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Instead, women received a sort of "watered-down version" that still allows for public institutions such as the Virginia Military Institute and the Citadel to practice gender exclusionary policies, she said...
...Supreme Court agreed to decide in the next few months another high-profile issue: whether state-supported and all-male Virginia Military Institute must admit women. The sex-discrimination case, whose outcome will also affect efforts by the Citadel in South Carolina to keep out women, will be decided by an eight-member bench; Justice Clarence Thomas disqualified himself because his son is a V.M.I. senior...
Shannon Faulkner would have been a quitter if she had dropped out during the two years it took her just to get into the Citadel [SOCIETY, Aug. 28]. Had her classmates at the school been kinder and more welcoming, she probably could have made it. Even though she quit, I still think she is one of the bravest women in the U.S.--certainly braver than most of the men in the Citadel. MATT CALCARA Overland Park, Kansas AOL: Cal Clan
Then there's the Citadel itself, a tin-pot, second-rate military academy whose unofficial motto is "2.0 and Go." It has few distinguished alumni among the third of its graduates who go into the military (most grads become kick-butt insurance agents and stockbrokers). While the Citadel might not have been a worthy target, Faulkner was nonetheless, as its first female, required to be Uberwoman-as fit as Arnold Schwarzenegger, as bald as Sinead O'Connor and as beautiful as Michelle Pfeiffer. Instead Faulkner was a little bit dumpy, a little bit plain and a little bit whiny...
Military psychologist Dan Landis says, "There are all kinds of macho traditions that have grown up at the Citadel whose rationales have long been forgotten. They're useless." Indeed, the Citadel's ego-stripping program can be worse than useless. One Citadel graduate was among the four Rangers who froze to death in a training exercise in Florida this year. His instructors told him to continue to string a rope in 52-degree water, and he did so until he died. Pentagon statistics show that since 1989 seven soldiers have died in training for every one killed in combat...