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(April 15, 2009) 1984 (Q = Attorney Question; A = Witness Answer) Q. Explain that [the concept of discipline measures not outlined in the faculty handbook] to me again. A. Just some things I know Dean Greene did to a faculty member once. He gave the faculty member a class at night, and then 8:00 the next morning for the faculty member to start doing the things he was supposed to be doing. That's an example.

(July 28, 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. Just what has Hughes done with this legacy since assuming the SoA reins a few weeks ago? His first official duty was to "reward" former SoA directors Robert Smith and Roderick Posey with larger, more secluded office spaces on the second floor of JAG. In providing such a reward, Hughes seems to be rewarding Smith's past double- and triple-counting, as reported in Double and Triple Counting in Accounting from the same spring/summer 2007 time period.

(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. That would be "more than 100" for each of the CoB's 65 or so faculty across disciplines ranging from accounting to tourism management.

(December 21, 2009) Dear Rod, I bring sad tidings on this holiday. “Things are going to change around here” and your research and service efforts are not accounting. Your annual evaluation will suffer�. well, let’s look at the details before we get to your annual evaluation.

(April 4, 2010) The Three-Tiered CoB School of Accounting The potential addition of University of Alabama accountant Michael Dugan to the CoB’s School of Accounting does, as the recent . . . Breaking News . . . report indicates, create a three-tiered accounting school, at least as far as A-level publications goes. At the top of the SoA – the Tier 1 faculty – are two current CoB accountants, and, of course, Dugan (should he join the SoA). Their relatively high number of A-level contributions are pictured below.

(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.