Recently, Ms. Magazine, which I grew up believing was the leading voice of Feminism, published an opinion piece by a Mills alumna who argued that Mills can and should be saved. Then, shockingly, Ms. took the article down because the Hillman administration complained.  We insist that Ms. return the piece to their website and suggest that they invite the College to refute anything they believe to be inaccurate.  Let there be a public debate! 

FURTHER, we urge Ms. Magazine to do their own reporting on the situation -- interview stakeholders including the Hillman administration and the Save Mills College Coalition, independent experts like Professor Hendricks, and folks from other schools like Sweet Briar who have fought off similar attempts to dismantle their schools, and, most importantly, check the facts, financial and otherwise, that are publicly available.

Surely Ms. Magazine exists to cover stories like this -- Ms. covered the 25th anniversary of the Mills strike precisely because the fight for women's colleges to stay women's colleges is essential to the fight for a vital women's movement.  According to Forbes “Graduates of women's colleges comprise more than 20% of women in Congress, and represent 30% of a Businessweek list of rising women in corporate America,” Pfeiffer explains. Given that only 2% of American female college graduates attended women’s schools,” we can see that female Members of Congress are 10 times more likely to have gone to a women’s college than the general population of female college graduates. See www.forbes.com/sites/rachelhennessey/2013/02/06/whats-in-a-womens-college  Is Ms. Magazine less interested in the future of women's leadership than Forbes Magazine?