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Article: 31 WOMEN ENTER LAST BASTION VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE GOES COED AFTER 158 YEARS.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- August 18, 1997
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Jen Jolin grew up just over the mountains from the Virginia Military Institute, keenly aware it was a place where only the strongest succeed. This week, she tests her own strength.
She and 30 other young women will end VMI's 158-year males-only enrollment policy when they report to the campus today.
``It's scary, it really is,'' Jolin said. ``Anybody who says they're not scared is crazy.''
For that matter VMI, the last state-supported college to exclude women, is anxious, too.
No one here wants to suffer the scandals that beset The Citadel after Shannon Faulkner in 1995 became the first woman to enroll at the South Carolina military ...