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ARTICLES CONCERNING
STANLEY LEWS, FORMER INTERIM DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY (FORMERLY KNOWN AS SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS (SAIS), CURRENTLY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING, TROY UNIVERSITY

(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."

(February 13, 2007) Nostalgia Series: Stan SAIS Interim Director, former MIS Chairman, former Management and MIS Chairman, and former Director of Assessment – that is Stan Lewis. Clearly someone with such a wealth of administrative experience, plus a CPA’s eye for detail, would be a huge plus in a re-accreditation effort. He was. He probably would have been more if he was not hamstrung by Harold Doty. Harold would rather trust a fossil such as Jim Crockett to over-see Accounting rather than let Stan finish the turn-around job he has accomplished in the post-Rod days. The result is known, and in a week or so should be known to all.

(January 11, 2007 ) 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. The reason for Babin’s positioning here is obvious: he and Doty are one, so control is maintained.

(January 2, 2007 ) An Island of Tortured Dreams and Shattered Realties "No man is an island unto himself." The quotation really is: "No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main. [John Donne - Meditation XVII.]