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What many of you are angry about is that you didn't get the emotional catharsis of seeing Shelby fall. It was wrong to expect it. But very human to wish it -- we all did. We will see it yet.



Frank and Gary were fighting for their survival -- is there anyone who believes that Shelby LIKES this settlement? THEY WERE REINSTATED. They get paid through the end of Shelby's reign. Gary gets to continue his research. It is true they don't get offices: hell, Anderson did them a favor because they are out of it -- away from the long reach of the gnome, whom we know can reach down through Deans and Chairs to make the life of individual faculty a nightmare. These guys went through the fire and remember -- the decision was ultimately up to the IHL. WOULD ANY OF YOU trust the IHL to do the right thing even if logic demanded it? I wouldn't. I bet Anderson knew it too.



They did a great deal for the cause but that isn't what this case was about for THEM, and we should not be disappointed because they wouldn't risk martydom.



It is true the Gnome still occupies the GnomeHouse. It is true that Hanbury seems to have turned a temp job as a hack lawyer into a sincecure. It is true that our campus is bugged and faculty is still expected to kiss the feet of the emperor.



We know these guys are dictatorial little jerks who need each other to convince themselves that they are bigger than they are. The only pwerson in the dome who really is worth something is Shelby: he at least has achieved something. These other folks are hangers on and they need him to exist.



It is now up to us. Glamser and Stringer have done their parts and they deserve our applause, our support and our gratitude because they carried us a long way.



It is up to us to carry it the rest of the way. We have now crossed the line from protest to active resistence. Those of you who are familiar with social change know that there comes a time when there is no turning back.



We crossed that line when 430 faculty members voted "no confidence." They were spurred by the actions undertaken against Glamser and Stringer . . . but Glamser and Stringer are but one aspect of an out of control management that has proved itself to be arbitrary in many of its actions;  capricious in its use of power; injudicious in its public statements; cruel in its treatment of its own employees; and unethical in its application of the technology it controls.



There are more heads on the chopping block.



We cannot turn back now. This is but one crisis (and one that we WON) in what will be a series of crisis before this thing is finished.



I am living in an occupied Campus. I look forward to the day of liberation, when we can actually say we live in the FREE University of Southern Mississippi.



No Quarter.


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Written by Present Professor, 4-30-04.   Please give him credit if you duplicate this.



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Hellgirl

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Thank you, present professor.

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Originally posted by: Hellgirl
"Thank you, present professor."

Gee, I just got back from being out of town and I saw this. Thanks FS.


Hellgirl. I was at an event in an unnamed berg in Mississippi (unnamed because I don't want to tip anyone off). But there were a lot of influential people from several sectors of the state. I was amazed, actually, at how many of them had kids who went through USM -- or had themselves.


I got to talk to a number of them -- everyone was appalled at what is happening. I thought I'd need to be circumspect -- but everyone wanted to know what was going on and everyone was shocked. No one I talked to supported Thames -- and sveral of them either knew him or had kids who knew him. Several knew Gary and Frank and they were simply stunned that these two men could be trated so badly.


This should hearten us. Many of the voices of support we hear for Shelbo are local -- many either know him and many of these have a personal stake in his hanging onto his job.


Being patient doesn't mean we have to stop working for change. We need change more than ever.


Here's an idea that might be worthwhile: a student petition demanding that email monitoring be stopped and that there be added to the "technology security policy" a section that ennunciates "Student Rights."(I know, ideas are cheap and there isn't much time. But if you started to lay the groundwork now the petition could go out in the fall -- whether or not Shelbo is around the policy needs to be changed.


The Board knows the university is in trouble -- they have acknowleged that. They are looking for signs that we and Shelby can work it out. We can't. But the way to prove it is to demand the things that we have a right to have that he will not yield on.


THIS IS SOMETHING THE SGA SHOULD BE BOMBARDED WITH.


The SGA should also be forced to issue a statement of condemnation about the email monitoring. Isn't this the kind of meat and potatoes issue they are supposed to be here for? Aren't they supposed to look out for student rights? They might actually be amenable to this: or they might need to be shamed into it. Someone needs to get on the agenda (or force your way onto the agenda) at the next SGA meeting and demand they take a stand.


Faculty Senate will continue to act. So will AAUP. I am sure Concerned Students will too -- although I know people are deeply disappointed. We need to get the SGA on Board because it is the right thing for them to do. This is not an issue they should be allowed to backpedal away from.


Best wishes to us.



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Thank you Present Professor,

There are those in the employment of USM that do not feel that they are in danger of loosoing their jobs. The chopping block reaches to each and every faculty, staff, and even to the students.

I have a deep gut feeling that my job is on the line and I have but just a little while to go to retire.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!

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Inquiring young minds want to know, so I'm kicking this up.

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