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(October 9, 2006) Special Report Niroomand takes a NASBITE out of the Budget An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Travel "This Special Report examines two trips to the NASBITE International (North American Small Business International Trade Educators) conference made by CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand. These trips were made in 2002 and 2003, respectively. The first of these two trips was made to San Francisco in April of 2002, as the top portion of the Employee Travel Voucher filed by Niroomand (see below) indicates...".

(October 23, 2006) Barry Babin Hits the Vacation Trail – 2000-05 A previous report at usmpride.com outlines Barry and Laurie Babin’s trips to Europe during the Sedona vita period of 2000-2005. However, there is another travel game being played by Barry Babin: a tour of resort areas. While most conferences are held in major cities, some of the more obscure conferences are held in resort areas and become known as “vacation conferences” for the lucky few who have funds to travel to such places. What follows is the list of Barry Babin’s travels foreign countries and to “resort” destinations from 2000 to 2005, all listed on Babin’s Sedona vita as of May 2, 2006.

(October 28, 2006) We Deserved More "Those of us outside of economics have always been told how productive everyone in economics is and that they were the most productive group in the college. Thanks to information revealed on this website we now know that one professor among that group is not academically qualified, another has not published a journal article since 1998, yet another looks to be getting his name placed onto someone else’s papers, and two others are spending a lot of money on publication fees for journals of low quality. I could go on...".

(January 27, 2007 ) Special Report The Longest Drive: The Babins at the 1999 SMA An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Travel Investigators at usmpride.com have uncovered more details of the University-related travels of Barry and Laurie Babin, professors of marketing at USM. Our growing travel records database indicates that, in August of 1999, Barry Babin (now Chair of Management and Marketing) traveled to San Francisco to attend a Summer (Marketing) Educators' Conference. Babin's reported expenses for that trip totaled $1,240.40,

(February 10, 2007 ) “Phase 2” is Upon Us It has been only a little more than 6 months since USMPRIDE.COM began the process of “opening up” USM’s College of Business. Now it appears that Phase 2 is beginning in earnest. By Phase 2 we mean that e-mails – some anonymous and some not – containing tips and leads to new stories of malfeasance in the CoB are arriving almost daily. Reporters at USMPRIDE.COM were also told, a few weeks ago, by “old hands” of the CoB to expect this phase to begin at some point in the future. This phase actually began in the middle to late part of January of 2007, and has sped up since reports began surfacing about the CoB’s AACSB probation woes.