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CL, 5/21/06: The 'W': College Board should keep watch
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060521/OPINION01/605210316/1008/OPINION

The 'W': College Board should keep watch

Mississippi University for Women is an outstanding public university, and Claudia A. Limbert is a top-notch president, as recent national interest in luring her away attests.

But alumni-staff conflicts at "The W" in Columbus bear watching by the state College Board to ensure "creative differences" found within any university setting don't get out of hand....

...The challenge for the board is to not let this escalate like the chaos with student-led protests and faculty no-confidence votes that ensued in 2004 at the University of Southern Mississippi after President Shelby Thames suspended two faculty members - or the bitter faculty/alumni infighting that marred the last two of Rent's 12 years.

The board should have learned how not to proceed with the Thames fiasco, allowing matters to get out of hand.

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"The challenge for the board is to not let this escalate like the chaos with student-led protests and faculty no-confidence votes that ensued in 2004 at the University of Southern Mississippi after President Shelby Thames suspended two faculty members . . . . "


The above sentence clearly shows that the Clarion-Ledger full well knows who was responsible for the turmoil. It also suggests that the Clarion-Ledger knows that the IHL sat on its duffer and let it escalate.



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And this too: "The board should have learned how not to proceed with the Thames fiasco, allowing matters to get out of hand."

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Unfortunately, the CL also sat on its duffer. How much different things could have been if the state's flagship newspaper had led the way on this--and, to start with, had done their own research on the Kentucky mafia as well as the myriad other, less flagrant, problems.

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Shelby's historical legacy is already being named: "The Thames Fiasco."  Anyone want to suggest any other appropriate pithy phrases? 

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Just an opinion wrote:

Shelby's historical legacy is already being named: "The Thames Fiasco."  Anyone want to suggest any other appropriate pithy phrases? 
Well, "The Next Stupid Thing" has to be part of the pithy phrases, wouldn't everyone agree?

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Just an opinion wrote:


Anyone want to suggest any other appropriate pithy phrases? 




I like the pithy phrase that appears at the bottom of pages 46-47 of this week's (May 29, 2006) issue of U.S. News and World Report:


"I am here to make decisions . . . whether they prove right or wrong, I am going to make them."



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Just an opinion wrote:
Shelby's historical legacy is already being named: "The Thames Fiasco."  Anyone want to suggest any other appropriate pithy phrases? 


A Pith Poor President?

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