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(June 5, 2009) The Games "A USMNEWS.net source once stated that if you want to go to a serious institution of higher education, you have to go to one that was founded before the 20th Century. That is because...".

(June 8, 2009) Palmer by Land, Saunders by Air "Outgoing coach Corky Palmer and his 2009 USM Golden Eagles are to be congratulated for winning the Atlanta Regional (over host Georgia Tech) and heading to the school's first-ever Super Regional...".

(June 10, 2009) Clark Checking Out "After an extensive USMNEWS.net investigation, it appears as though CoB associate professor of finance John Clark is headed to the University of Missouri - Kansas City...".

(June 11, 2009) Clarkology "An apparent UMKC insider tells USMNEWS.net that newly hired University of Missouri - Kansas City finance professor John Clark, currently an associate professor in USM's CoB, will soon join the Bloch School at UMKC with tenure...".

(June 16, 2009) Palmer by Land, Saunders by Air II "In speaking about the national exposure that USM is currently receiving for winning the Gainesville Regional and advancing to the College World Series, USM president Martha Saunders told The Hattiesburg American that '[p]eople are writing ...".

(June 16, 2009) All Joe "Just about everyone in USM's b-school knows that CoB dean Lance Nail is a difficult man to find...".

(June 17, 2009) Dakhlia's Trip - Three Years Later "The recent one year ago today installment about associate professor of economics Sami Dakhlia's week long teaching trip to France reminds us all how things used to be during the Harold Doty-Farhang Niroomand administration (2003-07) of USM's b-school...".

(June 17, 2009) Oops! She Did It Again "Once again USM president Martha Saunders took to the air (yesterday, 16-June-09) to watch the Golden Eagles compete in the College World Series...".

(June 19, 2009) Niroomaster "There is already evidence, given the Niroomand & Hudson Play a Little Game scenario, that new SoBA dean (at the University of Houston - Victoria) Farhang Niroomand is the same plantation-style administrator now as he was when he patrolled the hallways of USM's JAG...".

(June 25, 2009) One CoB, Two Deans "Within days of them taking the reins at their new b-school dean posts, former CoB administrators Harold Doty (University of Texas - Tyler) and Farhang Niroomand (University of Houston - Victoria) had worked and re-worked their "Dean's Message" statements on their respective college/school websites...".

(July 6, 2009) New Era Dawns "With all of the crises (e.g., budget, numerous interim administrators) facing USM these days, one hardly noticed that the calendar turned on June-09 at midweek last week and that the 'new CoB' was born...".

(July 9, 2009) Transposing Jordan "The fact that, with the 2008 CoB journal rankings, accounting professor Charles Jordan went from having 53 C-level publications to just 35, while his B-level count rose from 4 to 16, speaks volumes about what the 2007-08 CoB journal ranking committee was up to.

(July 13, 2009) Oh Panama! "USM president Martha Saunders' 10-July-09 blog about her recent visit to Panama is one for the surreal column. Her week-long trip across the Gulf, during a economic/budgetary crisis no less, is one for the ages...".

(July 14, 2009) The CoB's New BEDS "Reporters at USMNEWS.net have noted time and again that the CoB's webpages have failed to note the presence of new faculty members since 2008 (and partially since 2007)...".

(July 17, 2009) Same Old, Same Old "Recent reports about new accounting director Kirby "Skip" Hughes show, once again, just how quickly former Tier I and II business faculty from other places transform into Tier III administrative disasters at USM...".

(July 17, 2009) As the CoB Turns "While CoB economics professor William Gunther, currently the director of the CoB's Bureau of Business and Economic Research, drones on about "consumer confidence" at the BBER's mid-year economic conference down on the Mississippi coast, recently hired finance professor Francis Laatsch...".

(July 20, 2009) Another Do-Nothing CoB Administrator? "During the Tyrone Black administration of USM's b-school, administrators developed teaching schedules/loads, handled accreditation duties, attended to students' needs, attended meetings, and taught courses...".

(July 21, 2009) Skip's First Rodeo "The first few weeks of the Skip Hughes administration of the CoB's School of Accountancy have made it clear that this is Skip's first rodeo...".

