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. . . breaking news . . . USM Remains in Bottom Tier of U.S. News Ranking HATTIESBURG – With the release of the 2012 edition of Best Colleges from U.S. News & World Report, USMNEWS.net has learned that USM remains in the bottom tier of national colleges and universities in the United States.

TSP Documents Saunders’ Paranoia USM President’s Remarks Continue to Baffle Public Tyler Hill’s 13-Sept-2011 story for The Student Printz entitled “Saunders highlights USM accomplishments,”documents what one USMNEWS.net editorialist termed “paranoia” on USM president Martha Saunders’ part.

Special Report Tar Balls USM Relying on Controversial Sources of Money At the 8-Sept-2011 Fall 2011 Convocation, USM president Martha Saunders boasted about a couple of new grant successes. One of these is a $2.2 million grant received by USM to study the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Saunders also noted that another $6 million is forthcoming from British Petroleum (BP) of all places,

The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss Aunt Martha’s Landscape First, the PAC-10 became the PAC-12 when it added Utah and Colorado from the Mountain West and BiG-12, respectively.

University Sports Administration $265 Million Donated Because of the School's Football Team? Part 2 Dear President Saunders and Commissioner Bounds, It's not a bad idea to reassess USM activities from time to time, especially those that cost students and taxpayers tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions, when viewed from a decades' long perspective.

Special Report Series Harold Doty on ‘Chicks and Broads’ Former CoB Dean in Hot Water Once Again PART 1 In light of former CoB dean Harold Doty's litigation history, USMNEWS.net reporters periodically check the courts near where Doty lives and works. Recent documents obtained from the Smith County, Texas Court Clerk, indicate that Doty is once again likely headed back to court, this time in his capacity as dean of business at the University of Texas – Tyler. (Note: University of Texas-Tyler has denied the allegations of the Complaint.)

Air it Jordan A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler In his 20-Sept-2011 letter to the editor of The Student Printz entitled “Student Eagle Club seating,” USM student Jordan Moore goes all out in explaining how the USM administration’s handling of game day seating for the new Student Eagle Club has been divisive and demoralizing. Moore opens his letter with: “The Student Eagle Club is a good idea. The way they’re attracting members isn’t.” To boost membership, the new Student Eagle Club (SEC) secured the assistance of the USM administration in altering seating in the student section at M.M. Roberts Stadium (i.e., “the Rock”) in order to provide SEC members priority seating. As Moore sums it up,

Special Report Series The ‘Secret Degree’ Strikes Again Former CoB Dean in Hot Water Once Again PART 2 ... As indicated above, St. John alleges that Doty and UTT business school associate dean Mary Fischer asked, in June-2010, St. John “to falsify documentation to award dean Doty’s daughter an Accounting Degree without proper coursework.” St. John adds that she refused to do so, and in September-2010 she reported this potential violation in Texas law to UTT’s president, Rodney Mabry. Click here for Part I (Note: University of Texas-Tyler has denied the allegations of the Complaint.)

Dear usmnews.net, I have no doubt that many of us who date back to Doty's days at the College of Business at USM read the recent report about Doty's most recent foray into litigation at UT-T with considerable chagrin.