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(October 24, 2006) The BBER Sinecure? An Examination of Director Bill Gunther’s Teaching Schedule "... Gunther’s stake in the BBER comes through comes from receipt of the 3-hour course release for “serving” as the BBER’s PhD economist and Director. To help things along, EFIB Chair Carter also appears to be providing Gunther with a teaching schedule that will facilitate Gunther’s movements between Hattiesburg and Josephine, AL. In other words, Carter’s teaching assignments appear to be facilitating for the Gunthers' 3-day weekends near the bach on the AL-FL line...".

(October 27, 2006) Moving Down by Moving Up? "... It is quite surprising that Doty did not engineer a remote location for the DOS residents outside of Greene Hall, such as in the Cochrane Center or the International Building. That move would have ensured that none of the DOS members would have had to field a student question or a faculty complaint (other than the string of grievances that have and will be filed over the next few weeks/months) until January. Harold Doty and Farhang Niroomand are running scared, and every step they take is another step toward proving that they are unfit to lead the CoB....".

(November 1, 2006) The Only Solution to CoB’s Corruption: Committee of the Whole "The CoB’s evaluation and raise systems are broken. This fact cannot be denied by any reasonable person. Currently, the CoB lists 70 full-time faculty members on its website. After recent administrative deceit, only 6 of those 70 should participate in the CoB’s 2006 annual evaluation and/or raise process (although an additional 5 or 6 (or more) may be “invited” by Harold Doty). Just who are the faculty slated to be participants in the meeting? Let’s play Meet the Participants. ..".

(October 23, 2006) 31st & Pearl A Career on a Limb "Mississippi IHL Commissioner Thomas Meredith accepted CoB Dean Harold Doty's invitation to speak to the Hattiesburg Kiwanis Club on 12 October 2006. Doty later told Brittany Brown, a reporter for The Student Printz (17-Oct-06), that Meredith's speech to the Club recognized the improvements and accomplishments we've made at USM the past few years. Just what are those? USM is now a Tier IV institution, and according to everything we see and hear the CoB's AACSB reaccreditation efforts are stuck in the mud...".

(November 1, 2006) The Curious Case of the Missing Economics Line Or, Anatomy of An Administrative Deal "It starts, of all places, at USMGC. In May 2006, newly promoted Associate Professor of Economics David Sharpe resigns from USM to take an industry job. This is a crippling blow to the economics fiefdom carefully constructed over fifty years by the likes of Joseph Greene, Ty Black, George Carter, Charles Sawyer, and Farhang Niroomand. Having just lost Assistant Professors Sunny Wong and Melody Lo from the Hattiesburg faculty, Sharpe’s departure leaves economics short 3 members overall. Lo and Wong’s departures were expected, however, and Sawyer and Carter were able to make two hires – Akbar Marvasti and Sami Dakhlia – but were denied the opportunity to hire a replacement for Sharpe, even on a Visiting basis...".