Hey

[Maddy McCall]

:hi:

[strategery blunder]

1. Hi

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

6. Hi there.

:hi:

[Kathleen04]

2. Hey, you haven't been around for a while..

Welcome back!

[Maddy McCall]

3. Yeah, I was just popping in to say hi.

Real World has been kicking my butt for the past four months. :-)

[Syrinx]

4. whatever became of that USM purge thing?

Just wondering.

[Maddy McCall]

5. Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Here's the link to the Chronicle article:

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i28/28a00101.htm

The termination hearing for the professors is in two weeks. A retired state supreme court justice will conduct the hearing.

Here are a couple of websites people are using to keep up with the controversy:

www.firethames.com

and

www.geocities.com/fireshelby

and

www.aaup-usm.org

The second one is the one that is updated most frequently. Also has a forum.

[tishaLA]

22. Wow, that Chronicle Piece is amazing

if anyone wants to read it and doesn't have access--it's subscription only--let one of us know. he Chronicle hates Thames, huh?

On Edit: Let me post some of it here, just for kicks. Ask me if you want to see more...

At last week's news conference in the university's main administration building, Mr. Thames tried to respond to the Faculty Senate's vote. He said the decision to dismiss the two tenured professors was taken "very seriously." He also accused the AAUP of trying to "form a collective-bargaining unit" and said that the controversy was drummed up to attract more members. Then he asserted that complaints about his decisions were coming from a minority of professors. That remark was greeted with laughter loud enough to interrupt him.

"The man is a clown," says Noel Polk, a professor of English who stood in front of Mr. Thames during the speech holding a sign that demanded the professors be reinstated. "If he weren't so powerful, he would be doing a comedy. It was one ridiculous line after another."

The president also seemed to be unsure of his facts at times. For instance, he accused an assistant professor of history, Douglas Chambers, of canceling classes that morning so his students could protest the dismissals of the professors. "That's a damn lie!" Mr. Chambers yelled from the back of the room.

After the meeting, Mr. Chambers approached the president and again called the remark "a damn lie," explaining that he couldn't attend class that morning because he had jury duty. When Mr. Chambers walked away, the president looked stunned and asked Lisa Mader, director of marketing and public relations at the university, where that information had come from. "From a student," she replied.

<snip>

At this stage, even some of the president's strongest supporters have lost faith in Mr. Thames. Among those is Mr. Wiest, the history professor, whom the president cited in his remarks last week as being on the administration's side. Mr. Wiest says he no longer supports Mr. Thames. In a tearful speech in front of the Faculty Senate in which he talked about his great love for the university, Mr. Wiest said the dismissals hit him "like a sledgehammer." He encouraged his colleagues to vote no confidence in the president.

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i28/28a00101.htm

[Maddy McCall]

7. Love your Bear avatar

You haven't cooked anything good lately, have you?

:-)

[Syrinx]

8. I'll check those links tomorrow when I'm not so sleepy

No I haven't cooked anything good lately, but nsma offered to teach me how to cook an odd-looking bug I found a few weeks ago. :)

on edit: I'm hoping Mike Shula can be the next Bear. In your opinion, any chance? (Not really the next Bear, but a really damn good coach.)

[Maddy McCall]

9. Leave it to her...

Everyone always asks me if my name means I am a fan of julia child.

NSMA is DU's Julia Child. :-)

:hi: Everyone I missed. (Dookus, Rowdy, Zomby, and everyone else...see you on the back side of May :-) )

G'night. Zzzzzzzz

[Maddy McCall]

10. I shook Bear's hand when I was in ninth grade.

:-) Really, I did.

[Syrinx]

18. I shook his hand when I was about six

It was at the airport on the trip back after Notre Dame beat us for the NC. He seemed kinda grumpy, but I don't blame him I guess. I said "Bear Bryant!" He said "My name is PAUL Bryant!"

[Maddy McCall]

20. He was at my high school recruiting a player...

And he came around to all of the classrooms to meet the students. I happened to be seated right by the door, and I reached out, and he shook my hand.

Honestly, I'm not a football fan, but I like to tell that to people who give a rip about sports. I like to hear them oooh and aaaah over it. *wink wink*

Ok, I REALLY have to go to bed now. Tomorrow is Monday, and, where I work, Mondays suck.

Good night, DU friends!!

[Syrinx]

21. 'night

Sleep tight, and don't let the bedbugs bite. :)

[Zomby Woof]

11. Hey!

[Maddy McCall]

12. LOL

Hey! :hi:

[Fenris]

13. Ah, our own professor, jchild!

:hi:

The intellectual of the DU consortium. Hope all is well!

Fen

[Maddy McCall]

14. How are you?

:hi:

[Fenris]

17. I am most excellent, and thank you for asking!

:D

Hope you are able to return to regular posting soon! We've missed you!

[Maddy McCall]

19. Busy busy busy

I look forward to a stress-free summer. It seems it will never get here!

Will be back in June.

Y'all take care, now, ya hear? :-)

[neverborn]

15. hi

:hi:

[Maddy McCall]

16. I have to get some sleep...good to see you all for a sec...

Sorry I missed others. Will see you in a couple of months.

:bye: :hugs:

[RFKHumphreyObama]

23. Hey Jchild

Nice to see you back -we've missed you

Hope everything is well with you

[ForrestGump]

24. Hey yourself! You've been pulling a Forrest!

(and, no, for the dirty-minded among us, that does not mean whatever you think it does.)

Great to see you, my similarly long-lost fellow astronaut.

:pals:

I hope that is all is well, and that whatever isn't is at least well on its way to that happy resolution...