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Date: Mar 16, 2005

Featured in USN&WR

Date: Mar 16, 2005

MaderMentality- Well USN did have to APPROVE the ad...so they must have wanted to "feature" USM in their mag all along!!! Happy happy joy joy

Date: Mar 16, 2005

Good Grief Lisa!

Amy Young

Date: Mar 16, 2005

A paid advertisement? Paid for by USM and touting the virtues of USM? I take that with the grain of salt with which I would take a paid advertisement by a car dealer touting the virtures of Ford.

Date: Mar 16, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: PayPalsyWalsy
"A paid advertisement? Paid for by USM and touting the virtues of USM? I take that with the grain of salt with which I would take a paid advertisement by a car dealer touting the virtures of Ford."

USM was featured in the annual college issue, too. It was listed in the
bottom tier of national universities. And you can take that to the bank, PayPalsyWalsy.

Date: Mar 16, 2005

The ad also insists that USM is "nationally recognized" for its economic development program - since when? What a joke.

Date: Mar 16, 2005

Oh, thanks to the Thames administration, USM is nationally recognized ... as an institution in the vanguard of the effort to abolish the "archaic" tenure system, as an institution incapable of meeting minimum regional accreditation standards ...

Date: Mar 16, 2005

While shopping for a house today, a realtor told me that Doug Rouse was the one who was railing against the tenure system at the Warren Paving meeting. He supposedly said that he wished he could have tenure in his job so he never had to work again.

I guess Doug's tired of being on the wrong side of that: When you screw up as a physician, you end up giving people like Derrick Nix (no offense to D. Nix) their own version of "tenure." Wonder if Nix will ever get fired from USM's football staff....

Date: Mar 16, 2005

Buying a house? I know what you mean. Seems Rouse juiced up a cocktail for Nix that had an adverse effect. Thankfully, DN has a job for life. No one has more invested in that happening than the aforementioned good Dr. Rouse.

Date: Mar 16, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Buying a House?
"While shopping for a house today, a realtor told me that Doug Rouse was the one who was railing against the tenure system at the Warren Paving meeting. He supposedly said that he wished he could have tenure in his job so he never had to work again."

Doug has his profession's version of "tenure" & considering what an orthopedist has to pay up front to join SB&J, you can probaby bank on the fact that Doug could go to the house right now, never scope another knee in his life & make three or four times the annual salary of a full tenured professor with 30 years at USM.

Date: Mar 17, 2005

Yeah, it's pretty amusing to see a member of the strongest labor union in the country railing about job security issues.

Date: Mar 17, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Invictus
" Doug has his profession's version of "tenure" & considering what an orthopedist has to pay up front to join SB&J, you can probaby bank on the fact that Doug could go to the house right now, never scope another knee in his life & make three or four times the annual salary of a full tenured professor with 30 years at USM."

I don't know the man, but judging from the educational information about him on the SB&J website I'd say that the USM faculty and the Mississippi taxpayers have treated him pretty darn well:

1971 - 1975
University of Mississippi School of Medicine - Jackson, Mississippi - Degree: Medical Doctor, 1975

1967 - 1971
University of Southern Mississippi - Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1971