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...faring better than the beleaguered Boy Scouts last week. A federal judge ruled that the elite college, which has maintained a single-sex admissions policy since its founding in 1839, could continue to discriminate. "V.M.I. truly marches to the beat of a different drummer," concluded Judge Jackson L. Kiser, "and I will permit it to continue...
...Justice Department brought suit against V.M.I. 16 months ago, claiming that exclusion of women from the state school was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment's equal-protection clause. After hearing arguments in April, Judge Kiser, who got his law degree from Washington and Lee University 33 years before it became coed, found that as a single-sex school V.M.I. adds important diversity to Virginia's education system that would be lost if women joined the 1,350-strong cadet corps. The Justice Department has two months to appeal...
...forbids gender discrimination in schools receiving federal or state funds. In that case, the Justices said, a tax-supported female nursing school in Mississippi could not refuse to enroll men, since a single-sex policy was not necessary to achieve an important educational goal. Citing the Mississippi case, Judge Kiser concluded that V.M.I.'s goals would be thwarted if women were admitted. His ruling, complained Ellen Vargyas, senior counsel for the National Women's Law Center, turns the 1982 precedent "upside down...
...page opinion, Judge Kiser took note of the school's traditions. V.M.I.'s freshman-class members -- the "rats" as they are called -- are hazed unmercifully, forced to live under Spartan conditions and confronted with demeaning physical demands. Kiser observed that the "rat line" creates a "bonding to their fellow sufferers and former tormentors." Any changes made in the rat line to accommodate women, he said, would thwart the college's mission...
...1940S HOLLYWOOD, the Golden Age of the Silver Screen, Safari Sagoodi follows the travails of Tinsel-town's "most inept film factory," the Stu-Stu Studio, as it plunges toward bank-bank bankruptcy. The studio's ruthless Head Honcha, Annette Prophet (Glenn Kiser '91) has given her staff one more chance to crank out a blockbuster before the studio's creditors shut it down...