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(August 18, 2009) Carter Put Bonaparte Back Into Exile A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler By now everyone has had a chance to digest the article about the USM budget cuts appearing recently in Inside Higher Ed entitled Cruel Irony. CoB economist, George Carter, provided the article's author with a letter that Carter has been circulating around the USM community and elsewhere that lists what are, in Carter's mind at least, some issues of due process regarding the USM administration's recent decision to eliminate the economics majors. In that letter Carter tells readers that CoB assistant professor of economics, Yosef Bonaparte, was terminated by USM during the 2008-09 academic year, Bonaparte's first year out of grad school (University of Texas) and first year at USM-Gulf Coast.

(August 20, 2009) Ironic Cruelty A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler If the harms of the past weren't so significant it would almost be humorous to read what the CoB's economists are now saying – that they are victims of cruelty – in response to the Southern Miss administration's decision to save $1 million in taxpayer funds by cutting economics at the institution.

(September 10, 2009) 31st & Pearl On Borrowed Chatter In case you hadn’t noticed already, USMNEWS.net’s GH Chatter series has been on overdrive lately, all in an effort to stay on top of the stories circulating about the CoB’s economists.

(September 16, 2009) 31st & Pearl Carter�'s Moniker With his impending retirement after this, the 2009�-10, academic year, it appears as though former EFIB chairman George Carter�fs 30�-year career in USM�'s business college will be coming to an end. Much of that career was spent as chair, and it was during those periods that Carter came to be known by some b�-]school faculty as �"the smiling assassin.�" That moniker was, as some would say, earned by Carter after years of treating those who worked under him -- from the Trellis Greens in ECO to the Laurence Eisenbergs in FIN -- with disdain and disrespect.

(September 17, 2009) What CoAL Needs to Know OVERLOOKED DETAILS ABOUT THE MOVE OF ECO TO ARTS & LETTERS As USM administrators prepare to move the CoB’s economics major, and its remaining economists, over to the CoAL, there are some oft-overlooked details that need to be brought to the fore. Some of these are the subject of this new, multi-part USMNEWS.net series entitled “What CoAL Needs to Know.” This is Part 1.