Word: wabash
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Both schools are proud of their traditions and uncommonly true to them. They have never gone coed or been closely affiliated with a women's college. Today, only three other secular, four-year liberal arts colleges can make the same claims: Wabash College (enrollment: 780) in Crawfordsville, Ind., and two state-supported military schools, the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., and Virginia Military Institute in Lexington...
...women continues, though less hotly at the two military schools. There, cadets tend to agree with a vehement V.M.I, official: "There is no such thing as a Sister Rat, and there never could be." At the other schools, opinion is divided. By one estimate, 60% of the students at Wabash are against coeducation, the faculty is split evenly, and alumni are 95% opposed...
However, the number (618-668-4038-5471) actually belongs to the Wabash Telephone Cooperative in Louisville, III, (which is presumably not happy about the whole thing). Chuck Reardon, a spokesman for New England Telephone, said calls billed to the number were fraudulent and callers are liable under state and federal "Fraud by wire" laws. But the phone company, he said, is "mainly interested in getting money back, not arresting people," and is trying to trace the calls...