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(November 3, 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 Madison, Then Greenwood MS

(November 3, 2010) Is Your Department Bigger than Airplane Operations? A Campus-Wide Comparison Much has been made around the USM campus, Hattiesburg, and Mississippi, as well as on the pages of USMNEWS.net, The Hattiesburg American, The Student Printz and other media outlets about USM president Martha Saunders’ decision to sign a $2 million lease of a Beechcraft airplane (for USM) during the worst economic period since the Great Depression.

(November 4, 2010) . . . breaking news . . . Bounty on ‘Graffiti Vandals’ Raised to $1,000 HATTIESBURG – The Martha Saunders administration of USM has raised the so-called bounty on the three (white) males being sought for what USM officials are calling graffiti-related “vandalism” that occurred on the USM campus in the early morning hours of 29-October-2010.

(November 4, 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 Natchez, MS

(November 7, 2010) Aunt Martha’s Extravagance Part 7 – Sneaking in a Beach Trip? Via a Mississippi Open Records Act request, USMNEWS.net recently obtained a large batch of documents from USM relating to USM president Martha Saunders’ university aircraft. This series, Aunt Martha’s Extravagance, provides analysis of these documents. This installment examines the 18-March-2010 trip in the USM airplane taken by Saunders to make a “SACS Reaffirmation Visit” and to attend “Bond Request meetings.” That invoice is inserted below, and it indicates that USM charged itself $5,040 for Saunders to take this recent trip.

(November 7, 2010) QUESTION: WHOSE PLANE IS THIS? Why doesn’t the IHL pay for N777AQ? IHL members use it more than anyone else. To Starkville, MS