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Word from CoB
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Snippets from a reliable source (for you msg board regulars, just call me Guru JR.):
"People are wondering about Doty's whereabouts. He is at an AACSB meeting this week and won't return to campus until Thursday morning. There was a Cabinet meeting yesterday morning and he was represented by the...
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General Blount
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WDAM news tonight had a piece on retired Maj. Gen. Buford "Buff" Blount who will be a guest lecturer at USM. Of course SFT was there for the PR and Blount was interviewed on camera praising SFT for his tough leadership and vision. H.A. also had a piece on this today at
http://www.h...
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Reporter
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Feb 9, 2005
by Coincidental Tourist
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thoughts on Blount story in HA
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The HA reported that Blount will be able "to speak" to classes in his areas of expertise. This implies he won't have any classes of his own. The end of the article says he will help "USM" secure dept. of defense contracts. This implies he will be in Washington constantly, seeking po...
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Oshrin leaving?
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CHAIRPERSON OPENING
The University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, an ASHA accredited program, seeks to fill a 12-month Chair position scheduled to begin July 1, 2005. Responsibilities include academic administration, teaching, building a strong rese...
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Feb 9, 2005
by truth4usm/AH
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SACS timeline
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Having just reviewed the Action plan and status for Preparation of the SACS Distance Learning and Monitoring Report from the USM/SACS web site, I really wonder about those who prepared this.
1 - All 2003-04 assessment reports are due 2/1. Since there had been no/very little planning for th...
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Feb 8, 2005
by stinky cheese man
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"Name the Green Paint" Contest
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"A highlight of the event will be a special demonstration by the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) School of Polymers of new environmentally friendly paints. The presentation, Tuesday at 10:30 am in the Pentagon Auditorium, will unveil "Green Seal" paints and coatings, which are based on...
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Master of Ceremonies
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Feb 8, 2005
by Sporty Color
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Captain of the Nitchampburg speaking
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
This is your captain speaking. We hope you enjoy your venture on the Nitchampburg. We left the Frankfort airport on time, and crossed the Atlantic with no problem, but we are still severl hours behind schedule. We had hoped to land at the Lakehurst Naval A...
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Captain of the Nitchampburg
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Someone from COB please address this rumor......
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I was just told that Jay Grimes was in the COB all day today "visiting" with individual faculty. Is this right?
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Horse Whisperer
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P-T Review
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FROM FS LISTSERV:
Feb. 8, 2005 Dear Faculty Senators, The story of post-tenure review (PTR) has gotten "curiouser and curiouser." When last we left it, University Attorney Lee Gore and Provost Jay Grimes had determined at a meeting with the deans and Bill Powell and me that we...
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Important 'CoB Mission' Poll --- Please Vote
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Please vote in this important poll on CoB's new mission statement. You can help.
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Elections Moderator
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Sound like anybody we know?
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An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behaviour), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:
Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exag...
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Narcissus
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Feb 8, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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PUC
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I have heard that PUC is Tuesday not Wednesday morning. Can members confirm this?
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Grimes letter to go public...
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I've heard that a few (if not several) freedom of info requests have been made for the letter in Doty's possession. I can't f***### wait.
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HMMMMM
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http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=6...
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Things that make you say HMMMM
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Feb 8, 2005
by I'm going to Disneyland
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BOGUS Sister Institution
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The BOGUS board of directors recently received the following email. It seems that USM has more competition than just the Best Online University in the South!
"We have a similar institution here, the Barbados Online Lifelong Learning Occupational Course and Kinetic Studies, known as BOLLOCK...
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BOGUS CAO, CEO, CFO, COO & AFL-CIO
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Feb 8, 2005
by BOGUS CAO, CEO, CFO, COO & AFL-CIO
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H.A. Letter
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050208/OPINION03/502080331/1014/OPINION
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C-L tells Thames to Retire!
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http://clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050208/OPINION01/502080308/1008/OPINIONUniversity of Southern Mississippi President Shelby Thames says he's not considering retirement. "Why would I retire?" asks Thames, who turns 69 in August. But the contro...
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Angeline
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Cat5 brewing in the CoB!!!!!!!
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Rumors are spreading like wildfire today that Doty has been, or is about to be, fired. Get ready people. I also heard that Kevin Walters has called almost every (I mean this literally) faculty member in the CoB for info on "the story." I haven't heard who in the central admin he has c...
