Dear Editor:
I noted with surprise and displeasure your editorial on the salvation of the Mississippi School for the Arts in Brookhaven.

I have no enmity for the school, far from it; I hold the arts to be a valuable part of education, and I applaud the state for continuing to support the school and its mission, as well as that of Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science.

However, the last line of your editorial ascribes the effort to move MSA to supporters of Mississippi University for Women, which is most emphatically not true. The Mississippi University for Women Alumnae Association did not instigate or take a position on the movement of MSA to Columbus; and to my knowledge, no constituent chapter nor even a casual kaffeeklatch of W supporters did so, either.

While many W supporters certainly watched the debate with interest, there was certainly no movement among us to force the issue in favor of movement. Indeed, many I have spoken with thought the presence of more high school students on campus in Columbus would be a detriment to the revitalization of the W.

While I can understand a desire to cast blame, please direct it to the proper target.

Sincerely,
Thomas M. Spencer