Given Mr Klumb's comments last night on the Elliott show, it would seem we have a good case for an ethics violation. It is a demonstrable fact that he "mispoke" which is to say, lied,  concerning the use of Dvorak's social security number. First of all, the settlement itself suggest that a former supreme court justice would hardly recommend Dvorak not sue Gary and Frank if in fact a violation of law had occured.  Second, the IHL as the approving body of the settlement, presumably, is not allowed to villify either party to the settlement and Klumb just did that very thing. Other ethics violations based on his comments would be a matter for lawyers.

It is time to go directly to law. I can only hope there is some mechanism to enforce what is clearly a breach of the ethics charge under the mississippi constitution.

So, who can take Klumb in a legal arena to task for this? It should be done today.

So, given the as a

Thanks, Jim, for the very informative post about the IHL Code of Ethics.

I wrote an e-mail directly to the governor informing him of the situation and requesting his help. It will be interesting to see what sort of response, if any, I receive.

http://www.mississippi.gov/ContactUsDispatcher is the link I used to send the e-mail.

And I am outing myself as of today.

Jo Hailey, Former (and never-to-be-Emeritus) Professor of Psychology

For whatever it may be worth, here's the address of the MS Ethics Commission:

http://www.ethics.state.ms.us/miss.htm

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"Jo Hailey, Former (and never-to-be-Emeritus) Professor of Psychology    "

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Perhaps we should start a new, unofficial designation, for the growing number of us who would qualify, Jo.

Thanks, Jim, for the information on Board Code of Ethics. I will write letters today. Also, I continue to believe that pursuing EEOC violations is another potentially fruitful course of action. I feel certain someone is working that angle, but I don't know that for a fact and worry about letting any angle go without every effort. The financial processes followed by S & CO.  is another that we need input from staff to evaluate. I am hoping that some of the people who were dismissed from the financial affairs arena will feel strongly enough to go forward with their information. If any of them are reading this board, where would they go with their information? I believe a PEER investigation would glean a lot of useful information and that people who won't write on a message board would testify in a hearing. Anyone have ideas on how to get that kind of process started?

Anita Stamper, retired and never-to-be emeritus Professor of nevermore Family and Consumer Sciences