| His failure to work with the Hattiesburg Community on the USM Bond Issue. |
| 4.8% |
| His promotion of Grimes from co-provost to provost. |
| 2.4% |
| The U.S. News Ranking Debacle; USM drops to 4th tier. |
| 7.1% |
| Blaming Tim Hudson for the U.S. News debacle. |
| 0.0% |
| Reporting to the IHL that USM professors were "unsatisfactory". |
| 2.4% |
| Blaming Tim Hudson for the report that USM professors were "unsatisfactory". |
| 0.0% |
| Playing "childish games" at the first PUC meeting. |
| 0.0% |
| Instituting the PUC in the first place. |
| 0.0% |
| Allowing Giannini to tell the media that "Hattiesburg doesn't care about USM" after the bond issue was defeated. |
| 0.0% |
| Shelby himself actually intimating in the media that Hattiesburg doesn't care about USM after the bond issue was defeated. |
| 0.0% |
| Cutting the library budget to the bare bone. |
| 19.0% |
| Allowing Lassen to announce that the administration would sweep accounts to fund the Trent Lott Building. |
| 0.0% |
| Allowing Malone to enter USMGC professor's classroom. |
| 0.0% |
| SACS probation. |
| 47.6% |
| Handling of PR during the first days of the SACS announcement. |
| 0.0% |
| Canceling, then selectively reinstituting, sabbaticals. |
| 0.0% |
| Allowing Grimes to send letters of reprimand to 2 USMGC professors. |
| 2.4% |
| Athletics hires (Eustachy and Lee-McNelis). |
| 2.4% |
| ED ad in The Economist that cost at least $85,000 and mentioned our football team's bowl victory. |
| 11.9% |
| Nitchampburg. That's an action that's perfectly indicative of Thames' regime. |
| 0.0% |
