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Shannon Faulkner's lawyer criticized the attitude toward women at the Citadel, an all-male military academy, telling an audience of 100 at the Law School last night that women should not be forced to attend separate and inferior institutions...
...exclusion of women reinforces a disrespect and denigration of women that is already prevalent in the Citadel," said Valorie K. Vojdik, who served as head counsel for Faulkner during her two-and-a-half year legal battle to gain entrance to the academy...
After the protracted legal battle, a federal district court ruled in June that Faulkner, who was 19 at the time, should be allowed to attend the Citadel because a similar program was unavailable to women. After only a few days of training. Faulkner withdrew from the academy due to stress and exhaustion...
Vojdik is currently leading a legal battle against a school set up as an all female alternative to the Citadel, arguing that the new school does not offer a comparable or equivalent program...
Last night she decided the Citadel's claim that the new school is better for women...