THINGS FORBIDDEN AT VMI
Happiness
A half-way decent sex life
A liver
Nutrition
Dignity
Youthful Innocence
Time to study
Privacy (“alone time”)
Basic human-rights
This website
Belt loops
Books deemed radical and non-conformant
North Koreans
Cell phones
Adulthood
Responsibility
Resting/Sleep
A diet plan for the Commandant’s staff
Cadet Newspaper Permit
Alumni Hay-downs
Independent thinking
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Homer…
Parades with meaning
Unity
A Ratline
Breakout Hill
Rank that had actual power and meaning
A soul
Veracity in the Commandant’s Staff
Sex in barracks…kinda’…sorta’…not really…
Fun
Humor
Military Training
A winning football team
Pride
Adequately trained medical staff
Efficient uniform issuing and cleaning staff
Logic
The VMI Mission
Sanitary Facilities
Feminism
A day without an “I’m sooooo gay” e-mail
A merit system
A Corps with power that could leap over a building in a single bound, more powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet…
The right to serve your country while you’re a cadet (This one’s for you guys, God bless you all, Carry On!)
A bookstore that doesn’t tax you more than the government
An IT department
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