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Reporter

http://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/07/4254af1472049

Where are we?

Here is a link to the 2005 usnews rankings. Access to the full data seems to require purchase of the Premium Online Edition or purchase of the Hardcopy Edition at bookstores or newsstands. I've seen neither. Has the hardcopy edition hit the stands yet? There are numerolus hotlinks in the free online v...

qwerty

Legislature went home yesterday without a budget. How grim are the prospects for education in Mississippi? Session ends without a budget

Jacksonville Eagle

Just saw Doty. He was holding his dress shoes/socks, had his dress pants rolled up above his knees, and he was walking down Jacksonville Beach watching people surf (and drinking a margarita). What's he doing over here?

Blind Mouse

I don't see USM in this issue (4-11-05).

spots

Just heard that Aramark is about to initiate a lawsuit against USM in federal court over "misrepresentation" of the "on-campus market conditions". The IDV dept is supposedly going to be named along with administration. What do you guys make of this?

Endings

http://www.usm.edu/hr/Postings.php

Answer Man

Many local residents are fed up with the constant bickering and pouting between the USM faculty and administration. One proposed solution is to close the university and use the campus for a research and development center.For the faculty this should come as a relief .They can move on t...

Once in a lifetime

I attended the Placido Domingo/USM Symphony performance last night on the coast. I was reading a review this morning on the show in The Sun Herald when I came across a quote from Jay Dean. "If we want to attract world-class business and people, we have to produce world-cl...

Ender Wiggins

Now that basketball season is officially over....let us come to a new season of hope and change...a season where we can possibly see our very own Golden Eagles in the tournament next year....wait, that won't happen with a pitiful excuse for a coach like Larry Eustachy. Sound off with your though...

Angeline

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050404/OPINION03/504040324/1014/OPINION

Dead as a Dog

As a fly on the wall, I've heard a report that Marc Depree is the favorite for the new dean of CoB. We shall see...

reedin', ritin', rithmatick

http://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/05/425213af3c7aa

Green Hornet

This evening on WDAM a local official "could" of been talking about the situation at USM. Mayoral candidate Councilwoman Betsy Rowell was interviewed about the recent commercial on TV indicating her first act if elected mayor will be to fire the police chief. This is related...

Doty make my brown eyes blue

Today Tonight Tomorrow Partly Cloudy High 77° F Precip: 0% Sun along with patchy clouds. High 77F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph. Partly Cloudy Low 67° F Precip: 20% ...

info

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04032005/gossip/43732.htm

Beach Ball

http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2005/01/24/story7.html

Angeline

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/opinion/05krugman.html?th=&oref=login&emc=th&pagewanted=print&position=It's a fact, documented by two recent studies, that registered Republicans and self-...

Histeria

Most will already know the sad news that one of our very best chairs in COAL is leaving to greener pastures - Charles Bolton of the History Department. Chuck is taking a wonderful job at UNC Greensborough (if that is how you spell it). However, it is a job that (in my opinion) that he would ha...

See More

This week's issue geocities.com/seemore004

Mr. Wonderful

Our clocks have been moved forward one hour. The big hand is on the 12, the little hand is on the 1, and the time has come to confer the April 3 Citation de la Semaine Awards. This week's winning statements, one from English and one from History, are brief and to th...

Private ====)

The five finalists for the Florida State Business Dean position have just been announced, and Doty did not make the cut. See here: http://www.cob.fsu.edu/. Final exams in the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida end on April 29th. Doty is a finalist for the D...

HEST

Now, I'm not saying that our president has not done something like this here. . .don't know if he has or not. But I'm impressed by President Lee -- not a call for more alumni to give money but to get involved by contacting the legislature. (Of course, I wish I'd gotten this before 4:30 pm) -----------...

BSU Officer

Hello everyone. I hope I am welcome to join this site and give you some information. I am an officer in the BSU here at USM. I know many of you who read this site are faculty and will be interested in some events I have to talk about. The BSU met on Wednesday evening after a two day inves...

