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(August 10, 2007) Special Report Carter Ramps up Clinical Teching Gig An Investigative Series on the Use of the CoB for Personal Gain Documents received by usmnews.net weeks ago have recently been given a cursory examination for future reports. That examination uncovered some interesting details about EFIB Chairman George Carter’s fall 2007 teaching schedule that supports prior reports here at usmnews.net. Carter’s fall 2007 is shown below:

(August 14, 2007) ECONewbies Institutional Affiliations on the Research of EFIB’s Favorite Sons A number of reports at USMNEWS.NET have examined the 2007 merit raises of Sami Dakhlia and Akbar Marvasti, two of EFIB Chair George Carter’s favorite CoB faculty (and two faculty who joined the CoB in mid August 2006). One report compared the combined 2007 merit raises of Dakhlia and Marvasti – which totaled about $17,500 – to the combined total of $8,500 for Franklin Mixon and Edward Nissan. What’s striking about that report is that the research over the appraisal period (2004-Present) that was produced by Mixon-Nissan is leaps and bounds beyond what the tandem of Dakhlia and Marvasti submitted to Carter for consideration.

(October 2, 2007) 5 Year Anniversary The Mystery of Niroomand's "Academic Visit[s]" to Atlanta Lingers On It's hard to believe it has been almost five years since former CoB Associate Dean Farhang Niroomand made his winter 2003 mystery visits to Atlanta, but it has been. And, not much more is known about those trips today than was known at the time they occurred, at least as far as the taxpaying public is concerned.

(January 14, 2008) 31st & Pearl Saunders–Amodeo Relationship Should be Examined After reading the drivel that Mona Amodeo's consulting firm produced in response to USM's recent "Core Dialogues," it's clear that the University got hosed by its contractual relationship with Amodeo. For a report which barely presents any coherent thoughts, and includes some classic, oxymoronic management-speak, such as the oft-referenced "collective individualism," Mississippi's taxpayers had to part with $40,000 of hard-earned cash. Because of that, it's not surprising to hear than some taxpayers did a quick cyberspace search about Amodeo's consulting firm, and the results were surprising.

(January 30, 2008) Breaking News Goodwin Sets New Record HATTIESBURG – Sources tell USMNEWS.NET reporters that the new hire in finance, Kimberly Goodwin, was issued a starting salary that eclipses the starting salary of any new PhD-hire in the CoB's history, and, most likely, also eclipses the starting offer of any new, non-administrative hire in the college's history. According to the data, sources say Goodwin's offer exceeds the current salaries of finance assistant professors Farooq Malik and Matthew Hood by about 20 percent and 13 percent, respectively. Not only that, Goodwin's offer exceeds John Clark's current salary by about 3 percent, and Clark is an associate professor of finance in the CoB's EFIB.