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(March 4, 2007) “I know what you are up to” By the way, I forgot to include one other item from the silly dialogue (see below) Dean Doty and I had yesterday afternoon. I’d like to make that correction for the record. He saw me and charged down the hall. The first words out of his mouth: “I know what you are up to.” Well, now, who doesn’t know what I’m up to? I publish a newsblog, and sign my name to accompany my words on a multitude of issues. I carbon copy every potentially interested party up and down the chain of command. Would anybody be surprised to know where I stand on issues of administrative ultra-secrecy, faculty and administrator plagiarism, squandering of taxpayers’ resources, hiding Foundation finances, misrepresenting the facts to get a buddy a pay raise he couldn’t earn on the basis of merit, etc, etc. So, here comes our Dean with another of his less than profound revelations. “I know what you’re up to.”

(March 6, 2007) What happens to faculty who are desperate to become administrators?, part 2 What happens to faculty who are desperate to become administrators?, part 2 “In an email dated February 28, 2006, Dr. Stan Lewis wrote, “[T]hey [Doty and Posey] truly cannot grasp the concept of fair and even treatment of all others. But Rod has always been given special treatment.”

(March 6, 2007) “Without Proper Citation” A Report on the Doty Administration’s Actions in the Days after the AACSB Plagiarism Allegations Although a number of scandals over the past several months have shaken the foundation of Harold Doty’s administration of USM’s College of Business, none have provided as much intrigue as the scandal regarding the allegations that the CoB copied, “without proper citation,” AACSB definitions (for “participating and supporting faculty”) from another institution. After breaking the story in November of 2006, USMNEWS.NET has obtained a batch of official documents that show what appears to be an attempted cover-up, one that fails to heed the ageless political advice that the cover-up is often worse than the incident in question. However, in this case both the alleged incident and the apparent cover-up are particularly egregious. This report recounts, using official documents, the details of both.

(March 6, 2007) Special Report Just Where were Gunther's BBER and Clark's CFS? An Investigative Series on the use of the CoB's Budget As expected, the Dow Jones slide of Tuesday 27-Feb-07 made headlines in newspapers the following day. The following front page article appeared in the 28-Feb-07 edition of our own The Hattiesburg American:

(March 2, 2007) A Plagiarized Policy on Plagiarism? by Duane Cobb The recent revelation that the CoB's Academic Integrity Policy was copied, the better part of word-for-word, from Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management is barely a surprise to many in the CoB. Since the beginning of 2006-07, USM's College of Business has been in a state of turmoil resulting from a number of ethics-challenged decisions made by the CoB's administration. Now, the recent prediction on this website -- that we may be on the eve of a national AACSB scandal -- appears to be coming to fruition