(FORTUNE Magazine) – ROANOKE -- Virginia Military Institute is the school charged with illegal sex discrimination, but it was the reputation of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point standing trial today. Attorneys for VMI, fighting a battle in federal court here to keep women students off a campus where they have been barred for 152 years, portrayed West Point as . . . a place that has been inalterably changed and softened since the admission of women . . . VMI attorney William Clineburg . . . extracted admissions that West Point women feel free to correct superiors who refer to a ''chairman'' instead of ''chairperson.'' -- From a news report in the Washington Post.