If change is good then change it back < chant used by nursing students at a dome rally expressing discontent with the elimination of the College of Nursing through the university restructuring plan that was announced in 2003.

1-2-3, we don’t want a Health degree < chant used by nursing students at a dome rally expressing discontent with having their programs placed in the newly formed College of Health as part of the university restructuring plan introduced in 2003.

USM Camelot < 1. what all USM faculty, staff, students, alumni and supporters had, but blew it; 2. USM under the idealistic leadership of Shelby Thames, and his New Frontier administrators, Tim Hudson, Angie Dvorak, Cynthia Moore, Gregg Lassen, Ken Malone, Jack Hanbury, Mark Dvorak and others; 3. supported from the outside by Thames Underworld figures like Paul "Bud" Holmes, Billy Hewes, R. Scott Farris and others, the Thames administration brought a great many aspirations and a spirit of optimism to the USM community, promising such things a $100,000,000 in external grant support, 20,000 students in the first 5 years, and luxury boxes in M.M. Roberts Stadium; 4. Shelby Thames, the father-figure (mob-ties) leader, Tim Hudson, the hand-picked successor, Jack Hanbury, the shoot-from-the-hip attorney general, Ken Malone, the minister of war, Gregg Lassen, the money guy, Angeline Dvorak, the matriarch, Mark Dvorak, whipped, Cynthia Moore, the fashion-setting first lady of Camelot, and Lisa Mader, the hot, young public relations director who had everything under control; 5. yep, USM had it all but didn't appreciate it. [guest Glossary entry by Lisa Mader]

Thames toast < 1. what USM’s president became after he charged distinguished professors with "malicious" acts, attempted to discharge them, using only unethically captured private emails as evidence; 2. result of appearing before a retired Mississippi Supreme Court Justice with no evidence. 3. rumored to be a favorite food of gnomes. [guest Glossary entry by outside observer]