Quest For The Mace- A Novel - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Jul 12, 2006

RE: Quest For The Mace- A Novel

Date: Jul 12, 2006

In late May, Manly sent Rachel Leifer of the HA and many others an announcement regarding the release of the novel. She reponded to him that she would like to interview him about the book. He let her know that he was available, she knows how to reach him. He doubts that she has been muzzeled.

I know that his initial plan was to publish through Lulu and to see how thing progressed. I have had a number of people ask me how to obtain a copy and I tell them to go to:

lulu.com/content/303149

Stay tuned.

Incredulous wrote:

Insider Agemt wrote:
Thepower group has already shut down the HA crowd and the Rachlel Leifer interview with this author that she had requested. She requested it and then had to run. Power in Hattiesburg and with the HA and USM ruins deep.
Does anyone know if this is actually true? If it is, we are in deeper *** than I thought--and I already thought it was as deep as it could go.

lulu.com/content/303149

Date: Jul 12, 2006

I've been using the nom Incredulous for quite some time. Please chose another.

Sorry.

Date: Jul 12, 2006

Googler's Third Cousin wrote:

Hotlink = go here.

This is the link.

Date: Jul 12, 2006

Scribe On The Coast wrote:

Googler's Third Cousin wrote:
Hotlink = go here.
This is the link.

Thanks for the initial link. I really enjoyed the book. I cannot belive there has been no big fanfare about this in Mississippi.

Date: Jul 14, 2006

Itsadoozy wrote:

Scribe On The Coast wrote:

Googler's Third Cousin wrote:
Hotlink = go here.
This is the link.
Thanks for the initial link. I really enjoyed the book. I cannot belive there has been no big fanfare about this in Mississippi.

We need to have patience with this thread. There are a lot of people that have not read the novel.

Date: Jul 16, 2006

Scribe On The Coast wrote:

Googler's Third Cousin wrote:
Hotlink = go here.
This is the link.

Why are we still tallking about this? What did we really learn from this novel? I enjoyed it, but is it really going anywhere? Have not seen that many real opinions or critiques of this work. How widely is the info about this novel really known?

Date: Jul 19, 2006

Just finished reading it.

I know that we have many good people here at our institution that have done everything they can do to protect our mace. Some, including myself, have paid a high price for what they have tried to do. We sure needed an April Thomas.

I hope that the author does well with the novel and I assume it will be more widely distributed than Lulu.

Date: Jul 19, 2006

The man must have known many things if he wrote this novel. If anyone knows how to contact him, give him my congrats. I loved the Strong Street reference, and how about those Silver Falcons?

Date: Jul 23, 2006

What Does He Know? wrote:

The man must have known many things if he wrote this novel. If anyone knows how to contact him, give him my congrats. I loved the Strong Street reference, and how about those Silver Falcons?

What a story? As a resident of Mississippi for many years, I can see how these kinds of things happen in universities in our state.

I was fortunate enough to have known some of the good times of the past, where there was real dignity, and good southern civility in our institutions. Yes, there were mistakes made, but the culture of the past may be better than our present culture.

Date: Jul 23, 2006

Jackson Observation wrote:

I was fortunate enough to have known some of the good times of the past, where there was real dignity, and good southern civility in our institutions. Yes, there were mistakes made, but the culture of the past may be better than our present culture.

Better? It depends on who you were and how far back into the past you mean. I agree that our culture seems to be losing its grip on any sort of civility, decorum, and gravitas; just attend a graduation ceremony at USM. However, the dignity sometimes hid a lack of respect, particularly where women and non-whites were concerned. Honey, I'm old enough to remember when ladies wore hats to go downtown on the bus, and old enough that I could read the signs that said, "Colored to the rear."

I'd like the hats to come back.

Date: Jul 24, 2006

LVN wrote:

Jackson Observation wrote:

I was fortunate enough to have known some of the good times of the past, where there was real dignity, and good southern civility in our institutions. Yes, there were mistakes made, but the culture of the past may be better than our present culture.

Better? It depends on who you were and how far back into the past you mean. I agree that our culture seems to be losing its grip on any sort of civility, decorum, and gravitas; just attend a graduation ceremony at USM. However, the dignity sometimes hid a lack of respect, particularly where women and non-whites were concerned. Honey, I'm old enough to remember when ladies wore hats to go downtown on the bus, and old enough that I could read the signs that said, "Colored to the rear."

I'd like the hats to come back.

LVN, I was referring to the adminiistrative culture in our institutions of higher education. I was probably influenced by the contrast of the two administrative styles of the two presidents in the novel.

As far as the hats, I really don't know about that.

Date: Jul 24, 2006

Itsadoozy wrote:

Scribe On The Coast wrote:

Googler's Third Cousin wrote:
Hotlink = go here.
This is the link.
Thanks for the initial link. I really enjoyed the book. I cannot belive there has been no big fanfare about this in Mississippi.

I have passed this info on to friends in several states. I left Mississippi a number of years ago. It was refreshing to see someone write something about a situation that we all knew needed attention. This could have happened anywhere in the South or the U.S. Hope this work can be reviewed in a number of newpapers and other publications.

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Is this book going to be available soon at sites other than Lulu.com? I know of people that are trying to find it an cannot locate it.

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I saw another thread by "info" that implied that the Student Printz editor may have this book. Do you think the SP would give this novel any publicity?

-- Edited by Alias at 16:46, 2006-09-07

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Alias wrote:

I saw another thread by "info" that implied that the Student Printz editor may have this book. Do you think the SP would give this novel any publicity?

-- Edited by Alias at 16:46, 2006-09-07

Is anything happening on this front? How is this novel doing? Have you read it? Did the Hattiesburg American ever do anything with this?