campus sign regulatons < 1. rules/policies governing placement of signs on campus property; 2. rules somehow now under the purview of Lisa Slay Mader and the USM Public Relations staff; 3. a living, breathing document that disallows anti-Thames placards placed by the hardworking CSUSM, but pardons "Students, think about what your professors have to gain by opposing President Thames" and "Students, what do you think the 2 fired professors are hiding?" signs that are printed and paid for by the Thames Underworld and placed across campus by Lisa Mader and her Hub SGA cronies (see also agent provacateur).

College of Bidness and Economic Development < (a Thamesunciation; check it out at commencement) see College of Business and Economic Development (see also Krandall Howell).

College of Business and Economic Development < 1. USM College housing Shelby Thames’ favorite departments/people outside of COST; 2. College where Angeline Dvorak, Tim Hudson, Ken Malone, and Cynthia Moore are based; 3. College administered by Thames’ favorite USM Dean, Harold Doty.

Department of Homeland Security < 1. part of the executive branch of the U.S. government (i.e., The White House), and is responsible for making America more secure from the dangers of terrorists, criminals and hazardous materials; 2. agency now in limbo since its high-level meetings with Shelby Thames have been cancelled due to the crises taking place at USM (as Thames stated in his dome press conference, meetings were to have taken place the week after the professor firings, but Thames had to hold dome press conference and first-ever Tuesdays against Thames meetings instead`).

fact < 1. something that has been objectively verified; 2. something presented as objectively real; 3. something having real, demonstrable existence; 4. for Thames’ version, see solid grounds.

40-0 < official result of USM Faculty Senate’s "no confidence in Shelby Thames" vote on the night of 3/7/04 (results reported as "no confidence"-"confidence").

430-32 < official result of USM faculty-wide "no confidence in Shelby Thames" vote on the night of 3/10/04 (results reported as "no confidence"-"confidence").

Glamser-Stringer Legal Defense Fund < 1. fund set up by supporters of Frank Glamser and Gary Stringer to provide legal support for these two embattled professors; 2. generous show of support for the fund was made by Dr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Hartwig shortly after the professors were fired.

Hewes, Billy < 1. Ward 7 Councilman of Gulfport City Council; 2. real estate agent in Gulfport; 3. big supporter of Golden Eagle athletics; 4. big supporter of Shelby Thames; 5. Pushed through a resolution in the Gulfport City Council in support of Thames in April of ‘04; 6. espouses some very intolerant social views (do your own Google search); 7. advocate of branding the foreheads of certain members of society; 8. sits on the "day’s work for a day’s pay" side of the current crises at USM; 9. advocate/proponent of Thames authority (actually gave meaning to the governance phrase when he said, "We [USM] need people [faculty] who are going to have some respect for [Thames’] authority." {HA 4/9/04}).

Java Werks < 1. gourmet coffee house across Hardy Street from USM; 2. coffee house that often serves as staging ground (for CSUSM) before anti-Thames rallies that take place on USM’s campus; 3. has good credentials for the Friends List.

LAB Lobby table < 1. table set up in the Lobby of USM’s Liberal Arts Building, run by the CSUSM; 2. distributes anti-Thames items, many of which are free-of-charge (thanks to some generous donors); 3. proceeds from the items that are for sale (e.g., t-shirts with quotes by either Noel Polk or Neil McMillen) go to the Glamser-Stringer Legal Defense Fund; 4. Free-of-charge items include mock "USM For Sale" signs and Impeach Thames bumper stickers.

lunch at McDonald’s < where USM sociology professor Frank Glamser ate lunch on December 11, 2003 — probably the last bread he ever broke in a state of peace (he returned from lunch to his office on campus to find, under his door, the anonymous envelope containing original, unmarked documents belonging in the Dvorak Variorum); 2. just weeks after this lunch, Glamser and his colleague Gary Stringer were summarily "Harrised" (see Anthony Harris).

Nicholson, Carl < 1. Hattiesburg resident, and IHL Board member; 2. staunch pro-Thames figure; 3. as things are slipping away from Thames and Nicholson’s term is ending, he thinks he can go quietly into the night now; 4. reportedly set up a (an ethically questionable) "Come home to Jesus" meeting between Shelby Thames and Robbie Ward in his business offices (meeting was said to have been thwarted by Thames’ scandals/public pressure); 5. supports Thames authority.

Ross, Scott < 1. IHL Board member; 2. didn’t think the USM crisis warranted IHL Board agenda consideration for the first meeting held after the firing of two highly regarded tenured faculty members, even after the Faculty Senate had voted 40-0 "no confidence in Thames" and the USM faculty had voted 430-32 in affirmation of its Senate.

Shelby in the Schoolhouse Door < 1. reference to Shelby Thames’ quote, "I cannot in good conscience return these two individuals [Frank Glamser and Gary Stringer] to the classroom," made by Thames after reviewing students’ suggestions (from the first-ever Tuesdays against Thames meeting, the Tuesday after the firings), along with Provost Tim Hudson’s support, to allow the two fired professors to finish their teaching duties for Spring semester 2004; 2. Shelby Thames’ refusal to let Frank Glamser continue teaching and shaping the minds of his almost 200 students; 3. yet another example of a Southern figure standing in the schoolhouse door, barring students (this time about 200 of them) from getting the education they are entitled to as taxpayers/U.S. citizens; 4. to amend and borrow from former Alabama Governor George Wallace’s line: "‘Not in good conscience’ today, ‘not in good conscience’ tomorrow, ‘not in good conscience’ forever" (imagine being said by Shelby Thames, with a strong Southern accent); 5. yet another defeat for academic integrity that Provost Tim Hudson didn’t see fit to resign over.

Shelbyjugend < see Hub SGA (see also my most prized possession).

Stevie Wonder-like vision < The Hattiesburg American’s sports columnist Vann Arnold’s take on the Thames administration’s judgement/astuteness to close Van Hook Golf Course when he (Arnold) thought it could have easily been saved for the Hattiesburg community (see also Sarah Spigener).

Thames authority < 1. governing authority believed to have been given to Shelby Thames by the IHL Board when Thames was coronated as USM’s President (in the Spring of 2002). 2. IHL authority held by Thames, giving him the right to flog, without regard to faculty/staff handbooks, tenure, academic freedom, other rules, or simple decorum; 3. authority given to Thames espoused by many in the private sector (see Billy Hewes and Krandall Howell), as well as some on the IHL Board (see Roy Klumb and Carl Nicholson); 4. see also flog and blog.