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(November 4, 2008) BREAKING NEWS UPDATE Secret Plan “Categorized” ECO’s Faculty HATTIESBURG – The 3-Nov-08 BREAKING NEWS and BREAKING NEWS UPDATE stories about the secret plan to ship the CoB’s economists over to the College of Arts & Letters continues to pique the interest of USMNEWS.net readers. The details of the story continue to come forward, and the description of the episode continues to evolve.

(November 4, 2008) BREAKING NEWS More CoB Reorganization Wrinkles Uncovered HATTIESBURG – The 3-Nov-08 BREAKING NEWS and 4-Nov-08 BREAKING NEWS UPDATE stories about the secret plan to ship the CoB’s economists over to the College of Arts & Letters and new CoB dean Lance Nail’s recent reorganization plan for the CoB currently dominate other Greene Hall politics.

(December 3, 2008) As the Cabal Schemes As the plotting, planning, scheming, shuffling, and obfuscating continues at a rapid pace in the Economics area in the College of Business, the junta gets more scared, more agitated, and more desperate. More reports will be forthcoming before the Christmas break about some of the events involving the Eco cabal.

(December 1, 2008) The facebook CoB There is no doubt that the CoB is experiencing a changing of the guard. A new generation of CoB faculty is taking over, and reports here at USMNEWS.net have shown that this new guard is not as interested in academic research as past generations.

(December 22, 2008) Top Stories of 2008 by Duane Cobb 6. CoB Faculty/Administrators Deposed -- A number of CoB faculty and administrators were deposed during the spring/summer of 2008 as part of a federal court case concerning a personnel issue in the CoB. Through the publication by USMNEWS.net of parts of these depositions, the USM community was provided new information about the way CoB faculty and administrators behave.

(January 8, 2009) The 2008 USMNEWS.net CoB Person of the Year by Duane Cobb Although 2008 didn’t bring anywhere near the drama brought by 2007, there were still some interesting stories that developed. There were also some interesting individuals amongst CoB faculty, a few of whom deserve mention for the 2008 USMNEWS.net CoB Person of the Year. After examining the accomplishments of a handful of individuals, a few received an “Honorable Mention” for the 2008 CoBPoY award:

(January 14, 2009) CoB News, 14 January 2009 Spring ’09 Begins Spring semester 2009 has begun, and already USM students are focusing on the high cost of textbooks and a looming tuition increase. Though they are happy to return to school for the new semester, according to Ed Kemp’s 13-Jan-09 article iin The Hattiesburg American, USM students like Freda Clark are spending at least $400 for textbooks this time around.