(July 21, 2009) THA Reader Incorrect About USM Salaries "As expected, a recent (19-July-09) article in The Hattiesburg American about the budgetary crisis facing USM's athletics department sparked a lot of interest among THA readers. A number of them used the THA's online comments feature to express their thoughts and opinions...".

(July 22, 2009) Klinedinst Led AC in Absenteeism during 2008-09 "The 13-May-09 USMNEWS.net Breaking News report about CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst's USM Faculty Senate service dereliction stirred the waters of frustration for many of the CoB's USMNEWS.net readers...".

(July 23, 2009) The Gappy Band "Mention in "Klinedinst Led Academic Council in Absenteeism during 2008-09" of the fact that CoB economics professor Mark Klinedinst has not published an article in an indexed academic journal since 1998 has USMNEWS.net reporters thinking again about "gappy" (former EFIB chairman George Carter's term) research records in the CoB...".

(July 29, 2009) Inherited Legacy "The recent re-running of the 5-July-07 report, Games People Play, about former SoA director Steven Jackson's double-counting highlights the legacy that new SoA director Kirby E. "Skip" Hughes (pictured below) inherited in July-09...".

(July 30, 2009) Carter Nailed It "Former EFIB chair, and CoB economics professor, George Carter nailed it a while back when he said that the CoB's economists tended to be intemperate, or not collegial, and as a result they had become pariahs in Joseph A. Greene Hall...".

(August 3, 2009) Beer Summit CoB "The recent USMNEWS.net editorial entitled Carter Nailed It really showed the irony in George Carter's behavior, mostly as a CoB administrator (EFIB chairman), over the past several years...".

(July 23, 2009) USM Financial Situation Dire and Getting Worse "With Ed Kemp's 23-July-09 article for The Hattiesburg American entitled "USM prepares for budget cuts," you have to wonder just what now-former CoB associate professor of finance John Clark knows about USM's dire budgetary situation and why he is leaving for the University of Missouri - Kansas City...".

(August 3, 2009) 6,500 Published Articles by Duane Cobb "CoB dean Lance Nail should just come out with it - "it" being a press release stating that CoB faculty have a combined "more than 6,500" published articles on issues related to their respective disciplines or fields...".

(August 4, 2009) 10 Over 100 "A recent search by USMEWS.net reporters turned up 10 different CoB faculty who have each garnered more than 100 Google Scholar cites. These 10 faculty are listed in order below...".

(August 6, 2009) Painting by Numbers Yet Again: A Look at Google Scholar Cites, Aug-09 "With talk of $2 million budget cuts and losses of academic programs in USM's CoB, it seemed like the proper time to bring back USMNEWS.net's series on Google Scholar cites to CoB faculty...".

(August 4, 2009) CoB Economists on Their Own Now "If recent speculation that the CoB's economics program is on the chopping block (as a part of the USM budget cuts) is accurate, then the CoB's economists no longer have ...".

(August 6, 2009) CoB Announces New Honors House "According to a 6-Aug-09 USM presser by Van Arnold entitled "College of Business Set to Unveil New Honors House," USM has renovated the old Kappa Sigma fraternity house, which was lost to the fraternity as a result of a hazing incident in Sept-08, to create a new Honors House for USM's b-school...".

(August 19, 2009) TELL US ABOUT IT A Look at Sami Dakhlia's Journal Publication Record "The quality, or lack thereof, of CoB associate professor of economics Sami Dakhlia's journal publication record has been the subject of much debate over at Economics Job Market Rumors in recent days...".

(August 17, 2009) Even After Cuts, Economists Remain at USM "Much has been made on various Internet sites about instruction of economics once the CoB's current crop of 9 tenure/tenure-track faculty have vacated their offices by 30-June-2010. Stories are being perpetuated, and proliferated, that USM will not be able to offer economics courses after 30-June-2010...".

(August 17, 2009) Enrollments & Economics: A Special Report on One Stretch of ECO's Road to the Present "The problem with student enrollments in the CoB's economics programs is a long-standing one that most faculty who have spent any time in USM's b-school know something about...".

(August 14, 2009) Carter, Klinedinst Blast Nail, USM Administration "CoB economics professors George Carter and Mark Klinedinst have thrown down the gauntlet, accusing Lance Nail of targeting the CoB's economists, not just the CoB's economics programs...".

