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(December 10, 2008) GH Chatter The “planegate” saga at USM is often a topic of conversation among CoBers and USMers alike. According to the chatter, those who missed the Dec-08 USM faculty senate meeting should take a listen to the podcast. Doing so promises to provide a clearer picture of just who new provost Robert Lyman is, and just how gullible some of USM’s faculty appear to be.

(December 22, 2008) Top Stories of 2008 by Duane Cobb 9. Saunders Gives CoB $1 Million for Research -- Hoping to increase research output in the CoB, USM president Martha Saunders announced to the CoB that she will soon be providing new CoB dean Lance Nail with $1 million in new funds. Editorials here at USMNEWS.net, however, pointed out the inherent flaw in the idea. That is that Saunders will be providing thousands of dollars tempting CoBers to do the work that their 9-month base salaries are paid to them for doing.

(December 24, 2008 ) Is Fedora just not a party hat for Martha? In Aunt Martha’s blog, she mentions going to New Orleans for the game on the 19th and on the 23rd she does mention the exciting win for Southern Miss, including a couple of photos. The second photo is of arms holding the giant trophy for the win.

(January 5, 2009) CoB News, 5 January 2009 "Level" 4 for Aunt Martha? A number of newspapers have been reporting the bowl game payouts for the 2008-09 college football bowl season. These payouts are useful for determining just how much progress that USM might be making toward reaching the proverbial "next level" in the collegiate football world. Table 1 below presents these bowl receipts by conference.

(January 5, 2009) 31st & Pearl Permission Slip(-Up) USM President Martha Saunders often boasts about how USM became a national research university without asking for anyone.s permission to do so. Saunders. brag is typical of the heads of many states. second tier institutions, proudly embracing the "underdog" tag that is usually placed upon these same institutions by political and business leaders who generally support a state's so-called flagship institutions. What's interesting about Saunders' statement is that it can easily be turned on its head. Doing so is particularly relevant to USM.s College of Business, which, in 2007, came within a hair of losing its AACSB accreditation.

(January 5, 2009) Martha’s 9 9 wishes for '09 What an interesting list. Numbers 1 and 4 point toward Number 7, but certainly not like airplane payments – especially balloon payments – would. Number 2 is fine, but giving USM students a more positive experience while they are here would surely correlate to higher giving when they do graduate. Please see the regional examples of Ole Miss and Alabama.