ARTICLES CONCERNING
KIRBY "SKIP" E. HUGHES, PROFESSOR, DIRECTOR, SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY

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(September 10, 2009) Dear Skip: In an economic crisis such as we are in, parents frequently push their children to the business school. Many of those parents also push their children to accounting because, as we all know, “there are always jobs for accountants.” So, why is enrollment down for accounting this fall? Is the School of Accounting finally reaping what it has so tirelessly sown for decades?

(October 11, 2009) Dear Skip: Are you getting a cut of the sales from the new food establishment outside your door? If not, how are you going to make all the changes you desire without any money?

(October 13, 2009) Dear Skip: If you lose your secretary, will you be able to replace her? Are you really, really sure about that? Remember two key Southern Miss phrases: “deep budget cuts” and “hiring freeze”.

(October 13, 2009) Dear Skip: If you lose your secretary, will you be able to replace her? Are you really, really sure about that? Remember two key Southern Miss phrases: “deep budget cuts” and “hiring freeze”.

(October 26, 2009) Dear Skip: Word circulating around campus is you want to fire your administrative assistant because you do not like her hair. Have you ever been a supervisor? Thousands of people do not like Gwen Pate’s hair and Mary Anderson’s hair and, for the most part, have not tried to get them fired. What is your problem, Skip?

(November 9, 2009) GH Chatter Will Skip Hughes stick around for the long haul? Chatter has it that he may leave with CoB dean Lance Nail when the day comes that Nail gets his second b-school deanship. That would open the door for Mary Anderson, who some suspect would replace Hughes should he leave the CoB.

(November 9, 2009) Dear Skip: Assuming Mary Morgan Anderson gets promoted and tenured, and assuming Lance Nail moves on to another dean’s job that he is hunting for, where does that leave you? Will you depart to join Lance at school #2? That will thrill Professor Anderson, if not the remaining accounting faculty. You know she believes you are sitting in her chair, right?

(November 17, 2009) Dear Skip: You have been on the bridge here for many months now. What have you accomplished? Will we receive an end-of-the-year report from you? Sure, Stan Clark received an accounting educator of the year award, but that had nothing to do with you. From the outside looking in (where almost everyone is), it looks like the same old dogs performing the same old tricks.