Cox-Purvis Report

http://www.showmenews.com/2004/May/20040523Spor017.asp

Elections Moderator

Please participate in this important poll. Your vote matters.

Drowning in Paperwork

Has USM seen a decrease in graduate applications this year? Are they from less qualified candidates than in previous years? Have the mean GRE scores declined? (Presuming they're completed; most every school/programs I am familiar with have already made its admissions decisions weeks ago, b...

Reporter

April 3, 2005 Budget cuts threaten arts school Somehow, we must find a solution to the funding woes By Bill Jacobs Special to The Clarion-Ledgerhttp://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050403/OPINION/504030306/1200

Bok's Seats

"Colleges and universities eager to promote academic freedom on their campuses are getting a shot at some help in the form of a new $2-million grant program that the Ford Foundation is scheduled to announce today." Article in today's (4/4/05) Chronicle of Higher Education by Piper Fogg reports t...

L. S. Mader

Dear USM Professors: I hope you'll all excuse me for using your forum for a personal matter. I am forced to do so, as I know of no other means of contacting Chef Emilio. Earlier today, in a thread on this message board, Chef Emilio offered to provide Dr. Thames with certain f...

Sports Report

now 21-5 with nine wins in a row. Go Eagles!

Cox-Purvis Report

LE got a commitment over the weekend from a JUCO kid in Iowa. His strategy is being spelled out now --- go large in the JUCO ranks and avoid Mississippi kids like the plague. He is reportedly out in California still, where he is scoping kids and colleges. His MO is starting resemble what w...

Sports Report

nine wins in a row. We play Ole Miss Tuesday night at Pete Taylor Park. It will be a tough game as the Rebels are ranked as high as number six in some polls. Go Eagles!

Miss Information

lthough it was somehwat soggy, the Emergency Ad Hoc Committee braved the elements to nom-inate a rather sparse slate of aliases. While Miss Information remains the moral leader of the crew, even she thinks it would be Better the devil . . . to write this thing up every week. And while the Committee is...

Reporter

April 3, 2005 Erosion of support for education scary part of budget fight By David Hamptonhttp://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050403/COL0408/50402015/1167/OPINION

Surprised

Tomorrow it will be a week since Kazelskis’s letter, calling faculty “elitist”, appeared in the Hattiesburg American. I’m very surprised that there has been no response to the letter in the paper. On this board both John Rachal and Mitch had post that would make an excellent bas...

Miss Information

lthough there is a slim slate of nom-inees this week, there are some interesting ones. Exercise your right to shared governance by going to the Vote-O-Matic™ & ranking the aliases the Emergency Ad Hoc Committee has on the ballot this week. Remember, rank any or all of the nom-ination...

Friday the 13th

Has anyone heard who the speaker will be for this spring's ceremonies? Let us hope we are not subjected to the jackass-braying of Governor Boober or Homophobe Hewes or their ilk. I believe this was brought up in the PUC last fall and the selection was given over to SGA, but that may have been more of an adv...

No Mo' Money

http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050402/NEWS010504/504020350/1002

Sports Report

for their eight win in a row. Go Eagles!

seeker

SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 601 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMENDING THE DEDICATED PUBLIC 1 SERVICE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF DR. SHELBY F. THAMES, PRESIDENT OF THE 2 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. 3 WHEREAS, Dr. Thames is th' eighth President of th' Unyversity 4 of Southern Mississippi in Ha...

truth4usm/AH

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php

info

http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/newsstory.asp?ID=326 COMMISSIONER SEARCH COMMITTEE TO MEET 4/1/2005 (JACKSON, MISS. ) - The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) commissioner search committee will meet Friday, April 8, 2005, to outline th...

Concerned Citizen

Am I the only one who's noticed the conspicuous absence of Dr. Invictus? I've heard it rumored that he's been in Hattiesburg this week interviewing for the USM Provost slot. Normally I'd discount such reports, but now that the ban on hiring USM graduates has been lifted I must ass...

