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(January 18, 2006) What Will Doty “SAIS” Now? "The CoB was told that Dr. Stan Lewis was hired for one year as Interim Director of SAIS (School of Accountancy and Information Systems). During that year, despite it being the same year as final preparation for and visitation by an AACSB re-accreditation team, Doty would initialize and Barry Babin, Chairman of Marketing and Management, would lead a nationwide search for the new SAIS Director. Does Dr. Babin have a vast knowledge of accounting? No. Information Systems? No. Great experience as a chairman? No. A lot of experience running searches? Not exactly."

(January 19, 2007) usmpride.com News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DEVELOPING STORY HATTIESBURG --- Sources tell usmpride.com News that the EFIB’s search for a new Director for the CoB’s Center for Economics Education may now be inviolation of federal hiring guidelines/rules as set out by the EEOC.

(January 17, 2007) As Transgressions Go By Chairman (DCP) Carter is not one to learn much from the past, including autogenous mistakes; one might think given the nature of recent mistakes – transgressions – including a semi-public apology for one, he might be somewhat more careful. One conclusion is DCP lives his life sprinting from one visceral reaction to another. React, do not think.

(January 19, 2007) Praying to the Porcelain Gods “’Restroom closed.’ ‘Use Bathroom on 2nd Floor.’Such statements were hanging in the doorways of the restrooms in Greene Hall during the week of January 15, 2007. Why, you ask? Another brilliant stroke by Duane Harold Doty. AACSB is coming soon. Amidst the chaotic conclusion to the ill-fated HVAC project - which, by the way was only 5 months (an entire semester) behind the schedule that Doty and others sold to CoB faculty at the outset - Doty decided to undertake a few more ‘facelift’ items,�”.

(January 23, 2007) Trust ... and Doty "Billy Joel wrote and sang about it (A Matter of Trust, Joelsongs and Sony Music, BMI, 1986), many others have discussed it, and everyone has experienced trust and distrust, and now Management guru Stephen M. R. Covey covers it in his book The Speed of Trust – The One Thing That Changes Everything. This is frighteningly relevant to the CoB. Covey opines thatwhen trust is low, the speed of business is low and the cost is high, but when trust is high, the speed is high and the cost is low. Doesn’t that make sense? Not to Doty, except in the negative...".