| After 157 years of utter and total maleness at Virginia Military Institute, the Supreme Court ruled that VMI could not be both state-supported and all-male.
On Aug. 18,1997, the first 30 women enrolled at VMI, bringing the school into compliance with the ruling.
Some said women couldn't survive the ritual abuse of the "Rat Line" training regimen, which is defined by what one administrator at the school called a brutal "intolerance of human frailty."
Others say the school will never be the same, even though most of the women made it through the ratline.
After 4 years of proving themselves, VMI's first classs of female cadets graduate in 2001.
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