THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: Monday, February 12, 1996 TAG: 9602090004 SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL TYPE: Letter LENGTH: Short : 21 lines
No woman, no matter who she is, can ever become a ``brother rat'' at Virginia Military Institute. Introducing a ``sister rat'' program into VMI would destroy a little-understood educational system that has been uniquely successful for more than 150 years.
WILLIAM H. WHITMORE
Norfolk, Jan. 30, 1996
Editor's note: The writer is a 1948 VMI graduate. by CNB