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(January 29, 2011) On the Side at the Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl A LOOK AT SOME PILOTS-RELATED EXPENSES IN ST. PETERSBURG A good bit has been written about USM president Martha Saunders’ use of the USM airplane to get to the 21-Dec-2010 Beef ‘O’ Brady’s Bowl in St. Petersburg, FL. One report indicates that USM’s Airplane Operations auxiliary charged Saunders $4,080 for transporting her, Joe Bailey, Pam and Doug Rouse, Troy Johnson, and Doug Davis to St. Petersburg on 20-Dec-2010, and back to Hattiesburg on 22-Dec-2010. This particular report provides some of the incidental expenses related to having a couple of pilots – Julian Allen, also USM’s associate vice president for research, and Kenneth Price – from Airplane Operations spend three days and two nights in St. Petersburg.

(January 31, 2011) All for 1 A Behind the Scenes Look at what Goes Into a One-Point Win Over LA Tech On 25-Sept-2010, USM president Martha Saunders, her husband Joe Bailey, and the ubiquitous Rouses – Doug and Pam – boarded the USM airplane and headed to Ruston, LA, for USM’s football game against lowly Louisiana Tech, a game in which the Eagles won by a score of 13-12. For that round trip, the USM Airplane Operations auxiliary charged the USM president $1,440, as the Interdepartmental Invoice inserted below shows.

(February 1, 2011) There is Always Time, and Money, to Visit Uncle Buck New Evidence Regarding Oct-2010 Dallas Trip Calls into Question Earlier Claims A recent USMNEWS.net report about USM president Martha Saunders’ use of the USM airplane indicates that the Beechcraft King Air was piloted west, to Dallas, to retrieve Saunders from a C-USA board meeting.

(February 1, 2011) Flying Miss Martha A LOOK AT PRESIDENT SAUNDERS’ DEC-2010 TRIP TO LOUISVILLE FOR SACS MEETING Judging by documents now in possession of USMNEWS.net, USM president Martha Saunders visited Louisville, KY, from 2-Dec-2010 to 7-Dec-2010, in order to attend a SACS meeting. As members of the USM community have come to expect, Saunders used the USM Beechcraft airplane, not commercial air travel, to journey to the Commonwealth.

(February 3, 2011) Taxpayers Burned Reporting on the “. . . Told You So” USM Plane Incidentals The recent USMNEWS.net report entitled “Keeping the Home Fires Burning” details the 15-Sept-2010 trip to Atlanta made by USM president Martha Saunders and her husband, Joe Bailey. That trip was to attend a play written and produced by a(n unnamed) USM alum. USM’s Airplane Operations auxiliary charged Saunders’ USM office $2,320 (see insert below, and linked report above) for what seemed to be a pleasure trip for Saunders and her husband.