The Washington Post, February 7th, 1990
Calling the Virginia Military Institute an anachronism doesn't quite capture the flavor of what is going on at the all-male institution in beautiful downtown Lexington, Va. It's more like a medieval time warp, in which a brotherhood is forged through sadomasochistic rituals in a forgotten monastery supported by the state for its own Byzantine purposes. Umberto Eco, come to Virginia. Have we got a story for you. Unfortunately, what's going on at VMI is not the stuff of fiction. The fact is that while every other part of society except the Catholic and Mormon priesthoods have opened their doors ...
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