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...year battle, the school finally agreed to go co-ed when the Supreme Court ruled last year that any institution accepting federal tax dollars must consider female applicants. To prevent a repeat of the Citadel fiasco, in which several female cadets said they were abused by their male colleagues, VMI's top brass promised swift punishment for any male who gets out of line...
...escorted out with the taunts of her male classmates. A year later, though, the new cadets have entered a Citadel that, wanting to keep its federal funding, would very much like them to succeed. "Two days after the Supreme Court ruled the all-male admission policy at VMI unconstitutional, The Citadel announced it would "enthusiastically" accept women as cadets," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "Some graduates railed at the school for caving in too soon. Others, argued for calm and acceptance. They understood that the college had indeed explored alternatives designed to keep the corps all-male and had come...
However, the contrasts between the proposed middle school and the VMI are huge. VMI had served as an elite gateway into military service, professional businesses and high-paying jobs. The proposed middle school is simply trying to level an uneven playing field by giving underprivileged black and Hispanic girls chances they may otherwise never...
Although the VMI ruling will also decide the pending Citadel lawsuit, this case has attracted far less attention because the plaintiff was the Bush Administration's Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, filing on behalf of an anonymous complainant under his civil rights authority. His weight and hair were not nearly so much fun to ridicule as the huffing and puffing Shannon Faulkner, whose dropping out to the cheers of cadets was carried live...
...from the lecture hall, unable to cope with the harsh Socratic method, the legal version of hazing. Five of the Justices recognized the school as their alma mater, Harvard Law School. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the first women to get there, seemed to hold back a smile. VMI and the Citadel might want to start building those women's bathrooms...