?	Paranoid Popeye	4	529	Apr 11, 2005 by truth4usm/AH
	Jackson State Moving UP (Preview) Editorial April 11, 2005 Jackson Statehttp://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050411/OPINION01/504110309/1008/OPINION	Reporter	27	873	Apr 11, 2005 by Mazeppa Fan
	constituent IHL wants to hear from (Preview) In all of the talk about various constituencies for the IHL Board to use to evaluate presidents, one that certain members of the IHL wants to put a lot of stock in is a category they refer to as non-career faculty --- "faculty" in non tenure track/adjunct/visiting teaching positions at various univer...	Constituencies R Us	15	566	Apr 11, 2005 by Elmer FUD
	latest plan for Shelby (Preview) I was told at a meeting this weekend what the new plan to save Shelby entails. His IHL board supporters are hoping that Crofts buries himself, and they are going to give him enough room to do it. His plan to evaluate the presidents got criticized by presidents of MUW, MVSU, and DSU in the Cla...	local lawyer	24	785	Apr 11, 2005 by Robert Campbell
	Thumbs Up to faculty from HA (Preview) http://hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050411/OPINION04/504110319/1014/OPINION	Angeline	1	461	Apr 11, 2005 by USM Sympathizer
	If you think Mississippi politics is crazy... (Preview) Texas politics will never be the same... Read all about it at http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/walk.html	Invictus	7	707	Apr 11, 2005 by Emma
	Authoritative vs. Authoritarian (Preview) I've just heard about a national study that may have some relevance here. It concerns children's need to belong to an "authoritative" vs. "authoritarian" community, but since the report claims that this need is hard-wired and universal, the need surely persists into adulthood. In other...	Universitas Quondam Et Futurus	0	331	Apr 11, 2005 by Universitas Quondam Et Futurus
	SH on Weekend Party (Preview) http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/living/11357013.htm.	Party, me Hearties	9	636	Apr 10, 2005 by Monique de Guerre
	Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine: April 10 (Preview) A moment ago our trustworthy scribe handed over the coffee-stained but sealed envelope containing the selection committee's ballots for the April 10 Citation de la Semaine award. There was unanimous agreement that this week's presentation should go to ...	Mr. Wonderful	4	370	Apr 10, 2005 by ram
	Faculty Senate Meeting 4/8/05 (Preview) The most interesting part of the Faculty Senate meeting was the announcement that earlier this week Interim Commissioner Crofts met with the USM faculty leaders, consisting of the officers of Faculty Senate, Academic Council and Graduate Council. Before going into executive session, Dr. Becke...	Reporter	22	1099	Apr 10, 2005 by org chart infomer
	L and P on Crofts and the constituencies (Preview) I've tried to round up the week's news about USM on Liberty and Power. http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/11268.html Most of the entry is about Richard Crofts and his consultations with stakeholders, but I've also mentioned the Gunther report and Ken Malone's refusal to appear i...	Robert Campbell	4	418	Apr 10, 2005 by foot soldier
	Nom d'Aplomb - 4/10/05 (Preview) Dear Friends, Heavens to Betsy, the committee was literally drowning in paperwork during this Humdinger of a week! So much so that we were seeing red while Hand Truck Harry was bringing in more of the same nom-inations. A 6th Grade Logician was enlisted by the committee to he...	Miss Information	1	338	Apr 10, 2005 by The Wurl' According to GARP
	Leadership Quote (Preview) "...what makes a leader great is not the way she regards herself what what Wall Street thinks of her, but what the people who work for her think." Leigh L. Thompson (2004) Making the team: A guide for managers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice-Hall, p. 232.	Outside Observer	10	721	Apr 10, 2005 by whatsamatta u
	Nom d'Aplomb Weekly Balloting Now Open (Preview) he Ad Hoc Emergency Committee for Sobriquet Superiority has locked down this week's candidates for the coveted Nom d'Aplomb Award. You may vote for your favorite aliases by going to the Vote-O-Matic™ & rating any or all of the nom-inations on a scale of zero to five, where (as usual) zero &...	Vote-O-Matic	2	348	Apr 9, 2005 by Malapropism
	Ticket Renewal (Preview) Today's mail had my season football ticket renewal application. Now I have to wait for the IHL to decide if SFT will get 4 more years. If he stays, I get Saints tickets this year. If they don't renew his contract, I renew my tickets. The worse case scenario is if they put off a de...	Football Fan	2	395	Apr 9, 2005 by ram
	Doty arrives back at Pine Belt Regional (Preview) Dean Doty just arrived back in Hattiesburg from his interview trip to UNF. Most of the CoB faculty/staff were there, along with several hundred students and external supporters. Confetti and banners awaited his arrival -- one read "Doty Don't Go!" and the crowd chanted and cheered hi...	Biscuit	3	518	Apr 9, 2005 by Third Witch
