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On top of this page is an email list of the elected members of the MS State House. What you can do is send all the elected ones the following. It is easy to email and as elected representatives any voting citizen of the state can and should send something similar to the following:

I write with regard to the non-binding House Resolution # [whatever it is]. While I realize that this resolution is non-binding I write to remind you that under Dr. Thames Southern Miss has become a site of national controversy. On his watch, the University of Southern Mississippi has become the first four year institution of higher learning in the state of Mississippi to be placed on probation with cause by the SACS accreditation agency in over two full decades. Further, under Dr Thames the University of Southern Mississippi fell in its national ranking to the bottom of the bottom tier as charted by U.S. News and World Report. Also, Dr Thames is the only sitting university president in the United States currently to have elicited not one but two votes of no-confiidence from the full faculty. The first vote was held in an extraordinary session by the full faculty last year and the second vote came several months later from their elected representatives, the faculty senate. That second vote was 39 to 2. Given these facts as well as other serious events that have marked the past few years of this president's term I urge you not to pass a resolution which would offer honorary public, state approval of his actions. I urge you not to honor someone who has allowed an institution of higher learning to fall into such disrepute as to be placed on probation. Higher education in this state deserves a better precedent and president than this. Thank you.

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Thanks; this is an excellent suggestion.

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Yes, but write to the state senate (it's a senate resolution: SCR 601), not the house. I'm pasting in the senate addresses from the sticky at the top of the board.

tlittle@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
salbritton@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
tbrown@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
nbrowning@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
hbryan@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
tburton@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
kbutler@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
vcarmichael@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
rchamberlin@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
mchaney@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
eclarke@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
scuevas@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
ddawkins@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
bdearing@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
rdoxey@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
mflowers@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
hfrazier@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
tgollott@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
cgordon@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
aharden@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
bharvey@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
whewes@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
jhorhn@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
rhuggins@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
chyde-smith@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
gjackson@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
rjackson@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
sjackson@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
djordan@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
tking@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
dkirby@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
elee@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
plee@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
hmettetal@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
jmichel@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
tmoffatt@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
jmorgan@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
anunnelee@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
spickering@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
lposey@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
trobertson@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
cross@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
wsimmons@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
bthames@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
jthomas@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
gtollison@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
bturner@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
jwalley@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
jwalls@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
rwhite@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
jwilemon@mail.senate.state.ms.us,
gwilliamson@mail.senate.state.ms.us

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All In Knowing How

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Thanks info, Great job! I will get on it right now.

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disgusted student

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Thank you info. I don't have much time but it will be worth giving up lunch to write to every single one of them. So many of my favorite professors are leaving that I will enjoy thinking about the look on Dr. Thame's face when he discovers that Ms Mader has failed to get his honor to put in the news.

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A Worthwhile Cause

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Thanks info. Hope that everybody will do this. The Senate will need a lot of letters to combat this bill. And it will serve two purposes. The other one will be to make all the Legislatures aware of what is happening here.

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stephen judd

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Yes, but write to the state senate (it's a senate resolution: SCR 601), not the house. I'm pasting in the senate addresses from the sticky at the top of the board.

It is a "concurrent resolution." Doesn't that mean there is one in the House as well?

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Originally posted by: disgusted student
"Thank you info. I don't have much time but it will be worth giving up lunch to write to every single one of them. So many of my favorite professors are leaving that I will enjoy thinking about the look on Dr. Thame's face when he discovers that Ms Mader has failed to get his honor to put in the news. "


 


Dear D.S.,


It takes less than a minute to do, as I discovered this morning.  Just copy-and-paste all the addresses into the send box, then copy-and-paste the message, then hit "send."  You may want to put parentheses at the beginning and end of the list of addresses so it isn't obvious to the recipients that this is a mass-mailing.


By the way, here is the text of the message with the number of the bill inserted; this will make the process even easier:



I write with regard to the non-binding Senate Resolution #  S. C. R. No. 601 *SS01/R1415* N1/2. While I realize that this resolution is non-binding I write to remind you that under Dr. Thames Southern Miss has become a site of national controversy. On his watch, the University of Southern Mississippi has become the first four year institution of higher learning in the state of Mississippi to be placed on probation with cause by the SACS accreditation agency in over two full decades. Further, under Dr Thames the University of Southern Mississippi fell in its national ranking to the bottom of the bottom tier as charted by U.S. News and World Report. Also, Dr Thames is the only sitting university president in the United States currently to have elicited not one but two votes of no-confiidence from the full faculty. The first vote was held in an extraordinary session by the full faculty last year and the second vote came several months later from their elected representatives, the faculty senate. That second vote was 39 to 2. Given these facts as well as other serious events that have marked the past few years of this president's term I urge you not to pass a resolution which would offer honorary public, state approval of his actions. I urge you not to honor someone who has allowed an institution of higher learning to fall into such disrepute as to be placed on probation. Higher education in this state deserves a better precedent and president than this. Thank you.



