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(April 6, 2011) The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 6-April-2011 USM Students Saying “No” to Drug Testing Fridays A case well made – that’s what USMNEWS.net sources are calling Earvin Hopkins’ 5-April-2011 Op-Ed for The Student Printz, calling for USM, City of Hattiesburg, and Town Gown officials to abandon their idea of implementating a campus drug testing program on Fridays during school semesters.

(April 8, 2011) Dear usmnews.net, I have been asked by colleagues at other schools whether The Toadies cartoon series is based on real events at the CoB. I tell them, yes. So far, they have been too polite to call me an out�]and�]out liar.

(April 12, 2011) Did They Get Fries with That? CoB “Teachers” Become “Professors” . . . Again The 29-March-2011 Special Report entitled “Teachers . . .” described updates to the CoB’s webpages at usm.edu that indicated that professors in USM’s b-school were being referred to as “Teachers.” Since that report was posted in late March-2011, things have changed with regard to the CoB’s webpages.

(April 21, 2011) Special Report Think The Student Printz is in the Tank? A few USMNEWS.net readers have expressed the view that USM’s student newspaper, The Student Printz, has been, thus far during 2011, in the proverbial tank for the institution’s administration. This opinion has also been stated by some USMNEWS.net reporters and contributors.

(April 25, 2011) . . breaking news . . . Sketchy USM – UT-Tyler Connection Drawing Interest HATTIESBURG – A sketchy connection between USM and the University of Texas-Tyler is now drawing interest from various corners of the academic world. That connection involves USM’s Executive MPH in Health Services Administration, which was developed in 2006. The faculty listed for this program are:

(April 26, 2011) Cesspool President A GUEST EDITORIAL The recent news reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net about the USM-related mess at the University of Texas at Tyler provides a cautionary tale for those seeking to land a top-level administration position in higher education. UT at Tyler president Rodney Mabry hasn’t handled the mess very well thus far, and with former USM business college dean Harold Doty at the center of it all, that lack of managerial acumen will most likely come at great cost to the UT at Tyler community. From misdeeds by Doty and former USM management professor Stephen Bushardt, to an anti-Doty letter circulating within the Tyler business community, to Mabry’s misdirected swipe at rectifying the boiling situation, things at UT at Tyler have been testy and getting worse for some time now.