(August 11, 2009) The GS Cites Trap "Recent reports here at USMNEWS.net have examined Google Scholar cites to research conducted by various CoB faculty. As in past reports in this series, the data examined recently have been unadjusted GS cites. That is, there has been no accounting for self-cites in the overall data. This report addresses that issue by subtracting self-cites from the overall data, using a 6-Aug-09 GS cites search for ACC...".

(August 7, 2009) Tedious: An Investigative Series on CoB Faculty Research Credentials "USMNEWS.net hears from readers from time to time, and one theme that has come across over the past three years pertains to the research records of CoB accounting professors Stanley Clark and Charles Jordan...".

(August 26, 2009) Dakhlia to Take Leave of Absence during Spring 2010 "USMNEWS.net has learned that CoB associate professor of economics, Sami Dakhlia (pictured below), will be taking a leave of absence during Spring Semester 2010 in order to teach abroad. Though many of the details of this assignment are still being put together and evaluated by USMNEWS.net, reporters have learned that Dakhlia’s leave of absence was approved weeks ago...".

(August 28, 2009) "In Plain Sight" "Former CoB economics professor Charles Sawyer's journey since leaving the CoB after the 2006-07 academic year has been an interesting one...".

(September 10, 2009) On Borrowed Chatter "In case you hadn’t noticed already, USMNEWS.net’s GH Chatter series has been on overdrive lately, all in an effort to stay on top of the stories circulating about the CoB’s economists...".

(September 23, 2009) Marvasti Tenured at Sept-09 IHL Meeting "CoB economics professor Akbar Marvasti was tenured during a special consideration of his tenure application at the IHL Board's 16/17-Sept-09 meeting...".

(September 23, 2009) What They’re Getting: A Look At The Eco Research Credentials Heading To CoAL "A number of USMNEWS.net readers are wondering about the research credentials, particularly vis-à-vis compensation levels, of the four CoB economists are heading over to the CoAL to begin 2010-11...".

(October 1, 2009) Donna Davis to Retire After 2009-10 "In yet another surprise from the CoB’s decision sciences quarter, current DS professor (and BEDS chair) Donna Davis is set to retire after the 2009-10 academic year, which was her first as chair of the BEDS (business economics and decision sciences)...".

(October 1, 2009) Hsieh Named University Distinguished Professor "In a move that will most like come as a tremendous shock to many current and former CoB faculty and staff, the CoB’s Chang-Tseh Hsieh has been named as one of just four University Distinguished Professors by the Martha Saunders administration of USM...".

(Update October 7, 2009) Aunt Martha's Coaches: Has Saunders Lost the Magic Touch? Or, Did She Ever Have It? "After the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater won the Division III national championship in 2007, USM President Martha Saunders blogged that during the 2006-07 academic year while Chancellor at UW-W she had hired the first-year coach who led UW-W to the title...".

(October 14, 2009) Tragic News "Everyone at usmnews.net would like to express our sorrow for the tragic, untimely death of Peter Wilkes, the eighteen year old Southern Miss punter...".

(October 20, 2009) Where Doty Failed: A New Look at the CoB’s Move of IB to MGT "The Lance Nail administration’s recent move of international business (IB) to management (MGT) marked the end of an age-old battle to have IB housed in the more appropriate confines of the general business curriculum...".

(October 21, 2009) Doty Now a Gas Production/Pricing Expert: Former CoB Dean Pontificates On Gas Prices In Tyler "Layron Livingston of KLTV in Tyler, TX, ran a report on 20-Oct-09 indicating that, after 7 days of price hikes, gas is selling at $2.49 per gallon in Tyler...".

(October 23, 2009) CoB News, 26 October 2009 "Williams Inducted into USM Alumni: HoF Former CoB interim dean Alvin Williams was recently inducted into the USM Alumni Hall of Fame...".

(October 23, 2009) Alumni Hall of Fame From: http://www.usm.edu/pr/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2879&Itemid=2 [Additional information and/or comments are in this color.] "Southern Miss Alumni Association to Induct Seven into its Hall of Fame ...".

(October 29, 2009) CoB News, 26 October 2009 "Williams Inducted into USM Alumni: HoF Former CoB interim dean Alvin Williams was recently inducted into the USM Alumni Hall of Fame...".