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November 28, 2011
Special Report Series Policies? . . . What Policies? Former CoB
Dean in Hot Water Once Again PART 13 As the excerpt above
indicates, Jeremy St. John’s mobbing saga picks up in April of
this year (2011), when St. John was waiting for his “summer
contract” to be issued. When he asked UT-T management
chairman Stephen Bushardt about it, St. John was told that the
summer contracts were being developed, and would continued
to be so up until summer 2011 classes began in May-2011.
When that day arrived, however, St. John’s contract had not
been issued. At that point, Bushardt, the former management
chair in USM’s b-school, informed St. John that there would be
no contract, at least not one for him (St. John), though he (St.
John) would still be allowed to teach during summer semester
2011.
November 29, 2011
Whose Idea was it to Ship a Galaxy Tab to Hank Bounds? We
Already Know An Editorial by Duane Cobb By now, regular
readers of USMNEWS.net are quite familiar with USM’s
Samsung Galaxy Tab scandal, or what The Student Printz is
now calling Tabletgate. This scandal has already resulted in
reputation hits to (former) USM provost Robert Lyman, chief
information officer Homer Coffman, and procurement/contract
services director Mike Herndon. These three men have each
been placed on administrative leave by USM president Martha
Saunders, although Lyman resigned his administrative
position at USM just days before Tabletgate was born.
Special Report Series Hurricane Michala Former CoB Dean in
Hot Water Once Again PART 14 One very interesting aspect of
Jeremy St. John’s legal complaint against UT-T administrators
involves Michala Doty, Harold Doty’s daughter. As St. John
notes above, Michala Doty was enrolled in St. John’s summer
2011 quantitative analysis course. On 24-July-2011, near the
end of the semester, Michala approached St. John and told him
that she wanted to take the chapter 2 quiz/assignment that she
had up to that point neglected to take.
November 30, 2011
Baby St. John: HOW FAR DID HAROLD DOTY’S MALICE
GO? HOW FAR COULD IT HAVE GONE? A number of
USMNEWS.net readers and others have inquired about Karen
St. John’s high-risk pregnancy, and what, if any, detrimental
effects University of Texas-Tyler business school dean Harold
Doty’s mobbing campaign against her had on her pregnancy.
Fortunately, St. John’s high-risk pregnancy ended well, as she
delivered her sixth child – a baby boy – on 5-July-2011.
December 5, 2011
December 6, 2011
Special Report WSPBB? Where should Parham-Bridges
be? WSPBB? That is essentially the question posted in a
1-Dec-2011 installment of The Farm detailing the recent
announcement that CoB assistant professor of finance
and real estate, Kimberly Goodwin, has received the
long-dormant Parham-Bridges Chair in Real Estate.
. . . breaking news . . . “Who Knew What When?”
HATTIESBURG – The question posed in the title of this
report above is the very one posed to USM faculty senate
president Timothy Rehner at the faculty senate’s
2-Dec-2011 meeting. That Watergate-esque question
refers, of course, to the recent Tabletgate scandal that has
been covered extensively by USMNEWS.net and many
other media outlets.
. . . breaking news . . . USM Sports HATTIESBURG -
Following initial reports from CBS Sports, that USM
Coach Larry Fedora had been offered the head coaching
position at the University of North Carolina, NBC
Sportshas now confirmed that Fedora has accepted an
offer to take the reins at North Carolina.
December 1, 2011
December 2, 2011
December 7, 2011
. . . breaking news . . . Insiders Say Fedora Now a Tar Heel
HATTIESBURG – Citing three sources close to the search
for a head football coach at the University of North
Carolina, the Winston-Salem Journal’s Bill Cole is
reporting that USM football coach Larry Fedora has
agreed to become UNC’s next head football coach. That
same evening report on 6-Dec-2011 from Cole was
followed up by reporters at The Hattiesburg American.
Though it is not now known whether Fedora will coach
the Golden Eagles in the Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl against
Nevada on 24-Dec-2011, sources tell USMNEWS.net that
it is likely that he will do so. They also say that it is likely
that UNC’s interim head coach Everett Withers will lead
the Tar Heels on 26-Dec-2011 against Missouri in the
Independence Bowl.
December 8, 2011
31st & Pearl Notorious D.H.D. The storm of allegations of
administrative cover-up swirling around the Penn State
University campus regarding acts of child molestation
perpetrated by former PSU football coach Jerry Sandusky
provides an extreme example of just how polluted higher
education administration has become in recent years.
Former PSU president Graham Spanier and other
high-ranking administrators in his administration appear
to have covered up, for more than a decade, the dastardly
acts of one of their own. Of course, this was all done to
protect their reputations and their places at the public
trough, key elements in their desire for a cushy lifestyle.
They Owe It to the World It is sad to report another
shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. However, it is time
that the School of Accountancy comes to the assistance of
Virginia Tech and other universities. School of
Accountancy faculty, including Patricia Munn, Steven
Jackson, Gwen Pate, and Mary Anderson, claim they can
predict who is dangerous, can snap, and shoot people. This
is wonderful! Experienced forensic psychiatrists admit
that they cannot make such predictions. Yet these
accounting faculty claim they can.
Dear usmnews.net, I just read the recent story on the
Galaxy Tab. It appears that Saunders may have thrown
Lyman under the bus to save herself.
. . . breaking news . . . Giannini Out as USM AD
HATTIESBURG – According to afternoon reports (on
8-Dec-2011) from The Hattiesburg American, embattled
USM athletic director Richard Giannini was set to step
down from that high-level position on 9-Dec-2011. By the
evening of 8-Dec-2011, that story had changed to one
indicating that Giannini would retire in Jan-2012, after
assisting USM with the transition from former head
football coach Larry Fedora to Fedora’s successor.
December 9, 2011