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(August 19, 2006) Quotable Doty, part 1 "The PR Release focuses on three USM faculty members, Melody Lo, Sunny Wong, and Frank Mixon. Of these three individuals only one (Mixon, Professor of Economics) remains at USM. Former Assistant Professors Lo (recipient of the infamous “shame on you” comment) and Wong departed USM following the 2005-2006 academic year for (respectively) the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of San Francisco, earning substantial pay increases. "

(August 19, 2006) Quotable Doty, part 2 "So, here’s a hypothetical for you, ... It just so happens that Doty’s wife Susan has some Economic Education experience from Arkansas and will be able to structure seminars and act as lead educator, for pay of course. A board is established from supporters of the MSU and USM business schools, and Freedman and Doty get Board positions. ... It’s a win-win for Doty, who gets vita building activities and a boondoggle for his wife, who can be paid by the MCEE rather than USM, thus avoiding nepotism laws. Perhaps that’s why the three USM professors turned the position down – they knew it involved dirty money."

(August 22, 2006) Quotable Doty, part 3 "Just what has the BBER done in its seventeen month existence? The CoB’s website shows no concrete information regarding the BBER’s non-Economic Education mission, and a Google search reveals no other pertinent hits regarding the BBER. To the best of our ability, the Odds & Ends Department here at usmpride.com cannot find evidence of a single white paper (research paper) produced by the USM BBER. Seventeen months and no progress made toward “[improving] the quality of life for the citizens of South Mississippi and the entire state.” Even sadder is the fact that the BBER’s sole publications consist of charts downloaded from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics’ website and thumbtacked to the Economics department bulletin board with the handwritten scrawl, “Compliments of the USM Bureau of Business and Economic Research.” Now that’s quality research. Of course, QD2 hypothesized on the BBER’s real raison d’être - as the cover for the CEE and the Doty money machine. "

(August 27, 2006) Did Doty Steal PRIDE? Just Ask the Sheriff Was PRIDE really developed over the course of a year, with input from all those College constituencies mentioned above? Or, did Doty see “PRIDE” on the side of a sheriff’s vehicle while on a trip somewhere, and supplement that find with a 5-minute Google search in order to reduce the overlap from 100% to 80%? It looks to use as though the PRIDE acronym is as old as the hills. Even the students at Mount Baker High School could hardly claim to be the first to use it. It seems to us that Doty lifted it, and without attribution. In doing so, it also seems he violated the CoB’s academic integrity policy.