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(September 15, 2006) Special Report Edward Nissan's "Spring Break '05" in San Francisco An Investigative Series on Travel by CoB Faculty "This Special Report provides details of a rather curious trip to San Francisco made by Edward Nissan (Professor of Economics) in March of 2005. Investigators at usmpride.com have seen some uninformative Employee Travel Vouchers before, but this one might take a prize. See below:�"

(September 16, 2006) Special Report Niroomand and the AGB hit the Big Apple An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Travel This Special Report examines the expenses associated with Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand's trip to New York in 2005 to meet with the Board (Amigos?) of the Association of Global Business. That information was presented by Niroomand on an Employee Travel Voucher (see below).

(September 16, 2006) Special Report Niroomand's "Academic Visits" to Purdue and LSU An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Travel "This Special Report uncovers two more "Academic Visits" made by CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand. These visits occurred in August of 2004, with the first being to LSU in Baton Rouge...".

(September 17, 2006) Special Report Back to Tehran in 2005 An Investigative Series on Travel by CoB Faculty "Investigators at usmpride.com have recently learned that CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand made a trip to his home country of Iran in 2005. Much like his earlier trips home, this one was also at the "invitation" of the Central Bank of Iran, and this one also cost USM and Mississippi taxpayers a few thousand dollars�".

(September 17, 2006) Special Report Why didn't this Trip Exhaust Nissan's Travel Budget? An Investigative Series on Travel by CoB Faculty "This Special Report is yet another example of the major issues regarding CoB travel that have been pointed out at usmpride.com. An open records request turned up the details of an August 2004 trip to Germany made by Edward Nissan (Professor of Economics). The screen below captures the purpose of Nissan's trip:...".

(September 17, 2006) Special Report Was Stephen Bushardt's Spring '04 Sabbatical a Gift? An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Travel "This Special Report examines Stephen Bushardt's Spring 2004 Sabbatical Leave. According to records obtained by usmpride.com, Bushardt spent almost 30 days in various European locations while working on the research project related to his Spring 2004 Sabbatical. The details of Bushardt's destinations are presented in the screen below:...".

(September 17, 2006) Special Report Niroomand on the Move An Investigative Series on CoB Travel "This "Special Report" continues a multi-part examination of Employee Travel Vouchers in USM's College of Business. In this report, we examine some of the travel expenses of CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand (also Professor of Economics) over the period from August 2001 through June of 2005...".