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Date: Feb 2, 2005

Klumb's Response

Date: Feb 2, 2005

Then go back on Friday and vote no confidence in Thames, Klumb and Malone.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

Magnolia,

I just looked for Klumb's response on the Hat Am website, and couldn't find it.

Could you give us a link?

Robert Campbell

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Robert Campbell
"Magnolia, I just looked for Klumb's response on the Hat Am website, and couldn't find it. Could you give us a link? Robert Campbell"

R.C., It is not in the body of the article itself. It is in small print just below the main headlines.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Magnolia
"Breaking news on the Hattiesburg American web site: State College Board president says he has no plan to put the resolution before panel. "

here

Date: Feb 2, 2005

Robert, it's sorta like a subtitle to the headline on the main page. It's just that one line, nothing more. Sounds like they phoned his home.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Clarification
"R.C., It is not in the body of the article itself. It is in small print just below the main headlines."

It might be worth a screenshot. The "Breaking News" screen will change over time.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Magnolia
"State College Board president says he has no plan to put the resolution before panel. "

An IHL president should not have the power to prohibit such communication between a university faculty and the IHL board members.

If this is true, it seemto me that such a prohibition would be yet another nail in USM's SACS coffin.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Magnolia
"State College Board president says he has no plan to put the resolution before panel. "

Won't it be interesting to see how the other members of the "panel" react to this assertion of raw authority?

Date: Feb 2, 2005

Hey, Roy, it's not your decision. Crofts sets the agenda:

301.0506 MEETING AGENDA

A formal agenda shall be prepared by the Commissioner for each official meeting of the Board, which shall be followed as the order of business without formal approval....

Board of Trustees, Institutions of Higher Learning, State of Mississippi POLICIES AND BYLAWS

Start writing those letters now.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

I just spoke with a SACS contact of mine. She was very interested to hear of the 39-2 vote. Hold on to your hats.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Magnolia
"Breaking news on the Hattiesburg American web site: State College Board president says he has no plan to put the resolution before panel. "

Just how could Klumb make any informed comment if he has not yet read the resolution in its entirety?

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Magnolia
"Breaking news on the Hattiesburg American web site:
State College Board president says he has no plan to put the resolution before panel.
"

Then don't depend on Mr. Klumb to put it before the board. Put it there yourselves. A copy of the letter should be sent via FedEx (to ensure proof of delivery) to every member of the IHL board individually.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Undertaker, Undertaker
"Just how could Klumb make any informed comment if he has not yet read the resolution in its entirety?"

I daresay Klumb hasn't made an informed comment about anything of substance in his adult life.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

I just put the breaking news about Roy Klumb on L and P at

http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/9979.html

Who cares whether the Faculty Senate's resolution is on the Board's formal agenda or not? Klumb can't sequester the rest of the Trustees, or tell what they can read and what they can't.

Every time Klumb shoots off his mouth in public, he gives the other Board members a little more encouragement to make him their scapegoat, when they've finally had enough of Shelby Thames.

Robert Campbell

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Robert Campbell
"Every time Klumb shoots off his mouth in public, he gives the other Board members a little more encouragement to make him their scapegoat, when they've finally had enough of Shelby Thames."

Every time Klumb shoots off his mouth in public, he makes other board members seem rational & measured. This is not necessarily a good thing. Remember, several other trustees are no more amenable to listening to USM faculty than Roy. But they appear rational by comparison. That is possibly why he does it.

If I were an MSU faculty member, I'd cringe every time Roy opens his mouth. He reinforces all the worst jokes about MSU graduates.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

I know I'm not perfect, but from the way Klumb talks I do believe that I am a tad smarter than he. It is a shame that I do not even want to frame or hang my recently acheived dimploma because of those three silly signnatures.
Roy Klumb
Shelby Thames
Jay Grimes
I feel like I went to clown college because I have the three stooges signatures on my degree

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: tears of a clown
"It is a shame that I do not even want to frame or hang my recently acheived dimploma because of those three silly signnatures. Roy Klumb Shelby Thames Jay Grimes I feel like I went to clown college because I have the three stooges signatures on my degree :juggle"

Not to worry, t.o.a.c. - If we become Mississippi State University at Hattiesburg, maybe new diplomas will be issued.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Just Plain Embalming Fluid
" If I were an MSU faculty member, I'd cringe every time Roy opens his mouth. He reinforces all the worst jokes about MSU graduates. "

Indeed. Faculty AND the many good alumni of State.

All it takes is one to perpetuate, justify and reinforce the stereotype.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

Tears,

I hear what you are saying, and can empathize with you. Now, why don't you send that same message to Roy Klumb and the rest of the IHL board? They need to hear from the students, and parents. I know you are recently graduated, but I'm sure you still have friends attending school there. Speak up, speak loud, speak with a unified voice.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: LVN
"Hey, I'm still queen. I have Ray Blanton's signature on mine, and he went to PRISON."

Would you like to sell that signature on eBay?

Date: Feb 2, 2005

Hey, I'm still queen. I have Ray Blanton's signature on mine, and he went to PRISON.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: LVN
"Hey, I'm still queen. I have Ray Blanton's signature on mine, and he went to PRISON."

I got one signed by Lewis Nobles. He did a little hard time at the big house too, didn't he? But I defer to your Highness.

Date: Feb 2, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Undertaker, Undertaker
"Just how could Klumb make any informed comment if he has not yet read the resolution in its entirety?"

His degree in ornamental horticulture from Mississippi State qualifies him to make such an assertion.

Date: Feb 3, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Just Plain Embalming Fluid
" Every time Klumb shoots off his mouth in public, he makes other board members seem rational & measured. This is not necessarily a good thing. Remember, several other trustees are no more amenable to listening to USM faculty than Roy. But they appear rational by comparison. That is possibly why he does it. "

JPEF,

You are quite right--so long as Klumb and a majority of the Board remain on the same page.

But if Thames becomes too big a political liability for the other members of that majority, those Klumb and Klumber antics that afford them cover now will become the perfect excuse to hang him out to dry.

It's mob psychology and it's ugly...but I see no reason to doubt that it affects the Board.

Robert Campbell

Date: Feb 3, 2005

One would think that the only reasonable response for Klumb to make is that it is inappropriate for the Board to comment until the IHL members have had a chance to meet and review the USM Faculty Senate letter and resolution. The other board members should be "mad as hell" for the way that the IHL President usurped their authority and voice.

Date: Feb 3, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Spin Doctor
"One would think that the only reasonable response for Klumb to make is that it is inappropriate for the Board to comment until the IHL members have had a chance to meet and review the USM Faculty Senate letter and resolution. The other board members should be "mad as hell" for the way that the IHL President usurped their authority and voice."

From the H.A. article that appeared in the Clarion Ledger and posted in another thread:

" But the resolution will likely not be addressed at the board's February meeting because the agenda has already been set, said state College Board President Roy Klumb.

"I don't see any reason why we would address this at the next meeting," Klumb said."