THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, October 6, 1996 TAG: 9610030022
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: 19 lines
Here we go again: equal rights, not equal rules. Now that women are going to be allowed to attend Virginia Military Institute, they also want the rules changed to make it easier for them.
Equal means the same, not the same with a few allowances for sex. If you want to go to a school such as VMI, go, but don't expect special allowances just because you're a female.
I prefer to have longer hair than the military allows so I didn't join, but had I been a female I could have joined and kept my longer hair. Is that fair? No!
GEORGE L. DONLEY
Norfolk, Sept. 23, 1996 by CNB