JOHN BROWN, INSTRUCTOR, SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY
(October 17, 2007) Breaking News No Good Deed Goes Unpunished LONG BEACH – The recent series of
stories about the mobbing of USMNEWS.NET editor Marc DePree by various officials in the central
administration and College of Business at USM has sparked a great deal of interest with USMNEWS.NET
readers. To add to that series, USMNEWS.NET reporters have obtained a copy of a so-called "mobbing
letter" written by CoB accounting instructor John Brown.
(October 22, 2008) Carter's Mercenaries A Look at How George Carter's Politics May Ruin the Nail
Administration Have no doubts about it, EFIB chairman George Carter is on a mission to bring down the
new Lance Nail administration of USM's College of Business. And, with the hiring and firing and
"friendraising" efforts Carter has made over the past two decades, he may indeed pull it off before it is all
over. This column is Part 3 in a three-part series of opinion pieces that will attempt to explain just how
Carter may pull off the coup that some in the CoB are hoping for and others are nervous about.