(February 27, 2011) President Saunders Continues to Squander Student and Taxpayer Money on Her Airplane PART 10 September 8, 2010 Pilots Allen and Price flew N777AQ from Hattiesburg, MS to Columbus, MS and back. According to USM’s “Interdepartmental Invoice” the passengers were USM President Martha Saunders, USM Vice President for Student Affairs Joe Paul, and Dean of the Honors College David Davies.

ARTICLES CONCERNING
MARTHA D. SAUNDERS' AIRPLANE - AIRFARCE ONE

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(October 26, 2011) Saunders’ King Air . . . By the Numbers Airplane Facts USM Officials Might Not Want Out in the Public Several analyses of USM president Martha Saunders’ lease of, and use of, the USM airplane can be found in the President Saunders' Extravagance, Dr. Saunders' AirPlane, MS Opens Records Request Reveals USM's Actual Costs of President Saunders' Plane, and A Brief History of Dr. Saunders' "Lease" of Airplane pages here at USMNEWS.net.

(October 28, 2011) The Martha Belle More on what Maintaining Saunders’ Airplane is Costing Taxpayers The volume of reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net regarding USM president Martha Saunders’ university airplane is already mindboggling, and yet the mountain keeps getting higher and higher in elevation.

(November 8, 2012) President Saunders Continues to Squander Student and Taxpayer Money on Her Airplane PART 1 We at www.usmnews.net, recently received another set of information related to President Saunders’ airplane, N777AQ. We now have two years of actual costs of N777AQ. As you may recall, it is owned by the University of Southern Mississippi Foundation in name only because all costs are paid by University of Southern Mississippi. That is, taxpayers and USM students pay all costs associated with President Saunders’ airplane. (See, lease agreement obtained through a Mississippi Open Records request.)

(November 9, 2012) Is Your Department Bigger than Airplane Operations? A Campus-Wide Comparison Much has been made around the USM campus, Hattiesburg, and Mississippi, as well as on the pages of USMNEWS.net, The Hattiesburg American, The Student Printz and other media outlets about USM president Martha Saunders’ decision to sign a $2 million lease of a Beechcraft airplane (for USM) during the worst economic period since the Great Depression. To add to the plane lease news, one recent report indicates that USMNEWS.

(December 23, 2011) September Skies Late September-2011 on Board USM’s Beechcraft King Air Official documents involving multiple subjects are piling up anew in the news bureau of USMNEWS.net. One of the subjects covered in these new documents is the USM airplane.