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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...
...legal team) hopes to change the place. After their initial victory, her lawyers asked Houck to excuse her from the traditional knob crew cut, on the shaky grounds that it would stigmatize her as a woman. More sensibly, given recent threats on Faulkner's life and fear of cadet harassment, attorney Sara Mandelbaum promised, "We'll be monitoring Shannon's progress closely -- and we'll hold the administration accountable...
Then at the last moment, the South rose again. On Friday an appeals court granted the Citadel a stay pending a hearing of arguments, which will probably take place in December. That will effectively postpone Faulkner's cadet debut for at least a year. For now she intends to continue as a day student. She said, "I'd say I'm being selfish and doing this just for me. But I do, in a way, think it's for women who might follow...
...appeals court blocks a woman's attempt to become a cadet...