No foolin'

A colleague directed me to this delightful special April Fools edition of the Arizona Health Sciences Library newsletter, "out of Focus on AHSL" http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/news/newsletter/ (Hotlink, can you give a hand?) Don't know how long this will be up, so have a look today,...

kw

In yesterday's FD speech, Thames made a joke about Walt Cain's SGA salary compared to what he will make there next year. The quip seemed to imply that Cain was taking some sort of staff post with the Thames administration after this academic year. Does anyone out there know anythi...

Googler

http://dl.cice.usm.edu/master/online/courselistingindex.html

oversight

Seven departments in COAL have no chair. How many departments are even in COAL? Evidently, an enormous percentage of the units in COAL have seen chairs flee. Is their no oversight over this dean? Is it really possible to administer a college and under that administration have the place lose its m...

whopper

Mississippi Business Journal ran an item naming the Top 40 people in MS under the age of 40 who are destined for big things. Our own Lisa Mader is number 31.

waltersboy

Here is an interview with Gregg Lassen that appeared in Pointe Innovation Magazine this month. USM Finance Guru Wears many Hats Recently, staff members at Pointe Innovation Magazine sat down with USM Vice President of Financial Affairs, Gregg Lassen. What appears is a Q&A format o...

Topic		Started By	Replies	Views	Last Post
	Student Printz 4/7/05 (Preview) http://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/07/4254af1472049	Reporter	8	574	Apr 7, 2005 by Andy
	2005 usnews rankings (Preview) Here is a link to the 2005 usnews rankings. Access to the full data seems to require purchase of the Premium Online Edition or purchase of the Hardcopy Edition at bookstores or newsstands. I've seen neither. Has the hardcopy edition hit the stands yet? There are numerolus hotlinks in the free online v...	Where are we?	18	731	Apr 7, 2005 by Hortense
	Budget Mess--How hard will IHL get hit (Preview) Legislature went home yesterday without a budget. How grim are the prospects for education in Mississippi? Session ends without a budget	qwerty	2	405	Apr 7, 2005 by qwerty
	Doty sighting... (Preview) Just saw Doty. He was holding his dress shoes/socks, had his dress pants rolled up above his knees, and he was walking down Jacksonville Beach watching people surf (and drinking a margarita). What's he doing over here?	Jacksonville Eagle	10	714	Apr 7, 2005 by You May Call Me Zimmy
	USN&WR Graduate School Ranking (Preview) I don't see USM in this issue (4-11-05).	Blind Mouse	2	528	Apr 7, 2005 by Graduate Advisor
	Aramark to sue USM in federal court (Preview) Just heard that Aramark is about to initiate a lawsuit against USM in federal court over "misrepresentation" of the "on-campus market conditions". The IDV dept is supposedly going to be named along with administration. What do you guys make of this?	spots	19	1777	Apr 6, 2005 by Uses toothpick in public
	Openings (Preview) http://www.usm.edu/hr/Postings.php	Endings	14	727	Apr 6, 2005 by Humdinger
	Final solution (Preview) Many local residents are fed up with the constant bickering and pouting between the USM faculty and administration. One proposed solution is to close the university and use the campus for a research and development center.For the faculty this should come as a relief .They can move on t...	Answer Man	8	546	Apr 6, 2005 by LVN
	Opera is "World Class" (Preview) I attended the Placido Domingo/USM Symphony performance last night on the coast. I was reading a review this morning on the show in The Sun Herald when I came across a quote from Jay Dean. "If we want to attract world-class business and people, we have to produce world-cl...	Once in a lifetime	12	835	Apr 6, 2005 by Oscar Mayer
	Fire Larry (Preview) Now that basketball season is officially over....let us come to a new season of hope and change...a season where we can possibly see our very own Golden Eagles in the tournament next year....wait, that won't happen with a pitiful excuse for a coach like Larry Eustachy. Sound off with your though...	Ender Wiggins	16	643	Apr 6, 2005 by M.K. Tofurk
