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S.H. Letter
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A university president is not a corporate CEOhttp://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/editorial/letters/11077479.htm
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Reporter
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by Let Freedom Ring
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The way it's done in the REAL business world
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Boeing Co. CEO Harry Stonecipher, brought back from retirement 15 months ago to boost the aerospace manufacturer's tainted image, has been forced out because of a new ethics scandal involving an affair he had this year with a female company executive.
In a stunning announce...
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Third witch
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Mar 8, 2005
by Bill Clinton
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Economic Development Article
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Here's a link to a very interesting piece about the questionable successes enjoyed by states which have hitched up to the ED bandwagon. (In case my attempt to post this link is undermined by my own technological incompetence, I've sent it to Invictus and Truth.) This article sho...
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Austin Eagle
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Mar 8, 2005
by HA Stringer
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today's Printz
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Today's Printz is a doozy. The admin is getting hammered by residents of Pine Haven and others. The Panhellenic has a piece not too nice.
Love the quote from Joe Paul about the lack of consultation with Pine Haven residents: "We could've consulted residents, but we knew they would wan...
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Printz of a gal
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Mar 8, 2005
by Printz of a gal
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the "generous" arts
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I suppose it is that much-distorted word "liberal" that makes some mistakenly believe that a liberal arts faculty or a liberal arts education is narrow or exclusive or "leftist." Contemporary usage has shifted so far from the original meaning of this word in politics--it once meant a middle-of-th...
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Anne Wallace
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William Carey enrollment up 7%
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050307/NEWS01/503070308/1002
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President Kennedy
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Gulf Coast event next week
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An event similar to the Coca-Cola facility meeting this Thursday in Hattiesburg is being planned for the Gulf Coast. Dr. Malone called me this evening about it. He is trying to put it together for next week or the week after that. I told him I would be glad to attend. Others me...
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My letter to Coca-Cola HQ
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I just faxed the following letter to the Public Relations office--which turns out also to be the Media Relations office--at Coca-Cola corporate headquarters in Atlanta, with a copy to Dr. Crofts. Sorry about all the double spacing--I've never figured out how to single-space paragr...
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Jameela Lares
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Coca-Cola plan meeting agenda attached!!!!
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I got this copy of the agenda from a desk nearby. There was a large stack of them there. Have at it.
1. Welcome and Opening Remarks (Brian)
2. Goals (Drews)
3. Brief Look at Thames' Accomplishments (Mixon)
4. Brief Report on Science/Technology (Gandy)
5. Brief Look a...
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Mar 7, 2005
by stephen judd
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Myron Henry's de-invite
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A story is going around that MH called and got clearance to attend the coke meeting. Only later they called back and retracted the invite. Anyone else heard?
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party planner
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Mar 7, 2005
by Why not me?
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OT: Univ. of Colorado prez resigns
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Just in on CNN....President Elizabeth Hoffman has just announced her resignation from U of Colorado. Remember, this is the univ. where Ward Churchill teaches. Her reason for resignation? So that the university can move toward healing. What a gal! Do you think Papa Shelboo could take a page from her...
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Mar 7, 2005
by Gnome Watcher
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Spoke with someone from SACS
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by phone today. They are already aware of the meeting at the coca-cola bottling facility. Her exact words were "...things just don't seem to be getting better over there... we're being 'informed' of everything ...."
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This just in....
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Mar 7, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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See More #53
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This week's issue
geocities.com/seemore004
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See More
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Mar 7, 2005
by USM Sympathizer
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Filing a Complaint with SACS
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http://www.sacscoc.org/forms/principle/complaint%20form.doc
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Town and Gown Insider
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Mar 7, 2005
by Anne Wallace
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Webster, please come back. A new glossary term!
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Webster, Where are you? Please come back and consider a new term to be added to your glossary: Coca-Coca Cowboys. That term has taken on a new meaning for USM faculty this week. A meaning that Mel Tillis never had in mind. We need this short-hand descriptive term.
Verse: She said just leave me alone An...
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Glossary Gussie
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Mar 7, 2005
by Glossary Gussie
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Time to Recognize Local Businesses
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Since Lisa Mader invited the following "local business supporters of the university" to co-host the meeting at the Hattiesburg Coca-Cola Plant next week, isn't it time to recognize these people:
Hosts are
Brad Brian Hattiesburg Coca-Cola Bobby Dews Dews Foundry Bonnie Drews Richard D... >
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Are The Rabble Roused?
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Mar 7, 2005
by fallen eagle
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Freeing the Power of the Individual
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Once again, I have been struck by the tremendous number of banners that continue to go up around campus. It seems so extraordinary!
Freeing the power of the individual by...
