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(April 10, 2007) EDITORIAL Today The University of Southern Mississippi announced that Dean D. Harold Doty and Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand had resigned from their administrative positions, effective immediately. During a meeting with Provost Jay Grimes, the College of Business faculty was advised that Dean Doty would not be returning to campus until the fall semester. Given the destruction wreaked on CoB by Dr. Doty and his administrative cohorts, this editor, the reporters and contributors to usmnews.net consider this to be – at least in the short term – positive news. It will truly be positive news if Interim Dean Alvin Williams works to eliminate the divisiveness and atmosphere of favoritism created by Dr. Doty and his subordinates.

(April 11, 2007) 31st & Pearl Doty-Niroomand Resignations: Forced or Voluntary? The 10 April 2007 resignations of CoB Dean D. Harold Doty and CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand came as a shock to many business faculty at USM. As USM Provost Jay Grimes ticked off all of the "reasons" given by Doty and Niroomand for their "voluntary" exits, many CoB faculty and staff did the translations in their heads. These guys had to go.

(April 12, 2007) Favoritism Much can be written regarding favoritism in the CoB. From the days of Joe Greene, who regularly awarded raises to his personal favorites without regard to their actual contributions, to Harold Doty, who has engineered Fourth Year Reviews and Letters of Agreement for his personal favorites, administrators in the CoB have never been shy about allowing personal feelings to bleed into their decisions, especially those decisions regarding rewards systems.

(April 13, 2007) Local Academicians Comment on Plagiarism Reporters at usmnews.net have provided a number of reports and analyses of what appears to be at least two major cases of plagiarism within D. Harold Doty’s Administration (2003-2007) of USM’s College of Business. These two cases involve copying by CoB personnel of (1) AACSB documents written by officials at Central Missouri State University and (2) an academic honesty code written by officials at Syracuse University, Doty’s previous employer.

(April 14, 2007) Everywhere BUT the CoB’s Webpage More than 100 hours have passed since USM Provost Jay Grimes informed the CoB that Dean D. Harold Doty and Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand are no longer Dean and Associate Dean, respectively. While Grimes carried the news across the USM community, usmnews.net and The Hattiesburg American made sure it (the news) went global. After 100 hours, it seems the news has reached every corner, except one. Somehow the CoB’s webpage (inside www.usm.edu) seems to believe that D. Harold Doty is still the Dean and that Farhang Niroomand is still the Associate Dean.