	Excellent Letter in HA 4/4 (Preview) http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050404/OPINION03/504040324/1014/OPINION	Angeline	29	1199	Apr 6, 2005 by Ray Folse
	Dean of Cob Replacement ( 1 2 3 4 ) (Preview) As a fly on the wall, I've heard a report that Marc Depree is the favorite for the new dean of CoB. We shall see...	Dead as a Dog	96	2245	Apr 6, 2005 by Something's fishy
	Good Student Printz article (Preview) http://www.studentprintz.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/05/425213af3c7aa	reedin', ritin', rithmatick	11	684	Apr 6, 2005 by Angeline
	Loss of Personnel needs evaluation of leadership (Preview) This evening on WDAM a local official "could" of been talking about the situation at USM. Mayoral candidate Councilwoman Betsy Rowell was interviewed about the recent commercial on TV indicating her first act if elected mayor will be to fire the police chief. This is related...	Green Hornet	4	484	Apr 6, 2005 by Green Hornet
	J'ville 36-hour weather forecast (Preview) Today Tonight Tomorrow Partly Cloudy High 77° F Precip: 0% Sun along with patchy clouds. High 77F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph. Partly Cloudy Low 67° F Precip: 20% ...	Doty make my brown eyes blue	0	313	Apr 6, 2005 by Doty make my brown eyes blue
	OT: Hattiesburg in NY Post (Preview) http://www.nypost.com/seven/04032005/gossip/43732.htm	info	4	471	Apr 5, 2005 by Groupie (though not #1)
	Doty one of 2 finalists (Preview) http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2005/01/24/story7.html	Beach Ball	7	564	Apr 5, 2005 by Jerry Maguire
	Why there are more liberals in academia (Preview) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/opinion/05krugman.html?th=&oref=login&emc=th&pagewanted=print&position=It's a fact, documented by two recent studies, that registered Republicans and self-...	Angeline	13	514	Apr 5, 2005 by red
	History Next? (Preview) Most will already know the sad news that one of our very best chairs in COAL is leaving to greener pastures - Charles Bolton of the History Department. Chuck is taking a wonderful job at UNC Greensborough (if that is how you spell it). However, it is a job that (in my opinion) that he would ha...	Histeria	9	1144	Apr 5, 2005 by Amy Young
	See More #57 (Preview) This week's issue geocities.com/seemore004	See More	7	492	Apr 5, 2005 by Just an opinion
	Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine: April 3 (Preview) Our clocks have been moved forward one hour. The big hand is on the 12, the little hand is on the 1, and the time has come to confer the April 3 Citation de la Semaine Awards. This week's winning statements, one from English and one from History, are brief and to th...	Mr. Wonderful	22	627	Apr 5, 2005 by Aesop
	Doty Watch (Preview) The five finalists for the Florida State Business Dean position have just been announced, and Doty did not make the cut. See here: http://www.cob.fsu.edu/. Final exams in the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida end on April 29th. Doty is a finalist for the D...	Private ====)	1	372	Apr 5, 2005 by Doty make my brown eyes blue
	Go President Lee! (Preview) Now, I'm not saying that our president has not done something like this here. . .don't know if he has or not. But I'm impressed by President Lee -- not a call for more alumni to give money but to get involved by contacting the legislature. (Of course, I wish I'd gotten this before 4:30 pm) -----------...	HEST	8	628	Apr 4, 2005 by Tough Love
	Preliminary Williams Report ( 1 2 ) (Preview) Hello everyone. I hope I am welcome to join this site and give you some information. I am an officer in the BSU here at USM. I know many of you who read this site are faculty and will be interested in some events I have to talk about. The BSU met on Wednesday evening after a two day inves...	BSU Officer	50	1301	Apr 4, 2005 by Counting the days
