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The Institute is filled with tradition and ritual. Stonewall Jackson taught at the school, and the school's cadets actually fought in the Civil War. As tradition dictates, a cadet sentry guards the barracks at all times.

isolated from her company and singled out for attack, female Rat Ebony McElroy stands at attention. VMI's adversative method calls for breaking the cadet down, then building them back up.

When verbal abuse failed to rattle female Megan Smith, an upperclassman grabbed her arm to get her attention. Physical contact such as this is strictly forbidden.

four upperclassmen 'welcome' Megan Smith on her first day of life as a Rat. VMI, which previously trained its cadets to always tip their hats to women, had asserted that cadets would be unable to yell at women and would treat them too lightly, and…

The local Lexington Newspaper, sold on the street by this man and his two grandchildren, heralds the historic firs class of women.

Freshman at Virginia Military Institute are called Rats. Rat Jennifer Jolin is among the first women to wear the VMI seal.

City religious leaders lay their hands on Washington D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton before she return to Capitol Hill to fight for Washington D.C.'s home rule. Congress had just given the appointed Financial Control Board more control over…

Teenagers grieve for classmates Kristin and Katie Lisk, who vanished from their home and were later found dead by a river. Police believe he two girls as well as another were slain by a serial killer. 'We miss them a lot,' said one of the teens.