Aubrey K. Lucas Administration Building < 1. Official administration building at USM, housing offices of the President, the Provost and other top executive officials; 2. often called the administration building, the dome, the roundhouse, the round building and Wolfschanze (since 2002); 3. site of first anti-Thames rally following the firings of Frank Glamser and Gary Stringer.

Bok, Derek < 1. former President of Harvard University and author of Universities in the Marketplace: The Commercialization of Higher Education (Princeton University Press, Copyright 2003); 2. Bok’s book is a must read if you want a deeper understanding of the situation at USM since 2002; 3. In his book, Bok reports that in 2000, the best year in the history of patent license revenues for universities, only 19 universities earned more than $10 million, and 50% of all universities that earned patent license revenues that year brought in less than or equal to $2 million. Post-it note to Robin Robinson: USM, or any university in Mississippi for that matter, is not going to become self-sufficient through patented inventions; 4. coincidentally, Derek Bok is mentioned in Neil McMillen’s speech to the faculty on the night of the 430-32 vote.

Come to William Carey < reference to the seemingly huge increase in television advertising effort undertaken by William Carey College (private, Baptist college in Hattiesburg) since USM’s most recent crisis began (i.e., Winter 2004).

e-humor < reference to all of the funny pictures of Shelby Thames & Company on display at geocities.com/fireshelby.

mother of all questions < if the IHL yahoos and all the other external constituencies of USM believe that kicking the sh#% out of USM (through Shelby’s boot), and universities in general, is such a wonderful "business plan," then why isn’t any effort being put toward kicking the sh#% out of Ole Miss and State? (After all, USM has been gettin’ the sh#% kicked out of her for two full years now).

Pauley, Dennis < 1. graduate student in philosophy at USM; 2. called Shelby Thames a "peckerhead" at the inaugural Tuesdays against Thames meeting in March of 2004, shortly after the firings of Frank Glamser and Gary Stringer; 3. later, in April of 2004, called Thames a "peckerhead" once again in a letter to the editor of The Student Printz; 4. said in his letter he wishes USM students could have a shot at a vote of "no confidence" in the "peckerhead"; 5. in his letter Pauley indicated that he didn’t think Thames understood "peckerhead" to be a pejorative term.

Thames, Shelby < 1. the current and embattled President of the University of Southern Mississippi who fired two professors without due process and committed countless other egregious acts; 2. "bucket and paddle" scientist; 3. Dome Gnome (his personal favorite); 4. Saddam. 5. Pocket Mussolini; 6. see Napoleon complex; 7. bootyologist; 8. calls Billy Hewes a credit to his community and a great citizen, and was pleased to offer Hewes an invitation to address the USMGC class of ‘04; 9. peckerhead (see Dennis Pauley).