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I've always reviewed this board because I could find out what was going on with the advancement or mainly lack there of at the University of Southern Mississippi, but lately many of the posts have just been plain nasty.  I understand letting everyone have their say, but I just don't think many of the recent posts are pertinent to what this sight is all about.  I don't care to hear about someone's hair color, I don't want to know who is having an affair, and the latest post about some poor homeless man who died is not only in poor taste, it is just made me ill.  Let's all try to keep on the subject here, which is about USM and what we can do to ensure it moves forward instead of becoming stagnant, or moving backwards as it has. 


I've learned a great deal about how a university runs and about academic integrity.  I've learned about everything from vitas to shared governance.  Let's continue to work for positive advancement and not dwell in the gutter.


That said, I'd like to say that I appreciate many of the posts by Invictus, LVN, Angeline, Stinky Cheese and many, many others.  To you I say, "Keep up the good work and no quarter." 


Thank you.



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Advocate

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I also want to thank Stephen Judd, not only for his wonderful posts, but because he has the gumption to put his name out there.  He is a fine man and a wonderful example for everyone else on this board to follow.

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Southern Justice

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I'm not sorry you're offended, Advocate, though I didn't post the story about the deceased homeless man as an effort to ridicule him.

I don't know how long you've been perusing this here board, but maybe one of your aforementioned board heroes could inform you of what a complete and utter disgrace Janet Braswell was while covering the USM beat. No initiative, no guts, no digging. Just smiley faced stories that let the world know SFT was doing good work.

My post was intended to indicate that her current work suits her much better. She can just cover the facts provided in the press release or by the PR person without asking difficult questions or digging for answers.

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Advocate

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I've been reading this board since its inception and read Fire Shelby before that.  I've been posting to both threads for the duration.  You must admit, with a moniker like "Southern Justice" and a post about a homeless man being hit by a car, it looked as if you were applauding his death.  If I misread your post, then I appologize.  As for the rest of my post, I stand by my words.

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Southern Justice

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Advocate wrote:
I've been reading this board since its inception and read Fire Shelby before that.  I've been posting to both threads for the duration.  You must admit, with a moniker like "Southern Justice" and a post about a homeless man being hit by a car, it looked as if you were applauding his death.  If I misread your post, then I appologize.  As for the rest of my post, I stand by my words.


I suppose it would have been better if my name were "Northern Justice"?

By your logic, a black man driving an expensive car is a car thief. Don't consider facts, just use your prejudicial stereotypes to bash me. Exactly what did I type that "applauded" a death? Can't provide evidence? Didn't think so.

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stephen judd

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Advocate wrote:

I've been reading this board since its inception and read Fire Shelby before that.  I've been posting to both threads for the duration.  You must admit, with a moniker like "Southern Justice" and a post about a homeless man being hit by a car, it looked as if you were applauding his death.  If I misread your post, then I appologize.  As for the rest of my post, I stand by my words.

I agree with both of you.


SJ (hey that's me too), I think there have been an increased number of postings that are simply rude or sadistic. It has been a bit discourging, considering how generally careful people were back in the Fire Shelby Days and the early days of this Board. But of course, any public access forum eventually is going to be overrun by barbarians . . .


And Advocate, I'm glad you see that SJ's arrow wasn't aimed at the subject of the story. His aim was true, actually.


It is no secret that Janet hated covering Southern Miss stories, which started to require something more than delivering a puff to the university. It was no secret that there was a general lifting of spirits when Kevin Walters became the key reporter and brought a much sharper tool to the task.



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Southern Justice

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SJ

Thanks

SJ

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stephen judd

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Southern Justice wrote:

SJ Thanks SJ

I've been reading both of your posts over time (Advocate's for quite a while) and gosh I just hate to see two interesting posters in a tiff  . . . .


(musta been something about my childhood . . . )



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LVN

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I miss Kevin, and now I miss Reuben. Would really like to know why he's no longer on the USM beat. Didn't somebody ask about this recently and there was never an answer?

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stephen judd

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LVN wrote:

I miss Kevin, and now I miss Reuben. Would really like to know why he's no longer on the USM beat. Didn't somebody ask about this recently and there was never an answer?
Oh man . . .  I didn't know that. Now that you mention it . . . . I realize I haven't seen a piece for quite a while . . . . . like about the time we were talking about the third round of "stealth" raises.

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John Deacon

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What I miss is the cleverness and wit that used to be abundant on the websites.  People took time in their postings to be amusing (and enlightening) without being nasty.  We complain that students want to be spoon-fed and that they don't think.  Where's a mirror?  Thirty seconds of googling and a minute or two of thinking through why it is relevant to the Password phrase of the week yields an interesting story.

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advocate

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Southern Justice wrote:

 I suppose it would have been better if my name were "Northern Justice"? By your logic, a black man driving an expensive car is a car thief. Don't consider facts, just use your prejudicial stereotypes to bash me. Exactly what did I type that "applauded" a death? Can't provide evidence? Didn't think so.

It would not have been better if your name were "Northern Justice."  The fact that the word justice was used is what I keyed in on, not the Southern part.  Therefore, your assumptions about prejudicial stereotypes are wrong.  I was born in the South, live in the South and feed my kids grits and turnip greens.  I am a stereotype.


I went back and reread your original post.  There is nothing there to indicate your intention of showing that Janet Braswell did a poor job of covering USM either.  You didn't put any facts in your post, just a link to the HA article and a caption about JB in a prize winning Pulitzer article.  She's written plenty of other pieces that weren't about USM in the past months, but you selected that particular article to link.  I've already appologized for misreading your post, but apparently you just want to continue to snipe at me.  This is exactly the kind of nasty posts I'm talking about.  I appologized for misreading you -- let it go. 



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foot soldier

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John Deacon wrote:
What I miss is the cleverness and wit that used to be abundant on the websites.  People took time in their postings to be amusing (and enlightening) without being nasty. 


I basically agree with you. But I think many people have simply become exhausted. Things were pretty tough, then there was Katrina. I think USM posters should be forgiven for not having much sense of humor these days.

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LVN

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Thanks, foot soldier. That's exactly what has happened. The delayed response to the trauma of Katrina is setting in, now that the holidays are over. Many of us are finding ourselves caught between insurance adjusters and contractors (those of us lucky enough to have anything left to adjust) and that's extremely stressful. As if the situation itself weren't difficult enough to deal with!

In addition, I think many of us in Hattiesburg have trouble dealing with our own feelings about the storm because so many others are so much worse off. It makes it hard to come to grips with our own situations -- a combination of survivor guilt and PTSD. We knew it would be about six months for this all to set in, and now it has. Almost everyone I know is dealing with varying degrees of depression, anxiety and stress. It definitely shows on the board.



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John Deacon

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Okay, I will pitch it lower.  John Deacon, bassist for the British rock group Queen wrote the hit song "Another One Bites the Dust" that was released on August 22, 1980.  It was published on an album called The Game.  I trust, at this point, it is becoming more clear.

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John Deacon

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"and another one's gone, and another one's gone, and another one bites the dust..."

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