THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, July 17, 1996 TAG: 9607170012
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A16 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 28 lines
As a proud and loyal alumnus of Virginia Military Institute, I am compelled to write.
To some of your editorial writers, to the hard-nosed and aggressive feminists and to our senior legislative body the Supreme Court, I say, ``You just don't get it!''
No girls will ever attend the real VMI. The first girl who enters the barracks will forever change what has been a national treasure through 157 years. The physical plant will remain, but that first girl, and those who follow, will not be attending the college to which they applied.
So what have the militant feminists done, aside from assigning a current fad a place in law? Since no girl has ever gone to VMI, and since the college she attends as the result of the recent absurd ruling will not be the real VMI, the obvious fact is that no girl has or will ever attend VMI.
There is a particularly sad and sorry side to this situation: You have it, I want it; if I can't have it, I'll see that you can't have it either.
How sad. How short-sighted. How tragic, as time passes, this will prove to be.
FRANK L. KIRBY
Portsmouth, July 4, 1996 by CNB