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Virginia Military Institute officials are investigating a Halloween event in the barracks in which several cadets dressed as Nazi soldiers, drag queens and a starving African.
VMI spokesman Stewart MacInnis says school officials found out about the costumes through an Internet message board where four photos were posted from a Halloween event last fall.
MacInnis calls the photographic poses ``insensitive and inappropriate'' and says V-M-I does not condone ``such behavior.''
MacInnis says cadets are private citizens, but he says school officials are ``disappointed in their behavior and judgment.''
The pictures were posted yesterday at richmond.indymedia.org, operated by the Richmond Independent Media Center.
Its mission statement claims it offers a forum for ``promoting social and economic justice in the Richmond area.''
MacInnis says the cadets involved could face disciplinary action.
