Mr. Klumb's comments - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Mar 8, 2005

Mr. Klumb's comments

Date: Mar 8, 2005

MR. Johnson,

I asked the USM PR department to send me a photo of you so I could verify your existence. Below is what I received; can you confirm or deny that this is you? (I'm not sure why thy labeled it as they did; is that by chance your nickname?)

Date: Mar 8, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: W.J. Johnson
"I will not have a formal teaching "load", but will divide my duties between classroom speaking engagements and off-site fundraising."

When I worked at another university we had a worthless faculty member who was seldom in his office. He invariably told the departmental secretary to tell anyone who came to his office, or asked for him on the phone, that he was "at the library" of another nearby university. A new department chair put a stop to that nonsense fast enough. I'll bet that the imaginary Dr. Johnson will be spending lots of time "at the library."

Date: Mar 8, 2005

Would you be so kind as to furnish a copy of the job announcement under which you were hired? Also, I want to know what your salary is.
I'm not USM faculty, I'm a Mississippi taxpayer and I have a right to know. If you have been hired into a foundation-funded or grant-funded position, I have a right to know that, even if you don't have to tell me the salary. If you can designate which administrators sit on which committees, I REALLY have a right to know about that.

I'm waiting.

Date: Mar 8, 2005

Mr. Johnson, please confirm or deny something I heard about you this morning. I was told that within a few weeks after your arrival, you and your wife will be making a sizable contribution to USM. The central admin will then be able to say to constituencies that if they had more control over the hiring reigns, more "hires" like you could be made. Thus, they will be able to kill several birds with each hiring stone (get contributions out of people and have more friends/less foes on campus teaching courses).

What do you say, Mr. Johnson?

Date: Mar 8, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Hernandos Hideaway
".... the imaginary Dr. Johnson ...." "
Good Lord, is he Dr. Johnson now? He must have begun and completed USM's intensive 72 hour on-line doctoral program in Economic Development since last Friday. No small wonder he was offered tenure and a full professorship right out of the gate.

AE

Date: Mar 8, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: LVN
"Would you be so kind as to furnish a copy of the job announcement under which you were hired? Also, I want to know what your salary is. I'm not USM faculty, I'm a Mississippi taxpayer and I have a right to know. If you have been hired into a foundation-funded or grant-funded position, I have a right to know that, even if you don't have to tell me the salary. If you can designate which administrators sit on which committees, I REALLY have a right to know about that. I'm waiting."

LVN, we have never met, but you do impress me as a very nice person. You have not strurck me as being a gullible person. Don't you suspect that another poster with a fertile imagination and sense of humor is pulling Mr. Johnson's strings?

Date: Mar 8, 2005

I did not fall off the turnip truck.

One takes the opportunities one is handed to say what is needed.

Date: Mar 8, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Straight Man
"LVN, we have never met, but you do impress me as a very nice person. You have not strurck me as being a gullible person. Don't you suspect that another poster with a fertile imagination and sense of humor is pulling Mr. Johnson's strings?"

A puppet like me?

Date: Mar 8, 2005

Someone reminded us all yesterday that the hiring of General Blount looks every bit as hoaxy as this does on paper, only the General Blount story is true. It won't amaze me when we get here for Summer school to actually see a W.J. Johnson moving around campus. The Johnson hire didn't make the papers probably because he didn't lead an army across the Iraqi desert before joining USM's faculty ranks.

Date: Mar 8, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: pete
"Mr. Johnson, please confirm or deny something I heard about you this morning. I was told that within a few weeks after your arrival, you and your wife will be making a sizable contribution to USM. The central admin will then be able to say to constituencies that if they had more control over the hiring reigns, more "hires" like you could be made. Thus, they will be able to kill several birds with each hiring stone (get contributions out of people and have more friends/less foes on campus teaching courses). What do you say, Mr. Johnson?"

They already do this in economic and workforce development, don't they?

Date: Mar 8, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: pete
"Mr. Johnson, please confirm or deny something I heard about you this morning. I was told that within a few weeks after your arrival, you and your wife will be making a sizable contribution to USM. The central admin will then be able to say to constituencies that if they had more control over the hiring reigns, more "hires" like you could be made. Thus, they will be able to kill several birds with each hiring stone (get contributions out of people and have more friends/less foes on campus teaching courses). What do you say, Mr. Johnson?"

So how much do you think it costs, in today's market, to buy a faculty position at USM? If the contribution is substantial, might one also have his name on a building, or a campus street? Should we prepare to see W.J. Johnson Drive, or the re-naming of Joseph Greene Hall to Johnson Hall? Or how about the W. J. Johnson School of Economic Development? This presents some interesting possibilities. The Jimmy Buffet School of Music. Brett Favre Stadium. Or how about the Bernie Ebbers Professorship in Creative Accounting?

Date: Mar 8, 2005

I have it on good authority that Mr. Johnson is a faculty member from Mississippi State that has been hired by the IHL Board to disrupt this message board. Mr. Johnson, actually Dr. Johnson, is in the College Of Agriculture And Life Sciences and teaches a course in the Agricultural Pest Management Major. However, I am not sure whether the FLIT management boys can take him out. Since he is an expert in the field he may have many defenses.

Date: Mar 8, 2005

There is a W. Johnson at MSU but he's not the one

Date: Mar 8, 2005

RE: Mr. Klumb's comments

Date: Mar 8, 2005

LVN, you are right that this gentlemen's credentials should be posted. In no way would I want folks to think that I had confused the two. I must confess that State was selected since they were the only ones I came across with a pest management course and I needed to get the FLIT issue in the mix

Date: Mar 8, 2005

Does anyone else find it interesting that we can't afford a "1950's style of liberal arts university" in Mississippi, but we can afford to run a university like they managed business in the 1950's? I would be interested in an analysis of the "business model" that is supposedly the new way the university is being run and, most particularly, a concrete analysis of the management styles of the "usual suspects." Anyone in CoB feel like taking on the task?

Date: Mar 8, 2005

To SFT:

I knew Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was my friend. And you, sir, are no Jackie Robinson.

Date: Mar 8, 2005

I think Royboy somehow confused Jackie Robinson with Elmer Fudd. Wascally Woy.

Date: Mar 8, 2005

W.J. Johnson are also know as "the big johnson"?