Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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French president Jacques Chirac is fond of certain things American: junk food, his summer-school days at Harvard, the South Carolina belle he almost married, Bill Clinton. Campaigning in the spring of 1995, Chirac enthused about the prospect of working with his U.S. counterpart; the two men, both gregarious, backslapping extroverts, had hit it off from their first meeting in Paris a year earlier. But how, a reporter asked, would sensitive Franco-American relations fare? "They will be excellent," Chirac predicted. Pause. "And contentious...
...before Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos announced that they were leaving the Citadel because they no longer felt safe on campus, interim Citadel president R. Clifton Poole was planning to send a letter to alumni telling them how well the assimilation of females into the 154-year-old South Carolina military college had gone. "We were feeling really good, really proud," says Poole. "Now I have to send a letter to a lot of angry alumni explaining what went wrong...
...turning up the heat. There will be no more beginning steps when it comes to violations such as these. We will go immediately to the intermediate step of automatic suspension. And if what you did meets the definition of hazing as outlined by the state of South Carolina, then I will turn you over to the state authorities and let them deal with...
...that hostility toward the new female knobs--as Citadel freshmen are called--would be tolerated, or at least overlooked, by the administration. For coeducation to work, more than a written plan was needed. "Somebody would have to be a moron [to let this happen]," says Paul Gibson, the South Carolina attorney retained by Messer and her parents. "They knew the eyes of the world were upon them...
...Conroy, Citadel class of '67, described in his book as a "psychic rape." For one thing, even some important alumni are furious about the scandal. "Don't give us heritage and tradition and all that bull___," Hampton Walker, the head of the Citadel's alumni association, told the South Carolina Post and Courier last week, blasting the school's administration. "Do something about the problems." Already, the school has received E-mail from many people saying they will never hire a Citadel graduate, while federal funds the school was counting on to help establish a criminal-justice program have suddenly...