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...week 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...
...will be interesting to see what Poole chooses to tell those alums. For until state and federal authorities complete their criminal investigation, it will remain unclear exactly how and why the new system fell apart so fast. Mentavlos and Messer, two of the four women who entered the Citadel last August after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public, male-only military academies were unconstitutional, claim that they were assaulted and sexually harassed. Despite a careful, court-approved assimilation plan intended to ensure the women's safety, Messer and Mentavlos say that fingernail polish was smeared on them and ignited...
BORN: Nov. 26, 1958, Rensselaer EDUCATION: The Citadel, B.S., 1980; Valparaiso U, J.D., 1984 FAMILY: Wife, Joni; two children RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Army Reserve, 1980-84, 1987-90, 1991-; Army, 1984-87, 1990-91 OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 712, Monticello...
Buyer moved from the war zone of Desert Storm to the legislative trenches of Capitol Hill and now is a two-term veteran of Congress. He is a strong advocate of the study and treatment of Gulf War syndrome and consistently supports higher Pentagon budgets--Citadel alumni named Buyer their 1995 Man of the Year. Outside his military focus, he is a conservative who supports most of the Contract with America, a plus in this Hoosier Heartland...
BORN: Aug. 20, 1950, Chester EDUCATION: The Citadel, B.S., 1972 FAMILY: Wife, Kathy; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Restaurant owner; stock broker POLITICAL CAREER: Rock Hill School District Board of Trustees, 1982-92; Republican nominee for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 11745, Rock Hill...