It’s been a decade since the Virginia Military Institute first admitted women, and today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch describes what progress the state college has made in integrating them into its corps of cadets. The newspaper’s conclusion: Coeducation at VMI, which followed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against it in 1996 and the institute’s subsequent acquiescence, is “still a work in progress,” with women constituting fewer than 100 out of the 1,300 cadets in the academic year just ended. There aren’t that many women interested in a military education, the paper says, and VMI faces tough competition for them from the United States service academies. But some female cadets have thrived, and even alumni who opposed coeducation with diehard intensity seem reconciled to the change now that their own daughters have enrolled. —Andrew Mytelka