I agree, Advocate.  Just sent the current results of the poll to the IHL.  I hope many, many people vote before the day is done.

What kind of idot (to use the proper spelling) could vote "no" given the way this question is worded?  The question is worded in such a way as practically to SOLICIT "yes" votes (which is a good sign of where the HA is coming from).  Shelby must be at his computer hitting the "no" button every few minutes.

Is it important for the public to be aware of internal issues at the University of Southern Mississippi that could have serious implications for the university/community?






90.5%

Yes




9.5%

No

Total Votes: 179

" This is clearly the strongest stand the editorial page at HA has taken since I've been following the story on Fire Shelby.  I'm pleased that they noticed it took Thames being reprimanded by Crofts to speak out against the Grimes letter.  This is a critical piece of editorial work; Way to go "

Shelby only does the right thing when confronted w/ irresistible force. Just like Grimes backed away from reprimanding those two Faculty Senators when they blew the whistle on that cockamamie library scheme on the Coast. Just like Shelby and his cabinet did when Dave Beckett and Bill Powell caught them trying to make an end run around the Faculty Senate sending a really rotten post tenure review policy t othe IHL.

I'm reminded of the scene in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" when the otherwise selfish, nitpicky and deluded old grandmother makes the most amazing pronouncements of her faith, grace and belief in human goodness when facing her imminent death at the hands of "the Misfit."

After she's dead, the Mistfit concludes, "She would have been a good woman . . . if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life"

Shelby and company might have been good administrators it had been somebody there to . . .

Well, you get the idea. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .