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(August 5, 2007) The Case For the Dakhlia–Marvasti 2007 Merit Raise Gets Worse A USMNEWS.NET reader recently contacted our reporters about one of the analyses in our report “Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?” and offered a very useful suggestion. For readers who are not familiar with this report, it can be found at Did Dakhlia & Marvasti Hit the Powerball?.

(October 7, 2007) We are coming after you . . .! The State of USM’s College of Business, October-07 It’s no secret to readers of USMNEWS.NET that USM’s College of Business is an organization that unraveling more and more with each passing day. The latest example of how far the CoB has sunk in the academic world is the fact that the USM Police Department had to be called on 28-September-07 to investigate threats made by former CoB Dean Harold Doty against another CoB faculty member.

(October 9, 2007) CoB News, 9 October 2007 New Jack CoB News of the so-called “Doty incident” continues to plague USM’s College of Business. A recent visit to the USM Police Department’s Crime Log web site (shown below) reveals

(October 11, 2007) Breaking News Williams Concludes Investigation of “Doty Incident” LONG BEACH – Sources are telling reporters at USMNEWS.NET that Interim CoB Dean Alvin Williams has concluded his investigation of the so-called “Doty incident.” Regular readers of USMNEWS.NET will recall that former CoB Dean Harold Doty made threatening comments to economics professor Franklin Mixon in the hallway of JGH on 28-Sept-07. In response to the confrontation, USM Police Officer Eric Lightsy was dispatched to Greene Hall to conduct an investigation. Lightsy’s investigation was swift, and it was reported on by USMNEWS.NET days ago

(December 17, 2007) Breaking News And So It Continues HATTIESBURG – If the reports now spreading from one CoB faculty to another are accurate, and sources insist they are, then not even the recent report that the CoB has been given a clean bill of health from the AACSB, even if only after a 6th Year Review, can stem the constant flow of bad news from the CoB. Sources have just informed USMNEWS.NET that economics professor Franklin Mixon has resigned. Mixon’s departure leaves the CoB’s economics unit as an empty shell, which will have to be rebuilt from the ground up. The loss of Mixon carries with it the loss of a solid research record, one that reporters at USMNEWS.NET will be covering in the coming days and weeks.

(May 5, 2008) CoB Flashback: Spring 2001 Join us as we flash back to spring 2001, when the CoB was known as the CBA (College of Business Administration), and William Gunther was its dean.

(July 20, 2008) Special Report Duo-nomics An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials When it comes to finding "the greatest ever" out of economics, the first thought that comes to mind is the reported high productivity of many past and present members of that unit. Thus, to do the unit justice, we faced the prospect of having to analyze the records of a relatively large number of individuals. Insiders suggested we begin with former EFIBers, Mark Dickie and Franklin Mixon. From what reporters gathered, Dickie and Mixon both arrived during Black's administration of the CBA. Both have since moved on, with Dickie joining the economics faculty at the University of Central Florida during the Gunther administration of the CBA, and Mixon joining the economics faculty at Auburn University after the end of the Doty administration.