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(August 17, 2009) 31st & Pearl CoB Economists Now Threatening to Leave at Year's End If a recent anonymous post to Economics Job Market Rumors by a CoB economist is accurate, then the CoB economists' response to being terminated by year's end is to state that they aren't returning to USM after this year. That post, which is inserted below, is believed by some to have come from associate professor Sami Dakhlia, who came to the CoB in 2006 after being "canned" by the University of Alabama.

(August 18, 2009) The ECO Terminal A Newsletter Relating to the Elimination of Economics Programs Did the INSIDE HIGHER ED Article Work? CoB economists George Carter and Mark Klinedinst were interviewed by INSIDE HIGHER ED's Jack Stripling for Stripling's 14-August-09 article entitled "Cruel Irony." Many followers of developments in USM's CoB saw the interview as an attempt by the two to disparage CoB dean Lance Nail and the USM administration for deciding to eliminate the CoB's economics major and 9 tenured/tenure-track economists. Did that effort work? No, at least as not as indicated by some of the early comments to that online news article. These are inserted below:

(August 18, 2009) CoB Economists Boiling Over by Duane Cobb The level of anger coming from the CoB's economists is reaching new heights with every day passing day. Since being informed last week that their programs, and employment lines, are to be cut by USM, members of this group have been posting anonymously to various Internet message boards.

(August 20, 2009) Ironic Cruelty A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler If the harms of the past weren't so significant it would almost be humorous to read what the CoB's economists are now saying – that they are victims of cruelty – in response to the Southern Miss administration's decision to save $1 million in taxpayer funds by cutting economics at the institution.

(August 20, 2009) The ECO Terminal A Newsletter Relating to the Elimination of Economics Programs Dakhlia Back in Focus CoB associate professor of economics Sami Dakhlia (pictured below) appears to now be the focus of discussions over at the website Economics Job Market Rumors. This is so because he is believed to be the individual attempting to let the economics community know about the plight of the CoB's economists, who were all recently terminated by the USM administration in an attempt to save $1 million in state funding. This focus on Dakhlia is likely not good for his future prospects, at least according to sources.

(August 20, 2009) Klinedinst vs. von Herrmann How the Elimination of ECO is Affecting Relationships at USM The big news around USM may be the recent drop from Tier III to Tier IV status (as per U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2010), but the battle brewing between economics professor Mark Klinedinst (pictured below) and CoAL dean Denise von Herrmann did not escape most readers of the 20-Aug-09 issue of The Student Printz.