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...least 30 cadets dropped out of the Citadel's freshman class last week. Shannon Faulkner is the only one whose name people will remember. After fighting since 1993 to become the first female cadet in the school's 152-year history, Faulkner floundered for less than five days, most of them spent in the campus infirmary, before deciding to quit. "The past 2-1/2 years came crashing down on me in an instant," she said in a quavering voice when announcing her decision. In a final sign of how anxious some people at the school were...
Back with her parents now in Powdersville, South Carolina, Faulkner says she won't return to the Citadel and has no regrets about her quick exit: "I'd rather walk out than be carried out." There were times when she thought it might come to that. Early Saturday morning, Faulkner and her parents had driven to the Citadel from a Charleston hotel nearby. Because of death threats, she was escorted by federal marshals who checked out the campus and its approaches before the Faulkners entered by way of the school's back gate...
Just four days afterShannon Faulknerleft the Citadel to jeers from her male classmates, another woman is planning a bid to enter the exclusive club. "A Citadel degree has a certain cachet in South Carolina," says TIME's Lisa Towle. "It provides a very easy entry into certain jobs and there's a huge network, a power core of Citadel men in state society." The woman's identity will remain secret until Wednesday, when attorneys add her name to Faulkner's suit to join the all-male cadet program.Faulkner's lawyerstell Towle that two other young women had expressed interest...
After the Supreme Court turned down two last-minute appeals by the Citadel, Shannon Faulkner won her fight to become the first female cadet in the school's 152-year history. Amid protesters and supporters, she finally enrolled on Saturday...
...leaders themselves joined the long line of cars, trucks and buses streaming in the direction of northern Bosnia. Around noon, an enormous Croatian flag, whose red-and-white checkerboards have long served for Serbs as a hated symbol of Croatian rule, was hoisted above Knin's 10th century citadel, once used as a coronation site for medieval kings...