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(July 15, 2010) What Does President Saunders Think? part 9 President Saunders testimony became more and more bizarre as questions were asked and answered. Let me see if I can get this part straight. Let’s try a hypothetical. President Saunders, faculty, in their minds, believe you plagiarized your commencement speech. Accusations are made. Adopting your testimony, you should be held accountable. First, you deserve to be publicly pilloried. Then you should be cast out from the university community. Someone should take action to fire you. The evidence against you? There is none! They testified under oath that they had no evidence that you plagiarized your last commencement speech. But they truly believe you did plagiarize it. Their perceptions, nevertheless, warrant your dismissal. You must be held accountable! President Saunders’ bizarre reasoning, which is too ridiculous to be accorded the status of non sequitur, out-Kafkas Kafka.

(July 16, 2010) What Does President Saunders Think? part 10 Around and around President Saunders goes: Accusations, ombudsman, no evidence, accusations, ombudsman, no evidence. But that didn’t deter President Saunders from spending millions of dollars to punish a tenured full professor. What did the letters evidence? They evidenced an absolute intolerance of criticism, difficult questions or disagreement.

(July 19, 2010) What Does President Saunders Think? part 11 Again, President Saunders doesn’t have any evidence to support her punitive action against a tenured professor. At this point in our revelation of her decision-making habits, does President Saunders have any evidence for any of her decisions? The answer is no.

(July 20, 2010) What Does President Saunders Think? part 12 Relevant to this series is to ask if Interim Director Jackson hid under his desk quivering in fear at the May 2007 faculty meeting when Sami Dakhlia and several faculty insisted that Professor DePree shut down usmnews.net? No. Jackson was not hiding in fear under his seat nor did he run from the room for his life. In fact, he sat calmly smiling as he witnessed the attack on Professor DePree and usmnews.net.

(July 21, 2010) What Does President Saunders Think? part 13 Other presidents at USM have taken the time to talk to Professor DePree. For example, when the accounting faculty secretly petitioned a previous USM president to fire Professor DePree, the then president asked to talk to him face-to-face. The event prompting the secret petition was the unforgivable act of questioning petty corruption in the School of Accountancy.

(July 22, 2010) What Does President Saunders Think? part 14 If you don’t believe that, perhaps you believe USM’s email system is so insecure, so vulnerable, that it can be accessed by anyone. Give it a try. There may be ways to access emails, but don’t ask President Saunders. She doesn’t know, but that’s not saying much. Based on her testimony, it seems to be a fair conclusion that she doesn’t know “nuthin’ ‘bout nuthin’” and doesn’t care to learn nuthin’ neither.