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disgusted student

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Thank you USM Symphathizer. I had already gotten some of them but your information will be a big help. I think that we also need to write to the members of the House.

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Originally posted by: stephen judd
"It is a "concurrent resolution." Doesn't that mean there is one in the House as well? "


Yes, my bad. The resolution originated in the senate but, as a concurrent resolution, will get a vote in the house too. Here are the house addresses from the sticky -- with thanks to USM Sympathizer, who originally compiled the list:

nakins@mail.house.state.ms.us,
baldridge@mail.house.state.ms.us,
tarinder@mail.house.state.ms.us,
wbailey@mail.house.state.ms.us,
lbaker@mail.house.state.ms.us,
mbaker@mail.house.state.ms.us,
ebanks@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jbarnett@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jbeckett@mail.house.state.ms.us,
lbentz@mail.house.state.ms.us,
eblackmon@mail.house.state.ms.us,
sbondurant@mail.house.state.ms.us,
sbounds@mail.house.state.ms.us,
bbroomfield@mail.house.state.ms.us,
cbrown@mail.house.state.ms.us,
kbuck@mail.house.state.ms.us,
cburnett@mail.house.state.ms.us,
ccalhoun@mail.house.state.ms.us,
ccapps@mail.house.state.ms.us,
vcarlton@mail.house.state.ms.us,
gchism@mail.house.state.ms.us,
bclark@mail.house.state.ms.us,
aclarke@mail.house.state.ms.us,
lcoleman@mail.house.state.ms.us,
mcoleman@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jcompretta@mail.house.state.ms.us,
rcummings@mail.house.state.ms.us,
tellis@mail.house.state.ms.us,
cespy@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jevans@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jfillingane@mail.house.state.ms.us,
gflaggs@mail.house.state.ms.us,
efleming@mail.house.state.ms.us,
mformby@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jfranks@mail.house.state.ms.us,
ffredericks@mail.house.state.ms.us,
hfrierson@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jgadd@mail.house.state.ms.us,
dgibbs@mail.house.state.ms.us,
dgreen@mail.house.state.ms.us ,
dguice@mail.house.state.ms.us,
pgunn@mail.house.state.ms.us,
ehamilton@mail.house.state.ms.us,
fhamilton@mail.house.state.ms.us,
eharrison@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jhines@mail.house.state.ms.us,
dholland@mail.house.state.ms.us,
gholloway@mail.house.state.ms.us,
shorne@mail.house.state.ms.us,
bhowell@mail.house.state.ms.us,
rhuddleston@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jhudson@mail.house.state.ms.us,
bmalone@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jmarkham@mail.house.state.ms.us,
rmartisnon@mail.house.state.ms.us,
cmasterson@mail.house.state.ms.us,
tmayhall@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jmayo@mail.house.state.ms.us,
wmcbride@mail.house.state.ms.us,
cmiddleton@mail.house.state.ms.us,
wmiles@mail.house.state.ms.us,
smims@mail.house.state.ms.us,
bmoak@mail.house.state.ms.us,
pmontgomery@mail.house.state.ms.us,
rmoody@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jmoore@mail.house.state.ms.us,
lmorris@mail.house.state.ms.us,
hmoss@mail.house.state.ms.us,
dmyers@mail.house.state.ms.us,
bnicholson@mail.house.state.ms.us,
dparker@mail.house.state.ms.us,
rpatterson@mail.house.state.ms.us,
dperanich@mail.house.state.ms.us,
wperkins@mail.house.state.ms.us,
rpierce@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jread@mail.house.state.ms.us,
dreed@mail.house.state.ms.us,
oscott@mail.house.state.ms.us,
bshows@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jsimpson@mail.house.state.ms.us,
csmith@mail.house.state.ms.us,
fsmith@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jsmith@mail.house.state.ms.us,
gsnowden@mail.house.state.ms.us,
gstaples@mail.house.state.ms.us,
mstevens@mail.house.state.ms.us,
rstraughter@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jstringer@mail.house.state.ms.us,
psullivan@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jtaylor@mail.house.state.ms.us,
sthomas@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jturner@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jupshaw@mail.house.state.ms.us,
rvince@mail.house.state.ms.us,
gward@mail.house.state.ms.us,
jwarren@mail.house.state.ms.us,
pwatson@mail.house.state.ms.us,
tweathersby@mail.house.state.ms.us,
cwells-smith@mail.house.state.ms.us,
pwest@mail.house.state.ms.us,
mwhittington@mail.house.state.ms.us

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Thanks, info!  I just sent a copy off to the entire House, too; the whole process took literally less than 30 seconds.

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