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Nat'l Hurricane Center
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Feb 8, 2005
by Mr. W's Tuesday Morning Crew
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AAUP surveys
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USM Faculty,
I have received many surveys from you. Thanks. For those of you who have buried your AAUP sound governance surveys somewhere on your desk, please take time Monday or Tuesday to fill it out and drop it in campus mail. There should be a peel-off label for your convenience in that envelop...
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Amy Young
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Keep it alive
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SFT & company are counting on a weekend, the Super Bowl and 2 days of no classes (Mardi Gras) to blunt the anger about the no-more-research-in-the-COB memo. Don't let it happen.
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Magnolia
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See More #49
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This week's issue
geocities.com/seemore004
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See More
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Does SFT think he's God?
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An athletics booster friend of mine told me that he was with SFT and a group of supporters recently when SFT pointed out, in all seriousness, that if Joye Lee-McNelis doesn't turn things around quicker than she's doing now that he was going to call Gino Auriemma at UConn.
My friend got home and called...
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MMLJ
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Feb 8, 2005
by RESEARCHER
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The Foundation
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Below is an email I received today.
Ray,
Here is an interesting story from Iowa. Given the use of the foundation at USM and the manner in which Foundation employees are USM employees, and that they are located on campus, it may well be performing "government" functions as well. I won...
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Ray Folse
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Feb 7, 2005
by Slush fund
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Liberty and Power on Black Friday
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I've posted a piece on Black Friday on Liberty and Power:
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/10037.html
Special thanks to Shaken and Stirred. I've done like Robert Evans and quoted directly from that eyewitness account.
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Feb 7, 2005
by Old Curiosity Shop
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Students, report your problems with faculty here
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I ask that all students report to the Hattiesburg American and the IHL all the laziness, petty and unprofessional behavior, and lack of dedication to teaching and researching that they have seen from the aging and archaic faculty at USM. Below is examples of what I have seen.
In class . . .
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Qbert
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Quinlivan's Letter
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050207/OPINION03/502070319/1014/OPINION
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Reporter
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Feb 7, 2005
by Ellen Weinauer
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Don’t replace the president; replace the faculty
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For the reasons below, I call on all students to start a letter- writing campaign to the IHL and to the Hattiesburg American to have more USM instructors replaced with younger, eager, more progressive, and pro-student instructors.
The current faculty, along with some former, vindicti...
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Who Is The Author Of "Students, report ur problems
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Regarding the post on 020605 with subject "Students report your problems with faculty here," who do you think the author is?
Here is my take on who this author is. The author is a white female from 24 to 30 years old. She is majoring in journalism and minoring in history. She has been at...
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Albert
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The Unepalined Plane!
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Having read the posts recently I believe that SCM, Invictus and Amy are right. Not only is the plane unexplained but many other things are being coverd up. Just recently someone posted questioning SFT and his paint company. SFT was supposed to key word supposed to, give up...
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Wing Man
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Feb 7, 2005
by Dumb as The Rock
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Wishy Washy
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I wonder if we'll see a retraction of the Grimes COB memo early next week along with a Thames statement blaming this latest fiasco on JG? That seems to be the MO lately. Do something outrageous and blame it on someone else.
Hey--Grimes, Deans & Company can be blamed for the changes i...
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Magnolia
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Feb 7, 2005
by Thames Apologist
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Thoughts from afar
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All
It is interesting to watch the musings on this board from afar. As one who is well informed about Southern Miss and thanking my stars that I did not make the cut when I interviewed there, I have a few observations that I would like to share. It may help put the place in perspective for those who visi...
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New England Yankee
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Feb 7, 2005
by foot soldier
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Ckaion Ledger 2/7/05
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Nice article in C/L today about MUW rebuilding from storm damage. BUT notice the academic reorganization explanation. Input from faculty, etc. and support from the entire campus. Very specific to say this was NOT to save money or to hurt anyone.
Maybe after the turmoi...
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Smile
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Feb 7, 2005
by and now, camera, action
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Mr. Wonderful's Citation de la Semaine: February 6
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What a busy week for the selection committee! On two different occasions we thought that it might be necessary to add a temporary member just to keep up with the flurry of board activity during the past seven days. But #1 Groupie volunteered for overtime duty, and that allowed the...
