Nope, I never attended VMI. I went to James Madison, but I grew up 30 miles east on US 60, over the mountain in Amherst. We heard a lot about Southern Semenary girls. :)
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Southern Sem was purchased in 1996, or thereabouts, and made into a Mormon college. Here's the current mission statement:
Our mission is to prepare leader-servants in the workplace and the world, in the community and the church, and in the home. We serve faithful members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and welcome all who live our values. We accomplish our mission by providing the finest undergraduate education available in letters, arts, and sciences within a wholesome Latter-day Saint environment. Students, faculty, and staff at Southern Virginia University are committed to being academically or professionally accomplished, spiritually rooted, service oriented, and self-reliant. They embody our core values, which are scholarship, discipleship, accountability, enthusiasm, and refinement. Southern Virginia University seeks to establish a replicable self-sustaining model of higher education that can serve Latter-day Saints throughout the world.
Stereotypes make life so much more convenient, don't they?
i.e.- I get to assume you're a moron, since you don't care to spell check before you post your thoughts online.
^_^ Cara Pomeroy