Move to Fire 2 Professors Roils Campus in Mississippi

Tenured faculty members locked out of their offices

Article: Another Kind of Tenure CaseBy THOMAS BARTLETT

"Give Back Our Profs!" read one yellow sign. There were others bearing similar messages, carried by the dozens of students and professors who crammed into the lobby of the administration building at the University of Southern Mississippi one morning last week.

They had gathered to listen to the university's president, Shelby F. Thames, explain why he had moved to

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