1. Some stories are trickling from across town at William Carey indicating that their tv ad campaign - jacked up during the Glamser-Stringer crisis - is working to pull some students from USM.  Informal polling being done by their admissions people suggests that the ad effort has already paid for itself.  Thanks grapevine.

2. Some indications are that attendance at football games this fall will be very poor.  Every day more and more decide not to make the purchase of tickets.  Thanks mclubber.

3. New rumors are indicating that the Kim Chaze article in the HA was held back for a time so that it could have information added making Horace Fleming look most like the cause of USM's legal troubles (instead of Thames).  The large chart accompanying the article was supposedly added after the article was written, at the request of some "USM officials," who are rumored to have been privy to an advance copy of the original piece.  Thanks formeruno.

4. Stories are swirling that several more faculty/staff losses will be announced at the end of June and beginning of July, even though the list is over 100 already.  Thanks gorod.

5. Stories are making the rounds that with the arrival of Pete Fos, SFT will have a good group of puppet deans at his disposal, thus clearing the way for some variant of the Jim Hollandsworth prediction about the future of the Provost position at USM.  Thanks insider and oasis.

6. Tales that the "no national search" practice begun at USM by SFT in hiring administrators is making its way to the hiring of faculty now.  Reports from CBED and CEP indicate that this practice is taking off of late.  Thanks envelope and sigi.