DATE: Friday, August 22, 1997               TAG: 9708220797

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A6   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS 

DATELINE: LEXINGTON                         LENGTH:   21 lines

FIRST WOMAN AND 13 MEN RESIGN FROM TORTUROUS ``RAT LINE'' AT VMI

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Megan Smith, one of the first 30 women enrolled in this year's

``rat line'' at Virginia Military Institute, is surrounded by

upperclassmen shouting insults and taunts at the school in Lexington

on Wednesday. KEYWORDS: MILITARY SCHOOLS WOMEN IN THE MILITARY

VMI

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