Women in the Barracks: The VMI Case and Equal RightsIn June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute. For the first time ever, the line of graduates who received their degrees at the West Point of the South included women who had spent four years at VMI. For 150 years, VMI had operated as a revered, state funded institution an amalgam of Southern history, military tradition, and male bonding rituals and throughout that long history, no one had ever