	Year-Old Bad Ideas & Lies from Eustachy (Preview) http://www.showmenews.com/2004/May/20040523Spor017.asp	Cox-Purvis Report	1	324	Apr 4, 2005 by hot link
	Important Poll on SFT inside --- please cast vote (Preview) Please participate in this important poll. Your vote matters.	Elections Moderator	2	624	Apr 4, 2005 by kickeronie
	Grad Apps/Scores (Preview) Has USM seen a decrease in graduate applications this year? Are they from less qualified candidates than in previous years? Have the mean GRE scores declined? (Presuming they're completed; most every school/programs I am familiar with have already made its admissions decisions weeks ago, b...	Drowning in Paperwork	28	881	Apr 4, 2005 by ABD
	Sad News for Stephen Judd (Preview) April 3, 2005 Budget cuts threaten arts school Somehow, we must find a solution to the funding woes By Bill Jacobs Special to The Clarion-Ledgerhttp://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050403/OPINION/504030306/1200	Reporter	15	893	Apr 4, 2005 by qwerty
	Grant to Fosster Academic Freedom on College Campu (Preview) "Colleges and universities eager to promote academic freedom on their campuses are getting a shot at some help in the form of a new $2-million grant program that the Ford Foundation is scheduled to announce today." Article in today's (4/4/05) Chronicle of Higher Education by Piper Fogg reports t...	Bok's Seats	4	335	Apr 4, 2005 by Bok's Seats
	Thanks from the Thames Family (Preview) Dear USM Professors: I hope you'll all excuse me for using your forum for a personal matter. I am forced to do so, as I know of no other means of contacting Chef Emilio. Earlier today, in a thread on this message board, Chef Emilio offered to provide Dr. Thames with certain f...	L. S. Mader	5	677	Apr 4, 2005 by View from a Distance
	Baseball Eagles defeat Memphis 13-2 today ... (Preview) now 21-5 with nine wins in a row. Go Eagles!	Sports Report	4	259	Apr 4, 2005 by Eagle
	Eustachy at it again (Preview) LE got a commitment over the weekend from a JUCO kid in Iowa. His strategy is being spelled out now --- go large in the JUCO ranks and avoid Mississippi kids like the plague. He is reportedly out in California still, where he is scoping kids and colleges. His MO is starting resemble what w...	Cox-Purvis Report	1	418	Apr 4, 2005 by Invictus
	Baseball Eagles defeat Memphis 9-7 today ... (Preview) nine wins in a row. We play Ole Miss Tuesday night at Pete Taylor Park. It will be a tough game as the Rebels are ranked as high as number six in some polls. Go Eagles!	Sports Report	0	210	Apr 3, 2005 by Sports Report
	Nom d'Aplomb Award, 3 April 2005 (Preview) lthough it was somehwat soggy, the Emergency Ad Hoc Committee braved the elements to nom-inate a rather sparse slate of aliases. While Miss Information remains the moral leader of the crew, even she thinks it would be Better the devil . . . to write this thing up every week. And while the Committee is...	Miss Information	3	279	Apr 3, 2005 by Rudy Kazootie
	Sad News for Education (Preview) April 3, 2005 Erosion of support for education scary part of budget fight By David Hamptonhttp://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050403/COL0408/50402015/1167/OPINION	Reporter	1	464	Apr 3, 2005 by Another One
	Kazelskis’s Letter (Preview) Tomorrow it will be a week since Kazelskis’s letter, calling faculty “elitist”, appeared in the Hattiesburg American. I’m very surprised that there has been no response to the letter in the paper. On this board both John Rachal and Mitch had post that would make an excellent bas...	Surprised	19	853	Apr 3, 2005 by Cossack
	Nom d'Aplomb Voting is Open (Preview) lthough there is a slim slate of nom-inees this week, there are some interesting ones. Exercise your right to shared governance by going to the Vote-O-Matic™ & ranking the aliases the Emergency Ad Hoc Committee has on the ballot this week. Remember, rank any or all of the nom-ination...	Miss Information	7	281	Apr 2, 2005 by NDA Voting Booth Risk Manager
