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(April 11, 2007) 31st & Pearl Doty-Niroomand Resignations: Forced or Voluntary? The 10 April 2007 resignations of CoB Dean D. Harold Doty and CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand came as a shock to many business faculty at USM. As USM Provost Jay Grimes ticked off all of the "reasons" given by Doty and Niroomand for their "voluntary" exits, many CoB faculty and staff did the translations in their heads. These guys had to go.

(April 14, 2007) Everywhere BUT the CoB’s Webpage More than 100 hours have passed since USM Provost Jay Grimes informed the CoB that Dean D. Harold Doty and Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand are no longer Dean and Associate Dean, respectively. While Grimes carried the news across the USM community, usmnews.net and The Hattiesburg American made sure it (the news) went global. After 100 hours, it seems the news has reached every corner, except one. Somehow the CoB’s webpage (inside www.usm.edu) seems to believe that D. Harold Doty is still the Dean and that Farhang Niroomand is still the Associate Dean.

(April 16, 2007) CoBsters Without Portfolio What the Doty-Niroomand “Resignations” will Ultimately Cost MS Taxpayers
The announcement on 10 April 2007 that the USM Human Resources Department had “confirmed” that CoB Dean D. Harold Doty and CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand “resigned” from their administrative duties sent a small tremor across the already battle-scarred USM campus.

(April 16, 2007) The CoB Dopplegänger Matrix How Proximity and Influence are Intertwined in USM’s College of Business With the “resignations” of CoB Dean D. Harold Doty and his Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand, CoB sycophants and “dopplegängers” (Bedeian, 2002) were scrambling around Joseph Greene Hall like Christmas shoppers at 8:00am on Black Friday. From professor of management David Duhon to visiting assistant professor of international business John Lambert, the “yes men” were in self-preservation overdrive, feverishly working the water cooler conversations trying to ascertain where their future fortunes rested.

(April 16, 2007) EFIB News, April 2007 A number of news items have been coming out of the EFIB Department in recent days. Of course, one of them is the "resignation" of Farhang Niroomand as Associate Dean of the CoB. Niroomand (see below), also a professor of economics, cited several reasons for leaving the AD post, such as health concerns, his desire to get back into the classroom full-time, and the lack of attention he has paid to his journal, the Journal of Current Research in Global Business, in recent weeks and months.