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...least 30 cadets dropped out of the Citadel's freshman class last week. Shannon Faulkner is the only one whose name people will remember. After fighting since 1993 to become the first female cadet in the school's 152-year history, Faulkner floundered for less than five days, most of them spent in the campus infirmary, before deciding to quit. "The past 2-1/2 years came crashing down on me in an instant," she said in a quavering voice when announcing her decision. In a final sign of how anxious some people at the school were...
...Lisa Towle. "It provides a very easy entry into certain jobs and there's a huge network, a power core of Citadel men in state society." The woman's identity will remain secret until Wednesday, when attorneys add her name to Faulkner's suit to join the all-male cadet program.Faulkner's lawyerstell Towle that two other young women had expressed interest to them in joining the cadet corps, but their mothers, fearing for their daughters' safety, had nixed the idea. "There's a tremendous amount of resistance to this, especially in the school's alumni network," Towle says...
After the Supreme Court turned down two last-minute appeals by the Citadel, Shannon Faulkner won her fight to become the first female cadet in the school's 152-year history. Amid protesters and supporters, she finally enrolled on Saturday...
According to a West Point spokesperson, theoffice of regimental commander involves organizingactivities for more than 1,000 cadets and is thethird-highest position a cadet can hold...
...women out of the Citadel. Under the plan, women would take academic courses at Converse and receive their military training at a site other than the Citadel. State officials had approached the college after courts had ruled that the Citadel had until August to either admit women to its cadet corps or establish a separate but equal program elsewhere. Lawyers for Shannon Faulkner, whose legal battle to be admitted into the state-run Citadel prompted the arrangement, said the program is not an acceptable substitute: "For women to be leaders of men, they can't learn such skills...