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...time they arrive in Charleston, South Carolina, this week, many of the 600 or so freshmen--otherwise known as knobs--entering the Citadel hope to be ready for the rigors of Hell Week and beyond. Local alumni representatives will have taught them what is the best kind of sandpaper to keep their uniform brass tarnish free, the most effective bug repellent (knobs are not permitted to scratch in public), the most reliable alarm clocks and the most durable T shirts. They will also be mentally prepared for the ritual hazing, designed to remind cadets that the military has no room...
...this year--an event that was forced upon the 154-year-old military college by a June Supreme Court ruling that declared the all-male admission policy at the state-supported Virginia Military Institute unconstitutional. The battle against coeducation--which began in earnest in 1993 when the state-supported Citadel mistakenly accepted Shannon Faulkner, thinking she was male--was waged so fiercely, and with such ill will, that when an out-of-sorts and out-of-shape Faulkner withdrew a year ago after less than a week, the victorious whooping of the other cadets was shown on national television...
...strongest of vegetable nature--one especially, an ink drawing of creepers on a rock done around 1827, has a wiry inquisitorial line and a fierce truth to the motif that remind one, without exaggeration, of Durer. In landscape his hand roamed free, giving the foreground hill in Volterra, the Citadel, 1834, a lively splotching of indeterminate dark scrub whose excited marks carry more visual weight than the distant hill town. But his early portraits are maladroit Ingres, and he was almost incapable of bringing off large biblical or literary compositions: his late painting of Dante and Vergil menaced...
...Friday, Buchanan, who would literally keep women pregnant (although not barefoot) in the kitchen, went to the gates of the Citadel and pledged to keep it "Men Only." He once wrote, "Women are simply not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed." Someone should send the Catalyst study to his campaign chairman and sister, Bay, mother of three. She must be tired, awfully tired...
From a makeshift stage before the Minuteman, Buchanan--who has used Mount Rushmore, the OK Corral and the Citadel as backdrops to his populist campaign--invoked the names of George Washington and other colonial heroes in railing against free-trade deals and the deployment of U.S. troops under United Nations' command...