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Despite that, Faulkner says there were some welcoming voices when she arrived. In the cafeteria three black women workers gave her a hug and told her, "Welcome home." Roses arrived from the mother and sisters of some Citadel alumni. But at an ecumenical service at the campus chapel, a woman abruptly rose and left as soon as the Faulkners sat down in the same...
...other cadet remained overnight in the infirmary, where Faulkner, still unable to hold down even a few crackers, was fed intravenously. She remained in the infirmary until Friday. By then Citadel spokesman Colonel Terry Leedom was announcing that for Faulkner, trying to make up for missing Hell Week would be like "entering the Indianapolis 500 on the 25th...
While Faulkner won't be returning, one of her lawyers, Val Vojdik, promises that the fight to open the Citadel to women is not ending: "If the Citadel thinks it can solve the problem through Shannon's leaving, they're dead wrong." Don't tell that yet to the cadets. At the first word that Faulkner was going, many of them cheered, honked car horns and took to a checkerboard-patterned quadrangle to perform triumphant push-ups. Maybe it was heat of all kinds that knocked Faulkner out of the Citadel last week. What no one agrees upon is just...
Shannon Faulkner, who fought for more than two years to become the first female "knob" at the Citadel, dropped out of the military college after missing all of the school's "hell week" indoctrination. Faulkner became ill following a drill in 100-degree weather and spent most of the week in the campus infirmary. Her fellow cadets greeted the news of Faulkner's departure with cheers and jeers...
After more than two years of court fights and $5 million in legal fees, what kind of feminist poops out after one little episode of heat exhaustion? To begin with, Shannon Faulkner makes an unlikely feminist. She applied to the Citadel after being surprised to learn that a state-supported school was still all male. While her cause was taken up by sympathetic lawyers, she never engendered the unstinting support of women's groups and her timing was off: the Republican revolution, cause fatigue, and a sense that women had been there and done that, all diminished her attraction...