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(April 6, 2010) 31st & Pearl CoB Stimulus Package Something CoB dean Lance Nail perhaps failed to properly account for when ousting the CoB’s economics faculty is the combination of their low cost and wide applicability. Under previous b-school deans, the economists were covering undergraduate and graduate economics courses, undergraduate and graduate statistics courses, and undergraduate international business courses. In fact, this was also happening during the early (2008-10) portion of Nail’s current reign. To top this all off, the CoB could, and still can, acquire economists for only 70-something thousand dollars apiece.

(April 8, 2010) GTL Baby! A Guest Editorial by Victoria Tyler Some people are famous for famously doing nothing. Such is the case with the cast of one of America’s hottest reality television shows, Jersey Shore (see insert below). Their rise to famously doing nothing has even added to the American urban lexicon, via the initials “GTL,” which stand for “Gym, Tan & Laundry.” To hear these Jersey “Guidos” and “Guidettes” explain it, their day typically consists of waking up and going to the gym to work out (G=Gym), then heading to the tanning bed (T=Tan), and finishing up by doing laundry (L=Laundry). Of course, the nights are reserved for partying.

(April 19, 2010) Too Big to Fire? Examining the USM Departure of Mark Klinedinst As the CoB's economists depart the Joseph Greene Hall stage at the end of the 2009-10 academic year, USMNEWS.net will be examining the research credentials that will be leaving the CoB, if not the institution as a whole. This installment focuses on professor Mark Klinedinst, who is
two of the five mostly senior CoB economists who were forced into retirement by USM during budget-cutting exercises that took place back in the fall of 2009. What will the CoB (USM) losewith this departure? On the research front, Table 1 below provides an answer.

(April 19, 2010) Some Say Klinedinst Now Worsening Budget Crisis for USM Faculty and Staff Word coming from some who have communicated with USMNEWS.net indicates that economic professor Mark Klinedinst may now be harming the efforts of USM faculty who are attempting to navigate the current USM budget crisis with minimal faculty/staff losses. As reported by numerous media outlets, USM is currently planning for a $15 million to $20 million budget cut, so some faculty losses are expected to be announced soon. USM provost Robert Lyman has even pointed out that estimates of 100 faculty losses are not out of the realm of possibility. And, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour recently suggested that next year’s cuts might make this year’s seem mild by comparison.

(April 21, 2010) GH Chatter It seems the CoB is getting the disapproving glance from all quarters these days. The hiring of Skip Hughes and Michael Dugan in accounting, at what most believe is easily the better part of $0.5 million per year, has much of the non-CoB portion of USM fuming. Add to that the local community’s surging distaste of USM faculty, thanks in part to Mark Klinedinst’s crusade against USM athletics (sacred cow?), and things aren’t going the CoB’s (or USM’s) way.