1. covering up truth with propagandist banners
2. denying students access to knowledge by refusi...
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Amy Young
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Mar 7, 2005
by Anne Wallace
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The Chronicle
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http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?id=kdpx1a9yi4484lbsxmonmenwhdc7ssnp
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Reporter
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I need some help
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I am wondering if someone would be willling to write up a quick rundown of all the things that have gone on that many students haven't heard about. I don't want to put a direct link on the site to this message board because I fear that the trolls will come in droves. Also, what other links might be of use to st...
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SaveUSM
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Mar 7, 2005
by Monique de Guerre
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Looks like the Snakes are about to commit suicide
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050305/NEWS01/503050301/1002
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Gnome Watcher
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Mar 7, 2005
by Let Martha do it
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Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine
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Good morning! This is my week to do the honors.
The week started at a snail's pace but ended like gangbusters. The four major issues that emerged during the seven day posting period kept all members of the Citation de la Semaine selection committee hopping just to...
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Delta Dawn
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Site and listserve for concerned students
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SaveUSM started a website but it seems to have gotten buried. Please do keep people informed about this.
From Save's message:
http://www.geocities.com/saveusmnow
saveusm@gmail.com
Please point your students in this direction!
Thanks, SaveUSM, and NO QUARTER.
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Ellen Weinauer
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A history lesson, April 2001
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http://ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2001/2001-04-20-04.asp
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Paint by Number
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Mar 6, 2005
by mork from ork
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Preparations for the Coca-Cola Putsch
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I borrowed the wonderful "Coca Cola Putsch" phrase from another poster on a different thread. Anyway, they are beginning to decorate the hall with inspiring posters, including this one:
Kind of captures the Stalinist flavor of the whole enterprise, doesn't it?
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Arnold Friend
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Mar 6, 2005
by Arnold Friend
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Nom d'Aplomb People's Choice Award - 3/6/05
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Dear friends, although not Polymerv Griffin I am your Talk Show Host and it is once again PrimeTime for our weekly recognition of the pseudonym with distinction. I would like to take exception to LVN's accusation that we don't practice shared governance with our People's Choic...
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Miss Information
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Mar 6, 2005
by Padlocks R Us
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Another Boston Tea Party?
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The Hattiesburg business people who are scheduled to meet at the Cola-Cola plant on Thursday should be made fully aware of the business consequences of further faculty bashing or of inappropriately trying to interfe with USM's academic mission. This should be done at the earliest possible time.&...
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Coca-Cola Cowboy
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Faculty Convocation
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You know, it seems that last year's no confidence convocation drew quite a bit of media attention and served to unify the faculty. Are we not scheduling a campus-wide convocation because we are afraid turnout will be slight, or are we hesitant to hold a convocation because we don't want to burn that po...
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Hello, Moto!
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Is it time to organize?
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The AAUP has stated that it is not and cannot be a union. Maybe that is true, but there is already a union of Mississippi state employees: the Mississippi Alliance of State Employees, MASE.
The MASE web site claims university employees as mem...
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Union Man
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Mar 6, 2005
by Outside Observer
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Area Leaders to Discuss USM
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See today's HA article by Kevin Walters linked under Thames News on the AAUP front page.
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250+ Private Invitations
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Mar 6, 2005
by Murky tomorrow
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Walter Williams column in HA
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Conservative columnist Walter Williams writes an elegant "defense" in today's HA of why CEO's deserve the millions they're paid in salary.
The kicker can be found in his last paragraph. Williams states that the only people in America who are underworked and overpaid...
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Fifth Columnist
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Mar 6, 2005
by Easter Bunny
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Walter Williams Spoke on Campsus
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A few years ago, Walter Willams spoke on the USM campus in one of the Honors College forums. That was before SFT killed the forums, an altogether too common an experience at USM. Professor Williams was entertaining and thought provoking. I do recall that Professor Williams admitted to owning guns. H...
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check this out - a SFT clone exists
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Check out this story about Drexell http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05055/462289.stm
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astonished
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Mar 6, 2005
by foot soldier
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The Award-Winning Dr. Ken Malone
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Take a look at today's HA (2/16/2005), page 4B. There is a full-page spread on the 32nd Annual Distinguished Sales and Marketing Award Recipients, sponsored by the Hattiesburg American and smei of Hattiesburg. Amongst all the bankers, university presidents, telecomm managers, re...
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Tung Oil Institute
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Mar 6, 2005
by Conan O'Brien
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March 5
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March 5th in History
This Day in History > March 5thMarch 5th in History 1918: Moscow becomes the new capital city of Russia 1946: Winston Churchill uses the term 'Iron Curtain' in a speech March 5th birthdays 1908: Rex Harrison, English actor
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Shakespeare
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Mar 6, 2005
by Blogging It Out
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Git yer credits rhytt heahr
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Welcome to Southern Miss Online ... This page was last updated on March 3, 2005 6:42 PM.
