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Originally posted by: aaup
"The aaup should start an official website with an official bulletin board and leave these thames and faculty haters here by themselves. Use the free space that comes with being a USM faculty member or organization. Get an official site up on an USM server. And don't start crying about why you can't do that because thames will cause you too many problems. The other campus organizations and departments do it just fine. I'll do it for you if I have to."

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Faculty haters? We hate faculty?

I believe this _is_ an official AAUP website and bulletin board. What exactly were you hoping to read on the bulletin board? (This is an honest question.) The AAUP chapter at USM is part of a larger national organization of university professors. If you have complaints about how the board is run, you should address them to Amy Young, not to the board participants.

Give the history of e-mail monitoring at USM, if this board were to be on the USM server, we would no longer be anonymous. Then there would no longer be a message board.

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Originally posted by: student
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The credibility of any posting should not be taken very seriously as anyone anywhere can post anything.
My opinion is that this message board would be more appropriately associated with the fireshelby website or an equivalent home (thank you fireshelby for all your hard work in keeping it going the way you did). I can't see how having this message board on the aaup website is better than giving it a home outside, so that the aaup can clearly represent itself as a professional organization, without giving a means for the expression of many folks who are neither usm faculty nor members of usm's aaup.
How does having the message board linked to the aaup website make more sense than giving it a site of its own? It seems to politicize the aaup's views without aaup members having a choice about how they are characterized. People can and do surf this site making assumptions about what the aaup at usm believe. Is this what aaup members want?
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These are certainly legitimate questions. Again, if you have concerns, Amy Young, as the representative of the organization, is the person to whom they should be addressed.

I just want to point out that the AAUP supports academic freedom, and that this board is a place where those of us who do not feel free, due to the policies of Shelby Thames, can express ourselves.

I do not like or agree with all of the opinions on this board. But I respect the right of the posters to express themselves. I also learn a great deal here and regularly encounter people with a deep dedication to teaching, to students and to education. They sincerely want to make the state of Mississippi better. If you haven't read this on this board, you haven't been on it long enough.

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Originally posted by: o-town
"My departmental secretary just told me she received a phone call this morning from the mother of an incoming freshman.  The mother proceeded to read to the secretary what courses her "child" had registered for (2 of them were 099 courses).  She then asked "Where do we need to go to get a list of school supplies we need for these courses?""

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Colleagues--

If, like so many above on this board, you find this amusing, I know some handicapped people you can make fun of. To my eye it is the contributors to this thread who are stupid and embarrassing. In fact, the whole board has become a clearinghouse for sophomoric humor, ersatz song lyrics, childish tantrums and threats, silly rumors, and dopey accusations. Thames and his cohorts may be idiots, but you people don't seem a lot better.

Please use your raises to purchase a clue.

Romeo

I probably should go to sleep already, but just wanted to clarify that there seems to be a real need for a forum like this message board. People need a way to connect to each other and speak freely about what is happening at usm, and the current climate there makes it unsafe to do so in person. There are a lot of people who contribute to this board and I didn't mean to bring the content of people's postings into question. Really, I just wanted to ask aaup members whether they think it's a good idea to keep the message board on this web site. Many people use it regularly and should continue to exist, I think. 

But it isn't up to me to decide whether another website should be devoted solely to that purpose, it's for aaup members to say whether or not it is in their interest to continue to have this forum located on their web site and not another.  

And thanks LVN!