	"Local Zeroes" (Preview) I've been catching up on my New Yorker reading, and I came upon this article by James Surowiecki, their economics correspondent, on failed CEOs like Bernie Ebbers and Richard Scrushy who turned from "local heroes" to "local zeroes." This quote is most relevant for USM and our leadershi...	qwerty	3	498	Apr 9, 2005 by Man overboard
	CL editorial on eval of univ presidents (Preview) http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050409/OPINION01/504090370/1008/OPINION	info	3	357	Apr 9, 2005 by Robert Campbell
	Evaluation of presidents (Preview) www.httiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050409/NEWS01/504090302	A barrel of laughs	9	522	Apr 9, 2005 by going down
	help with IHL addresses, please (Preview) A colleague has been asking for current IHL board member addresses--individual addresses, that is. Although there's a list pinned to this board, it is from before the new members took office this past spring. I'm probably being a dunce, but can't find such addresses through the IHL website (an...	Anne Wallace	2	393	Apr 9, 2005 by Hotlinks R Us
	New CoB Chair on board --- please welcome (Preview) Faculty and Staff: Please welcome Dr. Cherylynn (Cheri) Becker as our new Tourism Management chair and associate professor. She comes to us from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, VA. Dr. Becker will be splitting her time on the Gulf Park campus and the Hatt...	Welcome Wagon	5	601	Apr 9, 2005 by Echoed sentiments
	is there a U President Corollary (Preview) http://money.cnn.com/2005/04/08/news/funny/beautiful_m...	huh	0	281	Apr 9, 2005 by huh
	CL : eval of univ presidents ( 1 2 ) (Preview) http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050408/NEWS01/504080335/1002	info	36	1052	Apr 8, 2005 by Mr. Wonderful's graveyard shift
	L and P on the Hybrid Plastics deal (Preview) Since the Thames regime has taken a week off from massively boneheaded behavior, I picked up a topic that I was hoping to address a month ago--the February 22 story in the New York Times about Hybrid Plastics. http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/11206.html It was interesti...	Robert Campbell	6	545	Apr 8, 2005 by Strikes a chord
	Report on Dr. Williams being Tabulated (Preview) The BSU is still working on our report on Dr. Williams resignation as chair of the department. Some of us have shared our concerns with Student Printz and we were told to bring our results by at the end of August. If there is something to what we found they will allow us to print an editorial c...	BSU Officer	1	403	Apr 8, 2005 by papa doc
	One "Dome doll" down....more to go ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Not to get everyone's hopes up, but I heard a rumor tonight that Mader is leaving. She has accepted the position of PR director at Wesley Hospital. Can anyone confirm this?	Mader Watch	41	1841	Apr 8, 2005 by Thames casualty
	USM student writers win awards (Preview) This sounds like a big deal to me. Does anyone on the board know about this competition. I'm just not familiar with it. Three USM student writers win awards at competition	qwerty	24	634	Apr 8, 2005 by Tennessee William
	Faculty Senate Meeting 4/8/05 (Preview) From F.S. Listserv: Tentative Agenda The University of Southern Mississippi Faculty Senate Meeting April 8, 2005 Union Hall of Honors 2:00 p.m. 1.0 Call to Order 2.0 Approval of November 12, 2004, Jan...	Reporter	2	560	Apr 8, 2005 by Complainer
	Thamesian Calendar (Preview) 92 day month currently proposed...	Spin Doctor	3	388	Apr 8, 2005 by Never again
	Ex-USM fundraiser sues (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040629/southernmissnews/743710.html	Newgirl	28	1606	Apr 8, 2005 by give me a check
	Don't Mess with the IRS (Preview) Under the table payments may provide short terms gains and long term problems.	Tax Advisor	0	353	Apr 8, 2005 by Tax Advisor
	Doty News Flash (Preview) Just in from Jacksonville, Florida: Doty's visit started off well today, but took a turn for the worse this evening at dinner, where he was rumored to make an off-color remark about a UNF fundraiser's wife in front of a UNF Business Advisory Committee member.	Edward R. Murrow	8	525	Apr 8, 2005 by Edward R. Murrow
	Tennis Facility on Hold (Preview) http://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/07/4254b15fa83f3	Reporter	5	421	Apr 7, 2005 by andy roddick
	Doty was just told salary range at lunch.. (Preview) UNF Dean Salary: $205,000-$225,000	gatoreagle	4	524	Apr 7, 2005 by MasterCard
	Word from the BSU (Preview) BSU students still continue to voice some concern over the Williams resignation at a small meeting yesterday. I was told by one that they have spoken with about 50% of the faculty in the college, and no one is willing to go on record about it. There are two faculty that seem to know alot abou...	talisman	5	599	Apr 7, 2005 by already gone
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