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Hortense
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Coming Soon to a Theater Near YOU!
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http://www.geocities.com/saveusmnow
saveusm@gmail.com
Please point your students in this direction!
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SaveUSM
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Mar 5, 2005
by Ellen Weinauer
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P.R. good or bad
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Let me first say I am a forty year supporter of USM and continue to support USM today.
Were Malone's comments maliciious, dont know.
Were Malone's comments out of line, you bet.
Should Shelby and staff be held accountable, absoutely.
1.Confirm the comments were made by multiple pe...
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Jack
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Mar 5, 2005
by USM Sympathizer
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World Class, County Class, 4th Class, or No Class?
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The very idea that a bunch of local business people could determine the
strategic plan and leadership of a major state university is evidence of
how deeply insular and provincial USM is becoming.
Do the soft drink vendors of Tuscaloosa determine the future of the University
of Ala...
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Old Hattiesburg
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Mar 5, 2005
by USM Sympathizer
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Question for Robert Campbell
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Robert,
Since the HA may not have enough guts to ask Malone about his alleged "lynching" remark, and since no other media in MS may think it's worth their time, it occurred to me to ask whether you, as a "reporter" for the Liberty and Power blog, might be willing to give him a call and put the quest...
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Arnold Friend
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Eustachy finally wins, on bad call
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USM took advantage of a bad 5-second call (in the opinion of the Eagles' own radio team) to beat TCU at the end of the game in the Coliseum today. USM finishes the year at 11-17.
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Mar 5, 2005
by 3 point land
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Nom d'Aplomb Weekly Balloting Now Open
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It's Friday & once again time for the Nom d'Aplomb People's Choice balloting. To rate this week's slate of nom-inations, go to the Vote-O-Matic™ & rank any or all of the board aliases on the ballot using a scale of one to five, where one & five mean whatever you want them to mean.
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Miss Information's IT Director
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Mar 5, 2005
by Miss Information's Ballot Box Stuffer
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Roots
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Maybe this can be a thread where we can trace some Roots of the Hattiesburg/Southern Mess lineage.
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Kunta Kinte
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Mar 5, 2005
by USM Sympathizer
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Faculty/Staff Dependent Tuition
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Faculty and staff get a 50% tuition break for their children, and while that isn't the only reason I've stayed at USM for almost 20 years, it has been a consideration. So, a year or so away from starting college, my child doesn't want to go to a technology focused trade school. My off-sprin...
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Parent/Faculty/Staff
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Mar 5, 2005
by Parent/Former Faculty
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Today's (March 4) Faculty Senate Meeting
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Here it is mid-evening and nobody has posted on today's (March 4) Faculty Senate meeting. Any word on that?
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All eyes and ears
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Mar 5, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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March 10: The pause that refreshes
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Consider these two isolated sentences from the March 5 Hattiesburg American article about the planned March 10 meeting at the Coca-cola plant:
"She said she was contacted by Hattiesburg businessman Bobby Dews to provide him with some 'positive information"'about university trends, s...
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Mar 5, 2005
by LeavingASAP
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Real Issues
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Remember the "Real Issues" thread I started on the old FireShelby Board on April 18, 2004? It seems especially relevent today after reading The Independent. Here is the first post on that thread:
"I would love to hear a discussion of the Real Issues. So I imagined what a debate with Roy...
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Otherside
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CL Letter: Cut Administrators, not teachers
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http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050304/OPINION/503040305/1009
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Angeline
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Mar 5, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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SACS Re-accreditation Not Happening
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I know that many faculty are working hard to try help USM maintain its re-accreditation and to get off the current probation. I am very doubtful that there is anything that faculty can do that will change the outcome. SACS knows that the faculty are not the problem. SACS knows that the problem is the IHL...
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Cossack
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USM Departures (3/2/2005)
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USM Departures, August 2004 thru July 2005
Sheila Alber, Associate Professor of CISE (The Ohio State University)
Doug Chambers, Assistant Professor of History (situation pending)
Theodore Christ, Assistant Professor of Psychology (University of Minnesota)
Syd Conner, Assistan...
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Message to Sparkplug
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Your "nom" was nominated for the weekly "Nom d'Aplomb" award, by the way. Go to the thread from Miss I's IT Director and vote. You can vote as often as you like and the numbers mean whatever you want them to; the people giving the award don't practice shared governance!
(I'm just bitter because I mad...
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LVN
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Mar 5, 2005
by Jameela Lares
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