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Over the past several years, usmnews.net has published literally thousands of reports from current and former faculty
who share my belief that USM has ineffectively and inefficiently employed far too much of its resources, both in terms
of money and people. The purpose of usmnews.net is not to provide a public relations view. That is amply supplied by
The University of Southern Mississippi's public relations department.
Chauncey M. DePree, Jr. Editor
marcdepree@gmail.com (Click here for editorial policy.)
More than 16,691,000 hits
"The fun money is private money.
At Southern Miss, I've got state
dollars and I've got Foundation
dollars. It's real easy to tell them
apart. I tell people I've got two
checkbooks. I've got my booze
account and my non-booze account.
Out of the state money I'm pretty
constrained what in I can do. ...
Foundation dollars, that's when I
take my money out of my booze
account, I can pretty much do
anything I want with it." D. Harold
Doty, former Dean, College of
Business, University of Southern
Mississippi, current Dean,
University of Texas at Tyler
In August 2011, Martha
Saunders smiled as she
presented Galaxy Tabs to
selected students. Three
senior adminstrators were
suspended. Two are no longer
employees of the University.
Saunders subsequently
declared herself "tired" and
resigned as president. (For
more reports re "Tabletgate",
click here.)
For readers who have requested
quicker access to reports about Dr.
Saunders' and now Dr. Bennett's
airplane, please click here. A good
place to start is Cost Per Flight Hour
which includes links to the detailed
cost and usage data obtained through
open records requests.
usmnews.net
It's only human to be curious. And, what is hidden is the
most tempting. Like the personal lives of those who lord it
over us for so many of our most formative years: Teachers!
The most influential among them are university professors.
Like to peek in on how university faculty and
administrators behave in their natural habitat? Listen in on
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secret world of academe. FREE to Amazon Prime members.
Saw Rigolleto at the Houston Grand Opera. Wow! Just as
good as New York.
Marc DePree, Editor, usmnews.net
Academic Research
Other current research by Chauncey M. DePree, Jr.,
DBA is available at Amazon.com:
Plagiarism Is Now Ethically Acceptable, AACSB
Affirms Copying Other Members' Submission
Documents "Without Proper Citation"
Other current research can be downloaded free from
SSRN (several projects are Top Ten downloads on
SSRN):
"A General Theory to Test Social Reality"
"A Sound Foundation: The FASB Got Its Conceptual
Framework Right, The IASB Didn't"
"An Evolution of Form and Content: A Practical Guide to
Use of the FASB's Conceptual Framework"
Ethics, Power, and Academic Corruption
By Chauncey M. DePree, Jr., DBA
The Gordon Cannon Doctrine of Plagiarism: Dr. Gordon
Cannon, chemistry professor at USM, has surmised a
foolproof method of determining whether a document is
plagiarized. His method? He asked a few friends: Would
you consider copying bureaucratic boilerplate plagiarism?
Dr. Cannon did not provide the original or copied
documents or any context to his friends. He merely asked,
Would you consider copying bureaucratic boilerplate
plagiarism? His friends' answered, No.
And indeed there is no plagiarism. None at all. Ever. Dr.
Cannon's methodology proves that no document can be
plagiarized. Simply ask a few friends without showing
them the documents in question or providing any context:
"Would you consider copying bureaucratic boilerplate
plagiarism?"
With mathematical certainty, their answer will be: "Of
course not."
If The Gordon Cannon Doctrine of Plagiarism seems
absurd, you ain't seen nothin', yet. Read on.
Fiction
Dear usmnews.net, Hattiesburg American reported "'I'm always
happy when the commissioner comes to campus because he normally
brings us a good, healthy check," joked Bennett...". I have news for you
Rodney.
June 11, 2014
Dear usmnews.net, The irony of your recent series [Speaking Out
About the Rising Cost of Education] has not been lost on many of your
readers.
