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(April 27, 2011) . . breaking news . . Greene Revealed as One of the ‘Scary Profs’ HATTIESBURG – In his 26-April-2011 report for The Student Printz entitled “Professor returns after suspension,” Justin Mitchell reveals that USM political science professor Kate Greene is one of the three (to six, or more) USM faculty who were suspended with pay some time during the 2010-11 academic year due to concerns of danger.

(April 28, 2011) Is K.W. Greene a Danger? In his 26-April-2011 report for The Student Printz entitled “Professor returns after suspension,” Justin Mitchell reveals that USM political science professor Kate Greene is one of the three (to six, or more) USM faculty who were suspended with pay some time during the 2010-11 academic year due to concerns of danger. According to Mitchell’s report, Greene began teaching again on 26-April-2011, after a two-week hiatus from the classroom that resulted from an altercation between Greene and one of her political science students.

(April 28, 2011) . . . breaking news . . Fos Pushing Boundaries of Employment Practices HATTIESBURG – According to information pouring into USMNEWS.net from various quarters, former CoH dean and current University of Texas-Tyler provost Peter Fos has taken a faculty position with the LSU Health Sciences Center.

(April 29, 2011) Focus Now Turning to ‘Scary Prof’ #3 His/Her Name Remains a Mystery, but Details are Leaking Out With The Student Printz’s release of information on USM political science professor Kate Greene’s two-week suspension from teaching due to an in-class altercation with one of her students, the USM community has now learned more about two of the professors who have served suspensions from the institution out of fears of danger. Now that the initial effect of the Greene story is in the rearview mirror, focus is turning to so-called

(April 27, 2011) . . . breaking news . . . Texas-Tyler Descending into Darkness HATTIESBURG – One of the ugliest devolutions that can take place in a university setting occurs when administrators develop a disdain for the first amendment. Such is now the case at the University of Texas-Tyler, where current president Rod Mabry brought in, during recent years, a cadre of former USM administrators in Peter Fos, Gregg Lassen, Harold Doty, and Stephen Bushardt.