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Clear for Takeoff A Look at January-2011 Ancillary Expenses Associated with the USM Airplane The 23-Dec-2011 USMNEWS.net report entitled September Skies announced that USMNEWS.net has recently obtained many new official documents regarding the USM airplane. That particular report indicates that the ancillary expenses associated with the Beechcraft King Air for just the last week of Sept-2011 come to more than $250.

Holiday Predictions for 2012 3. Call it wishful thinking, but I predict that Martha Saunders will embarrass the University (and more importantly the IHL) once too often this year.

February’s Friendly Skies A Look at February-2011 Ancillary Expenses Associated with the USM Airplane The 23-Dec-2011 USMNEWS.net report entitled September Skies announced that USMNEWS.net has recently obtained many new official documents regarding the USM airplane. That particular report indicates that the ancillary expenses associated with the Beechcraft King Air for just the last week of Sept-2011 come to more than $250. This figure, for such a relatively brief period, is a harbinger of even greater expenses over other periods during 2011. The present report examines similar expenses for the month of Feb-2011.

. . . breaking news . . . Saunders has 3 Weeks to Resolve Tabletgate Scandal HATTIESBURG – According to The Hattiesburg American’s higher education reporter Ed Kemp, Mississippi State Auditor Stacey Pickering has given the Martha Saunders administration of USM 21 more days to resolve the “Tabletgate” scandal that has engulfed the institution since Aug-2011.

Martha’s Podium An Editorial Cartoon Series from USMNEWS.net, #1 Martha’s Podium is an editorial cartoon series from USMNEWS.net that borrows from cartoons that appeared in The Student Printz during the Martha Saunders administration of USM.

On November 14, 2010: The Cause of the Shooting is not Known; On January 2, 2012: The cause of the Shooting is not Known ... Let's repeat that. As of January 2, 2012, the cause of the shooting of three USM football players is not known. Or perhaps more accurately, the public does not know the cause.

Dear usmnews.net In the wake of The Hattiesburg American article, Auditor: USM has 3 weeks to gather tablets, usmnews.net has been receiving comments from readers concerning the "Tabletgate scandal" at Southern Miss.

A Cautionary Tale about Public Relations Fanfare On December 28, 2011, the Hattiesburg American offered its readers, "Auditor: USM has 3 weeks to gather tablets....With great public relations fanfare, President Saunders handed out the Samsung tablets to select and privileged students and others.

. . . breaking news . . . Saunders Establishes Ethics Hotline HATTIESBURG – In one of her first moves of 2012, USM president Martha Saunders informed the USM community that the institution has partnered with EthicsPoint in establishing a hotline that members of the USM family can use to report ethics/legal violations that occur on campus.

Have you seen�? Have you seen the television advertisements that encourage potential students to study art and dance? They are paid for by Mississippi taxpayers and students. They are the decision of administrators at the University of Southern Mississippi and its College of Arts and Letters.

Dear usmnews.net, Yes, I have seen Dr. Saunders' commercials. When did Southern Miss turn into the University of Phoenix with its hard sales pitch?

The Top 10 CoB Stories of 2011 By Duane Cobb Each year at about this time I provide USMNEWS.net my top ten news items involving USM’s business school for the year. This is Part 3 in that countdown for the top CoB stories of 2011. 3. Laatsch Cut Loose FINREBL chairman Francis Laatsch was mysteriously replaced as chairman of FINREBL during the summer of 2011.

EaglePost and Southern Miss - Proud Partners in SMTTT We recently had reason to visit "EaglePost, Where Southern Miss Fans meet on the net!" EaglePost posters are anonymous. They are the product of Southern Miss education and are proud Southern Miss alums.

(1/11/11) Dear usmnews.net, Like many people at “Southern Miss”, I have become a regular reader of usmnews.net. More recently, I have been reviewing the archives in an effort to gain some perspective. In that process I came across an editorial entitled, Here’s What we Know about Martha Saunders and an earlier report that asked the question, What do We Really Know about USM President Martha Saunders?

You Can't Make Up This Kind Of Self-Destructive Nonsense A January 1, 2012 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, entitled "Penn State Scandal Encompasses Faculty, Too," reports that "Penn State's Faculty Senate, which has long felt unempowered on a campus where professors believe academic concerns are overshadowed by big-time sports, has become..."

usmnews.net periodically receives requests from readers to reprint materials from exactly a year ago. Readers seem to beleive it provides a perspective. Here is a letter to the editor that reminds why readers continue to ask. "Dear usmnews.net, perhaps the Xmas break has given me too much time to think, but ...".

Special Report Series Salute the Man, not the Rank? Former CoB Dean in Hot Water Once Again PART 16 In light of former CoB dean Harold Doty's litigation history, USMNEWS.net reporters periodically check the courts near where Doty lives and works.

The Idles of March: A Look at March-2011 Ancillary Expenses Associated with the USM Airplane The 23-Dec-2011 USMNEWS.net report entitled September Skies announced that USMNEWS.net has recently obtained many new official documents regarding the USM airplane.

USM-CoB's Recent AACSB Reaccreditation: What does it mean? Professors of accounting and business throughout the country will tell you that AACSB accreditation is a very expensive waste of time.

The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 14-Jan-2011 Program Appeals Done; Saunders Contradicts Herself As higher education reporter Ed Kemp indicates in his 13-Jan-2010 story for The Hattiesburg American entitled “Appeals process under way at USM,” the nine-member USM appeals committee has essentially completed its hearings on program cuts enacted by USM president Martha Saunders (during Fall-2010) in an effort to address an expected $15 million cut for FY2012.

Holiday Predictions for 2012 Lance Nail will try to parlay his successful AACSB run into a deanship at a b-school above the fourth tier. (Note from the editor: This prediction is interesting since usmnews.net is seeing an increasing number of Lance Nail hits from otherschools – many of which are looking for new deans.)

An update to 31st & Pearl, More than 4 Million Served Here we are on January 6, 2012. usmnews.net will soon be six years old. Its readership continues to expand. As of today, the number of hits is approaching 6.3 million

Special Report Series Bandyed About Former CoB Dean in Hot Water Once Again PART 17 As installments 1-16 of this series indicate, Doty sought to harangue the St. Johns until they departed UT-T.

Corrupting the Language of Ethics, Integrity, and Right Conduct Past is Prelude In a January 5, 2012 "message from the President: Southern Miss Hotline" to "All-facstaff," Martha Saunders announced "Southern Miss has long maintained a strong commitment to our core values of integrity and ethical behavior...".

USM Galaxy Tabs Crashing back to Earth: Students Report Little Use of Tablet Devices Tyler Hill’s 16-Jan-2012 report for The Student Printz reminds the USM community that the Mississippi State Auditor has set a mid-January 2012 deadline for USM officials to tag/inventory the 700 Samsung Galaxy Tab