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 | | VMI's "adversative model" is further characterized by a hierarchical "class system" of privileges and responsibilities, a "dyke system" for assigning a senior class mentor to each entering class "rat," and a stringently enforced "honor code," which prescribes that a cadet "`does not lie, cheat, steal nor tolerate those who do.'" Id., at 1422-1423. |
 | | VMI attracts some applicants because of its reputation as an extraordinarily challenging military school, and "because its alumni are exceptionally close to the school." Id., at 1421. |
 | | VMI was founded in 1839, and, as the Court notes, ante, at 18-19, admission was limited to men because under the then-prevailing view men, not women, were destined for higher education. |
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