(October 19, 2010) It's Simple . . . Martha's Plane May Cost Jobs A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler Maybe, just maybe, as a result of USM president Martha Saunders' decision to spend $2 million in taxpayer funds to lease a Beechcraft plane, there's a pilot (or two or three according to USM records) out there who is now considering membership in the Hattiesburg Country Club.
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(October 22, 2010) CoB News 22-October-2010 “Good Morning Class, I’m Professor Tisdale . . .” The recent news that CoB dean Lance Nail hired James Tisdale as the CoB’s new “director of external relations” was surprising to some in the CoB. That news was compounded by the revelation that Tisdale’s salary is set at $90,000 per year, and that his father served on the USM Foundation Board.
(October 26, 2010) QUESTION: WHOSE PLANE IS THIS? And here we go again. Why doesn’t the IHL pay for N777AQ? IHL members seem to use it more than anyone else. To New Orleans (KNEW)
(October 27, 2010) QUESTION: WHOSE PLANE IS THIS? Why do USM students and faculty pay for N777AQ, while IHL members seem to use it more than anyone else? To Oxford, MS by way of Meridian, MS
(October 28, 2010) QUESTION: WHOSE PLANE IS THIS? Why do USM students and faculty pay for N777AQ while IHL members seem to use it more than anyone else? To Starkville, MS
(November 3, 2010) The Martha Belle More on what Maintaining Saunders’ Airplane is Costing Taxpayers "The volume of reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net regarding USM president Martha Saunders’ university airplane is already mindboggling, and yet the mountain keeps getting higher and higher in elevation. What USM provost Robert Lyman once said may be “an extravagance” is looking more and more like just that with each and every completed paragraph.
(November 2, 2010) QUESTION: WHOSE PLANE IS THIS? Why do USM students and faculty pay for N777AQ while IHL members seem to use it more than anyone else? To Columbus, MS (Golden Triangle)
(November 3, 2010) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 3-Nov-2010 Budget Cuts Appeals Ongoing As pointed out in Jonathan Andrews’ 1-Nov-2010 story for The Student Printz entitled “Programs fight to stay alive,” the appeals process for eliminated academic programs and terminated tenure and tenure-track faculty at USM is now underway.