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80's Lady
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Feb 6, 2005
by Mr. Wonderful
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WEEK 25 - Nom d'Aplomb Award - 2/6/05
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While most of you think of today as Super Bowl Sunday or Mardi Gras Parade Day, the committee on sobriquet superiority is celebrating our 25th week of bringing you the Nom d’Aplomb awards. Dr. MaderMathRevisited was kind enough to send us a card commemorating the historic event. It rea...
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Miss Information
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Feb 6, 2005
by Gnome-Man Is an Island
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Robert Campbell's Suggestion
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Robert,
You may be interested in the Guest Editorial in today's Hattiesburg American by Interim Commissioner Richard Crofts. The title is "Education must be affordable", however, just like Amy Young's editorial, it isn't on the online edition. They have the same picture of him th...
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Reporter
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Feb 6, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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Strong Rebuttal
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H.A. Very Strong Rebuttal Letter http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050206/OPINION03/502060337/1014/OPINION
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Reporter
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Admin refutes FS post-tenure policy
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I've heard that Shelboo & co changed the trigger on the post-tenure review policy to one that is likely to put many faculty in post-tenure jeopardy and that the administration has already forwarded their version to IHL for adoption. If this is true.....we are all in deep, deep trouble.
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Feb 6, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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Faculty Evals
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Until THIS issue becomes a primary focus for concern, mid-level administrators will continue fraudulent practices allowing the IHL board and the community (as well as staff and faculty) to place blame everywhere, and, in effect, nurturing current conditions. When faculty insist on procedures...
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Lost in Chaos
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Feb 6, 2005
by Lost in Chaos
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2 Letters in H.A.
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http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050205/OPINION03/502050306/1014/OPINION
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IHL
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If the events of "Black Friday" February 4th are to be believed (and they are so over the top that I do believe them), AND if IHL refuses to act immediately, then there are 2 lines of thought
1) Shelby is acting for IHL, with their approval, and they are changing the face of higher ed in this...
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Magnolia
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Feb 6, 2005
by Robert Campbell
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Important 'pro-Thames letters' Poll --- Vote
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Please vote in this important poll on pro-Thames letter writers. Your thoughts are valued.
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Elections Moderator
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Feb 6, 2005
by Elections Moderator
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I just spanked Eustachy
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My Marquette guys just took down USM, 81-72. We are struggling to find an identity and consistency, but we took care of Eustachy today. Thank goodness we weren't facing James Green --- he came up here to Green Bay last year at took us out behind the woodshed.
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Tom Crean
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Feb 6, 2005
by Cox-Purvis Report
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First they came for COAL
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Throughout the many serious struggles experienced by USM during the past two years, it appears that the voices of the faculty of the College of Business have, for the most part, been noticably absent . . . I have heard no loud outcry . . . I have seen no letters in the newspapers . . . minimum A...
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The Friggin' Happiness Fairy
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Feb 6, 2005
by Ask Dr. Dana
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Nom d'Aplomb Polls Now Open
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The weekly People's Choice Nom d'Aplomb voting is now open.
Rate any or all of the nom-inations on a scale of 0-5 where zero & five are whatever you want them to be. In the great American tradition, you may vote as many times as you wish, although chronic multiple voters may want to get a life at so...
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Nom d'Aplomb IT Director
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Important 'Thames' View of Faculty' Poll
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Please vote in this important poll on how Thames views the USM faculty. Your vote matters.
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Elections Moderator
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Feb 5, 2005
by Elections Moderator
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having fun at USM
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050205/NEWS01/502050371&SearchID=73198248232619
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Amy Young
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AAUP ?
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The conditions being described at USM are the type that would lead to unionization in the private sector ... is AAUP lobbying the state legislature to pass a law which would guarantee university faculty the right to form and join labor unions and require their employer to bargain with their duly elec...
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Outside Observer
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Walt Cain Rally
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Walt Cain is trying to get together a large student rally tomorrow. They know that a very quick response is necessary this time (Thames is barely hanging on). Faculty need to be ready with a response.
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Renaming of USM streets
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Is there any news pertaining to the proposed renaming of the seven USM streets?
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Boulevard of Broken Dreams
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Where is Austin Eagle
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Didn't AE make a road trip in January with an important stop-off?? Where has he been, and where's the report on the meeting? Or did I miss it? I would like to hear from AE, from Flash Gordon, from Present Professor and a few other stalwarts regarding this new outrage.
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