The college that VMI created for women was not the equal of the college for men. It used different methods and was not as well-funded or well-respected.
VMI has an important network of graduates in leadership positions. That alumni network makes a degree from VMI more valuable than a degree from the new women’s college.
Many women attend military boot camps and serve in the military. They could certainly handle the training course at VMI.
Admitting women to VMI would fundamentally change the character of the school. The college could not do boot camp-like activities with women in attendance.
VMI has a mission to prepare citizen-soldiers to serve in the military. Far more men than women serve in combat roles in the military, so the school should be permitted to have an all-male training program.
The fact that VMI created a separate college for women shows that VMI was not treating women differently from men. Both men and women could attend a VMI school, just not the same school.
VMI has strayed from its military mission and most graduates do not become soldiers. The college’s argument that it needs to train men for combat no longer stands.
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