Word: cadets
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...books preventing people from injecting themselves into uncomfortable situations. And it is Faulkner's hope, now somewhat dented, that there are laws preventing them from being excluded. The Citadel is, without doubt, one of Southern education's more idiosyncratic institutions. Founded in 1842 (it boasts that its cadets fired the first shots of the Civil War: at a Union ship), the college is a proud dinosaur of the Old South, notable today for two things. One is its alumni network, which includes at least one South Carolina Senator, one former Governor and countless other sons of Dixie whose extraordinary mutual...
...good. She applied -- and was accepted -- last year. Then the Citadel, learning she was female, reneged. Faulkner sued for discrimination -- the school is state funded -- and last month, Federal District Judge C. Weston Houck ruled in her favor, saying she could attend the school as a full-fledged cadet beginning with the start of the new school year -- this Monday...
Jessica Walling's wide eyes equally express her character with their blank blue stare. Brooke Ashton is the company ingenue, who is as far from ingenious as the rest of the cast is from their script. Though Brooke is able to put aside her space cadet personality to become the perky Inland Revenue tax secretary of "Nothing On," she is too fragile to roll with the punches when the ride gets bumpy. Oblivious, she sticks to the script, blindly thwarting the others' efforts to ad lib in the face of disaster...
...federal court threw a last-minute wrench into Shannon Faulkner's plan to become the Citadel military college's first woman cadet. Faulkner was set to enroll Monday after winning a sex-discrimination suit that had bounced up to the Supreme Court. But this afternoon a three-judge panel of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted the school a delay until December, when the case goes back to the drawing board. Till then, Faulkner is stuck in the Citadel's day-student program. The silver lining: no court-ordered buzz cut for Faulkner, at least not this semester...
Does equality of the sexes in the military world extend to the barbershop? Just a week after trailblazing Shannon Faulkner won court-enforced admission to South Carolina's all-male Citadel, the same judge ruled that the prestigious military college's first woman cadet will have to get her head shaved like the boys. U.S. District Judge Weston Houck accepted the school's plan for Faulkner's admittance, which includes the dreaded trim. Faulkner's lawyer called the requirement "punitive and degrading...