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A state-sanctioned report says the Virginia Military Institute has tolerated and failed to address institutional racism and sexism and must be held accountable for making changes.
Report tells of sexual assault, racism at Virginia Military Institute
A racial disparity also exists among cadets who have been dismissed by the school’s student-run honor court, the report stated.
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FILE - Crews lift a statue of Confederate Gen. Thomas Stonewall Jackson from its pedestal on the campus of the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., in this Dec. 7, 2020, file photo. The findings of a months-long investigation into racism at the nearly two-century old Virginia Military Institute will be released Tuesday, June 12, 2021, according to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. (AP Photo/Sarah Rankin, File)