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(October 15, 2007) Go Low A Look at Jim Henderson's Mobbing Letter to Steven Jackson The Aug-07 mobbing of USMNEWS.NET editor, Marc DePree, has been the subject of a number of reports here at USMNEWS.NET. This report is the first to examine the letters written by the accounting faculty to their Interim Director, Steven Jackson, all calling for the termination of accounting professor Marc DePree. In this report we examine the letter to Jackson from associate professor of accounting Jim Henderson. Henderson's letter is inserted below:

(October 22, 2007) Breaking News And They're Off HATTIESBURG – Sources tell USMNEWS.NET reporters that a number of CoB faculty appear to have taken the week of 10/15 – 10/19 (the week of Fall Break 2007) off. One of these appears to be Sami Dakhlia, an assistant professor of economics who joined the CoB in August of 2007 (14 months ago). The possibility of Dakhlia being away from the CoB during the week of Fall Break 2007 is made more interesting by reports that he (Dakhlia) spent all of the week of Fall Break 2006 teaching a course in France.

(October 23, 2007) Special Report The EFIB’s “Quick-Strike Promotion & Raise” Program An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain Usmnews.net has received tips indicating that a high-ranking member of the CoB has gone on record in recent weeks describing the EFIB’s heretofore unmentioned policy of hiring faculty at low(er) ranks with the intention of promoting them quickly, a process that allows EFIB and CoB administrators to funnel additional monies to new economics, finance and international business faculty. According to sources contacted by usmnews.net about these tips, EFIB administrators have been making (in recent years) verbal agreements for what sources are referring to as “quick-strike promotions” with EFIB hires. Of course, these so-called “quick-strike promotions” are accompanied by raises anywhere from $4,000/year to $5,500/year.

(October 27, 2007) CoB News, 27 October 2007 In recent days the CoB's administration uploaded an electronic version of the Fall 2007 issue of the CoB's affinity magazine, Joint Venture. This installment of CoB News takes a look at some of the features in the magazine.

(November 1, 2007) Breaking News Carter Names ECON Search Committee HATTIESBURG – Sources tell USMNEWS.NET reporters that EFIB Chair George Carter has named three EFIB faculty to form a search committee to fill an opening in economics at the CoB’s Gulf Coast operation.administrator entitles him to a 6-hour base teaching load.