On another thread, two posters indicate having heard from a state senator who suggested that contacting the committees assigned to oversee state colleges and universities may be helpful.  Below are the members and their addresses; the addresses can be copied-and-pasted as blocks into a single email.  In addition to writing to the House and Senate members en masse, it may also be good to target these two committees in particular.

House Committee on Universities and Colleges

Charles L. Young, Chairman

Jack Gadd, Vice-Chairman

Noal Akins

Jim C. Barnett

Charles Jim Beckett

Cecil Brown

Kelvin Buck

Virginia Carter Carlton

Gary Chism

Lee Jarrell Davis

Steven A. Horne

Roger Ishee

Mike Lott

Sam C. Mims

Pat Montgomery

Margaret Rogers

Ferr Smith

Greg Snowden

Rufus Straughter

Phillip West

May Whittington

cyoung@mail.house.state.ms.us, jgadd@mail.house.state.ms.us, nakins@mail.house.state.ms.us, jbarnett@mail.house.state.ms.us, cbeckett@mail.house.state.ms.us, cbrown@mail.house.state.ms.us, kbuck@mail.house.state.ms.us, vcarlton@mail.house.state.ms.us, gchism@mail.house.state.ms.us,  ldavis@mail.house.state.ms.us, shorne@mail.house.state.ms.us, rishee@mail.house.state.ms.us, mlott@mail.house.state.ms.us, smims@mail.house.state.ms.us, pmontgomery@mail.house.state.ms.us, mrogers@mail.house.state.ms.us, fsmith@mail.house.state.ms.us, gsnowden@mail.house.state.ms.us, rstraughter@mail.house.state.ms.us,  pwest@mail.house.state.ms.us, mwhittington@mail.house.state.ms.us

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Senate Committee on Universities and Colleges

Alice Harden, Chairman

Gary Jackson, Vice-Chairman

Robert P. Chamberlin

Mike Chaney

Hillman Terome Frazier

Tommy A. Gollott

Tom King

Nolan Mettetal

J. Ed Morgan

Stacey E. Pickering

Gray Tollison

Johnnie E. Walls, Jr.

J. P. Wilemon, Jr.

aharden@mail.senate.state.ms.us, gjackson@mail.senate.state.ms.us, rchamberlin@mail.senate.state.ms.us, mchaney@mail.senate.state.ms.us, hfrazier@mail.senate.state.ms.us, tgollott@mail.senate.state.ms.us, tking@mail.senate.state.ms.us, nmettetal@mail.senate.state.ms.us, jmorgan@mail.senate.state.ms.us, spickering@mail.senate.state.ms.us, gtollison@mail.senate.state.ms.us, jwalls@mail.senate.state.ms.us, jwilemon@mail.senate.state.ms.us

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