June 19, 2014
June 20, 2014
Dear usmnews.net, Here is a question I heard a few days ago: what is
[IHL Commissioner] Hank Bounds' claim to fame? Answer -- he
presided over the worst K-12 school system in the country...
June 24, 2014
Dear usmnews.net, How did one of the bogus journals (discussed in
Gaming the System, An Investigative Series on Cob Faculty Research
Credentials) get to be a B-level journal at the CoB?
June 26, 2014
Rain on the Parade? USM Rains on It Own Parade Review the two
articles and ask yourself why USM did not report what the USM
Foundation earned this year, a boom year in the stock market. What
USM administrators don't say is often more important than what they
do say.
June 30, 2014
Well, Skip, Who's Taking Your Place Tomorrow? As previously
reported, "The University of Southern Mississippi invites applicants
for a full-time, 12-month, tenure- track faculty position as director of
the School of Accountancy in the College of Business...Starting date is
July 1, 2014...".
July 1, 2014
What's up with Former Provost Bob Lyman? When usmnews.net sees a
pattern in searches, there is usually something up. Typically, someone
is looking to depart Southern Miss. Recently, we began to see searches
like the following:
July 7, 2014
What? No One Applying? The position of Director, School of
Accountancy at the University of Southern Mississippi has been open
and unfilled since September 18, 2013
July 8, 2014
July 9, 2014
Nothing Like Sneaking Out of Town Where'd you go, Skip? Kind of
disappeared. What happened? When visiting USM's webpage "About
the Director" all the sudden that page says, "Access denied." Just
yesterday it reported Skip as Director of School of Accountancy.
July 10, 2014
July 11, 2014
Dear usmnews.net, For those of your readers who may have missed it,
Southern Miss' athletic director Bill McGillis announced his intention to
waste more money. He is looking to "upgrade" Reed Green Coliseum
[where the Golden Eagles play basketball]. Since few people attend the
games, what purpose is served?
July 14, 2014
Dear Editor, Back in 2011, you reported on the hiring of TWO co-head
softball coaches at USM. Well, since then, these coaches have had a
significant problem with retaining their softball players. Many have
quit mid-season, with more, never returning after summer break.
July 16, 2014
July 21, 2014
July 22, 2014
July 23, 2014
What Exactly Does Harold Doty Do? If you search the UT Tyler
website, it appears he does nothing. Given the massive number of
administrators, why not at least rationalize their activities. Say
something. After all, UT Tyler is not a top secret organization like the
CIA.
July 25, 2014
July 29, 2014
Dear usmnews.net, I have a question. Whenever I go the Chicago, I
drop by the University of Chicago and take a book from the shelf.
Sometimes I even read a few pages. Harvard's libraries are really
cool. They make a great place to read The Wall Street Journal.
July 30, 2014
July 31, 2014
August 1, 2014
What an embarrassment! The 2014 Forbes Best Colleges and
Universities report is out: Of the 650 schools rated by Forbes, in terms
of Mississippi, Millsaps College is #333, Ole Miss is 359, Mississippi
State is 365, Jackson State is 462, Mississippi College is 522 and USM
is 553. That puts USM at the 15th percentile-bottom of the barrel,
August 4, 2014
August 5, 2014
Idiot Administrators and Sports The real sport of the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries is watching idiot university administrators
"leading" their schools' corrupt sports programs into the crapper.
Here's another:
August 6, 2014
August 7, 2014
Hiring More Administrators is the Same Old Nonsense Solution
Rodney Bennett recently provided the following critique of his Gulf
Coast critics and a defense of his proposals. We've heard it all before
many times. At what point in history do we ignore any leader who
offers the same tired ideas? You decide.
August 8, 2014
Dear usmnews.net, The word around the water cooler is that now
that Gwen Pate has become Director of the SofA [School of
Accountancy], Mary Morgan Anderson is once again hopeful that she
may become a full professor. As you probably know Anderson's
father [Jerry Morgan] was chairman of the accounting department
when Southern Miss supported Pate's doctoral program.