	Commencement Speaker? (Preview) Has anyone heard who the speaker will be for this spring's ceremonies? Let us hope we are not subjected to the jackass-braying of Governor Boober or Homophobe Hewes or their ilk. I believe this was brought up in the PUC last fall and the selection was given over to SGA, but that may have been more of an adv...	Friday the 13th	5	577	Apr 2, 2005 by Snoring during graduation
	The budget mess (Preview) http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050402/NEWS010504/504020350/1002	No Mo' Money	5	486	Apr 2, 2005 by Robert Campbell
	Baseball Eagles defeat Memphis 7-1 last night ... (Preview) for their eight win in a row. Go Eagles!	Sports Report	0	210	Apr 2, 2005 by Sports Report
	original draft found Shelboo Recognition (Preview) SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 601 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMENDING THE DEDICATED PUBLIC 1 SERVICE AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF DR. SHELBY F. THAMES, PRESIDENT OF THE 2 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI. 3 WHEREAS, Dr. Thames is th' eighth President of th' Unyversity 4 of Southern Mississippi in Ha...	seeker	2	1063	Apr 2, 2005 by Patti
	US News Rankings on Graduate Programs out (Preview) http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/rankindex_brief.php	truth4usm/AH	5	1078	Apr 2, 2005 by 6th grade logician
	IHL press release: Commissioner search (Preview) http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/newsstory.asp?ID=326 COMMISSIONER SEARCH COMMITTEE TO MEET 4/1/2005 (JACKSON, MISS. ) - The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) commissioner search committee will meet Friday, April 8, 2005, to outline th...	info	4	373	Apr 1, 2005 by Robert Campbell
	Missing Person Inquiry (Preview) Am I the only one who's noticed the conspicuous absence of Dr. Invictus? I've heard it rumored that he's been in Hattiesburg this week interviewing for the USM Provost slot. Normally I'd discount such reports, but now that the ban on hiring USM graduates has been lifted I must ass...	Concerned Citizen	7	499	Apr 1, 2005 by truth4usm/AH
	April Fools Day humor (Preview) A colleague directed me to this delightful special April Fools edition of the Arizona Health Sciences Library newsletter, "out of Focus on AHSL" http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/news/newsletter/ (Hotlink, can you give a hand?) Don't know how long this will be up, so have a look today,...	No foolin'	1	389	Apr 1, 2005 by Hotlinks at your service
	Cain to join USM Admin? (Preview) In yesterday's FD speech, Thames made a joke about Walt Cain's SGA salary compared to what he will make there next year. The quip seemed to imply that Cain was taking some sort of staff post with the Thames administration after this academic year. Does anyone out there know anythi...	kw	15	881	Apr 1, 2005 by Chef Emilio
	So Much for Credentialing (Preview) http://dl.cice.usm.edu/master/online/courselistingindex.html	Googler	4	586	Apr 1, 2005 by Michael Kimber
	seven missing chairs (Preview) Seven departments in COAL have no chair. How many departments are even in COAL? Evidently, an enormous percentage of the units in COAL have seen chairs flee. Is their no oversight over this dean? Is it really possible to administer a college and under that administration have the place lose its m...	oversight	12	495	Apr 1, 2005 by bean counter #173
	Mader makes Top 40 list.... (Preview) Mississippi Business Journal ran an item naming the Top 40 people in MS under the age of 40 who are destined for big things. Our own Lisa Mader is number 31.	whopper	9	819	Apr 1, 2005 by Enough
	Interview w/ Lassen in Pointe Innovation Magazine (Preview) Here is an interview with Gregg Lassen that appeared in Pointe Innovation Magazine this month. USM Finance Guru Wears many Hats Recently, staff members at Pointe Innovation Magazine sat down with USM Vice President of Financial Affairs, Gregg Lassen. What appears is a Q&A format o...	waltersboy	4	522	Apr 1, 2005 by Third Witch
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