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Date: Aug 23, 2004

Yeeehaaaww!!

Date: Aug 23, 2004

All we need is a dunking booth for SFT, LSM, and the deans...imagine the money USM could raise with that!

Date: Aug 23, 2004

"and our deans, faculty senate president and staff council president will compete in the new game show - Southern Miss Jeopardy!"

Please, someone tell me this is a joke. No, wait, these people all really ARE in jeopardy already....

Date: Aug 23, 2004

"Everyone may choose to change into shorts for Revelry, which is perfectly great."

Did CEM herself write this grammatically-challenged perky drivel??

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: SM
"All we need is a dunking booth for SFT, LSM, and the deans...imagine the money USM could raise with that! "

Hmmm... I dunno about the "top brass" but I bet there are a couple of deans who would agree to that if they thought the funds raised would go into their respective colleges' scholarship kitty.

Too bad it's on state property. A few cold

would probably create a LOT of fun!

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: truth4usm/AH
""Everyone may choose to change into shorts for Revelry, which is perfectly great." Did CEM herself write this grammatically-challenged perky drivel??"

And note the thinly-veiled attempt to enforce an unwritten dress code. If you want to wear shorts to teach in that's your d--n business, says I (especially if you have tenure because tenure protects you from arbitrary interference in your teaching and research . . . oh wait, I work at Southern Mess).

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Christopher Cross
We are also asking you to encourage your colleagues to wear gold that day.

Placido Domingo? Southern Miss Jeopardy? Cokes and hot dogs? Will Janet Jackson be performing too? Talk about a worl class lineup. Hey, I may be in nearby Biloxi when this extraordinary event occurs. Though not a faculty member, I'm wondering if I'd be admitted if I sported my genuine Shelby F. Thames polymeric spandex gold lamme jumpsuit. Heck, I'd drive up to the Burg if there was some possibility of winning a Golden Eagle Revelry T-shirt. Invictus, you interested in car pooling with me?

AE

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Christopher Cross
" Please let your faculty and staff know about this important event, Golden Eagle Revelry - September 1, 2004 "

Is this the same as what was formerly called faculty/staff appreciation day?

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:

Originally posted by: Christopher Cross "the new game show - Southern Miss Jeopardy!"

Shouldn't that game be called more appropriately called Southern Miss in Jeapordy?

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Invictus
" Hmmm... I dunno about the "top brass" but I bet there are a couple of deans who would agree to that if they thought the funds raised would go into their respective colleges' scholarship kitty. Too bad it's on state property. A few cold would probably create a LOT of fun! "

Invictus, maybe you didn't hear, but in researching for the new alcohol policy, MB informed SFT that beer and wine are okay on campus, just not harder liquor. SFT has even made public statements about how good this is, and that he is probably going to bring back the faculty club.

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Buddy Light
" he is probably going to bring back the faculty club."

If I'm not mistaken Roy Klumb referred to the tenured faculty club. Maybe that's the one!

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote: W

Originally posted by: Christopher Cross
Please let your faculty and staff know about this important event, Golden Eagle Revelry - September 1, 2004

will there be a well rehearsed administrator skilled in the art of compromise, jumping through hoops and juggling standards while balancing a ball on their little brown nose with back away from a faculty member whose rights are being ignored? no thanks. I've already seen that act and the price of admission cost me dearly. besides, i don't want to see a 4th class clown at a 4th tier circus anyway.

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Christopher Cross
" Aramark will be serving Hot Dogs, ......... Cynthia Easterling Moore, Ph. D.Associate ProvostThe University of Southern MississippiBox 5002Phone: (601) 266-6579 Fax: (601) 266-6322"

You're all adults, but I wouldn't advise eating any of those Aramark hot dogs. If you guys could visit their plant and watch the things being made, you'd know exactly what I mean. You decide.

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Nomenclator
"
Shouldn't that game be called more appropriately called Southern Miss in Jeapordy?"

I nominate this one, Mr. Wonderful (even with the spelling error!).

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Curious II
"Is this the same as what was formerly called faculty/staff appreciation day?"

Yes, where we all used to get free t-shirts just for being our special selves...and no bogus "gold shirt" dress code. Those were the days....

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: truth4usm/AH
"Yes, where we all used to get free t-shirts just for being our special selves...and no bogus "gold shirt" dress code. Those were the days...."

Dear Colleagues,

I must remind you that this is not Ashland Community and Technical College. There is no such thing as a free t-shirt here at USM. Every staff and faculty benefit has a direct cost, and they all impact our budget flexibility. These are lean times for those of us in academia. As you may know, the University of Southern Mississippi is presently beset with a serious cash flow crisis, and I have been charged by Mr. Klumb and the IHL with tightening our fiscal belt. At the same time, be assured that I will continue the quest to maintain our wurl class status.

While belt tightening is my forte, my raison d'etre, it is not a task I relish. I feel your pain, yet sacrifices such as this must be made by all, for the greater good. I take full responsibility for limiting the t-shirt awards to the first 100 celebrants. We have well over one thousand faculty and staffers at USM, and the cost of producing 1,000 Golden Eagle Revelry t-shirts was estimated at $3870, or $3.87 per unit. Had I permitted this extravagance, I would have been forced to reduce the annual raises from $400, to $396.13 per employee. In my judgement, such a reduction would have been Draconian, and I simply could not allow it to happen.

Thank you for your understanding and forebearance. I hope to see you all at the Aramark Hot-Dog cart on September 1st. And don't forget that in the true spirit of Golden Eagle Revelry, you will all be allowed to change into shorts before entering the stadium. It'll be perfectly great.

Party on,

Your President

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Message from the President
" While belt tightening is my forte"

contrary to public opinion...

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Austin Eagle
"Invictus, you interested in car pooling with me?"

Sorry, I'm not faculty or staff. I wouldn't qualify for a free t-shirt or an Aramark hot dog.

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Message from the President
" ... And don't forget that in the true spirit of Golden Eagle Revelry, you will all be allowed to change into shorts before entering the stadium. It'll be perfectly great. Party on, Your President"

Thank you, whoever you are (SFT???), for making me laugh this afternoon. I think your post was "perfectly great!" Aren't most things at USM "perfectly great" these days?

Date: Aug 23, 2004

quote:
Originally posted by: Invictus
" Sorry, I'm not faculty or staff. I wouldn't qualify for a free t-shirt or an Aramark hot dog. "

Nor am I, but I figured wearing the Mader-specified gold party duds should be sufficient to gain admittance as an honored guest of the Prez. I could use my considerable influence to get you in too. Think it over.

AE