Reports for June 2014
usmnews.net
June 2, 2014
Dear usmnews.net While a few comments do not make a
pattern, the word around the water cooler is the Gulf Coast is
rapidly becoming little more than an administrative
afterthought in the Round Building. Word is, President
Bennett and his cohort of Hattiesburg administrators are only
interested in USM-GC as a profit center. What are you
hearing?
June 3, 2014
June 4, 2014
God Help UNO, If... University of New Orleans Peter J. Fos is
looking for a Provost. He and Harold Doty have a history. Doty
left USM in disgrace. Both former Dean Harold Doty and
former Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand "stepped down"
at the same time in mid-semester. Rumors abounded but no
confirmation of the reasons for the unusual mid-semester
resignations of both the Dean and Associate Dean were
forthcoming.
June 5, 2014
June 6, 2014
Dear usmnews.net, Some things just want to make you
scream. 4 June 2014, The Hattiesburg American reported that
President Bennett is expanding on one of [Martha] Saunders'
idiotic wasteful boondoggles. Saunders called hers a fence.
Bennett calls his a pedestrian pathway, but it's all the same
waste of money.
June 9, 2014
Paper Classes Over the past several weeks the news media
has carried numerous articles reflecting claims that college
athletes are being exploited by the NCAA and their colleges.
University and NCAA claims that athletes are also students are
being squarely challenged. Now, those athletes want a cut of
the money.
June 10, 2014
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