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(June 11, 2008) Perks for Buds V When the music stops . . . When Bill Gunther was ousted as Dean by President Shelby Thames, he received a nice spacious office that should belong to the director of the CoB graduate programs. It was empty because the person playing at the graduate programs job did not want to move into that office. It is mostly understandable that some people would want to give Gunther some kind of salve for his wounds; those people would be the fellow Economics people that benefited from Gunther’s non-leadership, and the other usual suspects that work with them for the status quo they crave. Even to them, the idea had to be this was a transitional office as Gunther either retired or sought another dean’s job elsewhere.

(June 17, 2008) CoB News, 17 June 2008 Are Gunther's THA Reports also Academic Publications? CoB faculty must be wondering whether Bill Gunther's columns in The Hattiesburg American, such as the one on 15-June-08 about employment measures in the U.S., will double (for Gunther) as academic publications. These columns and reports are put together by Gunther under the auspices of Gunther's Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER), which was established in the CoB under former dean Harold Doty's reign (2003-07). As Director of the Bureau, Gunther gets a 3-hour teaching release. He gets yet another for being "Professionally Qualified." These two releases give Gunther a 6-hour teaching load each semester. If Gunther's columns for THA are counted by CoB administrators as a form of academic scholarship, as sources believe they may well be, then Gunther's BBER is the proverbial gift that keeps on giving.

(June 18, 2008) Perks for Buds VII Centers The CoB must be in the top tier of business schools for the number of “centers” that are meaningless. Under ousted dean Doty, he wanted to virtually litter the CoB with them. The idea would be they would all be – somehow – revenue generators. This is where it got fuzzy, and for the most part, ceased to exist as a concept. The true reason for centers or bureaus is to benefit the director or directors of the centers, and to hide salaries, benefits, work loads, cash flows, and anything else that is not desired to be seen in the light of day.personal finance issues into the County’s regular education curriculum.

(June 24, 2008) CoB News, 24 June 2008 Dakhlia Can Deliver, But He Needs Some Help From his perch atop the CoB's 2007-08 journal ranking committee, Sami Dakhlia brought home the goods for a number of EFIB faculty. Recent installments in USMNEWS.NET's Special Report series showed that George Carter (EFIB Chairman), Akbar Marvasti, Edward Nissan, Farhang Niroomand, John Clark, Matthew Hood, and Farooq Malik all had their research portfolios improved by upgrades that were applied to various economics, finance and other journals by the journal ranking team. The number of A- and B-level publications produced by this group, along with Dakhlia himself, rose dramatically from the work done by Dakhlia & Co.